emily: we begin with a fox news alert, a new report suggests the biden administration allowed a lot of powerful teachers union to help put the brakes on reopening schools. this is outnumbered, i am emily compagno. here today, harris faulkner, kayleigh mcenany, host of kennedy on fox business, kennedy and in the virtual center see, karl rove. emails first reported by the new york post showed frequent communication between the american federation of teachers and top officials just days before the biden administration released at school reopening guidelines. in one email a teachers union official rights it would be great to see the insertion of the variation of the following. in the event of high community transmission results, a new update to these guidelines may be necessary. in at least two instances, language suggestions offered by the union were reportedly adopted nearly verbatim into the final text of the cdc document. the aft in a statement to fox news saying the
classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the joe bide
welcome to fox & friends on this saturday morning. look at that beautiful sunrise. i have a sunrise on my phone. pete: sure do. on the background of your phone just like that. it s the state of florida. will: this is morning of appreciation for the northeast. i start the 6:00 a.m. hour complimenting vermont. that is a beautiful sunrise in new jersey. pete: monmouth county and the beaches with the stretch of beach is going to be gorgeous. look out and almost always see the new york city skyline in the distance. i assume that was one of the carolinas when i saw it but it s new jersey. pete: see the weeds or whatever it is. like endangered bird that lives there they ve lost like 80% of the beach because the environmentalists are protecting it for this bird. that no one ever sees. anyway, it s a new jersey thing. will: maybe they ll start seeing it. let s bring you to the debate pete and i were having before coming on air. they were giving me a hard time about the fact i
a record tenth australian open, beating greece s stefanos tsitsipas in straight sets in the final. the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi had to pay a penalty to settle a multi million pound tax dispute. an investigation ordered by rushi sunakfound he had broken the ministerial code. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches, and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor, this morning he was chairman of the conservative party but his ministerial career now lies in tatters. he had faced questions for some time about his previous tax affairs and the fact he paid a penalty to hmrc while he was in charge of the treasury