fox & friends first continues right now. good morning. i m sure he s dancing from wherever he is, connecticut, the song is playing. you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning, i m ashley strohmier. i m carley shimkus. both jillian and todd have this morning off. dr. anthony fauci connects,, quote, pain and suffering as the delta cases surge but not any new lockdowns. this comes as lawmakers call for full fda approval of vaccines to help ramp up shots. we have a report from washington with the latest on the front. good morning, caroline. reporter: good morning, ashley and carley. dr. fauci warns that cases are way too high right now and they re going to get worse but he did have a spot of good news. i don t think we re going to see lockdowns. i think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but i believe enough to not a allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. reporter
sentenced to eight months in prison, less than prosecutors wanted. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta, and you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with the delta variant hitting this country harder every day. let s go to our chief white house correspondent kaitlyn collins. covid trends are moving in the wrong direction all across the u.s. and tonight the markets are feeling the pain as well with the dow s biggest nose dive this year. reporter: yeah. and, jim, the fears of the delta variant seem to be making their way into the market, sending the dow down 700 points at closing today. it started going down at the opening. it never bounced back from that, making it the worst day not only of 2021, but since october. amid these concerns about potential of another slowdown and the impact that the delta variant is going to have on the u.s. with the delta variant spreading throughout the u.s., pr
assault israel. it s unrelenting. and we are going to challenge it vigorously. are you on the side of truth or lies? fact or fiction, justice or injustice connect democracy or autocracy? that s what it s coming down to. stand up, for god sake, and help prevent this concerted effort to undermine our election. have you know shame? we are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. jesse: joe biden is also calling for a federal takeover of elections and is promising to use his department of justice to go after the states. now, keep in mind, while the president spewed that kind of rhetoric, liberal fact-checkers have found these republican bills actually expand voting hours. but those facts don t matter to liberals in texas. a group of showboating democrats just skipping town in order to block republicans there from passing these new voting bills. they are fashioning themselves as political martyrs, who of course fled the the down next washington, d.c
the england footballer says hate will never win after receiving online racist abuse over his missed penalty in the euros final. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the former us president george w bush has criticised president biden s decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan, stating he believes the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad . mr bush initially led america into afghanistan in late 2001 after 9/11 attacks on america. here s what the former president had to say to german television. the progress that can be made for young girls and women in afghanistan is unbelievable, how that society changed, from the brutality of the taliban, and now all of a sudden, you know, sadly, i m afraid afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable farm. is it suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? the suffer unspeakable farm. is it a mistake? the withdrawal? i a mistake? the withdrawal? 1
around the world. this is cnn newsroom. hes around the world. this is cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. we are just five hours away from seeing the world s richest man blast off into space. the 11 minute flight is the latest attempt to really up the stakes in the race to make commercial space tourism a reality. bezos will be the latest billionaire to space, richard branson flew there nine days ago. joining bezos is his brother mark and 82-year-old wally funk who was one of mercury 13 women, and also 18-year-old oliver daemen. and it is not coincidence that t is on the anniversary of apollo landing. here is a preview. reporter: at blue origin s arid testing ground, the 60-foot rocket is slated to take off at 8:00 a.m. central time. command start, two, one reporter: just as it has already in more than a dozen test flights like the one seen here, a million horsepower blast from the liquid fueled engine will start the journey. the astronauts will be strapped into a ring