announcement to let you do not want to miss. but first, how many times did you hear this morning from laura? power-hungry governors and radical mayors are endangering their states futures and will eventually see their states left behind. those states are being left behind. the blue states will simply be left further behind. the free state will ultimately leave them all behind. the blue states are being left behind. sean: of the angle tried to warn all these democrat leadersy failed to take it seriously. big mistake. big. huge. sean: the left ignored the signs on covid, and they ignored what is best for americans. if you need any more proof people here are sick and tired of vaccines and max mandates, crt and rampant crime, look no further than the brand-new data from the census bureau. the states with the biggest increase in population were all red! florida, texas, and arizona, and the biggest decreases, new york, california, and illinois. so what do these hard-hit sta
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that really should get started on its christmas shopping. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 23rd. we ll start with the news. president biden is defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. here he is in a new interview with abc news. we re nearly two years in into the pandemic, presidency, empty shelves, no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it s so important. is that good enough? no, nothing s been good enough, but, look, look where we are. when last christmas we were in a situation where we were, we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled, hospitals had backups, causing great difficulties. we re in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. 200 million people fully vaccinated. we have more than that that have had at least one shot, and they re getting these booster shots as well. the president also reportedly told abc
group but you cannot actively participate in it. we will have to see in the coming months whether that makes a fundamental difference on any trend that develops on extremism in the ranks. victor. barbara starr, thank you. top of the hour, i m victor blackwell, good to be with you. five days now until christmas, and the pandemic is taking what experts are calling a grim path forward. today the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 new infections a day. that s a 10% increase over a week ago. new york, an early epicenter of the pandemic has seen record positive case numbers for three days in a row. mayor bill de blasio says he will decide this week whether to go forward with new york s famed new year s eve celebration in times square. cnn s jason carroll is with me now. what more are we learning from the mayor, also the governor today as they move forward on this new surge? the mayor is saying a couple of things. first and foremost, he said earlier today that there are no pl
inexcusable. welcome. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have fox team coverage to kickoff the hours. hillary vaughn on what the white house is saying and chad pergram on capitol hill where democrats are fuming at the no. we begin with hillary. hi, hillary. hi, sandra. the white house today admitting that they were surprised at senator joe manchin announcing on fox news yesterday that he s a no on president biden s build back better when jen psaki was asked why the white house was so surprised when joe manchin has been very public and clear and several policies in the package. she said there were private conversations and discussions with the white house and senator manchin and commitments made them behind closed doors that threw them off guard when he went public. senator manchin in a radio interview says the white house is the one that did things so wrong, they pushed him to his wits end. and steve clemens said the final straw is when the white
evening to you, bret. the call lasted two hours. according to the kremlin president putin told president biden that russia s posturing is purely defensive. the white house says biden was crystal clear about what would happen if russia takes additional steps and offered an alternative deescalation. president biden looked president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014 we are prepared to do now. in a high stakes call, president biden laid out economic consequences russia would face if they move forward with an invasion of ukraine. video of the meeting came from russian state media. good to see you again. i unfortunately last time we didn t get to see one another at the g-20. i hope next time we meet we do it in person. white house did not divulge sanctions package. biden made no concessions including on president putin s request to block ukraine from joining nato. instead the u.s. is preparing economic punishment with european allie