Timing of his retirement and allegations it was to avoid service in iraq. And later well could have been in Mass Casualty Nightmare and now canceled Taylor Swift concert, the latest on what authorities say three suspects were planning to do, and how good evening. John berman here in for anderson. So it turns out that after backing out of a September 10 president ial debate on abc, Donald Trump is backing back in. That was the Main Delegative news and a mountain of ramblings at his Press Conference Today at maralago, he now says he wants to three debates. The other two on fox and nbc. Vice president harris late today said this about the abc Face Off im glad that hes finally agreed to a debate on September 10. Im looking forward to it and hoping as for the rest of the press conference, it was a very lengthy very trumpy a fair one that left a pro Harris Strategy is telling cnns jamie gangel, they hope he holds one every day and prompted pro Trump Strategist Ari Fleischer to tweet partway
year since he was sworn into office. he says his administration has outperformed since that time and blames president trump and the republicans for any shortcomings. carley: brooke has reaction, first we begin with griff jenkins. a lot to talk about this morning. griff: a whole lot. the president begins a new year with another legislative failure, even before the vote was called over changing the filibuster rules, senator joe manchin labeled it dead on arrival. it will fuel on the fire. griff: the president tweeting this, i am profoundly disappointed the senate failed to stand up for our democracy. i am disappointed, but not deterred. this after the president defended his performance. president biden: i outperformed what anybody thought would happen. you mentioned number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down, everything is changing. griff: as far as the direction he wants to take the country in, he had this exchange with pete
menendez about context charges. trumps allies try, perhaps successfully to continue to run out the clock on this investigation. well come to meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. as covid cases rise, the biden administration is struggling to sell and implement the vaccination soft mandate. as early as today, the senate is expected to pass legislation that would attempt to revoke the white house s vaccine and testing mandates for private sector workers. at least two moderate democrats are expected to join with all republicans to pass that bill. the white house told reporters president biden plans to veto the legislation if it actually reached his deck. it comes as more than a few prominent democrats in congress and one at the state level, a couple governors, appear to be souring on similar vaccine mandates. the administration is facing another legal setback as a judge blocked the president s mandate for federal contractors. right now all three of biden s vaccine mandates for
was the white house press secretary gave this explanation for mass robberies in democrat run cities. a huge group of criminals, organizers themselves, went to the store. a root cause and a lot of communities is the pandemic. todd: you are watching fox and friends first this friday morning. carley: more on the top story, president biden is set to speak this morning following the release of the november jobs report. todd: the omicron very inference the economy with half of all americans admitting they are struggling with inflation. griff jenkins joins us with the latest. reporter: as we head into the peak of holiday shopping and travel, driving up heating cost of gas prices continuing to rise a new gallup poll confirms what many of us are feeling. 45% of american struggling the financial hardship triggered by spiking inflation, 10% described it as severe after jerome powell testified inflation is here to stay and time to stop calling it transitory with the president pus
bluesman bb king would jam with an amateur guitarist and singer named lee atwater. king and isaac hayes were among the many artists who appeared on lee atwater s 1990 album red hot & blue but it was his day job where he made his mark as the dark soul of the modern republican party atwater was a preeminent political strategist who mastered and perfected the art of talking about race without talking about race. he did it in south carolina to a democratic congressional candidate named tom turnip seed. yes that was his real name. by having phony push pollsters call up voters, white suburban voters to inform them turnipseed was a member of the naacp. that was a bad thing in his view and that was supposed to be the point. it was the lynchman of the strategy known as the southern strategy that republicans would increase their support among white voters by appealing to racial resentment and suspicion toward african-americans but never do it directly or openly. that would lead to ba