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answers, don't you know it, and everything from the crisis at the southern border, to the economy, to those biden family influence-peddling accusations. the white house last week saying not so fast to the oversight requests submitted before the change of power. but it won't be able to hold them off much longer. just until the new majority can decide on speaker. the g.o.p. is primed to hold the biden administration accountable. >> you already have the white house coming out, playing political games, saying they are going to slow-walk everything. but what we have seen is really just a continuation of what they have done for the last two years. they are going to do everything they possibly can to stop any request from every committee that is an oversight committee, and they are going to do everything they can to turn the spin machine on to misdirect and show the american people that, "oh, look over here, there is something going on," when the reality is they are nefarious things going on within this

administration. >> anita: chad pergram is live in washington with more, and chad, i think we are expecting some drama on the hill tomorrow, are we not? >> anita, house republicans have big plans but they can't do anything, including launch investigations, until they elect a speaker. kevin mccarthy caved to a demand that makes it easier to bounce the speaker if they don't like the job he's doing. >> do you think the rules package he released last night has moved any votes to yes? >> yep. >> and what would you do if you don't have 218 on the first ballot? >> [no response] >> the speaker vote has not gone to a second ballot and 100 years. it took two months to elect a speaker in 1856. the house must continue to vote, and vote, and vote, until it finally selects a speaker. it's an inauspicious start for the g.o.p. >> i think we are going to come together january 3rd and do what we are supposed to do, which is to govern. at the end of the day, all the

infighting and squabbling and things that happen behind closed doors need to come to an end and we need to think about the american people and what needs to get done. >> mccarthy can only lose four g.o.p. votes and still become speaker. right now he faces at least five opponents, and maybe more. >> part of the problem, not part of the solution. i'll be following the will of my constituents, the voters of the fifth district, hundreds of which have told me over the past couple years not to support kevin mccarthy. there's nothing he's done to earn my vote. there's nothing that indicates to me that he's going to change his pattern since he's been in leadership where he's part of the swamp cartel. >> until there is a speaker of the house, the house cannot even swear in its members. the speaker then sways in the entire house. anita? >> anita: chad, all eyes on capitol hill tomorrow. chad pergram, thank you very much for that live report. julie? >> julie: for more on this, pat fallon of texas, member of the house oversight and armed

service committee's, joins us now. thank you for talking to us. president biden returns this week to a g.o.p.-led house, intent on investigations, once mccarthy or whomever is chosen as speaker. this is after his administration has been under fire for its handling of a number of issues. the southern border is a disaster, the economy -- well, you know the economy. covid messaging, and the disastrous pull-out from afghanistan, to name a few. until now, the biden administration has had the protection of a unified congress. how will all this change, and show the way it >> thanks for having me on. i think they should be worried, because they have been trying to obfuscate and hide the truth from the american people and we've had enough. let's talk, for instance, on the southern border. november numbers were the worst in our history, 233,000 illegal crossings. we had never had a month prior to this, ever, prior to this

year, that more than 200,000 people crossed illegally. yet under joe biden we had eight months in a row of at least that number. the border went from a crisis to a catastrophe. now we are nearing a collapse, and we need to get to the truth and to the bottom of where his priorities lie. >> julie: it's absolutely a disaster. as far as the border is concerned, there really is no end in sight. title 42, as we know, that was extended until june, but this administration hasn't even been using it properly, or else it would work if it was enacted. essentially you're looking at over 2.3 million illegal immigrants that have come into this country under biden's wa watch, and under trump, when title 42 was actually used correctly, the number was somewhere around 700,000. you do the math. there is an opinion piece i want to read, "how's g.o.p. targets federal snoops bolstered by conservative outrage revelations

in the twitter file released by elon musk. they plan a new judiciary panel with a working name select committee on the weaponization of the federal government." what say you on this whole controversy? >> julie, it is chilling that the federal government could be in collusion with the social media private sector to try to influence elections, quite frankly. there was collusion in elections, but it wasn't russia in 2016. it was joe biden's campaign, with twitter and other social media platforms in 2020. again, without elon musk spending that $44 billion, we probably would have never known the truth, because our worst fears seem to be realized, in the fact that they are gaming the system again. >> julie: all right. let's talk about the speaker role. congressman kevin mccarthy, his battle for speaker faces its final hurdle ahead of tomorrow's

vote. some see a path to victory for mccarthy, but nine republican house members did write that stinging letter warning how electing him would "represent a continuation of past and ongoing republican failures." are these g.o.p. members shooting themselves in the foot? because they've got a lot they want to get done, and you can't get anything done until you elect a speaker, and he is positioned to be probably the most likely candidate. so why the pushback? >> you know what? we haven't seen this in 100 years. if we don't elect a speaker on the first ballot, so it's an extra nearly rare circumstance, quite frankly. the way i look at it is very simple: we had a conference vote that we are pledged to then vote for the conference nominee. kevin mccarthy won that vote, 188-31, not to mention the fact that he helped to raise nearly half a billion dollars, and we did get the majority. he hasn't done anything in the last two years since i've been in congress to lose my vote.

we have diversity of thought and the republican conference, unlike on the democratic side. so people are airing their opinions. >> julie: i want to turn to the border crisis again for a quick second, for president biden, as he says 2023. critics are slamming it as a humanitarian crisis. you had stronger words for it, that it's a catastrophe. you are absolutely right. there is a new fox news op-ed pointing to shocking the bridge from the border. our immigration courts have a 2000000-plus surplus c backlog, and is more than we can handle. a hundred thousand people waiting on asylum hearings, which typically take 1, 1,572 d, and as illegal immigrants continued to pour across the border at a rapid rate, and encounters for 2022 shattering records and expert stone expected to slow down anytime soon. if the democrats have any wherewithal as to what is going

to come in the next election, this is the number one -- quite frankly, republicans and democrats are fed up and this white house is and see for some reason. >> it's a de facto open border and that's what we see in my state, and texas, folks who live along the border, leaving the democratic party in droves, electing members of congress and the republican side. that hasn't happened since reconstruction in that area, because joe biden has made every state a border state. 160 different countries are represented by illegals that have crossed that border paid 5 million illegal crossings under his watch. what a lot of people -- the legacy media is ignoring that 107,000 deaths, american deaths, last year -- 2021, rather -- to opiate overdoses. most of them is fentanyl, which is produced in china and ferried through mexico into our country. that is asymmetrical warfare and we have to acknowledge it and we

need a president with the guts to tell xi jinping to -- to hold him to account. >> julie: it's a national emergency, honestly. and the president is vacationing in st. croix while people are dying by the hundreds of thousands on the border. it's just absolutely horrific. texas congressman pat fallon, we appreciate you coming on. thank you, and happy new year. >> thanks, julie. god bless. >> julie: thank you, you will, too. anita? >> anita: chilling details of the commonality student accused of killing four college students in idaho. how he reportedly stocked his victims for weeks and the precautions he took to keep from being caught. it's been called the most dangerous law in america for a provision that completely eliminates cash bail in one state. the 11th hour court action as some of the new laws' most controversial measures are now in effect. >> illinois is not today, right

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>> julie: fox news alert, sending you details on the

criminology student accused of stabbing four college students to death in idaho. cell phone data reportedly shows bryan kohberger was often in the same location as the three sorority sisters and one of their boyfriends before he allegedly slashed them to death as they apparently slipped at an off-campus house. a retired fbi special agent has the stake. >> i think he was probably what they call speefifteen-type behavior, although he may not have had contact with them, but i think he was probably watching them and watching that house, and watching their routines. i think this was part of his trail and the adrenaline he was getting leading up to that night of rage. >> julie: dan springer is live from moscow, idaho, with more. good morning, dan. >> good morning, julie. we are getting a better picture of bryan kohberger, not only from people who g knew him growg up back in pennsylvania where he spent most of the 28 years, but people here in the pacific northwest who met him and worked with him as a colleague and a

student at here at washington state university where he has been since august. we also have some new details about the days leading up to the arrest. police, as you know, arrested kohberger at his parents' house early friday morning in eastern pennsylvania. according to the daily mail, investigators had been tracking him for four days and finally saw him in that white elantra. back on december 7th, remember, police said they were looking for a white elantra. the daily mail is also reporting that kohberger's father flew out to washington state, then joined his son on a 2000--mile road trip back home to pennsylvania in that elantra. kohberger's public defender said he was shocked by the arrest and he apparently asked police if anyone else had been arrested. he is going to waive extradition, we hear, at a court appearance on tuesday. his lawyers that he's eager to be exonerated. his family broke the silence with a statement saying in part,

"we have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions, and we will continue to let the legal process unfold and as a family will love and support our son and brother." classmates in the criminal justice program say that he was keenly interested in the psychology of criminals. childhood friends described him as quiet, smart, and awkward, especially towards women. this past term he was a teaching assistant, and one student of his said his tough grading got easier around the time of the writers. at a fellow phd student told news nation he also noticed a change. >> looking back at following the homicides in moscow, idaho, i did notice that he was starting to come to class a little late sometimes, he always had a coffee in hand, he seemed to be perpetually exhausted.

most of that come as a graduate student, that is not unusual. >> if kohberger does in fact waive extradition at that hearing in pennsylvania on tuesday, he could be flown out here to moscow, idaho, tuesday night and could be before a judge here in latah county as early as wednesday. >> anita: it's been criticized as the most dangerous line america over its illumination of cash bail, but the illinois supreme court dealing a major blow to the democratic governor's safety act, putting the provision on hold after a lower court ruled it unconstitutional. however, parts of the controversial law remain in effect. they include limiting when defendants can be deemed flight risks, allowing accused criminals under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before being charged with escape, and preventing police from arresting nonviolent trespassers. critics say the new reforms will

handcuff police and only increased crime. listen. >> many of my fellow democratic leaders are enamored with doing everything they can to help dangerous criminals remain on the streets, remain in the neighborhoods, remain, all at the expense of communities that don't need them there and are struggling every day to get by and get past the violence we see make headlines on a daily basis. >> joe concha, fox news contributor, media and politics columnist for "the hill," joins us now. happy new year, always good to see you. is it ironic to you that this is being called the safety act, but some people are calling this law the most dangerous lot in the country, as i mentioned? what do you think? >> anita, everything about this law when you read it flies in the face of basic logic and, more importantly, public safety. how can anyone look at the disaster that new york city has become under cashless bail and say that looks like a really

smart idea, let me bring that to my state? and illinois already one of the most dangerous states in the country. that most pertain to chicago, where 3,000 people, nearly, were shot in the city alone in the past year. he would never guess what city already has cashless bail: chicago, cook county. you mentioned before, the most speefifteen provision is the part where defendants can be deemed as flight risks, and it would allow them to leave home y could be charged with escape? boy, there's a lot you can do in 48 hours, anita. like, i don't know, commit more crimes, or flee the state. if i break into someone's home and i'm not violent about it, i can't be arrested? this will only make chicago and illinois in general infinitely more dangerous. >> anita: it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, some of these provisions. in the 11th hour the supreme court did halt the cash bail, but some of the other

provisions, especially the one where police officers are prohibited from charging people for nonviolent trespassing. in other words, someone can come onto your process comic property, trespass, and that's perfectly fine. no crime, no arrest, see you later. does that make sense? >> it makes zero sense. if i'm a criminal i can try and break into someone's home, and as long as i don't touch the people that live there, i guess everything will be okay and i won't be charged. this is supposed to be the united states of america. you trespass, you go onto someone's property, you get arrested. it's that simple. and yet cities like new york, chicago, philadelphia -- they just set another homicide record again. portland said another homicide record. they will continue to deteriorate because voters, for whatever reason, are continuing to elect people who are soft on crime who seemingly value criminals over the very citizens they were elected to protect, to run their cities and their states. so as long as folks like

governor pritzker get reelected, and you have folks like the mayors of new york or chicago or los angeles continuing to be elected, we will continue to see the sort of policies. >> anita: we'll see what the supreme court does they are. but i want to turn the topic quickly to the massive cost of covid learning loss. we've talked a lot about this. a new stanford study says it could total more than $26 trillion, $70,000 per student. what do you think about this? >> as a parent, and you are a parent, as well, anita, we saw this firsthand during the pandemic. the data is disturbing but not surprising. we now know that we didn't have to keep schools closed for as long as we did and do remote learning for as long as we did. but for the largest teachers unions, it was never about science, it was political science. the science showed that schools were among the safest places to be and children were at very little risk of serious illness or death. despite all the resources we put towards education -- you are

right, we did talk about this recently -- we are ranked 11th in science, 30th in math. that puts us behind countries like poland, ireland, estonia. it's not just the educational loss we have seen. in the first year of the pandemic, teenage girls, for example, were attempting suicide at an increase by 50%. so they need to be accountability here, and it is a certainty that the new g.o.p. congress will launch an investigation into how covid was handled particularly as it pertained to our educational system. now we see the long-term impact on our children and the learning loss and the mental health aspect, as well, anita. >> anita: no kidding. it's not just academics. and math was the biggest loser. i think it dropped by 8%. some states had a 10% drop. but they're all kinds of emotional issues, as well, and certainly a lot of people saying this was avoidable. but we will talk more about this again. joe concha, thank you so much to you, and happy new year. we will see you soon. >> see you again in 2023.

>> anita: president biden set to ring in the new year by celebrating his administration's economic wins, that americans are still being crushed by the cost of rising inflation. republicans are ready to take action as they prepare to take over the house. >> when republicans come in in two days and take away the speaker's gavel from nancy pelosi, we address the readily spending here in washington to allow inflation to come down so families can afford the things they need. ♪ ♪ moving forward with node- positive breast cancer is overwhelming. but i never just found my way; i made it. and did all i could to prevent recurrence. verzenio reduces the risk of recurrence of hr-positive, her2-negative, node-positive, early breast cancer with a high chance of returning,... as determined by your doctor when added to hormone therapy. hormone therapy works outside the cell... ...while verzenio works inside to help stop the growth of cancer cells. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. at the first sign, call your doctor, start an anti-diarrheal, and drink fluids.

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>> anita: president biden set to kick off the new year by talking up his economic wins, even as americans are still struggling with soaring inflation. biden will be showing support for bipartisanship, appearing alongside senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in kentucky this week. but the g.o.p. are making plans once they take control of the house tomorrow.

here is kentucky congressman james comer. he shared his plans. listen. >> the one thing we can do in a divided congress is put the brakes on runaway spending. what i want to do as the next chairman of the house oversight committee is identify waste, fraud, misuse, mismanagement, and corruption within the government, and hold people accountable and tried to do something about it to reduce spending, to try to get inflation in check. >> anita: jacqui heinrich is live in christian said st. croix where the president spent his holiday vacation. he's going to come back and take a photo with mitch mcconnell. that should be an interesting photo. >> no kidding, anita. there are reports that the president's 2023 focus will shift to highlighting laws he said in the first half of his term, including semiconductor manufacturing under the chips act, also upcoming cost savings on things like prescription drugs from the inflation reduction act.

he will also be highlighting progress with what has been viewed as his biggest challenge in-office, the economy and inflation, as he gets closer to an expected 2024 announcement, potentially even around the date of the state of the union, which will possibly be in february. this all is starting with a trip to kentucky right after biden gets back to washington. he will tout investments from the bipartisan infrastructure law with some big republican names expected to attend, as you mentioned, including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and mike dewine. it'll be tougher for the president to pass the types of sweeping legislation he was able to get through with democrats controlling both chambers of congress, but he hasn't yet laid out any sort of agenda for the second half of this term. a year-end memo from andrew bates signaled that this shift toward bipartisanship will be coming. just before christmas he wrote that biden has been explicit at every turn before and after the midterms that he's eager to keep

working with his republican colleagues. he goes into the new year with his hand outstretched to both parties in congress ready to keep putting country head of party. officials also circulated a memo framing the u.s. as positioned better than other major economies with one of biden's biggest challenges in office, the economy. republicans, though, have their own accounting of how the last two years have gone. >> i'm afraid that is incredibly accurate. what we saw was the administration push a story that inflation was temper temporary andtransitory. it was anything but. >> this messaging shift toward a ton of bipartisanship is notable, considering it wasn't too long ago that we were hearing a lot about the erosion of democracy and how troublesome for our country ultra-maga republicans i when the president was stumping for democrats headed the midterms.

>> anita: oh, yeah, jacqui -- we all remember that. jacqui heinrich, thank you so much for that live report. appreciate it. julie? >> julie: phil flynn joins me now. americans are really stuck between a rock and a hard place. they are still getting crushed under inflation. the president mean time seems completely out of touch, touting his economic wins this week. what is the administration need to actually do to get back in touch with the american people d turn things around in the new year? >> i think what they are going to have to do is show that they can get inflation under control and stop the spending. but i am afraid they are doing exactly the opposite. just look at this bill, $1.7 trillion. that's almost unimaginable when you consider the fact that this country is already in debt by $26 trillion. while it is true we do need to invest in real infrastructure projects, the problem with this is we spend too much money on

things that only have a political impact and really doesn't improve the lives of americans. that is where i have a problem with this. and the numbers are staggering. i don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. that is a million millions. that's like a thousand billions. that kind of money takes years to pay back, and americans are paying back that debt right now in the form of higher prices everywhere. >> julie: absolutely. i'm glad you brought it up, because according to a november report, spanning between november '21 and 2022, prices across the board have gone up. take a look at the heating costs urges, for example. the average cost of home heating projected to jump. this is a huge increase, by 17.2% from last winter, to $1,208 being the average cost. then you look at the average cost for everything, all the

basic needs -- eggs, 49%. bread, poultry, dairy products, potatoes, butter, margarine. these numbers are staggering. how does the biden administration biden administration enact new cost cutting measures from the inflation reduction act? how does he do that after he just signed a $1.7 trillion government spending bill last week, which critics say will only worsen an already tenuous economic situation? >> it's going to make it a lot worse. i'll tell you why. you are talking about the energy bills, which is really a big part of the inflation story. president biden has these green dreams, he wants to spend a lot of money in this spending bill. electrifying america, putting electric charging stations on every corner, even though most americans won't be able to afford those cards anytime soon. at the same time he is putting new taxes on fossil fuels. natural gas, one of the cleanest forms of fossil fuels out there.

new taxes on energy, traditional energy, which is going to make those bills go up even more and put more americans behind on their weekly paychecks. >> julie: the hill has four ways to prepare for an uncertain 2023 economy. plan for high inflation, brace for highest interest rates, job security can be valuable in a recession, don't expect the stock market to row her back. let's talk about job security, because there are a lot of people who aren't working right now, and it's not by choice. it's not that there aren't jobs out there. it is their choice not to work because it's absolutely zero incentive. the government has been providing kickbacks and now more and more people are going to be seeking jobs, and if they don't go and grab them, you will possibly see a job shortage in the new year, as well. >> that's very possible. the other thing, too, when we have jobs that are unfilled to attract workers, you are paying higher wages, which you would think would be a good thing, but

the problem is that translates to higher prices for everybody. by paying these higher wages, everybody pays for the prices. when the government meddled by telling people to stay home, don't worry, extend unemployment, that hurt the private sector but hurts everybody because everyone pays a higher form of inflation. with the federal reserve wants to do is kill inflation. they won't need help from the biden administration. they're adding to inflation. that means they may have to be more aggressive in raising interest rates and that's going to raise the costs for more people, and they may have to force the economy into a recession to get things under control, and that will cause even more pain for the average american. >> julie: phil flynn, thank you so much. i had hoped we would have better news, but i guess things have to go down before they come back up. thank you, appreciate it. anita? >> anita: as we approach the one-year mark of the russian invasion, the kremlin not letting up, and there are new

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>> anita: brazil preparing to say goodbye to a national hero and sports legend. a lake for soccer great pele will be held today after his coffin is carried through the streets. he died thursday at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer. the memorial will be held at the stadium in santos, where pele began his brilliant soccer career as a teenager. he will be buried in a private ceremony tomorrow. >> julie: fox news alert, the new year bringing more destruction to ukraine. three straight nights of attacks, including a russian drone swarm, and several blasts

on the country's capital, kyiv. the invasion still relentless at his approach is the 1-your mark. president zelenskyy says he needs to keep the west's attention to stay in the fight. >> i think he knows he needs to keep his foot on the gas in order to go ahead and get russia out of his territory before the west gets tired of funding his campaign. i think that is the big grab here. he wants to signal especially to the europeans that he is willing to do peace talks eventually. >> julie: live in speech help with the very latest, good morning, nate. >> good morning, julie. ukraine certainly increasing the pressure after three consecutive days of russian air strikes here in the capital and across the country. today we are learning of two ukrainian attacks, but the biggest one coming in the east were russia says 63 of its soldiers were killed. take a look at this video. russia says the number is 63, but ukraine said it actually

could be about 400 if you include the amount of russian soldiers killed or injured. russia's defense ministry says ukraine use the u.s.-provided rocket system for this strike. here is russia's defense ministry spokesman describing what happened. >> interpreter: they struck with multiple rocket launchers at a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the russian armed forces near the settlement in the people's or public. the russian air defense systems shut down two missiles. >> this comes, as you mentioned, julie, after russia launched a new wave of iranian-made drones, about 40 drones overnight, the same thing we saw on new year's day. ukraine said they shut down all of them, but here in kyiv we have power shortages as a result of critical infrastructure being hit during that strike.

take a look at this next video, this all comes after a significant missile strike on saturday, over 20 missiles raining down on ukraine, including here at the capital of kyiv. at least two people have been killed and dozens were hurt in that strike. back here we are just learning of the ukrainian drone strike within russian territory that has damaged an electricity facility. power was out in the region for about 12 hours after that, but it has since been returned to normal. we will send it back to you. >> julie: nate foyer, thank you so much , and stay safe. anita? >> anita: julie, after that bomb cyclone blizzard swept the country, millions of americans are in path of yet another winter blast. plus, critics are calling him the vacationer in chief. a stunning new report details the whopping number of days president biden spends at his beach home, and at the posh estates of billionaire democratic donors.

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>> julie: midwesterners are bracing themselves for yet another massive winter storm, a mix of snow, rain, freezing rain, all set to slam part of wisconsin and minnesota today to tomorrow. fox news meteorologist adam klotz is keeping an eye on it for us. he joins us with more. good morning. >> you talked about that winter weather returning once again, and it always sets up right or wrong the big frontal boundary. boy, do we see it here. warm air toward the east, 50 in new york city, 60-70 degrees on the eastern half of the country, and the cold front behind it. suddenly those temperatures drop down and it's right along this boundary where we see a lot of that big action. that's where all the weather is going to be here the next couple of days. on the backside, already some snow beginning to fall from the debdesert southwest running up to the plains. this is listing to the north into the east, so we see that snow spread out and become more of an issue. winter weather watches and advisories from this area across colorado up into wyoming, but it's on the move and it's going to continue to track that

direction before eventually you're talking about the planes stretching into iowa and getting into minnesota, wisconsin, areas where you will see some winter storms, ice and snow, some blowing conditions making roadways a little more treacherous. it's not just what's happening on the northern side of the system. farther south where the air is a little warmer, it is still something we will have to pay attention to. this is not a winter system as far south as this, but it provides the possibility for severe thunderstorms. that is something we are watching tonight into tomorrow. a severe threat here from texas getting into northern louisiana, stretching up across arkansas. maybe some isolated tornadoes with this but certainly big powerful thunderstorms are all going to be on the move as the system marches down across the southeast over the next day or so. temperaturewise, otherwise, if you're outside this area, in the middle of the country, it stays very mild for folks in the east as you look for temperatures around 65 degrees in atlanta up to 55 degrees in new york city. but all of this is going to be sweeping across the country over the next couple of days, giving

us a little more of that taste of winter weather. >> julie: adam klotz, thank you so much. for full leather coverage wherever you go and up-to-the-minute updates, be sure to download the fox weather app. it's available in the apple store or google play. >> anita: president biden set to head back to the white house from his virgin islands vacation in about an hour. it turns out he spent nearly 40% of 2022 away from the oval office. according to a daily collar analysis of biden's public schedule last year, it finds he spent 92 days, or partial days, at one of his delaware properties, and 32 days or partial days at camp david. aside from his caribbean trip, he also vacation seven days in south carolina and five days in nantucket. one of his republican critics in congress since the president's travel schedule couldn't be more out of touch. listen. >> joe biden has been on vacation more than any other president in recent history, so

it's no surprise as we face the crisis at the southern border, the crisis that the northeast in the midwest face with all the blizzards and the shutdowns and all the things that happen because of all those storms, that he is vacationing in st. croix. it just shows that he doesn't truly care about the american people despite the fact that they say they care. >> anita: all right, the power panel now. ashley davis, former white house official in the bush were defeated administration, and leslie marshall, fox news contributor. great to see you both. glad to have you here. leslie, let me start with you. the president is still in st. croix, he's been on vacation quite a bit, as we just heard. what do you think? should he have gone out of town while americans were sleeping in airports across the country and while migrants are camping out along the border? how does that look in terms of optics, or are we making too much out of this? >> l, republicans like to make something of it when their candidate, president biden's predecessor, was playing golf at mar-a-lago all the time during covid.

they were very quiet on that, and both sides do this. anita, the reality is a few things. one, the president is really never on vacation. they have an entire staff with them, typically, and because the president is never on vacation, they do need to take a break. they do need some rest and they do need some time with their family. i say that of both democrats and republicans. then when you look to two of the successes, whether it's a legislative agenda of the president, semiconductors, pharmaceutical prices, infrastructure, just to name a few, gas prices going down, and then on the other side of it when you look at -- this president did not suffer when other presidents, both democrat and republican, with a number of seats in the house and keeping the senate and actually gaining a seat in the senate. i would say maybe he should vacation more. he's getting a lot done. >> anita: [laughs] ashley, what do you think about that? what about what leslie says, that he's entitled to a vacation, plus he's always working? got his staff there signing

bills on vacation. what do you think? >> i agree with leslie that this story does seem to come around every year whether it's president bush in the western white house or president biden in hawaii. i think the difference is about perception. you have food and gas prices at historic highs and i think the american people need to see the president of the united states working for them and making sure that their life is better. also, we are three years into a pandemic. i think people are sick and tired of seeing people not going to work. thank goodness tomorrow and the republicans take back the house of representatives you will see that the people's house will be going back to work for the first time in three years with no proxy voting, and actually being on premises to have their votes and service the people become of the constituents that elected them. >> anita: all right, want to turn the topic now to whether joe biden needs to move a little bit more toward the middle, where the democratic party used to be, or if you need to keep

appealing to the more liberal-leading members of his administration and base. i want to put this quote up from the "washington examiner." it says, "will biden's democrats go for woke, or tap back to the center in 2023?" "if we want to enact, we will continue to pound the middle," in a comes from the former chair of the pennsylvania democratic party. the president talked earlier today or he has been talking about having bipartisanship in the new year. is it time for him to scoot a little more to the middle? >> first of all, i know tj rooney very well, and he is a great person and a fellow pennsylvanian. i think the president is going to have to come to the middle to get any of his compliments done. i think when you lose a house when you are a sitting president, like he did, or a body, as he did, you have to make some concessions. and i feel, as i stated earlier, with the house of representatives flipping as of

tomorrow, you are going to see a lot of effort from republicans with oversight on some of these woke social issues. whether it is in regards to the department of defense or corporations that have decided to make social issues one of the pillars, and historically republicans have protected corporations in regards to different policies, i think you see that end. d.c. republicans sick and tired of being attacked on the social issues, and i think the president is going have to consider that. >> anita: leslie, you've got ten seconds. i apologize. >> of course. [laughs] anyway, bottom line is please do that, republicans. work on your woke agenda because that's going to help democrats take back the house and gain more in the senate and keep president biden in the oval office. that is not what americans want. that's not what americans sent washington for. >> anita: got to go. t. for softness and resilience, without the price tag.

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