president biden preparing to take a crack at his next legislative battle. there is a reasonable path to citizenship. but the president s more moderate politics on display on other issues. send a note to president biden because the answer is we need to do it right now. a live look at the white house there, president biden has sid that he will sign the major disaster declaration for the people of texas where this morning more than 79,000 people are still without powers. that brutal winter storm knocked out hoye power for days. temperatures are still below freezing in several parts of the state. more than 14 million texans either don t have running water or have to boil the water that they do have. and officials say it could be days before the water issues are resolved and the storm damaged several homes, shut down coronavirus vaccination sites and killed more than two dozen people. now, we do have good news for you. temperatures are expected to go up in the coming d
half a million now dead in america. we ve done worse than most any other country. the kind of disparate responses of states rather than having a unified approach. we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. we must do so to honor the dead. merrick garland making it clear justice department he runs will be different from the one he would inherit. i can assure you, i m not the president s lawyer. i m the united states lawyer. you will make the decision based on the advices given and on the facts of the law wrashd to the political consequences. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world, this is new day. it s tuesday, february 23rd, 6:00 a.m. here in new york. half a million american lives lost to coronavirus. it s a monumental loss made all the worse by knowing that in the united states it didn t have to be this high. this morning flags are flying at half-st
meeting with iranians during the trump presidency. they lost an election. they shouldn t have just got off the stage. tom brady talking about the famous throw for the first time, posting a stylistic fick with the caption, risky evident pass i threw all season. . brian: there is city where a lot of confirmation hearings going on after week, two week pause for this thing called impeachment part two. they re trying to get everyone through. for the first time we re about to see maybe a biden official just get nixed. there was a problem when you have 1000 tweets you delete before a hearing. that is not good news. neera tanden, a angry tweeter. steve: it embarrassed her now. so she deleted them. welcome, everybody, very busy tuesday, february 23rd, of 2021. welcome to hour one of this tuesday of fox & friends, ainsley. ainsley: good morning to you, thank you so much for choosing us. every single morning we appreciate that. let s talk about the covid relief bill. $1.9 trillio
full vote by the end of the week and starting in just a few minutes from now we will see multiple hearings for biden cabinet nominees who may or may not make it through official confirmation. i want to start with garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, it has been a month since joe biden was inaugurated. we re a little behind schedule with getting these cabinet members confirmed. is biden going to get all his people through? reporter: we probably won t get all of them but they re going to make some progress today. we ll have two votes on the floor for two biden nominees, including his agriculture secretary to join the administration today and those two confirmation hearings you mentioned for two of the people who may face a tougher road but who are still likely to get confirmed if democrats stick together. xavier becerra, the nominee for hhs secretary faces credit kichl from republicans that he lacks the necessary health experience, and dib holland, faces criticism for the
retaliation for troops. oren lieberman starts us off. reporter: the strikes against a position in eastern syria were the first known strikes under the administration of president joe biden. secretary of defense lloyd austin said he recommended the strikes and biden himself gave the authorization on thursday morning. a u.s. defense official said a handful of militants were killed in the strikes. the strikes come after the recent rocket attacks against u.s. and coalition forces in erbil and in the green zone itself. we re confident that target was being used by the same shia militia that conducted the strikes. we allowed and encouraged the iraqis to investigate and develop intelligence and that was very helpful to us in refining the target. reporter: it s important to note the messaging here. this was not a strike against a major site, it was proportional and meant to send a message. there will be a response for future rocket attacks. this was a deterrent against any futu