guest: steve in alexandria, indiana. republican line. host: yes. host: steve, make sure you mute your volume and go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i wanted to say that i think the reason our economy, the gas prices is the main reason. once the gas prices go up it caused a chain reaction to everything. from truck drivers, it was a chain reaction. the truck drivers have to pay more for their fuel. if everybody's paying more for the fuel than all the prices will be going up. it is not going to end until we get relief on these gas prices. it costs more to transport all of our goods all over the country and i think it is going to be with us for a while until we can get these gas prices lowered. host: ok, steve. guest: you are right. gas prices contribute to inflation when they are rising as rapidly as they have been. it is not the only contributing factor. we also have commodity prices going up as demand for goods have risen with the economy's recovery. we have house prices going up and lumber prices going up. there is a host of goods that

he in the getting river is of the alexandria species, which produces talks. it's grossly been a bra. him is a fisherman for malicious don't, but district in collecting, in the 19 ninety's, the giddy river was clear. you could see the said, we didn't have any problems here. now the river is polluted and it smells bad. fisheries officials have issued notices, banning people from selling or eating malice, found along the getting river. the area affected by the red tide is small, but news of the algae do has affected seafood trade is in the area. a mass pro democracy movement, violent crackdowns assassinations, and you imposed sanctions? all talk tics in the struggle that ensued from the 2020 bella luce, in presidential elections. that shook the country, self proclaimed dictators. seat of our at now new tactics, migrants people empower, investigates, the humanitarian disaster under rivaling on europe's borders and asks what's next in the battle for bella bruce on a jazz eda. oh, you want to help save the world? sneeze into your elbow. m for, for vaccine questions

congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez recently told "the new york times," there is all this focus on democrats deliver, democrats deliver, but are they delivering on the things that people are asking for the most right now? in communities like mine, the issues that people are loudest and feel most passionately about are the ones that the party is speaking to the least. how do you respond to that? >> i'm not sure what she's referring to specifically, but i can tell you when every 3-year-old and 4-year-old in america gets to go to school, not day care, school, with universal pre-k, that's going to be popular everywhere. but in my district, talk to carpenters and plumbers. talk too steam fitters and iron workers. they'll tell you that infrastructure bill means good jobs for as far as the eye can see. climate activists. i know alex and ria cares a lot about the climate. i'm a weapon with hoar that and we're doing the most important climate work that's ever been done right now in both the infrastructure bill and in the build back better bill. what does that mean? hundreds of thousands of

we also know that there were about 20 shots that were fired and as we just heard from alexandria who's covering this, there were about 100 calls to 911 in the moments after these shots were fired, and police say that they now have taken a suspect into custody. in just a few minutes, within that 911 call, we do not have the identities of any of the people kwwho have either been killed, injured. >> alex field is staying on this for us, and will bring updates as soon as we have them. stay with us. we will be right back. i was unablele to eat. it was very hard. kimberly came to clearchoice with a bunch of missing teeth, struggling with pain, with dental disease. clearchoice dental implants solved her dental issues. [ kimberly ] i feel so much better. i feel energized to go outside and play with my daughter. i can ate anything. like, i don't have to worry. clearchoice changed my life. ♪ when you have nausea, ♪ ♪ heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach... ♪ ♪ diarrheaaaa.♪ try pepto bismol with a powerful coatinaction. for fast and soothing relief. pepto bismol for fast reef when you

. >> harris: alexandria hos is live at the white house. i mentioned full damage control today. >> you can get the sense of panic mode. we go back to what president biden and his administration said issuing the travel ban. it gives them time. they want to see more people vaccinated and want to come up with a strategy. today president biden is spending some of his time pushing his agenda in the midwest. he will head to minnesota this afternoon to shine a light on his trillion dollar infrastructure deal and tout the need for a $2 trillion spending bill which republicans fear will exacerbate inflation and supply chain issues. according to federal chairman powell. >> concerns with the virus could slow progress in the labor market and intensify supply chain disruptions. >> president biden says lockdowns are off the table for now. same goes for the vaccine mandate not by choice for the biden administration, fighting to reinstate it after the requirement was put on pause by a federal court. >> president biden: i expect this not to be the new norma

pete muntean live in alexandria, virginia, with the latest on this. good morning, pete. >> reporter: good morning, john. the whole notion here that omicron fears according to industry experts could go up and gas prices could go down. look at the latest numbers from aaa. the price of gas has actually gone down a little bit from where we were a week ago. the national average, now $3.39. and aaa says because as the cripp omicron fears could go up, we could see five to six cents of relief. what is driving this is the cost of brent crude oil. now it was $80 a barrel just last month. we're seeing some relief there. it is all about omicron variant fears here. new lockdowns, new travel restrictions, there is in word from president biden we will not see any new travel restrictions anytime soon, at least for now. the industry analysts on the inside on this say we could only see a little bit of relief for a short period of time. come 2023, we could see $150 a barrel brent crude oil and that could lead to $5 a gallon of gas. >> let's hope that doesn't happen. i'm

guest: steve in alexandria, indiana. republican line. host: yes. host: steve, make sure you mute your volume and go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i wanted to say that i think the reason our economy, the gas prices is the main reason. once the gas prices go up it caused a chain reaction to everything. from truck drivers, it was a chain reaction. the truck drivers have to pay more for their fuel. if everybody's paying more for the fuel than all the prices will be going up. it is not going to end until we get relief on these gas prices. it costs more to transport all of our goods all over the country and i think it is going to be with us for a while until we can get these gas prices lowered. host: ok, steve. guest: you are right. gas prices contribute to inflation when they are rising as rapidly as they have been. it is not the only contributing factor. we also have commodity prices going up as demand for goods have risen with the economy's recovery. we have house prices going up and lumber prices going up. there is a host of goods that

refused to vote to hold paul gosar accountable for the anime video that appeared to show him killing alexandria ocasio-cortez and attacking the president of the united states. and while the gop circus continues, the investigation of one of the darkest days in american history, the attack on the capitol, is moving forward. in a matter of hours, a federal appeals court will hear the former president's latest effort to stop the national archives from turning over documents from around january 6 to the house. now, he is claiming executive privilege but the current white house is saying that's not his call anymore since he is no longer the president of the united states. that as the january 6th committee is about to vote on a criminal contempt of congress referral for former doj official jeffrey clark. jeffrey clark stonewalled the committee showing up for an interview but refusing to answer questions. clark would be the second person to face contempt charges for defying the committee after steve bannon was indicted. bannon himself hoping to be the ring master of his own media circus trying to convi

censured for posting a death fantasy video featuring a cartoon version of himself killing congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. if mccarthy does as he did with congressman gosar, which was to avoid saying anything publicly about it until asked directly by reporters, it will be up to democrats again to weigh disciplinary action. for more on how many might unfold politically, we are joined by democratic strategist james carville. so, james, you hear these -- these comments. i mean, do you think democrats should try to do something? or is it a waste of time? >> look at lauren boebert's rap sheet. paul gosar, every one of his siblings campaigns against him. these are not quality people and you should just -- kevin mccarthy can't do anything. most of his majority approves of the seditious criminal acts that took place on january the 6th. and what congressman omar should do is i'm working day and night with president biden trying to get vaccines distributed, jobs created, solving supply chain issues. and -- and let them dwell in their own stupidity. >> it just seems like there is an awful lot of folks

in washington, alexandria off fox news. the u. s. postal service has announced its holiday shipping deadlines, the postal service says. if you plan on shipping by ground, you'll need to drop it off or have it picked up by december. 15th first class mail is december 17th with priority mail just one day after on the 18th. and if you wait until the last minute priority mail express can be dropped off until december, 23rd military ears are starting their rounds earlier to help deliver packages in the mail. they'll be out as early as six a.m. to keep up with the busy holiday season. the postal service says it's expected to deliver up to 950 million packages over the holidays, with the busiest week expected to be december. 13th through the 18th the t s a says it's screened more than 4.6 million people across the country this weekend. yesterday was the busiest day for air travel since the start of the pandemic, and airlines reported less than half a percent of cancelations last week for the thanksgiving holiday. jack dorsey, the co founder

away committee assignments from paul gosar after he posted anom anime video that showed him killing alexandria ocasio-cortez aswi well as president bidenen. so democrats have main daneed both in the's -- maintained that when they removed marjorie taylor green from committees that they're establishing a precedent of not tolerating lawmakers who appear to promote political violence. mathey say that's a red line particularly after the violent attack on the capitol on january 6th. but republicans are very frustrated at being in the house minority where that means they can't, they don't have a whole lot of ability to stop whatever majority wants to do to. and so republicans who are very frustrated about this have been pushing kevin mccarthy to take retaliatory action ifry they do take over the house in 2022. >> host: lots to read about with christina marcos this week and "thehe hill." thanks for the update. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: our morning topic in our first hour, asking you about with may have over new variant reported, of covid-19, reported out of south africa. 202-748-8000 fo

first of all i grew up in alexandria in the same house i came home from the hospital and i never moved until i moved into the white house. i already had secret service protection back and be cut is of the sla i did and my mother didn't which was a strange phenomenon. but the most exciting part of it was moving into a place i had male bathroom and did not have to share with my brothers. [laughter] >> the secret service protection must of been a real shock to your everyday life. >> it was. but i grew up with three older brothers it's like having your brothers around nonstop. we worked with the secret service and i was had a good relationship with them. yes i did disappear once on them that everyone needs to do it to see if you can. it was fine. i still stay in touch with my secret service agents. they were great friends and they know a lot of secrets i don't want out. >> we are recording this at the presidential site summit by the white house historical association. how much of your life is devoted to your family experience. >> not as much as most people would think so having three broth

first of all i grew up in alexandria in the same house

alexandria huff joins us live from washington with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carley, todd. senate democrats would like to see the president's massive spending plan wrapped up and under the tree by the end of next month but changes to the bill are likely which would then require it to be sent back to the house for review. >> are you confident it will get done before christmas? >> i am. you know, if the republicans want to scrooge out on us and increase people's interest rates and make it hard to make car payments, go ahead, make that case. we're going to stop them from doing that. >> reporter: but democrats must first focus on their own party. the bill must satisfy progressives like senator bernie sanders who has taken tissue with raising the tax deductions and moderates like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who pushed back on the expense of climate, immigration and paid leave provisions. >> one of the reasons that inflation is going to get significantly worse is because of the greater spending we have through build back b

alexandria huff joins us with more. >> reporter: ideally senate democrats would like to see the bill wrapped up by christmas, likely changes will be made before being sent back to the house for review. here's minnesota senator amy klobuchar. >> are you confident it will get done before christmas? >> i am. if the republicans want to scrooge out on us and intrees people's interest rates and make it hard to make people's car payments, go ahead make that case. we're going to stop them from doing that. >> reporter: democrats must focus on their own party, negotiations have to satisfy democratic moderates who pushed back on the expense of climate, immigration and paid leave provisions. >> one of the reasons that inflation is going to get significantly worse is because of the greater spending we have through build back better. but thank got for senator manchin and senator sinema at this point, they may be the only -- the last line of defense on this thing. >> reporter: the spending plan relies on unanimous support from democrats, no republicans are on board with the price tag. let's break d

alexandria hof shows us more and more people are doing most of their spending online. black friday isn't the king. it used to be for retailers. it's not even really just a day anymore, with sales starting in store and online weeks earlier, while black friday foot traffic was down, compared with pre pandemic levels, it was up from last year, perhaps signaling some brick and mortar nostalgia after nearly two years of shopping, online online sales actually fell for the first time friday, according to adobe analytics. retailers racked up $8.9 billion in cyber sales this year. compared with nine billion on the same day in 2020. people were worried about supplies in the last two months, and we saw it big jump in retail sales that came earlier than a lot of people expected. a major test comes tomorrow in order to break this cyber monday. record set in 2019 consumers will have to spend over $9.4 billion the national retail federation expects holiday sales from november to december to rise 8.5 to 10.5% over $843 billion. that, too, would set a record for year over year growth.

in washington, alexandria off fox news. well despite the convenience of shopping online, there will always be people who still like to browse the shops. i like shopping in person a lot more than online. um. and i think it's nice just being able to actually see what you're getting. coming up a little later this hour. ktvu elissa harrington checks in with shoppers about their concerns with online shopping this ho it was a pretty nice day. today and saturday. just beautiful weather. beautiful sunsets like the one behind me the last couple of days and temperatures like these . we were in the seventies today again. 73 morgan hill 71 in san jose. guess what happens tomorrow? same thing about the same temperature, maybe a little warmer and fairfield and conquered maybe upper sixties low seventies there. 17 pacifica 70 in san mateo. that's today. i think tomorrow i'll be about the same. there might be a little patchy coastal fog tonight, but not very much. i think it's gonna be nice at the beach is turning mid sixties there, so the

washington, i am a yankee i guess, moved down to washington dc a decade ago and noticed over the river in alexandria there still streets and roads named after confederates and i was puzzled why that would be the case and in charlottesville, statues were not put up right after the civil war to honor battlefield heroes, they were erected in 1924 as symbols of white power, the ku klux klan held a parade to celebrate statues and we got around to discussing the dining school. follow my premise and i will let you take away to explain the dining school. i alluded to it before his children and young adults, who have a certain set of values, beliefs, narratives and when introduced to new ideas it can be quite jarring to the senses, the dining school interpretation of the confederacy and reconstruction, from crazy guy and left field, a prestigious ivy league university, that narrative dominated scholarship for half a century so what was the dining school and why is it important? and why is that important for this discussion? >> dunning was historian at colombia university, he had a lot of influence on the way

in washington, alexandria off fox news. and we have you covered when it comes to holiday shopping, both online and out in the real world. just go to ktvu dot com alameda is celebrating the start of hanukkah today with a mineral lighting the fifth annual event hosted by habad of alameda, is being held at britain's park. the festivities included music, food and activities for all ages as well as a nine ft tall menorah made entirely of lego bricks. the eight night holiday commemorates the rededication of the second jewish temple in jerusalem. tonight we celebrate . we continue to celebrate the miracle of hanukkah. miracle of the victory of right over might of light over darkness, freedom over oppression and we're really very. ah happy and pleased to be celebrating here in america tonight in a public way. organizers say this year's menorah lighting is done with the recognition of the importance of community as many are still experiencing the hardships of the pandemic. support is pouring in for the family of the security guard k

the problem is the alexandria ocasio-cortezs over the world are not going away. that creates a problem for how you get all of these things you want to get passed, done. how you get joe manchin and kristin sinema to go along or how you get the 13 republicans? john: the democratic caucus is not like the republican caucus. it does not look like a country club board of directors. we have an incredibly diverse, ideologically, demographically, gender, etc. the process is pretty messy and it has hurt us. i will be the first to say that. we are going to get some stuff done. that is important. it will be impact. as well. you have to deal with that, not now, not in the first quarter or the second quarter, you guys would have to deal with the effect that you do not have anything to run on. i hope you have plans of what you are going to do about the border and what you are going to do about how we perceive the broad or what you want to do about voters who have lost confidence in biden's ability to govern. not his ability to understand government. john: let us challenge. i do

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arizona who is sort of in this fringe wing posted a video of himself murdering another congresswoman, alexandria ocasio-cortez. mccarthy said nothing about this. did not encourage a sit-down and democrats ended up taking him off his committee and censuring him. he called her and he issued a public apology. will he say with that a jay. she will walk it back and is clearly getting pressure from others to walk back that apology but the fact she said that she was sorry and that she's reached out toil han omar's office is something that we haven't seen these republicans do in the past, and so i think in that regard democrats would say that this is a welcome first step. obviously they are going to want to see more in terms of, you know, future actions. they don't want to see this sort rhetoric again, but, look, any time someone makes a comment like this that's clear islamophobic there could be a teachable learning moment and if boebert is sincere she should sit down with omar and try make am amends, people on capitol hill would welcome that. >> it's more than that has been done. boebert said she was s

alexandria hoff has more about online shopping in upcoming cybermonday. hi, alex. reporter: retailers are really looking forward to this but they don't bank on single day it is way they used to. gone are the physical door busters. retailers racked up $8.9 billion in cyber sales this year compared with 9 billion on the same day in 2020. >> we are worried about supplies in the last two months and we saw a big jump in retail sales that came earlier than a lot of people expected. >> major test comes tomorrow in order to break the cybermonday records set in 2019 consumers will have to spend over $9.4 billion, the national retail federation expects holiday sales till november to december to arrive at 10 and a half percent to $846 billion, that too would set a record for year over year growth but fox news contribute o jonathan has some doubts. >> inflation, it's a silent text but people are feeling it because assuages are growing up inflation is going up even faster. reporter: supply chain issues have given retailers to make up for as many large chains have been forced to

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we seen a couple members of congress and the squad rashida tlaib and alexandria ocasio-cortez pushing to lower bail and empty prisons. meanwhile you mentioned what was happening in san francisco bay area where looters are running wild because of the city had sent a message that it would not prosecute property crimes up to $950. now they're stealing everything. these are all the result of policy that have been enacted in the last couple of years and were getting a hangover, really, really fast. gerry: it does look as though democrats seem to have abandoned many of the principles that we understand about protection of the citizen and the rights of individuals because of the progressive as byron describes it, progressive dominance in the last couple of years. as a democratic party getting this right? >> i think we were getting everything wrong is to connect an increase in crime to partisanship to blame democrats entirely for an increase in crime that is pandemic driven. let's keep in mind it's an increase in violent crime not property crime. i don't know where to begin to unpack all of t

republican paul gosar was censured for a video he shared depicting himself as an anime character killing alexandria ocasio-cortez. the hill reports that threats against members of party have more than doubled this year, compared to 2020. joining me now to discuss all of this is aaron erin hussein hayn donna edwards. thank you for being with us. let me just start with you. you were in congress and times were normaler back then. there's always been hateful rhetoric and always has been violence, but there seems to be a commonality to how this is happening amongst republicans these days, but an unwillingness for their leadership to do something about it. it seems to be falling to democrats to censure republicans. >> i think that's true. i also served on the ethics committee when i was in congress. and in an ordinary circumstance, these kind of things would be referred there. but the fact is that the republican leadership has to be the one to police the behavior of its own members. and they completely refuse to do that, starting with kevin mccarthy, but really adopted by almost the entire it of the repu

and alexandria ocasio-cortez yelled, i did. they voted him to deliver on the progressive policy victories. we will see if he is able to do that. >> a lot of the benefits in these bills won't kick in right away. they don't address what are some of the top concerns for voters, which is inflation. if they pass infrastructure and the economic bill, it will have transformative impact on the middle class. it will be huge for biden's legacy. will it be enough to save the democratic majority? i think a lot of democrats on capitol hill would say they need to do more than that. >> to our point, if covid is raging with next september with whatever variant and they pass build back better, it's not going to matter. the key issue for every single american is co-vvidcovid-19 whi why you see democratic governors start issuing their own covid guidance at times at odds with the biden administration. they realize they need to take matters into their own hands. >> they are the real barometer. the pollster said build back better won't matter. "the

there were at least six slaves in the lee household in alexandria. when and carter dies in 29, part of her estate is the disposition of the slavesin that estate . some slaves are appointed towards her two daughters. in this case and marshall lee . i'm sorry, and kim lally. she becomes an lee marshall and her sistermildred lee . but one slave family is willed to robert, or at least in the terms of the disposition of the state winds up being an enslaved family that robert owns. it is as it turns out the only slave family he ever owns in his own name. that doesn't mean he didn't benefit from slavery as a system. simply by being a white southerner there were benefits in terms of the system and in arlington when he marries into the cusp of his property at arlington there's two other customers properties along the river and all told there's something like 190 slaves who are part of those properties. robert lee benefits from that. when he marries into that he and ifit's . he has a valley who is one of the slaves. his wife has a slave who will wait on her an

will: alexandria half is live in washington dc with more. reporter: this variant is proving to have variation from the covid-19 cases that researchers have become accustomed to pick south african doctor was the one that first reported the covid-19 variant, the new one tells us that patients have not lost their sense of taste or smell and have recovered at home while feeling tired. she's worried that older and vaccinated individuals will be hit harder and meanwhile infections are spreading reaching europe and australia. president biden travel ban to and from south africa and seven neighboring nations begins tomorrow excluding american citizens that need to return home. >> blocking travel from a given country, just give us time to assess it better, that's the reason for doing that, not any reason for panic, but we want time to fill in the blanks of what we don't know right now. reporter: while the omicron variant is officially detected in the us researchers believe the ability to enter human cells means the variant is likely already here. >> i

foxes alexandria hoff has more from washington, d. c. it's not illegal to fly with a firearm. but there are specifics that travelers need to abide by a gun . definitely can't be in a carry on and should never be loaded. yet the t s a is reporting a 20 year high in the number of weapons that have been confiscated. last saturday, holiday travelers scrambled and feared atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport when a passenger who had been pulled aside for a secondary screening of his carry on lunged for the loaded gun inside, causing it to discharge . three people were injured, and that man is still at large. amid the holiday rush on tuesday, the t s a at boys is airport in idaho found two loaded guns. in pittsburgh wednesday. the 32nd gun of the year was found there, complete with six bullets and one in the chamber on thanksgiving day. the t s a new england posted this tweet, noting that agents discovered this loaded 3 57 magnum containing five rounds inside of a woman's carry on bag. 16 firearms have been detected at boston's logan airport so far this year. it's happening all aroun

united states man from sumner county named isaac franklin, it became very wealthy buying slaves in alexandria, virginia, and transporting them initially he made them walkti by the writer here. and then they put them on those later and took them on boats and took them around florida and new orleans and of the river. but he became one of the wealthiest men in the country in the slave business there's a new book called the venture in the chain which the historian is taken all of the financial records pretty this was such tedious work and really combed through their and draws the conclusion about isaac franklin in the business in slaves predict so cotton was not just cotton, it meant slaved people that's what brought the population that's what it in the city to grow so rapidly. let's move forward fast to the civil war. east tennessee, mom-and-pop farms and no need for cotton, no need for enslaved people, they can't raise cotton over there but weather is not right in the land is not right, it's persistent farming. an agricultural abundance, lots and lots of cotton being raised over there and here

does ilhan omar -- does representative alexandria ocasio-cortez -- or are we going to be wait for there to be an actual attempt on their life in order to recognize just how vile and violent the republican party has become? >> adam, what was your read on this statement? was she trying to avoid getting stripped of committee assignments and duties the way that paul gosar has for his misogynistic attacks or the way marjorie taylor greene has for her anti-semitic comments? has she avoided that by using that half-hearted apology, i don't want to use that word, but it is what it is. what do you think? >> i think you're right, ayman. this is an incredibly new dynamic we're seeing where freshmen members of the house, whether it's marjorie taylor greene or lauren boebert, sort of have the minority leader, kevin mccarthy, for lack of a better term, they have him by the base. they have him sort of over a barrel where they can sort of abstract policy wins because he wants to be speaker if republicans win back the house next year after 2022. i think sort of lost in all of this is that representative

and especially noted that john roy price's jointed this evening by his daughter alexandria and his son feel so welcome to both of you predict john's new book, the last republican insider perspective prevails the influence of those across the broader administration priorities and how these men it is rather the president and indeed the president himself impacted american social policy for decades and much of which were only realizing now. eleven richard nixon advised the democrats instruct the republicans the extent of his d presidency, he proposed a guaranteed family income and he almost achieved a national health insurance program if you can believe it is a republican, but i will cite the best of the the conversation for these two gentlemen, please join me in welcoming john roy price and frank gannon. [applause] [applause] >> john is eminent and i am in a i met a division of labor. it is a pleasure to be here, an old friend and not former colleagues because of gone by the time i arrived the white house predict but john has written a very important book pf which even is combining severa

united states is a man from sumner county named isaac franklin who became very wealthy buying slaves in alexandria, virginia and transporting them initially, he made them walk by land through here and they put them on boats later and took them around florida to new orleans and up the river but he became one of the wealthiest men in the country in the slave business and there's a new book called the ledger and the chain in which the historian is taken all the financial records, this would be such tedious work and really drew some conclusions about isaac franklin's lucrative business so cotton wasn't just cotton. cotton meant enslaved people and that made the population of west tennessee grow so rapidly. let's move forward fast to secession and the civil war. east tennessee, mom and pop farms, no need for enslaved people, they can't raise cotton, the land is not right. it is hard subsistence farming. west tennessee are grow cultural abundance, lots of cotton being raised over there and in middle tennessee, we are the pivot of the seesaw if you will. are we going to vote with west tennessee on issues

reduced circumstances in the lee household in alexandria. so when he dies in 1829 part of her s estate is the disposition of the slaves. and to her two daughters in marshall lee i said marshall because she marries a marshall she becomes and the marshall. and one slave family is will to robert to make disposition of the estate winds up being a slave family that robert owens. so the only slave family he only ever owns in his own name but that doesn't mean he did not benefit from slavery. and then to be part of that system and even more so in arlington with the main testis property at arlington and those others at the monkey river. and all told there is 190 slaves who are a part of those properties. robert lee benefits from that. and benefits from their work and their labor and is one of the custis slaves, his wife has slaves. and they will assist with the children and go on vacation in the slaves go with them. so lee certainly benefits from the slave system even if he doesn't himself have personal title to large numbers of slaves which he does

alexandria has a details from washington. >> it's not illegal to fly with a firearm but there are specifics travelers need to abide by. a gun definitely can't be in a carry-on it should never be loaded. tsa reports a 20 year high and weapons confiscated. last saturday, holiday travelers scrambled the jackson airport but a passenger pulled aside for secondary screening of the carry-on longed for the loaded gun. three people injured the man is still at large. amid the holiday rush tuesday, tsa boise's airport in idaho found to loaded guns. the 32nd gun in the year was nonplussed six forwards and one in the chamber's thanksgiving day tsa new england posted this week noting agents discovered the loaded gun containing five rounds inside of a woman's carry-on bag. sixteen firearms detected at the airport so far this year. this is happening all around the country and taxing an already covid strained industry. passengers need to know the policies before heading to the airport. >> if you're traveling with items in carry-on luggage like self-defense items, knives, tools over 7 inches, we see them all

in washington, alexandria hoff, fox news. molly: thank you, alexandria. arthel. arthel: the battle resumes on capitol hill monday over president biden's roughly $2 trillion spending plan, but a speedy journey to the vote in the senate does not appear likely. moderate democrats joe manchin and kyrsten sinema oppose parts of the plan as well as the price tag. let's bring in tara westwood, politics and investigative reporter for for the washington examiner. let's start with the state of play first. how fierce of a battle can we expect next week, and what items are the in the bill are at the center of the debate? >> yeah, i think this could definitely be a more difficult journey for the bill now that's it's in the senate, and you have senators like bernie sanders who are not happy that the state and local tax deduction cap was lifted in the house. they think that is essentially a tax break to the rich, that's something that blue statehouse members wanted in the bill. and then in the more centrist end of the spectrum, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, as you mentioned,

alexandria hoff, thanks very much. arthel: why are you carrying a load gun on a plane? don't get it. california's crack coupe on smash and grabs is not going as some officials hoped. los angeles saw more grab and go robberies on black friday, and the city and state continues to combat a rise in brazen looting and other crimes. we'll talk about that coming up next. ♪ ♪ and along the ride, you'll find many challenges. ♪ your dell technologies advisor can help you find the right tech solutions. so you can stop at nothing for your customers. [uplifting music playing] ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ ray loves vacations. but his diabetes never seemed to take one. everything felt like a 'no'. everything. but then ray went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now he knows his glucose levels when he needs to. and... when he wants to. so ray... can be ray. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free. visit freestylelibre.us your mission: stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid art

alexandria hoff joins us with more. >> while the rest of us are stressed out about it the condensation going to pass screening, tsa reporting 20-year high of weapons being confiscated with atlanta jackson airport holding the record with more than 450 guns found this year. last saturday holiday travelers there were scrambling when a passenger who had been pulled to a side for secondary screening lunged for the loaded gun inside causing it to discharge. 3 people were injured and the man still at large. amid the holiday rouge found two loaded guns in pittsburgh on wednesday, the 3,020,032nd gun of the year was found with 6 bullets and one in the chamber. thanksgiving day, the tsa in new england posted they found loaded 357 magnum including 5 rounds in woman's carry-on bag. happening all around the country and it's taxing an already covid strained industry. tsa is warning passenger that is they need to know policies before heading to the airport. >> if you are traveling, for example, with items that are not allowed in carry-on luggage, self-defense items, knives, tools over 7 inches. we se