having a hard time finding covid tests. a problem that could last into 2022 and now many public school districts say they will require covid testing for students and staff. let s go to our experts that we have with us this evening dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor and former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir. welcome to both of you. thank you for having us. mike: from the new york times the u.s. breaks single day record hospitalizations and deaths however have not followed the same dramatic increase in the last two weeks. deaths are down by 5% with the daily average of 1221. while hospitalizations increased by just 15% to an average of 78,781 per day. while you obviously want to track cases, dr. saphier, are hospitalizations and fatalities really more meaningful metrics? well, absolutely. as of right now, as you can see, we really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is impre
call and watch the real-time video before making their decision. president biden weighed in on the verdict saying nothing can bring mr. arbery back to his family and his community. the verdict ensures that those that committed this crime will be punished. let s jump in here. we ll bring in our legal panel. we have mercedes colwin here and bob bianchi, a former head new jersey county prosecutor. thanks to you both for being with us on our leading story this afternoon. bob, i m going to start with you. lay it out for us. a very complex jury charge. had to go through a number of counts. they only deliberated 11 hours, which as a former homicide prosecutor, when you have to deal with reasonableness, i thought it would take them more time especially when it came down to the third defendant, roddy bryan. many asked if the prosecutors established enough of a causal connection that roddy would be convicted. what i found interesting and the case, jillian, sometimes when you get a
enough with higher taxes, higher prices. simply enough. maria: gop leader kevin mccarthy is here in his first interview since the eight half-hour epic long speech. slamming nancy pelosi spending tax plan. how many states can the gop turnover in 2022. plus republicans denouncing cheney as primary challenger small blood. her bid to unseat cheney and donald trump s endorsement. plus this morning austria is back on full lockdown as the fda pushes booster shots for all in the united states. doctor scott atlas on dr. fauci and the politicians making medical decisions. then another high profile celebrity vanished by the chinese communist party. a potential hostage before joe biden s call when xi jinping. what is joe biden doing to stop the authoritarianism and why is he tiptoeing around xi jinping. we need people to understand that china is a geopolitical competitor in a potential adversary. they seek to overtake us. marsha blackburn is here on china, inflation in biden attorney
alan dershowitz joins us shortly. but first, a sidebar that shouldn t be lost. i m talking about msnbc being banned from the courtroom. as the jurors were leaving after a day of deliberations, police stopped a man who identified himself as an msnbc price. and as judge bruce schrader explained, he said his bosses in new york had given him an assignment. he gave that information and stated that he had been instructed by ms. ryland in new york to follow the jury bus. i have instructed that no one from msnbc will be permitted in this building until duration of this trial. this is a are serious matter. howard: nbc claims this was a freelancer who just happened to be near the bus and had no intention of photographing the jurors. if he was trying to do that, it would be monumentally dumb given the tense situation in the wisconsin town. was msnbc actually thinking of putting out pictures of the jurors and putting them in danger? i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard
after rittenhouse was first arrested back in august of 2020, a pro-censorship organization published what it called a fact-check of the case reared in a posting on its web site, politifact claimed that kyle rittenhouse had committed a crime by carrying a firearm in the state of wisconsin. here s the quote. it is against the law for someone under than 18 possess a dangerous weapon period. you ll notice in that statement complete unwavering certainty and this is common for politifact which issues facts like they are from god itself. they use them as a pretext to censor any speech online that contradicts the official line of the democratic party, the so-called narrative so politifact disagrees with what you re posting, then you are by definition spreading this information and you must be silenced. that s how it works. so naturally, other media organizations echoed this position immediately. kyle rittenhouse, 17, was not old enough to legally carry the assault style rifle he had