house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. >> i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. this memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials violence and threats of violence while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object to. >> i get that i have heard your testimony. >> i decided on this memorandum on my own. >> bret: as more time goes on, kimberley, we are getting more and more bits of information that not only the school board association but the white house and the doj, some interaction there in email exchanges and other things. >> yeah. well, it sounds as though, too the white house is acknowledging that it did give a heads up to the doj even though it didn't tell them what to do. i mean, you can take that for what you will. usually when you get a call from the white house people's ears perk up and they feel they need to move. there is a lot more to come out from this, but it certainly looks bad as though there was a lot of coordination and that

they want to lose more house in the house and senate and more in the and perhaps the white house in 2024. we have to work together. big programs have already gone to the wayside. one of which senator sanders will not let go of you have 15 democrats very vulnerable in the promised lower drug prices and something manchin doesn't like and sanders requires and he definitely heads the progressive caucus. >> bret: mark, the president is facing pretty bad poll numbers in recent days. you look at nbc poll his approval stands at 42% approval. disapprove 54%. on the eternals of that poll all kinds of questions where republicans are really up. if the marist poll election confidence better chance of winning 2024, biden at 36%. someone someone else at 44%. here's the president talking about polls this weekend. >> polls have going to up and up and down. look at overrer president. same thing happened. >> that's why i ran. i didn't run to determine how well i'm going to do in the polls. i said that i would make sure that we were in a position where we dealt with climate change, where we moved in a direc

white house physician dr. kevin o'connor said in a letter advising routine surveillance and another colonoscopy in seven to ten years, when biden will be in his late 80s. two areas of observation outlined in the president's physical included keeping an eye on his frequent throat clearing and noticeably different gate compared to last year. while the white house dr. initially deemed him healthy, vigorous and fit to ask to get the dash he is the oldest president in american history and fox news poll showed that half of voters think the president ages interfering with his job, including 49% of voters over 65 and 28% of democrats. and when the president heads back to the white house next week, there will be a renewed emphasis on getting his nominees confirmed, including his pick for the office of management and budget, if confirmed, she will be the first black woman to hold that office. mike buried >> mike: jacqui heinrich live in nantucket. jacqui, many thanks. a new variant has been detected in south africa. sci

peter doocy is at the white house with what the biden team is saying about that today versus what the president said yesterday. but we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill with where things stand at this minute with the spending legislation. good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret. democrats are stuck one senior democratic leadership aide described this as a, quote, blank show and that's not the term they used. this could mean the house doesn't vote any time soon. house speaker nancy pelosi does not go to the floor and lose. if she had the votes, the speaker would have called the vote. >> do you expect the vote tonight and is it possible that you might just vote on the infrastructure bill considering everybody seems to be bought in and saying it's ready for a vote? >> no. >> what are the big hurdles you have to overcome. >> i will let you know as soon as i wish to. >> the hurdles are the math. pelosi only has a 3 vote margin in the house. moderate democrats demand a final cbo score on how much the bill would actually cost and more time to read it one h

we can make light or joke of the white house can make joke turkey only $5 more. >> new white house talking points on the economy and inflation touted improvement in supply chain btlenecks and availability of good ahead of black friday. ominous language around the causes of inflation calling quote the ocean shipping cartel cause for price hikes and inflation. deeper cure for port will take years. white house touted other signs the economy is improving. jobless claims dropping to lowest level in 52 years last week. hitting lowest part since march 2020. continuing to make the case for the social spending plan as a long-term solution for economic trouble. >> also tonight federal reserve officials are concerned about inflation and willing to raise interest rates sooner than anticipated if it keeps getting worse. that's according to minutes released from their november meeting. a white house official tells fox president biden believed in the independence of the fed and has confidence in jerome powell's ability to maintain low inflation and stable rates. they claim that the u.s. economy's recover

white house peter doocy begins our coverage tonight. >> good evening, bret. the president is not taking any personal responsibility for last night's loss in virginia saying he doesn't think he would have ever been able to change the number of very conservative folks who turned out in trump districts. and he told me does not regret the approach he took on the trail. >> we all have an obligation to accept the legitimacy of these elections. >> a lot has changed since yesterday. >> i think we are going to win. >> in virginia, they didn't. >> when you went to try help clarify a couple weeks ago, you mentioned trump 24 times. do you still think that voters really want you to hear you talking about trump more than the issues affecting them every day? >> the reason i mentioned trump, i didn't count the times, is because the issues he supports are affecting their lives every day and negative impact. >> democrats are criticizing democrats for a far left campaign pitch. >> you can't win in virginia. if you only appeal to very liberal voters. >> some senators believe las

when donald trump was in the white house can they come back tonight and support youngkin? some of the early indications we have from our voter analysis suggestion that is the case hang on and we will see whether or not it is true. loudoun county hawb has been in the news for a year. the issue there clearly is education, the economy on the mind of many people as well. it's almost two to one biden over trump. can youngkin then score a comeback in parts of the state that i just showed you we are voting yet again america. they say virginia is for lovers tonight it is for the voters and here we go. ♪ >> martha: seconds away from the polls closing bruising battle. first political race. >> bret: tonight, voters let their voices be heard and the stakes could not be higher. special coverage of democracy 2021 starts now. ♪ ♪ >> bret: tonight, the moment of truth in virginia. >> the fiery race for governor that has parents and politicians at each other's throats. >> resign. >> resign cowards. >> you could have made a difference. >> you could have found a solution. >> the decidi

and this was a formal briefing in the white house. three days later, the russian investigation was launched. and then in september, you have this meeting with the indicted clinton lawyer, sussmann, and jake sullivan and others. and then it was shortly after that in october that sullivan released this public statement that there was this covert serving trying trump to moscow something completely fallacious, but he put it all over the media. when he was asked later by congress sort of what's going on here, i mean, did you know the basis of this? the source of this? he said no. he even denied that sussmann, the roles of sussmann and clinton general counsel mark he will i can't say in creating these allegations. now, keep in mind, also, that sussmann was indicted for denying the role, his connection to the clinton campaign. mark he willous was accused by others of also denying the connection between the clinton campaign and dossier. it wasn't until after the election that they admitted that they did indeed fund the dossier. >> bret: that'

saying listen to us at the white house. don't listen to judges in whichever circuit are hearing these challenges, so, once the president lands back here in washington, and they start having briefing's again tomorrow and he has some events about the supply chain i would suspect if they continue talking like they have been to hear more of that just do what we have said with these vaccine requirements we think it's really important regardless of what a judge says, bret. >> bret: law factors in there. peter doocy live on the north lawn, thanks. stocks plummeted today. the dow sank 652. >> the s&p 500 lost 88, the nasdaq fell 245. major drug makers are testing to see if their covid-19 vaccines are being effective against the omicron variant. correspondent jonathan serrie tells us where things stand tonight from atlanta. >> it could take two weeks for laboratory tests in real world surveillance to determine whether the omicron variant is more resistant to current antibody treatments and vaccines. but researchers are concerned abo

fox news radio and jeff mason washington correspondent for reuters at the white house. guy, let me start with you, by the way you are in studio here which is a new element. >> very exciting. i forgot what this felt like. >> bret: welcome back. baby steps. we are going to get one panelist at a time. >> i'm delighted to be here. what a treat. >> bret: when you look at the poll numbers and see where the president is, what do you take from 30,000 feet? >> the president is extremely unpopular. i mean, to be in the 30's with 21 points under water at this stage in your presidency, that's not a great place to be. and that final number that you flashed up on the screen about sort of enthusiasm about another biden term or another biden run is obviously not great news for him, but let's just say a lot of the these people say nothing we are not into round two of joe biden a lot of them are actually democrats who are not terribly excited about the prospect of nominating him for a second time. so then you start to wonder okay, who would be waiting in the wings potentially who is the

okay, so then the white house puts out a readout about the meeting and it says this. on taiwan president biden underscored that the president remains committed to the one china policy. united states strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and security across the taiwan strait. that's definitely what he said. china's readout on this question bearing on enchina's sovereignty and territorial integrity there is no room for compromise president biden admitted committed ited to the one china president and does not support taiwan independence. they have had a clean up on aisle 4 on u.s. policy on taiwan. what do we make of it. >> well, i don't know who to make of it except that the president talks all over himself at times. what was actually said we'll have to actually find out. i think a lot of people are concerned that they talked for three and a half hours and beyond that didn't really seem to say much. i mean, americans are concerned about human rights, about intellectual property, about the hypersonic missile and most especially a

white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> good evening, bret. the strategic petroleum reserve has historically only been tapped in emergency situations like when a shipping lane is blocked or when a hurricane threatens refineries. but this president is doing it because gas prices were going up and up and up. >> this is a problem. >> energy secretary jennifer granholm explains. >> the fact is right now that energy prices at the pump and at home are too high. >> granholm laughed off this issue weeks ago. >> what is the granholm plan continue to crease oil production in america? [laughter] oh my -- that is hilarious. >> she is not laughing anymore. >> the price of gasoline will come down, what they project, to be below $3 a gallon in 2022. >> that's with the release of 50 million barrels of fossil fuels. >> the largest ever release from the u.s. strategic petroleum reserve. >> but what about promises to go green. >> it's a whole government approach, put climate change at the center of our domestic, nation

no longer at the white house. bill, thoughts about her answer and where she is kind of positioned. >> yeah, look. i don't think the vice president has a lot she can point to what she has done she seems to be terrified going to the border. we saw the real border czar the president of mexico not the vice president. i will say for kamala harris. the kamala harris problem is not a kamala harris problem. it's a joe biden problem. they are looking at this, you know, the things that joe biden can count as an achievement, passing his infrastructure bill or the covid -- those are washington achievements. people want to see improvements in their own lives. and i think what they see is not just the president going in the wrong direction, but looking incredibly incompetent. certainly that's what we saw in afghanistan first they dismissed inflation. everybody in the administration telling us not something they should be worried about. they didn't predict it would be here at this level today. i think it's very hard to come up w

white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north lawn. a good evening. >> officials around here are clear, there is no overnight fix for inflation. they admit that it's a problem, but still today, they did not say anything about it here at the white house or in paris. >> also apparently quiet on the inflation, constituents with democratic representatives. >> they're not talking about inflation, they are talking about i don't have enough money in my budget to pay for the things i need to pay for. >> critics charge that's out of touch. i understand much of limousine liberals living in new york or washington may not worry about these things, but for working-class americans having to pay an extra dollar or dollar 50 a week for a gallon of gas is making the budgets tougher and tougher to meet. >> rising gas prices are on the president's radar. >> have you ever pay this much for a gallon of gas? >> good question that has critics pointing fingers at a president in office for ten months. >> nine months ago, former obama white house economist warn

>> i asked this directly of folks in the white house. the deputy press secretary for the president says that they -- vaccine saves lives in their mind. also that the vaccine will improve the economy even more. they have no intention of backing off this band-aid at this point saying that it go l. go into effect on january 4th for companies with 100 employees or more. bret? >> bret: big deal. edward, thank you. about that, there is growing concern tonight that president biden's vaccine mandates may cause the supply chain crisis to worsen. it's already bad now. we have brought you multiple stories about that with dozens of ships still stuck in the waters off of various ports. chief correspondent jonathan hunt reports tonight from the port of los angeles. of the problem comes from a shortage of truck drivers. >> tackling the trucker shortage is undoubtedly one of the keys to breaking the backlog of consumer goods piling up at our ports. >> so we do have to work with them to make sure we get them back on the job and get them back driving. >>

here is white house correspondent peter doocy. >> what do democrats call trillions of taxpayer dollars meant to address climate change? a start. >> it's fabulous. it's great. it's big. but it's a good start. we have more to do. >> they claim their build back better plan also solves rising prices. >> if you want to fight inflation, support build back better. >> republicans aren't so sure. >> what they are talking about doing now with this next massive and reckless tax and spending spree is going to aggravate and accelerate this inflation issue even more. >> none of the republicans who supported the president's infrastructure package are on board with the new social spending plan. >> the hardworking men and women of this country cannot afford to be guinea pigs in a socialist experiment where democrats try to inflate their way out of inflation. [tires squealing] >> the president continues promoting his proposals today at electric vehicle plant in detroit. >> jump in the back. >> progressive biden allies believe they can pass the build back better plan by the end of this year. >> i'm dream

when we come back, the white house christmas decorations. it is that time of year. ♪ ♪ bret brolt finally tonight, getting into the christmas spirit. first jill biden unveiled. more than 100 volunteers around the country helped decorate for the season. they trimmed 41 christmas trees. hung about 6,000 feet of ribbon and more than 10,000 ornaments. the 2021 gifts from the heart theme honors covid-19 frontline workers. a gigantic ginger bread village features a school, post office, police fire and gas stations, christmas stockings for each of the biden grandchildren hang from the fireplace mantel in the state dining room. the decorations of the product of months of work by the first lady and her staff starting as far back as june. quite something to see. we thought we would give you a glimpse. tomorrow on "special report" the results of the reagan national defense survey about the u.s. military plus democrats and republicans concerned about taiwan and china. thanks for inviting us in your home. that's it for us tonight. freedom hosted this

white house correspondent peter doocy has the story live from the north lawn, good evening, peter. >> good evening, bret. elizabeth warren is already promising to vote know on j. powell for fed chair the one time trump appointee can count on some republican help in the senate as president biden looks for help from the federal reserve not just on the bloonking but. >> we need stability and independence at the federal reserve. >> and the president argues the economy since he took over is doing great. >> our economy is creating jobs, lots of jobs. >> as the first family prepares for thanksgiving in nantucket. >> happy holidays. have great thanksgiving. >> 64% of voters concerned about gifts unaffordable from inflation. and 62% worry about late gifts due to the supply chain. i think this conversation thanksgiving dinner going to focus in part on how expensive the dinner was this year. >> biden officials are aware. >> there is no question inflation is high and it's affecting american consumers and it's affecting their outlook. >> biden officials argue the solution is more government spendi

>> shannon: peter doocy at the white house. peter. let's bring in george washington university law photographer jonathan turley along with former u.s. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general welcome to the show. gentlemen, good to see you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: i want to read something that comes from joyce beatty of ohio. she says it is unconscionable our justice swoom allow an armed vigilante go free. the ludicrous claim of self-defense is on par with the abhorrent behavior on display by the prosecution and the judge. it is time for accountability. professor, your reaction? >> you know, this is the type of overheated rhetoric that tends to fuel the rage in our society. i mean, we are a country addicted to rage. i mean, it doesn't matter that this jury spent over three days looking at the evidence. dispassionately and coming to a conclusion that i think is the correct one. you don't have to agree with what kyle rittenhouse did. most of you was do not. but there was reasonable doubt as to the elements und

white house correspondent jackie joins us tonight. good evening, jackie. >> good evening to you. thanksgiving on nantucketo is a biden family transition --s cooking for the secret service this year and tomorrow the family will attend the same ceremony with the president's late son proposed to his wife back in 2001. on the first thanksgiving was a widely available vaccine w president give special thanks to those who cannot be with their families tonight. >> what am i thankful for? i'm not joking when i say i'm thankful for these guys. >> spending thanksgiving on nantucket, making a stop at -- with a child into a virtual call will service members from all six military branches to givemb thanks. >> watching them in the south china sea, afghanistan, iraq, wherever they are, people wonder what america is they look and they see them and make us proud. >> island holiday marks the return to a 45 year tradition, only broken a few times including after the death of his son and amid the pandemic last year. the first timely sharing a message to those grieving this holiday. >> as we give than

does the white house have to alert people or not press the panic button? >> tight rope act because you don't want to scare people and biden keeps pounding the drum on vaccinations. every time prognosticators say it's petering out, another variant is around the corner. it's clear we're going to have to live with this virus at lower levels for sometime to come and cities can't keep shutting down and students can't keep wearing masks all day long in class. to me, the political impact is president biden can't declare victory on the issue that he ran against in 2020. and i think that's important to know. the same time, the economy is bouncing back strongly. jobless claims down to a 52-year low. but even with all of that, you have today the -- you have people spending money for black friday, but even with all of that, you have the market slide. and you made mention at the top of the newscast and inflation, making clear that this recovery is rather fragile. >> what about the state of our economy, black friday today? the market took a hit inflation is up. your tho

. >> democratic posters are spooked about inflation pressure in the white house to be more vocal about what levers they are pulling to address it to. while the white house consistently says president biden respects the independence of the fed to determine monetary policy, he revealed the day he is speaking to them. >> i talked to the fed about a whole range of things monetary policy and inflation. >> after the president released the barrels into the emergencies stockpile oil, the interior department laid out plans to make fossil fuel companies pay more to drill on federal land and water, it called for boosting the governments royalty rate possibly to come in line with oil and gas producing states but it notably does not recommend stopping new leases on federal land to address the climate crisis, that is something the president did campaign on. >> jacqui heinrich live at nantucket. black friday is one of the busiest shopping days of the year and a green flag to start the holiday scramble. fox business correspondent hillary vaughn is in rockaway, new jersey, tonight to tell us what she i

we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening to you, mike. >> president biden touted the hard infrastructure bill as a coming solution to the supply chain crisis. he says he will sign it into law in a bipartisan ceremony on monday. but new data from the labor department is challenging his timeline and suggesting sticker shock won't be going away any time soon. >> i came here to talk about one of the most pressing economic concerns of the american people and it's real. and that is getting prices down, number one. number two, making sure our stores are fully stocked, and, number three, getting a lot of people back to work. >> president biden projecting confidence he can supply chain crisis under control. touting investments in his hard infrastructure bill congress passed last week and agreement to get ports moving. >> announcing steps to improve ports in the east coast to provide support for the port of savanna, fourth largest container port in the country to help reduce congestion. >> new inf

white house correspondent peter doocy is with us now to take a look what happened today. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret. there were 800 people invited here today to see the president sign this bipartisan infrastructure bill into raw. law,that's as large of an event president biden hosted at the white house since he got here there were also republicans invited to speak at the microphone. part of the official program as the president tried to celebrate, something that had some bipartisan support and actually got passed. here. >> this is what it looks like when elected leaders set aside differences, shut out the noise, and focus on delivering results. >> hopefully this week we will be passing build back better. >> all of it paid for by making everyone pay his or her own fair share. >> this bill as significant as it is, as historic as it is, is part one of two. >> congress must also pass the build back better act. >> too often in washington, the reason we didn't get things done is because we insist on getting everything we want. the only way to move this co