Welcome. I m neil cavuto. This is your world. It all seems like a donald trump press conference with angry reporters trying to get a simple answer from the president and their agitation showing as the questions and denying answers went on. All of this as u. S. Forces are moving ahead of schedule. Better than 90% have left afghanistan and we could see them all out well before the 911 deadline that the president has set. But he says it s not going to change his mind. He says that after 20 years, afghans must look at themselves. Jennifer griffin has more. Hi, jennifer. Hi, neil. John kirby just gave a bleak assessment of where things stand in terms of what the taliban has taken over in recent days telling reporters here at the pentagon that the taliban has taken district centers and threatened the provincial centers as well. Even though the president said there s no intelligence assessments suggesting the government of kabul will fall any time soon. He added that 300,000 afghan security f
tourists, canada considers the same for any tourists. canada already indicating come monday all public establishments must cut themselves town to 50% down to 50% capacity. all restaurants, bars, theaters must honor this. what to make of all of this. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto, and a very, very world worried world at that trying to deal with spikes in omicron in particular that has now gotten one country after another reassessing the need for restrictions. some are just way over the top, others are making people question whether they should get together at all for the holidays. is all of that fair, right or even necessary? we re on top of it all, and you decide what you want to do in response to it all. let s first go to mark meredith in wilmington, delaware, with the president. reporter: neil, good morning to you. both the president and senior white house health officials are issuing stark and dire warnings to unvaccinated americans, letting them know about the
classes. cities and states reimposing indoors mask mandates for the masses. all because of the variant and growing concerns out of a pandemic party that won t last. i m neil cavuto. a busy friday. probably doesn t help matters any when the president of the united states talks of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated this winter. let s savors didn t need to wait until the winter to sell off in droves on fears today, the same with holiday revellers are cancels on concerts that they paid for. they don t care if they ever get their money back. right now they want their lives back. we have you and them covered with the outgoing director of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins when that might happen. susan li on the financial fallout if it doesn t happen. rich edson at the white house on how the president is determined to make it happen. we begin with susan in new york. neil, christmas has president been cancelled just yet but it s under threat from the
the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
the policies that they want. the president in massachusetts making the push for green energy. climate change i nation and . this is an emergency. i will look at it that way. i said last week and i ll say it again loud and clear, as president, i ll use my executive powers to combat the climate crisis. not a single republican in congress will help support my climate plan. not one. let me be clear. climate change is an emergency. we ll make the clean air safer. i mean it. we have an opportunity here. dana: that comes as democrats lay in to moderate democrat senator joe manchin with some claiming that he s doomed humanity. yes, doomed humanity. manchin pumping the brakes on half a trillion in climate spending. he says that they need to chill out. people criticizing me, i understand that. i understand their aspirations. i understand the criticism. don t you believe inflation is the number one thing in american right now hurting every human being? if they don t care about tha