his side, he was 74 years old. you are watching fox t.v. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. i was looking up information on meatloaf, one of the best-selling artists of all time and sold worldwide 80 million records. his first album bat out of hell, can you believe this, still sells 200,000 copies annually, in movies like rocky horror picture show and fight club, and i was working on my first job and i was don imus s assistant and he was a guest two times. had a big smile throughout the interview. sometimes celebrities would be nice to don imus and not nice to the bottom-tier people like me. he was the exact opposite, such a sweet man. i m so sad to hear he died at 74 years old. he did die with his wife by his side. if have you to die issue at least you have your family with you. todd: we highlighted how his career spanned generations. he was an icon in the 70s. i have to bring up, in jersey, whenever paradise on the dashboard comes on, guyos one side and the
cassidy on why all of this could mean more pain at the pump for americans. we begin with greg in kiev. greg? officials are more assured but still nervous. antony blinken met with his counterpart in a meeting that was called critical. here s a bit of what he said. that s the choice that russia faces now. they can choose a path of diplomacy that will lead to conflict and condemnation. still a gap remains dangerously wide, sandra. blinken demanding russia pull back its 100-plus troops on the borders with ukraine. lavrov said they didn t intend to invade. and russia wants troops out of eastern your ukraine. president zelensky was critical of the president s comments earlier this week. blinken shared information about this meeting with ukraine s foreign minister. sandra, late and developing news this afternoon, u.s. officials have learned that the state department is at least looking at a possible evacuation of u.s. diplomats and families. back to you. sandra: what happe
year since he was sworn into office. he says his administration has outperformed since that time and blames president trump and the republicans for any shortcomings. carley: brooke has reaction, first we begin with griff jenkins. a lot to talk about this morning. griff: a whole lot. the president begins a new year with another legislative failure, even before the vote was called over changing the filibuster rules, senator joe manchin labeled it dead on arrival. it will fuel on the fire. griff: the president tweeting this, i am profoundly disappointed the senate failed to stand up for our democracy. i am disappointed, but not deterred. this after the president defended his performance. president biden: i outperformed what anybody thought would happen. you mentioned number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down, everything is changing. griff: as far as the direction he wants to take the country in, he had this exchange with pete
those. george gascon bears responsibility. chuck grassley calling out the secret service claiming the hiding travel logs on hunter biden. missing years are when hunter biden traveled to russia and china. illegal arrest warrants as a form of i.d. to fly. after 9/11, we as a country made a decision to make sure that we weren t going to have any more incidents in the air and now this. dance, dance, dance creeping up on you just dance, dance, dance all those things i should do dance, dance, dance ain t nobody leaving dancing. steve: good morning, nashville, this is your 5:01 central time wake-up call. as you can see screen right, the infamous batman building as they refer to it. i think it s the at&t building. but it kind of looks like batman with the ears. currently it s 26 in nashville. they are going for a daytime high of freezing. you might as well stay inside all day long and just watch cable tv because ainsley and brian, it s an anniversary day.
as republicans hammer the white house on policies that they say are adding fuel to the inflation fire. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. and two very different worlds for taxpayers and voters heading into the 2022 mid-terms. democrats trying to salvage the president s spending agenda despite price hikes slamming consumers. bob nardelli is here on the pain consumers are feeling. joe lieberman on why democrats may want to start worrying. and rob portman on another threat that will impact those energy prices you re paying. first, to democrats push for more spending. hillary vaughn is at the white house with the very latest from there. hi, hillary. hi, sandra. president biden says he thinks the cure for an economy that is closely getting close to overheating is too actually spend trillions in government spending. he says he thinks the answer is to pass his social spending package, the build back better bill. he says it could be awhile before it happens.