now. have a good day. steve: hello, everyone, 6:00 a.m. in new york city. you are watching fox & friends first for this wednesday, january 17th. welcome aboard. ainsley: from campaign foe to friend. vivek ramaswamy at a trump new hampshire rally. could a cabinet position or even the veep job be in his future? lawrence: pushes for are to be thrown out. prosecutors say cocaine was brian: house floor? ainsley: i thought he said he didn t do drugs? i wonder what happened to the white house cocaine have we looked into that. white house climate caesar snaps. john kerry confronted over climate hypocrisy. why do you think you are more important. your carbon footprint doesn t matter but everybody else around the world. nobody ever suggested that nobody ever suggested that don t make up stupid questions. being here suggests that. stupid question. brian: why is it a stupid question and telling everybody else to stop using oil and gas. fox & friends starts r
congress fails to act and the u.s. defaults on its debt will be bad. it s something that looks more possible by the day. the clock is ticking. speaker kevin mccarthy says he wants a deal by this weekend. that it s the only way to give both houses of congress enough time to actually mark up and pass anything on the debt ceiling. but president biden is leaving town tomorrow heading for the g-7 in japan. what punch bowl called a damned if he does, if he doesn t situation for biden with the stakes incredibly high. so with both of those things in mind, the clock and the travel, what is being said inside the white house right now? speaker mccarthy is there meeting with president biden for the third time to avoid a default. look at the background in a second. don t worry. what s on the table and what s even possible. does an acceptable compromise exist? one that actually passes not just the split congress, but this split congress. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent,
my mom would be so proud. my posture has never been better. thank you for having me. dr. siegel, i love you. marc: great to be on the couch with you. harris: it is 15 days until the midterm elections, two weeks from tomorrow. there s a lot at stake, particularly for democrats and president biden. right now democrats have very slim majorities in congress. crisis after crisis is making the effort to cling to power all the more difficult. we are getting some stunning new numbers putting the surge of illegal immigrants coming to our country into perspective. are we showing that? on one side is the infrared that you can see from the chopper when you fly with the dps of texas. that s what you see. the last report from customs and border protection ahead of the midterms was released on friday night. very quietly. we collect the classic bad news dump on a friday. after another record breaker in september, fiscal year 2022 made history with the highest number of encounters. nearly
accusing labour of moving the goalposts in terms of what it s prepared to do to support them. labour has not backed inflation matching pay rises, but has said if they were in power the party would join negotiations between employers and unions. our business correspondent marc ashdown has more. what do we want, 10%! could the summer of strikes turn into a winter of discontent? at felixstowe port, 900 dock workers are finishing an eight day walk out. impacting uk supply chains for food, clothing and essential goods. there are now calls ahead of next month s gathering of trades stack there are now calls ahead of next month s gathering of trades unions, stack at the tuc conference for future strikes to be synchronised, or staggered, to maximise the impact. and sharon graham, the general secretary of the uk s largest union, unite, has called on the labour party i think that if they came out now strongly and said, these profits that are going on, what is happening with the cost o
carley: it is election day 2023 voters in 37 states heading to the polls to cast ballots in state and local elections, being viewed as dress rehearsal for the presidential race next year. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. todd: can you believe we are one year away from 2024. i m todd piro, keeping close eye on key races. every seat up for grabs in virginia. youngkin put his weight behind republicans there and could generate buzz about a possible presidential run. abortion big issue on the ballot there, as well. to kentucky, republican attorney general cameron, running to oust bashear. carley: in mississippi, tate reeves is running against presley, a second cousin to elvis presley. and working toefrtime to flip the state senate and assembly red, would take winning six democrats seats and seven in the assembly to do it. take a look at whether issues like parent rights and wind turbines will be enough to get it done. todd: breaking news out of