day cake yesterday. i ate the entire thing. lawrence: one of my favorite holidays. i m definitely a mama s boy. she is watching the show. i want to know how much i love her. my mother got pregnant with me at 16. decided to choose life and my dad married her. pete: friends@foxnews.com. bonus to get it on hair with the show in the background. send us anytime with mom. if you have the show, we know it is real from now. we love to share it. if there is a pet you always know you get plus points from me if there is a cat or dog in there. lawrence: got to have the background. jedediah: exactly. thanks for being with us this morning everyone. pete post thanks for being here. but we start with the new scandal surrounding the biden administration. republicans and i m reading jed s line. jedediah: all good. republicans are calling into question the president s ethics after he reportedly waived rules for some staffers. lawrence: a lot of hypocrisy going on. griff jenkins joins us from
starting late monday, anyone riding on airplanes, trains, subways, taxis, and buses will be required to wear a mask. let s start with the breaking news on these new variants. cnn s he knew mcmorris-santoro joins me live. evan, what more do we know about this new positive case? reporter: fred, as you say, this is fresh news coming in, but what we know is concerning. maryland officials say the south african variant popped up in the baltimore metro area in a person who hasn t been traveling very much which to them suggests community spread of that variant. so they re currently out there trying to contact trace that case, find out more about it and find out where it is. but experts have told us to expect these new variants to pop up here in the united states and that appears to be happening, at least with this maryland case. and we re going to see what more we can find out about that. but as you mentioned, the arrival of this new variant suggests how active the pandemic still i
donald trump wrapping up a town hall in south carolina with our very lovely laura ingraham. nikki haley, who hasn t made any news all week, made news today, after calling the media in to make a big campaign announcement. some of you perhaps a few of you in the media, came here today, to see if i m dropping out of the race. [laughter] well, i m not, far from it. and i m here to tell you why. i m running for president because we have a country to save. i feel no need to kiss the ring. [applause] i have no fear of trump s retribution. jesse: donald trump responding to that just now. she s down by 30 or 35 points and everybody knows her, you are not supposed to lose your home state, shouldn t happen. laura: why do you think she s staying in the race? i don t think she knows how to get out actually. i don t. she did terribly in new hampshire, only vote laura: she has money behind her. they are trying to hurt me because of general election. she is playing into t
not going away and saudis are making a big mistake not dealing with us before they get involved. carley: plus the manhunt for michael burram continues wrchl they believe he could be right now. todd: never before seen video of carley s bachelorette party. the scene in one of the city s most upscale hotels. i m kidding, of course, she went to an amish community. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. president biden will sit down with ukrainian president zelenskyy this morning. todd: lucas tomlinson joins us with the latest lucas: president biden will sit down with president zelenskyy today to discuss joining the alliance. question, first is weapon packages for supporting our army on the battlefield. the second, invitation to nato, security measures will allow, the sword will speak today and fight for this, security guarantee on the way to nato. lucas: month-long stalemate and russian troops occupy 20% of the country. there is reform, governance, political ref
republicans are branding his surprise appearance as a p.r. stunt. peter doocy asked the white house about this moments ago. the last time he was on the hill he said the president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say. i did say that, and what i m saying today. president biden does not help him with his business deals but does help him skirt congressional subpoenas. that is not even true. that is a jump tha incredibly john: this hour has seven days, and that s an old canadian television show, and that s the way it feels this afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york, america reports hour two. any moment now the house oversight hearing, wow, did it have some fireworks. it is expected to resume as the committee considers a resolution on whether to move forward with contempt proceedings for hunter, adding another headache for the president s son as he is expected to appear in a los angeles courtroom on tax charges tomorrow. john: let s go