officials for the last 14 months. let s bring an wall street journal columnist editor, dan henninger and editorial page writer, adam. adam, you follow this more than a year. why did the biden administration do the quick reversal this week? what s driving this? i think they are starting to recognize and they have from the beginning the administration, the previous administration has gotten good intelligence that made a lovely seemed like a plausible theory and they couldn t reject it so i m told the state investigation being moved around was bureaucratic wrangling but the important thing the intelligence community is going to be overseeing that. paul: so we have, what have we learned in the last year, adam? what is the best evidence we have for the lab theory? the one particular incriminating piece of information the state department put out in january was that there were researchers who had symptoms consistent with covid at the wuhan institute of virology in autumn 2019
after the shooting. investigators say officers responded to a domestic disturbance call when the government opened fire inside an apartment striking to officers. the third cop was able to shoot the suspect who happens to be a convicted felon with a long rap sheet. he found a hospital in critical condition. fox news live earlier i spoke to ray kelly about this senseless violence. we ve seen new york one 100% increase in shootings 2020, 2019 and remains at that level, we are in bad shape in the city. arthel: alexis mcadams live outside in harlem with more. tragic day here especially in harlem where the officers work in the precinct here right behind us, this was in a matter of seconds. three props inside the apartment complex and two of them were shot. nypd grieving the loss of their own recently from the officer who was a rookie, a 22-year-old here, he wanted to be a police officer wanted to make a big change in his community. this is where haven t friday night, three nypd
esses party approaches the midterms. i m going to be out on the road a lot making the case around the country with my colleagues up for reelection and others making the case of what we did do and what we want to do. what we need to do. and so i don t think i ve overpromise at all. i m going to stay on this track. clustering and former clinton pollster, mark penn the priest chairman of the harris poll and chairman of the state well group welcome. as you look at the polling, what accounts for the presidents standing the precipitous fall from mid-summer? our new polling has him at 39% approval. i think it really is a combination of people think 61% say maybe he is too old to be president. 54% they cannot handle issues like the complexity of the ukraine and china. and core confidences number one. the second of course, the issues here that seem out of control to people crime, immigration, the economy, inflation. so a combination of things going exactly the wrong way on these
jerome powell acknowledging inflation is likely to persist longer than the fed had previously expected. american voters point the finger at president biden. a new foxbusiness poll finding when it comes to rising prices twice as many think his actions are doing more harm than good. let s bring in kevin hasson who served as chair of the white house council of economic advisers under donald trump. welcome. a year ago you called it. 7% inflation and here we are. i will give you a chance, do you see this persisting and where we do we go into thousand 22? you mentioned 6.8% but that s a backward looking number. inflation hadn t taken off of it right now inflation is north of 10% if you look at the last few months but when you think of what fed policy has been when you had inflation at that level, it was very precise, very aggressive, and even at times surprising. in 1979, paul volcker did the saturday night massacre. do you remember that that is where we are. he was sure and stat
shawn. arthel: hello, i am arthel neville. an advisor for vice president harris clarify comments after vice president suggested the white house with more covid variance coming. cases of omicron spreading fast, three dozen states reporting infections. covid search terms as millions of americans are preparing to travel for christmas. the cdc seeking to reassure families they can travel if they take proper measures. we are in a very different place this year the master and we do want people to gather and gather safely. we have the tools back to do it. what we are saying is rely on the tools. arthel: we have live team coverage, morning rain is a new york city which has become the epicenter of this new covid wave but we will begin with mark meredith live in wilmington delaware for the president is spending the weekend. good afternoon, biden offering a blunt assessment about one unvaccinated americans are facing given the last couple of weeks because they face a severe winter o