( laughter ) i mean... >> stephen: john smith. john smith, okay. have you ever met john in person?n: elaina, i don't know how to tell you. that's a stock photo. it still has the watermark on it. >> um, yeah. he's a model. he just did a super-prestigious ad campaign where he's hanging out with his diverse colleagues in a boardroom. >> stephen: i'm very happy for you. eliana, do you have any actual tips people can use? >> okay, yes. if gen zs want to stay safe online, they should invest in this new amazing cryptocurrency token called colbert-coin, inspired by the hit cbs show, "the late show with stephen colbert." >> stephen: elaina, elaina, come on. >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: look, elaina, that is obviously an amazing investment opportunity. tell me, what do young people need to do to get in on the ground floor? >> just a credit card number! then can send it, along with the name of their first pet and the street they grew up on, to elianaandstephenlegitimate business@colbertcoin.belarus. >> stephen: wow, it's that easy? how does it work? >> well, with colbert-coin, you give us your

and so grace creek and and became part of the john smith water trail and up in the right hand corner. you can see some representatives from missouri garden club and other folks and surrey that were commemorating this event taking place. and so we have a water trail designation. we have a walking trail that goes from the manor house at smith's fort back to the fort site and just other ways that were also utilizing the property the local or whose property surroundsmiths for has been planting zinnias in on our property for now for several years, which is a really great way that it's just bringing a lot of tourism to the site for people to pick their own city of flowers. moving on to cape henry, so cape henry is located on an active military base and we have worked in partnership with the active military base and also the national park site has a cape henry memorial national park site. so our interpreters provide a walking tour that takes people through different areas. you can see in the bottom right hand corner. there's a world war ii era case-mate mine case may and that's built into th

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: all right. thank you very much to you both. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," as president biden said with troops amassed on ukraine's border, putin has to do something. his guess is that putin will move in. fox confirmed the united states is prepping plans to evacuate our people from the embassy there as antony blinken spent 90

parties at the official residents of britain's prime minister during corona virus locked down by was john smith apologized to the queen. for a party held at downing street on the eve of her husband's funeral attempts will number one, no bakovich is fighting attempts to deport him from australia. he has a court hearing on sunday. he was seen in the last hour, leaving his lawyers office in melbourne to go back into detention. that's off to australia's immigration minister, cancelled his visa on the health grounds as the 2nd time his visa has been revoked . sir o'clock at the latest from brisbin. the visa soccer is back in court and on saturday here in australia, there was a preliminary hearing in the federal court in melbourne. this is obviously jock of his team trying to stop his deportation. i had the astray an open on monday where jock of it is in the 1st round. and now the government canceled his visa for a 2nd time. on friday they noted that was made on this decision was made on the grounds of public interest because they considered novak joke of it out to be a health risk to australians. no

the officer, john smith showed up and wasted no time running onto the lake himself. the gear, the safety gear. he decided to go for it, officer smith. by the way, recognized a few weeks ago rescuing a woman from a burning building. the officers, kevin, these folks, we had let them but they are truly heroes every single day. they voluntarily do this kind of stuff. >> a+, that was a great one. i think you'll like this one as well. i want to introduce you to private first class gene scott. jean joined the army has a 20-year-old on veterans day. back in 1942. and he hasn't stopped writing ever since. >> shannon: wow! >> he has 100 this week from germantown, wisconsin, purity has no plans of slowing down. the army teach them a lot of healthy lessons, eat healthy, lead a good life. he says you only have one body and you better take care of it. for that, we say "well done, james" happy birthday. >> shannon: we love that. he is 100 and if he will give us advice on taking care of ourselves, i am all for that. kevin, thank you and we will see you tomorrow night. >> let's do it

and frankly, if we were to take any one of their cvs and put the name john smith at the top of it, weldn't eveben having this conversation. >> that's such a good point and probably the most heart breaking thing in all of this, that people are talking about these justices or potential justices purely as i mentioned because we know it's going to be a black woman regardless of what their qualifications are, and that's absolutely unacceptable. margaret, twitter was full of bad takes after this announcement including this one from the new executive director for the georgetown center for the constitution. he suggested another possible nominee on twitter, an indian american jurist but said he wouldn't fit into the latest intersection hiarkky so, quote, we'll get less black women. what's your reaction to that? >> i don't understand why we're trying to argue about this. what we're trying to do basically here is expand the diversity of the court, expand the diversity of all of these judges. i think the it's a very difficult time. and we're -- we're sort of like arguing something that's not -- i

john, hello, sandra smith in new york. >> john: john roberts in washington.always, begin with what's breaking. >> sandra: looking forward to all that. fate of provided's vaccine mandate in the hands of the supreme court. arguments wrapping just moments ago about running about three hours, and what they ultimately decide will affect tens of millions of american businesses and citizens. >> john: the court, sandra, focussing on two big issues, including whether the government could force private companies with more than 100 employees to mandate the vaccine or weekly testing. and healthcare workers that receive federal funding must be vaccinated but the stakes are beyond the vaccine or the pandemic. >> sandra: to anchor of fox news at night, shannon bream is with us. hi, walk us through the day. what did we hear from the justices? >> good afternoon sandra and john. it has been a case like no other. these two cases have been fast-tracked. the court is not treating them the way they would treat a normal case because there are impending deadlines, employers and empl

john. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. hi, martha. >> martha: hi, guys. thanks very much. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the story." the white house wrestles with a virus that they are having a tough time getting their arms around. the president's own former medical advisers publish add group of articles to try to get people's attention. also, people's attention at the white house. we'll speak with one of the doctors behind these reports and why they made a public call to the white house for a needed strategy overall. the president promised that his mission was to shut down this virus. remember these? >> i'm going to shut down the virus. i'll shut down the virus, not the economy. i'm not going to shut down the country but i'll shut down the virus. >> martha: now president biden being told that people will need to learn to live with this as 49% of voters say the president is failing on his handling of the virus. that's up 15 points since may. that was one of his strongest areas going through a rough patch where that is conc

you might as well blame john smith and pocahontas and the pilgrims. a symptom of the general rise in prices otherwise known as inflation. it is not because of conspiracy among america corporation. that is just blaming people and blaming companies and blaming workers in a way they should not be blamed. jackie: thank you so much we will leave it there. we will talk to you soon. the u.s. putting 8500 troops on heightened alert for possible deployment to eastern europe as a potential russian invasion looms. foxy state department corresponded benjamin hall has the latest. what is the latest? >> over the last couple days we've seen a real increase, diplomatic activity to prevent a war in a real increase in military activity as well on both sides of this with russia and the west. the big news russian invasion grown is that eight and a half thousand u.s. troops have been heightened deployment to eastern europe. most of these trips will be part of a nato response force, the rest will be part of a specific unilateral u.s. response. >> we are not ruling it off t

my name is john d. smith, and i'm from orlando, florida. i'm the creator of storm stoppers.

. >> john: alveda, thanks for your recollections on what would have been his 93rd birthday. thank you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters on this martin luther king jr. day. we're glad to have you with us. right now on "the story," let's take a look at some numbers that came out. very interesting. sort of a wake-up call as this brand new polling shows a dramatic shift according to gallup since president biden took office. party preferences in the united states has shifted seven points down for democrats and seven points up for republicans. that's a big move in a short period of time. karl rove is standing by with what he sees in these numbers. first, to capitol hill where some democrats plan to push for more spending on covid relief. aishah hasnie has more. >> hi, martha. this might seem like deja vu. democrats about a year ago passed this big covid-19 relief package. a big part of it were items that were on the president's social spending agenda. they could try this route again. democ

john: sandra, great to spend time with you. >> sandra: i'm in for neil at 4:00. i sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: i'm mackinac in new york. year two of the biden presidency begins today. the president enjoyed his two hours with the press yesterday. some of the response from some unexpected corners was pretty tough. >> if you're meandering on key questions and you're also not winning, then you have a real problem. >> putin and xi and our nato allies are not debating that right now. they see joe biden as weak. yesterday's press conference did not help. >> i'm not sure that his staff is exactly excited about the news that he made. >> no. a lot of clean up. >> martha: a lot to clean up. we have new poll numbers that are just out today. approval is down 16 points for this president, 59% in july, a healthy number now at 43%. look at this one. 28% of the country answers yes to the question, would you like to see president biden run again in 2024? 48% of his own party under water about whether or not they want to see him at the top of the tic

john: my wife went to the grocery store. he said grocery store shelves empty. i got the last jug of milk. looks like we're in a depression. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, guys president good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the president getting a scathing rebuke from mitch mcconnell after president biden said those that oppose his reforms to the election system were like george wallace and bull connor. that did not sit well with senator mcconnell. watch. >> yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, you're george wallace. george wallace? if you tonight pass the laws he wants, you're bull connor. he compared -- listen to this -- a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly unpresidential. look, i've known, liked and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. >> martha: strong words there from senator mcconnell. senators thune and tim scott hear with their reaction. let's begin with senator thune, the number 2 ranking republican. senato

reminds us of brave republicans in the past like abraham lincoln, theodore roosevelt, robert j smith, john but we have film footage of what happened on january 6th. we have proof. dwight eisenhower during world war ii make sure all the holocaust camps were filmed, so we've got the film footage, january 6th has to be a crusade that is every day as "the new york times" op ed said, every day is january 6th, so we are in a real neo-civil war and it's a battle of democracy versus a nativist authoritarianism. >> tucker: we are in a kind of civil war. but more specifically -- a furious statement condemningng doug brinkley for trivializing, which he just did.in we will let you know when we get that statement. in the meantime doug brinkley was right about one thing, there are an awful lot of images showing what happened inside the capital on january 6th. we don't have to guess for the most part. we are going to show one of them because it is frankly representative. oohere's the terrifying scene on the floor of the united states senate as insurrectionist swept in. watch. [shouting] >> [bleep] man, g

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i can't believe how we're in to year number 2. the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as the white house signals a need to change gears after two terrible weeks, the president gets ready for a big moment for him tomorrow. live coverage here on his first formal white house press conference in ten months. he will have a lot to confront. one of those big issues is known all too well by the families of these two women. today they are staring every leader in this country in the face imploring them to do something about the rampant and senseless crime in america. a ucla student on the left side of the screen went to work at her part time job. she was stabbed to death in the middle of the afternoon by a complete stranger that walked into her store. her life snuffed out. this is her father, todd. >> the tragedy can't befall more people. it's so painful. what is endemic in our society, everybody is oriented on giving back rights and besnowing f

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: all right. thank you very much to you both. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," as president biden said with troops amassed on ukraine's border, putin has to do something. his guess is that putin will move in. fox confirmed the united states is prepping plans to evacuate our people from the embassy there as antony blinken spent 90 minutes with foreign minister lavrov. lavrov saying that he's going to wait for the u.s. response to the russian proposals that they put forward and see what the u.s. says about them. for his part, secretary blinken said "there's no trade space there, none." okay. so what happens now? some see europe on the bring of war, a moment not seen since world war ii. others question why we would send billions to ukraine for this effort. former national security adviser robert o'brien stands by. victor davis henson joins us. first to benjamin hall in geneva where this meeting took place.

john. it flew by. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: the officer should never have to buy another drink again. i'm john roberts. the story starts now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the white house reacts moments ago to the mental health crisis that is facing kids as over 5,000 schools in the united states have shut their doors on their students. >> the president's view is that schools should be open across the country. more than 95% are. that's a mental health impact on kids of not having schools open is very harsh and hard and he does not want to see schools closed across the country. >> martha: what will he put behind those questions is the question. the american academy of pediatrics and three large health agencies have declared a national state of emergency in the united states stating this: we're caring for young people with soaring rates of depression and anxiety, trauma, loneliness and suicidality that will have lasting impacts on them. long af

and it's amazing that in 2020 we're still wrestling with what was said in 1968 when tommy smith and john carlos raised their fists, one of their slogans at, in the for the 68 olympics was they said, why should we run in mexico city only to crawl home, which is still what animates, i think the athletic protests today. why should we be loved with our uniforms on, but then disdained when the uniform is off? let me just show you nano sac. as she won the us open on september, the 12th and these images, people who are waiting every day, what mask is she going to have him on my laptop? and you can see, and she is wearing the mass of people who met a violent and because of police brutality. every day she had a black life matter movement, mask on. and then at the end of the us open when she won it. this is what she told the commentator who asked her about the mouse. you said from the beginning, you had 7 matches, 7 masks, 7 names. what was the message? you wanted to send mail, tom? well, what was the message that you got more the question? i feel like the point is to make people start talking wha

to me and my soul if i don't stop. >> john: alveda, thanks for your recollections on what would have been his 93rd birthday. thank you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smithon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters on this martin luther king jr. day. we're glad to have you with us. right now on "the story," let's take a look at some numbers that came out. very interesting. sort of a wake-up call as this brand new polling shows a dramatic shift according to gallup since president biden took office. party preferences in the united

john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. king the plan to get the criminals off the streets, despite his own push to let many lawbreakers off the hook. >> john: in washington, the white house admitting taking money from police departments has contributed to the spike in violent crimes across the country. >> sandra: moments away on the politics, but alexis mcadams and the about face from officials in new york city. >> that's right, a lot happening with the crime in new york city, but we just learned that the second officer as you mentioned has now passed away. this is now two officers that have passed away in the past week, and five officers just this month have been shot. this is the second officer you see on the screen, wilbert mora, only 27 years old. this is the information we are just getting in, tweeted picture out and great sadness announcing the passing of wilbert mora, a life of service, sacrificing his life to protect others, giving life even in death through organ donation. commissioner saying their heart are heavy

officer john smith brought the pooch safely back to shore and reunited it with its owners, officer smithu very much. meanwhile new york city's progressive new district attorney on the defense as he faces backlash over his plan to go easy on criminals. >> what we are doing now is not working, plain and simple. and so this is our path forward. this is how we reduce violent crime. >> wouldn't these policies give criminals a green light. >> no! -- i mean, it just depends on your definition of criminal. >> steve: exactly. well, under his updated guidelines, a whole slew of crimes will no locker be considered a felony, a move local police and business owners including our next guest fear will make crime surge even more. joining us right now police department union president paul digiacomo along with new york city business owner nic good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: paul, let's start with you, essentially came out with this list on monday and said unless you kill somebody, you're not going to jail. and then yesterday such blow back, he clarified, you will still be prosecute

i'm sandra smith. john, great to be back with you in the year 2022. >> john: hopefully it will be better than last year. i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks. great to see you both. good afternoon. happy new year. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters here in new york city. in moments, we will speak to dr. robert redfield, our go-to person when it comes to all of this covid confusion, the jumble of messages surrounding whether or not we go back to school or business. he will tell us what makes sense and what does not. first, more on the administration's admission that the cutting of quarantine period from positive cases from ten to five is in part due to america's lock down fatigue. >> if you're asymptomatic and you're infected, we want to get people back to the job. >> it had a lot to do with what the we thought people would tolerate. >> the decision on the part of the cdc is really a true and good decision and based on science. >> we may well not be able to or willing

john? good to be with you this afternoon. sandra smith in new york.le, according to a couple of democratic consultants. hillary clinton is already planning to swipe her husband's crown as the comeback kid. all of it is new at 2:00. and we will begin with what could help fuel potential clinton campaign in the future. president biden's struggle to solve the growing pile of problems facing americans. >> honestly, it looks like march of 2020 when everybody was stockpiling and the shelves were bare. >> much of nothing. >> it's like a soviet store during 1981. horrible. >> not a lot. pretty much all the produce is gone. there is peppers, artichokes, about it. >> very little meat. and whatever is in there, is super high priced, and extreme little produce, kind of scary. >> john: fox news alert and harsh reality even if leaders on the left admit it, shoppers stunned by the situation on store shelves but the inability to fill up your cart is only the beginning. >> sandra: bizarre sight, if you have experienced empty shelves, it's really something and brand-new

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. see you >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. breaking news in this fast-moving situation in ukraine and europe right now. a short time ago, a major delivery of u.s. weaponry, anti-tank missiles that we spoke with john kirby about have arrived. the big question in this picture are these. are russia and china pushing for a new world order that would remove the united states as the world's dominant super power? and are putin's moves to ukraine more than what they appear? are they the next step that would push the united states and its presence out of europe altogether? general jack keane, former secretary state and mike pompeo and senator tom cotton on board with us with these difficult questions that america faces in an urgent situation as 8,500 u.s. troops get ready for action. all that as we await a live update from the state department. a lot of focus there, a controversial move to pull americans out of ukraine leaving them in some cases to their own devises to get out. is this like afghanistan

thanks, geraldo. >> thank you. >> john: sandra, great to spend time with you. >> sandra: i'm in for neil at 4:00. i sandra smith>> martha: i'm mackinac in new york. year two of the biden presidency begins today. the president enjoyed his two hours with the press yesterday. some of the response from some unexpected corners was pretty tough. >> if you're meandering on key questions and you're also not winning, then you have a real problem. >> putin and xi and our nato allies are not debating that right now. they see joe biden as weak.

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," as president biden said with troops amassed on ukraine's border, putin has to do something. his guess is that putin will move in. fox confirmed the united states is prepping plans to evacuate our people from the embassy there as

i'm john roberts, join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for "america reports." >> harris: another be politically correct. the university of california irvine issued a new inclusive language guide as part of a course or a "social justice diversity, equity and inclusion." a couple of examples for you. instead of grandfathered, use legacy status or pre-existing. i got to think about that. so you are going to grandfather in a contract, some previous language and you don't want to offend a grandfather so you say previous existing. rather than man-hours or man power, the recommended person hours or level of effort hours. tone-deaf is a no-no. instead, use inconsiderate, thoughtless, careless. the guide also target some metaphors. kill two birds with one stone, apparently too harmful. instead, they say feed two birds with one scone. i should stay silent because i don't have anything positive to say. brian? >> brian: thank you for that. hope all the blocks to lead it, i would have taken anyone but this. i always say that, kill two birds with one scone. >> harris: a no-no no, feed it to bi

john roberts joined sandra smith at me at the top of the hour, for america reports. >> it seems thate not welcome and parts of the sunshine state. drivers in palm beach who have new york license plates, have returned to the parked cars only to be greeted with this message. if you are one of those woke people, leave florida. you will be happier elsewhere, as will we. kennedy. >> kennedy: is not the new yorkers, it is the wokeness that is bring any socials qualities down south. west palm beach is filling with new yorkers. you hear more new york accents in palm beach, than anything peered but yes, it is the people. they have the same frustration in texas. they do not want aoc moving to their state and stinking up the joint. kaylee, you're a floridian, what you think about this? >> kayleigh: yes. i hear this more than i hear anything. from my fellow floridians peered they always say, i see so many new york and new jersey license plates. it's not that we don't love you and the northeast. we do. however, people are terrified that the northerners are going to bring their politics. luckily,

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i can't believe how we're in to year number 2. martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as the white house signals a need to change gears after two terrible weeks, the president gets ready for a big moment for him tomorrow. live coverage here on his first formal white house press conference in ten months. he will have a lot to confront. one of those big issues is known all too well by the families of these two women. today they are staring every leader in this

raphael meant well, pete hegseth and art laffer, john roberts, join sandra smith and me as we celebrate"america reports" at the top of the hour. we will see you then. >> emily: a new york lawmaker sponsoring a bill that aims to hold a social media companies accountable for promoting disinformation and other harmful content. we are trying to work around section two which protects big attack from legal liability on what users may post. and instagram is recommending photos and videos that critics say promote eating disorders and vulnerable teens and even more, pete hegseth, this is the light latest in who joins the list and crosses the iowa makers are trying to have section 2:30 fit or in some way hold accountable these giant social media companies that continue to fail americans. >> pete: yes, something has to be done. they are working in cahoots and with the democratic party frankly because that is who they support and where they leverage their power. in this particular case, coming out on a state senator from new york and a democrat determining what misinformation is. it all depends on

john. it flew by. i'm sandra smithoberts. the story starts now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the white house reacts moments ago to the mental health crisis that is facing kids as over 5,000 schools in the united states have shut their doors on their students. >> the president's view is that schools should be open across the country. more than 95% are. that's a mental health impact on kids of not having schools open is very harsh and hard and he

john roberts joining sandra smith me at the top of the hour for "america reports."er flight out of canada marking an official investigation because of what was going on in the plane, a rowdy passenger avoiding aviation and coronavirus regulations, the social media influencers seen snapping selfies as they turn the charter flight into a nightclub. the raging passengers posing with bottles of vodka and vape pens during the duration of the flight. the canadian bunch will have to find a new way home after the airline canceled their return trip to cancun atop the potential $5,000 fine each. >> ben: look, they got a memo, a promissory before they took off but said cloth masks don't work at, so they were like, screw it! we are just going to party down, we are not going to be effective with omicron, let's do it. there is part of me that laughs and likes it, because it makes two things very clear, social influencers should not be driving your life number one, and number two, yes, they really are as dumb as they look. >> harris: no one drops the mic like you do, we just got h

and john had a report with father smith and the hits. just keep on coming for prince andrew us district judge louis cap would reject him in argument wednesday by the duke of york's lawyers that virginia roberts grew phrase lawsuit should be thrown out due to a previous settlement with disgraced and now deceased financier jeffrey epstein. judge kaplan ruled that the $500000.00 settlement between epstein and grew fray did not involve prince andrew and thus did not prevent a lawsuit against him go. frey, one of jeffrey epstein's most prominent and vocal accusers, sued the prince back in august, 2021, saying epstein and gillen maxwell coerced her into having sex with andrew in 2001. when she was just 17 years old. in his 46 page opinion, judge caplin writes that grew fray alleges she was forced to have sex with andrew at maxwell's home in london on epstein's infamous little saint james island and at his upper east side town house in new york city. where, according to the document maxwell force grew fray quote, and another victim to sit on pr

john: we'll see if they can work this out. the two big networks have agreed not to operate near airports. thanks, kathleen, for joining us. appreciate it. thanks, sandra. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smithonference coming up on "the story." >> martha: i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. president biden has a big opportunity an hour from now. he faces no doubt a hungry press corps that has not had a chance to press this president in ten months. soaring inflation a persistent pandemic, lack of treatment and testing, the troubled exit from afghanistan, all of these and more are likely to be the areas t

john roberts. i am sandra smith, "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. judge jeanine puro, geraldo rivera, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and is "the five." ♪ ♪ the white house openly mocking americans concerned about exploding crime. and even dismissing how "the five" covers it. >> on fox is jeanine pirro talking about soft on crime consequences. i mean, what does that even

john roberts. i am sandra smith, "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody.m jesse watters along with judge jeanine puro, geraldo rivera, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and is "the five." ♪ ♪ the white house openly mocking americans concerned about exploding crime. and even dismissing how "the five" covers it. >> on fox is jeanine pirro talking about soft on crime consequences. i mean, what does that even mean, right? so there has been an alternate universe of what i was speaking to was a chyron on fox news since you raised it which suggested this administration is soft on crime with no basis. and the american rescue plan there was additional funding to support local cops programs, something that every single republican voted against. >> jesse: but earth to the biden white house, the crime wave across the country is very real and the stats don't lie. homicide and major american cities are up 44% compared to two years ago, and a big part of the problem are the radical policies of the liberal d.a. across the country which allow a rev

i'm sandra smith. johny it will be better than last year. i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks. great to see you both. good afternoon. happy new year. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters here in new york city. in moments, we will speak to dr. robert redfield, our go-to person when it comes to all of this covid confusion, the jumble of messages surrounding whether or not we go back to school or business. he will tell us what makes sense and what does not. first, more on the administration's admission that the cutting of quarantine

john: we'll see if they can work this out. the two big networks have agreed not to operate near airports. thanks, kathleen, for joining us. appreciate it. thanks, sandra. >> sandra: thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: and i'm john roberts with the big press conference coming up on "the story." >> martha: i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. president biden has a big opportunity an hour from now. he faces no doubt a hungry press corps that has not had a chance to press this president in ten months. soaring inflation a persistent pandemic, lack of treatment and testing, the troubled exit from afghanistan, all of these and more are likely to be the areas where the public is going to want to hear answers from these reporters and from the president, of course. this will be just the second formal white house press conference. he's held a handful of others on foreign trips. compared to his predecessors, he's governed largely as he campaigned, which is hunkered down in general posture. you can see compared to other presidents, this president has done nine of these opportunities and one of them is like what we're getting today, a form natural news conference at the white hou

smith. great to be with you. >> john: i wonders if kim jong-un fired off a hypersonic burrito in honor of his dad. >> sandra: a good way to tie the stories together. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts rights now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. the story evolving right now, the electoral politics related to january 6. swinging towards an effort to change voting laws for 2022. president biden took the gloves off today, pointed the finger of blame at president trump and vice president harris compared the capitol riot to pearl harbor. >> certain dates echo throughout history. dates that often decry not only apply on our calendar but a place in our collective memory. december 7, 1941. september 11th, 2001. and january 6, 2021. >> martha: we will talk in a moment to representative steve scalise, republican congressman about tying all of those things together and his reflections on what happened a year ago today. first to aishah hasnie reporting live from capitol hill. high, aishah. >> hi, martha. a very somber day at a very divided capitol today.

john. we'll talk about how hard it is on the children coming up. sandra smith in new york. the chicago mayor says schools are the safest place for students and the city spent $100 million on protective measures, but union leaders are not satisfied, and will hold a vote later today on whether to return to full remote learning. it is a critical decision that will impact the lives of more than 300,000 students and their families in the windy city. >> john: fox news coverage, dr. mark segal in moments. >> sandra: garrett, any indication at this point how likely the vote is to pass? >> well, sandra, the most recent data point is a vote the union took at a virtual town hall sunday night, 80% of its members said they did not want to work in-person under the current conditions. the union wants chicago to have all of its schools, all more than 330,000 students move online for the next two weeks to limit any potential exposure to covid after the holiday break and want more testing, better masks and clear plan when the schools will be closed in the case of an outbreak. but at least so

smith. thursday. >> john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i'm john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president's performance so far. >> sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. >> today i'm directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. that makes a billion tests in total to lead future demand. >> john: figure the device president might have wanted to have on hand, peter gets us started from the white house. hi, peter. >> john, good afternoon. white house still has not sent out any of these free at home covid tests, but they are doubling their order from 500 million to a billion. >> they have been ord