steve: thank you very much, todd and carley, 6:00 in new york city on this thursday, january 18th. and it is currently 21 degrees in new york city. lawrence: from maga surveillance to maga warning. an investigation is underway after the feds ask banks to search and filter its customers transactions with terms like trump and maga. why the ceo of j.p. morgan chase shares this advice for the democrats. i wish the democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about maga. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. ainsley: but it seems vice president harris missed that memo. why she says she s scared as heck of former president trump taking back the white house. brian: and, could you ditch your cell phone for a month italics? that s the challenge that could earn you $10,000. think about that for a second while i officially start the show by saying fox & friends is ready to begin because your mornings are better because you
Debates. Mr. Trump accepting President Bidens proposal to square off as early as next month and again in september. Oneonone without robert f. Kennedy jr. Or other Third Party Candidates according to the current rules in a studio without a Live Audience by passing the president ial Debate Commission that has run every general Election Debate since 1988. In new york today the Trump Legal Team gets another chance tomorrow to crossexamine Michael Cohen as the trial could wrap up sooner than expected. Also the white house taking hits from all sides as it prepares to send 1 billion in weapons to israel after withholding heavy bombs that could have been used in rafah. Plus Russian Forces pushing deeper into Eastern Ukraine prompting president zelenskyy to cancel foreign trips and stay close to home. And moments from now, President Biden honoring Fallen Police officers at an annual Memorial Event on capitol hill. Well bring it to you live. Good day. Big news on the political front. Donald tru
kyrsten sinema all on the same page when it comes to passing the president s domestic agenda. that s going to be a critical period for that in addition to those other two challenges that they are now going to be juggling. essentially all at the same time, wolf. and so that is really going to be the focus of the white house because this, of course, they are worried that if they do not get that passed it could have long-term political implications for the democratic party in addition to, of course, the president s agenda or his legacy. but it s also having short-term implications. when you look at his poll numbers because president biden came into office and enjoyed an initial burst of public support. now you look at the numbers. the cnn poll of polls which is a combination of all the major polls you see the president s approval rating is at 45%. in a quinnipiac poll last week it was around 38%. when you talk to white house officials they say those are numbers that will take care of them
issue. this as democrats are trying to zero in to get president biden s legislative agenda over the finish line. and they are trying hard with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. house speaker nancy pelosi is hoping to get that voted on by october 31st. that s already passed the senate. once the house gets that through it can go to the president a desk. the question is can she get the votes? and what s hanging that up? it s the second part of the president s agenda. it s that economic package, that massive economic package, the build back better act. as kaitlan was referring to, they don t have a top line number per that. started at $3.5 trillion. joe manchin wanted 1.5 and they are trying to go back and forth over what that number is. and that s impacting what is in the bill. wolf, i ve talked to a number of lawmakers in the last several days. a number of senators who have their various projects they want in there. things like the child tax credit. things like paid family leave.
mcauliffe sees that as a potential opening in a state like virginia. we have a clip from terry mcauliffe. let me play it. sure. frustrated with your own party. are they dragging you down? it s not dragging me down. i worry about the people of virginia. your race. i want to they are making it harder for you? hard or not, people understand what i am doing, my plans, my 20 big plans to take virginia to the next level. they ll vote for me but there is frustration, you know, all over the country. we just want action. he suggested a few days earlier that biden was sort of a burden in his bid to win this election but he seemed to try to walk that back a bit yesterday. what you saw was, it was on a zoom and he thought it wasn t public but he was talking with campaign supporters. he noted biden is unpopular in virginia, his numbers are upside down. biden s numbers are upside down