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republican support. >> the cdc with students and parents. >> safely opening up schools, the vaccination of teachers. >> to get kids back in class. a live report. >> honoring a marine corps veteran who helped keep in touch during the pandemic. >> we would like to invite you to super bowl lv as an honorary captain. >> don't know how else to put it. >> that american hero joins us live as "fox and friends first" continues right now. >> reporter: i can't think of
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super bowl sunday without thinking of katy perry's have time performance. >> what but just in timberlake and groupsy? >> the song was katy perry. >> i knew what you were doing. that is what todd piro does. didn't protect me that time. jillian: you are on your. house democrats approve a budget resolution paving the way for congress to pass covid-19 relief bill without republicans. shannon: griff jenkins has the plan. >> so much of that bipartisan unity, they are pushing ahead with ago a little on strategy has $2 trillion relief package, the house approve the budget resolution yesterday which sets
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of a vote in the senate as soon as today where party leaders are at odds over lack of unity. >> we are going to work together with this president, we are united as one for big bold package working with our republican friends when we can. >> the new president talks a lot about unity but his white house staff and congressional leadership are working with a different playbook. >> this as the president offers his support for one party will. >> this is your new home for a while anyway, by the brace of god longer than four years. >> in the senate democrats cannot afford to lose a single vote with joe man's election sitting on the fence. >> i wanted to be bipartisan so if they think we're going to throw caution to the wind and shove it down people's throat
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that is not going to happen. >> house republicans meeting behind closed doors to determine the fate of conference chair was cheney's leadership role, under fire for her impeachment vote and what to do about marjorie to the green absence and eerie comments, questioning 9/11, school shootings and embracing conspiracy theories and violence toward members of congress. a rift exists within the caucus, cheney survived that challenge in a 145-61 vote. >> we really did have a terrific vote tonight, making clear we are not going to be divided or in a situation where people can pick off any member of leadership. >> councilman green, minority leader met with her condemning past rhetoric and accusing democrats a power grab, they plan a floor vote today, stripping green's assignments to force gop members on record to support or rebuke green. >> interesting. another busy day. >> john kerry's decision to take a gas guzzling private jet
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iceland in 2019 to receive a climate award. >> it is the only choice for somebody like me, the time it takes me to get somewhere. i can't sail across the ocean. i have to fly to meet with people and get things done. >> people like me. he is a gulfstream private jet which belongs to his billionaire wife's private charter jet company. senator john kennedy says this is exactly what frustrates so many of us about government, the total double standard. >> the american people are so tired, so tired of being lectured by the managerial elite. the insurance politicians, the media, the academics, the corporate phonies, the tuna tartar crowd who live in the expensive condos with the high ceilings and important art on
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the wall who think they are better than the american people, who think they are smarter and more virtuous than the american people. and who think they are special. and that the rules don't apply to them. >> such a deliberate style speaker. he should voice children's books. resident biden name john kerry his special envoy on climate change. 5 minutes after the hour, new guidance from the cdc could speed up the process of getting your kids back in classrooms nationwide. >> the agency announcing schools can reopen without vaccinating teachers. jillian: good morning. the director made those comments during the white house press briefing, the administration faces pressure to reopen schools. >> there's increasing data that suggest schools can safely reopen and the safe reopening does not suggest teachers need to be vaccinated to open safely. >> but white house press secretary jen psaki tended to
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walk back the remark saying it was not, quote, official guidance from the cdc. san francisco suing its own school district over there plan to reopen schools. >> the plan prepared for the san francisco unified school district and adopted by the board of education, ambiguous, empty rhetoric, 54,000 san francisco schoolchildren are suffering. they are being turned into zoombees by online school and that is enough, getting kids back in school needs to be the only priority. jillian: this is the first lawsuit of its kind in california, possibly the entire country. in chicago there is no official deal to get kids into classrooms but there's movement. the teachers union struck a tentative deal to vaccinate 1600 union members a week, students are still virtually learning. mitch mcconnell made an
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impassioned plea on the senate for to get kids back in school. >> kids, parents and a lot of talented teachers have given online learning there all. we will be deluding ourselves if we continue to accept this pale shadow of proper schooling. more goalposts moving, state and district have to follow the science and get american education back on track. >> one state senate is trying to do just that and make it happen, the virginia senate passing a bill requiring every local school division to make in person and remote learning an option to students and coming up later in this hour ainsley is joining us from fairfax county virginia where she's talking to parents about the fight to get children back in the classroom. >> thank you very much. >> senator josh holly proposes withholding for relief funds from schools that are not doing
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in prison learning introducing amendment to congress's proposed budget saying, quote, the effect on children and working-class families has been absolutely devastating. the federal government shouldst put a spiegel to this 2-tiered education system for the haves and have nots by incentivizing schools to safely reopen. >> an urgent manhunt underway after police sergeant released photos of the wanted suspect, there they are on your screen. police sergeant joseph holly shot point blank will respond to suspicious persons call, the suspect kept shooting as he ran for cover, he is fighting for his life in a hospital after undergoing surgery, the department cities in critical condition. >> a in court orders the state to release data on kim jong un for nursing home deaths. the court ruling governor cuomo has 5 days to respond to a freedom of information request following a lawsuit demanding the data be released. they are asking the doj to subpoena cuomo over the handling of covid-19. >> parlor ceo says the apps
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board terminated him from the top spot, writing over the past few month he has been met with constant resistance to his original vision for the social media site. in a memo obtained by fox news he said, quote, on january 20 ninth 2021 the parlor board decided to immediately terminate my position as ceo of our. i did not participate in this decision. i understand those controlling the company made some communications to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make a public statement. >> john travolta serves it back for super bowl commercial, check it out. >> other what one. >> he has still got it. >> the ad for scott's miracle growth featuring his daughter, the father daughter duo re-creating the famous chance from the hit movie grease.
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i like that. todd: i got chills watching that. shannon: still ahead the new york times urging the president to appoint the realities are to call that disinformation. >> i'm a horrible human. usa today going after the suggestion that tom brady gets a pass for supporting trump because, say it with us, white privilege. that one sending of the message. liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's something you shouldn't try at home... look, liberty mutual customizes home insurance so we only pay for what we need. it's pretty cool. that is cool!
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could go wrong? >> i can think of some things. for starters half the country is probably going to buy some -- they will have a face, some unelected person being named truth is are for the whole country, 75 million voted for donald trump will go wait a minute, this is the biden administration because i remember the biden campaign when they said the hunter biden story including joe biden himself was born of russian disinformation, then it turns out after the election it was revealed there was an investigation that is ongoing into hunter biden and nothing to do with the russians. i don't think we want to go down that road in terms of government determining what is truth or what is not unless we want to be the united states of orwell. >> were to play devils advocate with their be a way to do it
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where it would be in a bipartisan manner and do you think that would be something worthwhile pursuing or still no? >> i wonder if we could get a bipartisan manner again. here we have covid-19 raging, a problem that hasn't been solved with the next package in terms of relief for small businesses for people that are hurting because the two parties can't come together. i think there's a $1.3 trillion gap between the two proposals and that should be pretty easy to agree on so i don't see how we get to bipartisan where anybody will be happy with government dictating what is truth and what is not. it is not who we are. todd: rest assured the realities are will meet regularly with tech platforms. that should call everybody. shannon: president biden and first lady biden getting glowing people magazine cover, take a look at it here, beautiful photo, nothing against it but a lot of people asking where was
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donald trump and milania's featured? we spent a lot of time talking about this, they just weren't getting the same recognition on the covers of magazines that is get. >> i went to the google machine and found this story from november of 2016 right after donald trump was elected and this story says people magazine, for realities of the headline, the astonishing journey to the white house and then goes on to talk about all the boycotts being threatened just for putting a guy who was just elected president on the cover so people said we can't do that if the internet is mad at us for putting donald trump on the cover god for bid we do something on the first family so they avoided that in terms of the bob on social media threatening not to buy products. noise bill can't -- boycotts usually don't come to fruition, 10,000 likes but in the end doesn't affect anything, they
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are thinking business first and ideology second. will: not like milani was a fashion model or anything. at the super bowl this year the media found a way to cause trouble. enter usa today, tom brady got an undeserved pass for his past supportive donald trump. let me read a quote from it. how many white of him, brady's. to enter and exit to shield himself from accountability, as the country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism. look no further than tom brady for the expectation and allowances granted will always be different. what is usa today telling 74 million people who voted for donald trump? >> they want brady held accountable. how do you do that? do you say super bowl sunday, you don't get to have an offense of line and the defense of line beat the crap out of you? what -- how do you hold somebody
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accountable for doing what 74 million people did including tiger woods who is supportive of donald trump or the great jack nicholas or mike tyson, should we take away his heavyweight title, or herschel walker, and usc is president. 75 million people, and the escapism of sports and nothing but class. ten super bowls. that was to jillian neely, the philadelphia eagles. his name was eli manning, my former neighbor in hoboken, new jersey. todd: who roots for the giants among this panel? >> joe shimkus?
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and todd: you got your, do your shoveling. jillian: when you get your magazine, we highlight it. >> i was on from world magazine some time ago. the only madison reference. jillian: let's talk about this, the kansas city chiefs, received positive kim jong un for test results in the middle of a haircut, yes been reporting he was the chair when the barber got the bill, he tested negative and playing in super bowl sunday. 20 players and staffers reportedly in line for a haircut when the barber got those results. todd: they are not moving this game the matter what, they are still playing it. still had the white house press secretary trying to clarify these comments that landed her in hot water. >> wow, space force. the plane of today. todd: a report on jen psaki's attempt to dig herself out of that one.
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>> reporter: jen psaki facing backlash after a we resurfaced that some are calling homophobic. jen psaki referred to lindsey graham as lady g. former acting attorney general sally it's testify before the judiciary the graham chaired. jen psaki has not commented on the post, a graham spokesman responding in part, quote, it says more about her than it is
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about senator graham. >> after coming under fire -- >> space force has support from the president. >> white house press secretary jen psaki walking out comments, has the full support of the biden administration. seemingly not mocking the space force after reporter asked about it. >> wow, space force, the plane of today. >> a tweet inviting members of the team to brief reporters.
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and and saying the issue, former president trump for splitting the space force in 2018, congress enacted in 2019 is the sixth branch of the military designated the eighteenth branch of the intelligence community. intelligence officials told fox news space has become a national security focus. more than 80 nations operate in space. todd: thank you very much. jillian: a robbery suspect on a wild chase climbing and swinging from power lines like tarzan, the stand on happening in downtown phoenix after a man called police about the suspect fueling his car at gunpoint and eventually slid down power lines where police shot him with rubber bullets and arrested him. he was not seriously hurt. that is quite a day.
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it is 25 after the hour. kim jong un for school closures having dramatic negative impact on students and their parents. they were fed up with the status quo, she joins us coming up. todd: sounding the alarm over a democrat kim jong un for relief plan including a potential beijing bailout. he joins us next. again and agai. no way. more exercise. more water. and more fiber is the only way to manage it. is it? maybe you think... it's occasional constipation. maybe it's not. it could be a chronic medical condition called ibs-c, and time to say yesss! to linzess. linzess works differently than laxatives. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than six and it should not be given to children six to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual
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>> it is good to be with you, a hard force, the toughest, no doubt about that. the developing countries want to help the poorest countries and that is why they've done a good job with funding for vaccines around the world for the poorest countries. the democrats are wrong, they shouldn't propose $2.8 trillion in foreign exchange reserves. you can't help the poorest countries through their proposal. countries like the netherlands, the united states and european countries get money and the worst regimes in the world will get it like iran and venezuela. who is putting it? china. china is in cahoots with democrats to get proposal through the congress, they are the largest creditor, they want
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us to have access to hard currency to pay them back for what was imposed on the third world. >> a letter to janet yellen, a global economic recovery at no cost to us taxpayers. by directing the united states for a voice vote in financial institutions to provide debt relief, cost 3 policy would help america save and create export related jobs with a new ic crisis. >> immediately my antenna go up. the issue is not targeted,
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you're helping the richest countries in the world, but you are not helping the poorest countries in the world, mostly involved in terrorism like iran, russia, syria, venezuela and you are not helping the poorest countries. republicans have a better plan which is to use two i am a funds, to help in this public health crisis. that is what we ought to do and the way to go forward. the democrats plan only helps china and america's enemies. >> there was a poor opposite to america first, would this be it? >> you got it. todd: does this have any chance in the senate? looking at the joe manchins of the world. >> we thought it back and got it out of the nda, the defense authorization bill consideration and spending bill in the last year. we need to raise awareness and urge our colleagues in the senate to defeat this. it is a bad idea for american
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foreign policy. todd: every person in the planet wants to defeat covid-19 but it is questionable why democrats think this is the way to do it. i argue broke it down for the folks, we appreciate that. jillian: we know the name of the gunman in the deadly fbi shooting, he was serving a search warrant south florida home, suspected of storing child pornography on his computer. he does not have a prior criminal record. special agents died in the shooting. both were married with children. other -- no other agents were hurt. christopher ray visited the crime scene yesterday, met privately with fallen agents families. robin hood faces 30 lawsuits after restricting stock trading on their apps. the team came under fire after
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forcing certain stocks to sell after a surge in price but the customer agreement gives them the power to stop orders without prior notice. it also claims it had no choice because they were running out of cash. todd: time to go to janice dean with a look at the weather. i did a little shopping yesterday with snow blowing and it wasn't bad. it was somewhat refreshing. that was my work out for the year. >> janice: you can come to my house into my backyard. we might have more snow to shovel in the next week or so. we have cold temperatures about to come down from the arctic. 31 in chicago and this front system, some of that energy originating from the west moving
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across the midwest and bringing blizzard conditions to iowa and we see potential for strong winds and heavy snow for parts of the great lakes and the upper midwest including the green bay area as well as des moines and waterloo. you are getting that blizzard warning in effect and the system will continue to movies word. the low will moving to canada and we will see the potential for snow and rain on the northeast. the next system that we have to keep an eye on, you have that measurable snow across the upper midwest and the blowing snow as well. let's look at the forecast high and there it is, that big pink blob that comes to visit a saturday, sunday into monday. i will tell you it is not as potent as it was yesterday. we will keep our fingers crossed, so watching potential for more snow sunday and monday. i will keep you posted on that. we are watching the upper
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midwest and come across the northeast but it won't be a big block like we had earlier. that is the good news for those who don't like to shovel. todd: it was nice to do once. i am good for the year. time, 36 after the hour. empty classrooms a sign of time as some teachers refused to return, the union forcing them not to go back to the classroom. what are the biggest concerns among parents? ainslie ehrhardt is hosting a many townhall next. ♪♪ this is ours. the new lexus is. all in on the sports sedan. lease the 2021 is 300 for $359 a month for thirty nine months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. wanna build a gaming business that breaks the internet? fo that means workings. night and day... ...and delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind.
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it out. jillian: i'm sure you remember that virginia dad his message on the lockdown went viral because people feel the same way. other parents had a conversation about getting this back in the classroom. todd: always great to have you on the show. >> thank you so much, listening and watching you all. we have a panel of parents and we thought about this in the townhall, we are calling this a conversation with parents where all parents have the same concerns, democrats and republicans alike, we want our kids back in school, we want teachers to be safe but it is almost a year since many of these kids have been back in their classroom, some are seniors in high school, freshman, we would have this wonderful panel representing fairfax and loudoun counties and school board meetings to decide
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when we can open up safely so brandon is sitting here on the front row, glad to have you on our show and you were furious that night. what came over you? what made you want to get up to the podium and talk that way? >> i'm just a parent like so many others who cares for their kids. after months of not having our voices heard we spoke up, recently we have been heard and we are happy our voices are being heard throughout the nation. ainsley: the teachers have a union, parents have to be the union for children. >> that's right. we are caregivers, parents, husbands, fathers, children are the most important aspect of our lives, they have to have a voice, we have to protect them because in the end. ainsley: how are you doing it with three children at home. >> we have a support system, my wife is an integral part of that, the best thing is the kids
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want to spend time with you, playing with them and having fun. it is a rough few days with a lot going on, kids are enjoying it. ainsley: correct me if i'm wrong, there will be a hybrid, everyone will be back in march. >> virtual and hybrid, one step forward, the ability to go two days a week and focusing on five days. ainsley: you brought this video online that went viral and we are talking about it. we have this panel on "fox and friends" coming up. we also talked to restaurant owners and one who lost his job when joe biden signed the executive order. we will hear from a lot of people, conversations with people, real americans on "fox and friends".
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>> i don't how else to say it but thank you. >> jerome bettis gives a marine veteran the surprise of a lifetime, james martin joined me on the moment he found out he will be part of the big game. how are you? >> i'm doing all right. jillian: not only are you going to the game, you're one of the 3 community he rose, tell me what that moment it like to get that call. >> it was an absolute surprise and i'm super honored by it, couldn't ask for a better man than that. neil: nfl chose you in recognition of 3 things, connecting fellow veterans for gaming and the wounded warrior project, opening your home to kids facing domestic issues and live streaming high school sporting events for those who have been able to go because of the pandemic.
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and two deployment in iraq and afghanistan. your entire life is about service. tell me why you do what you do. >> because it needs to be done. it is the right thing to do. if you are -- the ability to help people. as long as all of us are at the table, some of us have something that no one is ever hungry again. it doesn't matter how the food got bear, if you had to carry them on your back. to make it a better place. >> >> it is a massive honor.
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very high in people, and and to that coin toss is massive. >> attentive people, who is your hero? >> a school teacher for 27 years. my mother who worked every single day two or three jobs a day. and set the bar for me, to keep progressing. people like that. jillian: 1800 veterans and families connected virtually
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through everything you have done, absolutely amazing. what do you want people to know about you, your life, your service? >> i don't do it for just me. i am grateful and honored but i also know other people are doing it just as hard, and to them i stand on the folder of giants, and do it because it is a passion. i want to help people, the same offenders who has gone with me, and lost family because she needed to do what she needed to do to make the world a better
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place, doing its best, and for education. they put their heads down and do work for those that can't, we all elevate together. >> you were medically discharged in 2015 after being injured, paralyzed from the chest down. and they have some of that yellow. thank you for everything for your service. >> have a good morning. >> an american dancer, james martin. youtube having to censor a doctor's senate testimony.
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>> big tech at it again. google youtube censoring the u.s. senate removing videos of everything on early covid-19 treatments. todd: the entrepreneur joins us next. here is a statement from youtube. quote we enforce our community guidelines consistently regardless of speaker and with without regard to political viewpoints in accordance with our covid-19 misinformation policy, we removed the two videos in question. vivek, how is this misinformation. isn't this really scientific debate which literally is how we arrive at scientific progress we have made in the history of the world? >> this took the censorship that we saw over the course of the last month to a whole new height this isn't cancel culture anymore this is orwellian. cancel culture on steroids.
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mccarthyism before this new ministry of truth 1984 overlords of silicon valley at youtube, at facebook, at google and at twitter. i think that we are now seeing free speech is no longer just a liberal arts luxury. science depend on it. democracy depends on it. we have been wrong plenty of times all of us over the course of 201. 2020. 2021 about matters of science and covid-19. the only way we are going to correct for that isn't to set up a disinformation bureau as the "new york times" is now suggesting the biden administration do or youtube making those judgments. instead actually allowing free speech and open debate in the marketplace of ideas. science truly depends on it and so does our democracy. jillian: if we can't figure out what's going on with censorship where are we going to be in aier or five years with this conversation? >> look, i think pretty soon we are heading to not just social media posts being flagged and apps being barred from the app. store. coalition course to our ear males being censored. text messages being censored and
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artificial intelligence no. exaggeration if you think facebook google and youtube are doing the right things by removing posts and videos no argument why that same lodge shouldn't apply to hateful or untrue or racist emails or to hateful or untrue or racist text messages. even phone conversation coming up soon. many people speak over face time audio or over what's app. owned by facebook. that's coming. we have the artificial intelligence out society to do it. a matter of weaponizing that. that is what is come soon. todd: somebody trying to stop all of that is ron desantis the florida governor proposing a law to fine pig tech for censorship in his state. let's pop up on the screen the various things ron wants to do -- mr. desantis i should say.
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can a state do this. >> complicated when a state gets involved. heart is in the right place. to say effect change federal level and judicial system. at the federal level i would be looking at amending section 230 to actually say that any firm that gets the shield of liability in state courts that 230 provide for censorship ought to awide by the standards of the first amendment. we ought to amendment the civil right act not just about religion and national origin. you can't discriminate on political discrimination either. those are going to have real teeth. heart right place but at the end of the day it has to come at the federal level. you can use case law and precedence to make those same cases in federal court all the way to the supreme court. todd: can i refer to you by your first name vivek, author of the forthcoming book woke inc. we appreciate having you on and
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you give great up sight into stuff that people need to think about. thank you, sir. jillian: thank you. >> thank you. jillian: download the fox news app. and download the app. and scalp the qr code on your screen. todd: it "fox & friends" split edition comes right now. have a great edition, everybody. todd: democrats approving a budget resolution paving the way for congress to approve a covid-19 relief bill without republicans. >> the president talk as lot about unity but white house staff is working with a different playbook. >> the cdc director is ramping up the pressure on teacher's unions. the safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated. >> biden and his party bought and paid for by the teacher's union. >> john kerry caught being a hypocrite you came with a private jet. >> only choice for somebody like me. >> the american people are so tired by being lectured. >> many biden administration
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