Is finally free. The wall street journal reporter take hostage by the brutal putin regime on totally fabricated charges has been reunited with his family after almost more than a year and a half along with exmarine paul whale season and others in a multicull paul whelan, multicountry if you had to boil down this brand new matchup to its essence, a former president against the a vice president who replaced the incumbent president, it might look like this. You know who s plain weirdsome and she s plain weird. She s a weird person. And, by the way, don t you find some of their stuff to just be plain weird or? howard: it s the weirdness olympic, you might say. Donald trump was asked how world leaders would treat kamala harris if she wins the the election. She d be like a play toy. Hay look at her and they say, we can t believe we got so lucky. They re going to walkal over her. And i don t want to say as to why, but a lot of people understand it. Howard: harris roused a big crowd in atlanta
julie: good morning, trace. i m julie banderas and fox news live. the sky in colorado an ominous shade of red. the flames erupted yesterday morning. some were sparked by downed power lines. the situation even prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. gusts of 100 to 110 miles per hour moved this fire down a foot ball field in a matter of seconds. very little time to get out. very little time to even get the most important parts of your life. trace: reporting live in boulder county, colorado. alissa, good morning. good morning. this situation actually continues to evolve and as the sun comes up we ll get a better look at the extent of the devastating damage that took place and continues to take place as i stand here. our photographer we managed to put up this shot two minutes ago. we had been on the move and we were inside a neighborhood. i m in lewisville, colorado. you can see the house still in flames. we have fire crews over there. we were standing in
embolden in part because of. biden. he joins us this hour. but first, republican senate eric scott a member of the homeland security committee joins us. thanks so much. so the talks are about a few minutes away. we don t know if we ll get a response. we ll bring you any breaking news as it comes in. the wall street journal reminds us in part, obama warned putin not to move russian troops against ukraine and that his country would face painful economic counter measures. mr. putin ordered his special forces to seize the crimeian peninsula two weeks later. and now biden is being tested and the stakes are higher. what should in your estimate joe biden do differently this time, senator? he ought to get a backbone. first off, he ought to be very clear that putin that something will happen and it has to happen. what we watched with biden, he s all talk and no action. it s not just putin and it s not just ukraine. what we re talking about, what will happen with lithuania, poland.
the virus is taking no time off. the u.s. had a new single day record for infections, 440,000 not including at-home tests. julie: all this is prompting the white house to consider a new vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. south dakota gov government he continues to impose mandates on the country. this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people. benjamin: david spunt is traveling with the president in delaware. good morning, david. good morning to you. a difficult morning when you look at those covid numbers specifically yesterday we reached the highest amount of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. getting ready to enter the third year of this nightmare that s really stretched across the world. clearly those numbers not going in the right direction. the white house keenly aware of that situation all the way up to the president of the united states who is here in wilmington, del
a fierce debate between businesses and unions. david, we begin with you. jackie, good afternoon to you. there s been talk recently of testing problems. no question about that. people are waiting in line hours to get a test. today the administration mentioned national guard troops helping out with testing. that brings people back to the early days of 2020. people don t want to hear the terms together. however, the administration asserting that they have a strong plan to deal with testing after people are waiting in line. administration officials announced a plan, 13,000 national guard troops helping in covid related issues in 48 starts. testing is a serious problem with people waiting not just one or two hours or three or four, sometimes five or six hours to get a simple test. the president himself just two days ago admitted his team is behind the eight ball when it comes to testing. listen. it s not enough. it s clearly not enough. if i had if we had known, we would hav