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of criminal justice reform. more with andy mccarthy and rafael coming up. sandra: president biden, no good, horrible, very bad week. first year of his presidency, major set backs to his agenda and plummeting approval numbers. hello and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. and here we made it to friday, john. john: good to be with you on friday, nothing sounds as good as that word. john roberts in washington. the president facing a litany, criticizing election overhaul speech. approval rating sinking to 33% in a new quinnipiac poll. the supreme court blocking the vaccine mandate for large businesses. sandra: also, key democratic senators joe manchin and kir sten sinema opposing changes to the filibuster, and the president acknowledging it will likely fail and covid-19 hospitalizations at a record high, even though he campaigned on getting it under control. jacqui heinrich from theorth lawn. how is the white house taking all this, what is the mood around ....
senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. tha ....
on plans to overhaul u.s. elections and change the filibuster. attention now turns to washington. the senate math does not sit in the president s favor. members of his own party are still not on board and now we are learning biden will be meeting with senate democrats tomorrow at their caucus lunch to push the issue. hello, welcome, sandra smith in new york. good to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well. john roberts in washington. the president slamming anyone who does not agree with his plans, calling them confederate villians. and now the clock begins to tick on senate democrats. sandra: schumer will bring a vote five days from now, and talk he could do that sooner as early as today. john: will it be successful or end with failure? start off with congressional correspondent aisha, live on capitol hill. over and under on all of this. think about this, the president went all the way to georgia only to have to make a trip down pennsylvania avenue. ....
pattern here as more of these companies take the spike in cases into their own hands, and the response which is fairly blunt, in the case of citigroup, if you are thinking of coming back to work as of january 14th and you re not vaccinated, don t worry about it. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. we re going to explore the confusion over omicron. the good news is that it is not as dangerous. so while these spikes in cases look alarming, the fact of the matter is overall hospitalizations and certainly deaths are not nearly indicative of that spike as you might think. we re going to explore that in a lot more detail, the administration s handling of all of this. for that, we go to lucas tomlinson in washington. reporter: good morning, neil. some medical experts think the silver lining with omicron variant is an immunity boost. president biden insists things will get better despite a record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think ....
alex huff with that story. hi, jacqui and griff. the fact that they were included in the arguments without correction disturbed a lot of people. at one point said that the omicron variant is just as deadly as the delta was, which has not been proven to be the case. she added this. we ve had 100,000 children, which we ve never had before in serious condition and many on ventilators. second part definitely not true there and the number is actually just over 3,000 kids hospitalized, but the c.d.c. said that of those cases, it s unclear how many children were in the hospital for other reasons who simply tested positive for covid-19 upon arrival. regardless, justice sotomayor along with breyer and kagan with vaccines at larger private companies. and skeptical of the power of the branch siding with the biden requirement. and this is something that the federal government has never done before. justice alito offered this. most osha regulations, all of the ones of which ....