homeland again. we did that. we accomplished that objective. i said, among with others, we would follow osama bin laden to the gates of hell if need be. that s exactly what we did, and we got him. with the terror threat now in many places, keeping thousands of troops grounded and concentrated in just one country at a cost of billions each year makes little sense to me and to our leaders. we cannot continue the cycle of extendsing or expanding our military presence in afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result. i m now the fourth united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan. two republicans, two democrats. i will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth. after consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with a congress and the vice president as well as with mr. ghani and many other
point lead, quite a change from earlier this month when democrat terry mcauliffe was ahead. education remains one of the biggest factors in why the race has swung so much in recent years. eric: we have live fox news coverage. rich edson is in virginia. let s go to alexandria huff, covering the youngkin campaign in abing ton. reporter: you can t get more southwest in the state than this. it really doesn t get more republican than where we are now, that s okay, because youngkin is not here today to change any minds. the goal this late in the campaign is to really ensure that et voters who are likely to vote for him do and to show he s willing to put in the miles. of course, as we mentioned, the latest fox news poll of likely virginia voters show youngkin having an 8% lead over his democratic opponent. as he s been telling crowds, polls alone don t win elections. it comes down to matt had. an expected math. an expected or better than expected turnout could help him in places
$1.75 trillion social spending bill on tuesday, but over on the senate side, it hardly appears to be a done deal. we want to move both bills in tandem, and the second bill, the bill that deals with the needs of the working class of this country in terms of pre-k, that deals with the existential threat of climate, that bill is still being worked on literally today. it will be worked on tomorrow. and this comes as president biden desperately needs a win. new polling out today from nbc news shows his approval rating is at its lowest point so far, down 7 points since august with 71% of americans saying this country is moving in the wrong direction. plus, a travel note. american airlines canceled more than 600 flight today. that is 12% of its total operations. it happened due to severe weather and staffing shortages. the airline has now canceled more than 1,500 flights since friday. for events unfolding in washington and overseas, welcome to you both. michael, you first he
korea. they are testing new form of icbms. president xi not liking this chummy meeting that is going on right now at camp david. we ll keep you posted as they come out moments away. jim ratcliffe is here to tell us what he thinks of all of this and congressman mike gallagher, who is the chair of the select committee on china. what a great team we have to talk about this. they ll be with us in just a moment. first to jacqui heinrich who is live on the ground at camp david as we await the president me moment now. hi, jacqui. hi, martha. we re waiting for the president to speak. they ve been walking the grounds speaking informally. we re told a build-in time for that type of discussion outside of their tri-lateral meeting. this is a significant moment to have these three leaders appearing on a stage together. it was two years ago the deputy secretary of state for the u.s., windy sherman, had to stand alone on a stage following a tri-lateral meeting to do a news conference solo