jillian: we don t like that song anymore. todd: has anybody in america ever heard that song other than on our show? right us honor individual social media pages. i m legitimately curious, crickets. jillian: it is going to be in your box. todd: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. jillian: off-limits. former state department officials say they were warned against pursuing an investigation into covid origins over fears of bringing attention to us funding towards wuhan s biology lab. todd: the former white house coronavirus testing czar speaks out on the lab leak the area. reporter: former state department officials received pushback when investigating covid 19 origins. according to a vanity fair report multiple state department officials say there was an effort to oppose any investigation over fears that might, quote, open a can of worms. that report was confirmed through state department officials. they didn t want to bring unwanted attention to gain o
of his hits. look, look, um, so, look, look, very few schools are closing. over 59% are still open. 95% are still open. and i got strom thurman to vote for it again, i m taking too long answering your questions, i apologize. i think that. pete: despite plenty of awkward pauses and lots of whispering, biden made sure to pat himself on the back for the failure his presidency has become. i didn t overpromise. but i have, probably, outperformed what anybody thought would happen. look, um, i didn t overpromise, but, i think if you take a look at what we have been able to do you would have to acknowledge we made enormous progress. pete: yeah, just take a look at the record. not sure what country sleepy joe is waking up in or napping in. but not only have we failed to make progress, however he defines it, under his standard under biden, buff the country is actually moving in the wrong direction. just look at how much more expensive your life has become in joe biden s america
the president said his guess is that russia s vladimir putin will move into ukraine because, quote: he has to do something. he suggested that a smaller incursion might face a less severe penalty but then tried to clear that up saying putin probably hasn t made up his mind yet and the consequences will be severe if he does invade ukraine. president biden blamed republicans for the lack of legislative success. he said build back better legislation will likely have to be broken up and passed in chunks. and he insisted he is not a socialist like bernie sanders. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn, good evening, jackie. good evening to you, bret. long overnight but what a press conference that was. the president began spotlighting what he sees as the president s achievements on jobs creation, lower lowering unemployment. expanding access to healthcare vaccinations and the covid relief and infrastructure laws. but the questions
germany and britain right after that meeting. coming up, we re going to take to mississippi republican senator roger wicker on the armed services committee on what he thinks the president has to do now. welcome. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. the russian media was allowed in for the start of the call. the u.s. media was not. to hillary vaughn on where things stands right now. hi, hillary. after that two-hour video chat between president biden and russian president putin, jake sullivan was asked if the world is any safer after that video chat. he said he could not predict that and only would say that time will tell. the discussion between president biden and president putin was direct and straightforward. there was a lot of give and take. there s no finger wagging. all i will say is that the ultimate metric for whether the world is safer or not is facts on the ground and actions taken. let s see. biden did threaten economic action if putin ramps
we were so excited baby yoda made his first appearance. joey: he was cool. i saw i go up on the third flo first time ever seeing the macy s day parade peg leg i don t know much else about him. amputees were well represented in the parade and i got myselfy and sent it to the kids. we had a good time. lawrence: we don t know if he lost his in combat. american hero. joey: we were a bunch of ship ridingletter necks. i m going to make up my own story that s what he was, too i guess. i spent some time with some friends yesterday, if you have photos from your thanksgiving celebration. you can email those photos to us at friends at foxnews.com. we would love to celebrate your family and put you on the bottom of the screen, rachel,. happy thanksgiving, got some photos. i do have some photos. pull them up. well, there we go. so we have a family tradition it s not very p.c. the younger ones always dressed up like pilgrims and indians. more of them want to be indians, you can blame