we now look more at how the biden administration is addressing the global pandemic. day, usaid administration samantha power announced a plan for the united states to spend an additional $400 million to help increase vaccine access internationally. power made the announcement just days after vanity fair revealed a $2.5 billion plan to thwart omicron-like variants has been stalled inside the biden administration. we are joined now by katherin eban, who wrote the vanity fair piece. welcome back to democracy now! soleil out what is happening. we are talking about a global pandemic. >> good to be back with you, amy. the biden administration has pledged to be an arsenal of vaccines for the entire world, with the full recognition -- developing world unvaccinated, the become essentially factories r new variants like omicron. so there is an absolute sense of urgency among public health experts and within the biden administration. however, what happened was even despite gigantic pledge of vaccines, 1.1 billion doses, that is what the biden administration has pledged, startingr

>> it shows the biden administration will do all they can to waste taxpayer money the panels they ares, we could be using them here but biden is letting them go to waste, it's an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars. >> back to the smuggling and cartel, we spent an entire week with lieutenant, 50 cal's are being apprehended, fentanyl and during 87 pounds this year, 33000 pounds of marijuana, have you ever seen it this bad? >> it's never been test that, there's a reason because the border has never bent this open but you mentioned guns and it brings me back, some people say americans or texans, they don't need guns. the reason you have the second amendment right is to protect yourself. the people in the area have faced the reality that they could face any one of these cartel any day. >> you have a message for the cartel theaters? >> they've picked the wrong state. >> i spoke with a rancher, a fourth-generation rancher, she told me a minor walked up to her front door and her husband and son were working, she had to get her gun and she was worried. it seems to me they not only are welco

they are determined by independents and they now by a large large majority are rejecting the biden administration. they don't have confidence in this man or his administration does and look at the crises this administration has caused so i think there's good reason to feel optimistic for conservatives to come back in the office. the collateral damage is the country and not just domestically but internationally but it does show the country has finally seen through the rhetoric and lies of the administration and a lot of voter regret. todd: let's talk about the, quote, damage, rand paul saying fauci's buys for vaccines cost thousands of lives to covid. take a listen. >> if you don't prioritize the vaccine, many people die and many 35-year-old people being vaccinated. tens of thousands of people lost their lives because he ignored natural immunity. fauci's philosophy that vaccines are incredibly successful in the way to go versus therapeutics. todd: that is a bold statement. i'm not being in the medical profession don't feel i could make that leap. rand paul was in the medical profession and made th

but under the biden administration this is a biden-made disaster.isis around immigration. from my perspective, and i hope you agree, this is first a national security crisis. when you cannot control the flow over your border, you do not know who is coming in. what is coming in. and why it is coming in. if you cannot answer those 3 fundamental questions you have a national security risk that is something you can't measure. second we certainly have an an ill immigration crisis brought to us by biden saying by default, the borders are open, come in, haitians have said it people have said the same thing. we're coming to the border because the president of united states has sent a signal that is welcome, an opportunity to come across. here is what we know. we know what you have more than 1.3 million people illegally crossing your border, they are not assimilating. they are actually not going to even show up for any of the their hearings, that is more than problematic, that is more than concerning, that is a problem that we are going to have to get our ar

shame on the biden administration, cartel kellyar and shame on nancy pelosi. >> you're right. jason, every state, every city is a border state,at a border town. all these states, they're dropping people like a rock. >> the administration has not come clean, despite many requests from congress as to where you're shipping these people. the reports are they're putting them in airplanes, putting them in vehicles, they're moving them to other parts of the country just flowing them in to society. and what are they supposed i to do, laurence, once they get here? how are they supposed to provide or buy food or get a job or do something like that? you can't just dump hundreds of thousands of people and just end up being millions of people into the society and not have a major economic and crime impact. >> oh, they know who's going to pay for it. we, the american public are going to pay for it. including funding for illegal immigrants in all of the bills you want to pass. they have a plan. i think we're under this illusion that the left doesn't know what they're doing. they know exactly

the biden administration is sending this letter to democrat lawmakers and supporters and it reads thisnted crises and opposition from congressional republicans, president biden, vice president harris and congressional democrats got an enormous amount done for the american people in 2021. there was also no mention of issues like the recent increase in the number of covid cases, the botched afghanistan withdrawal which caused 13 service members to lose their lives or soaring inflation. but does the claim -- they do claim that they fixed the supply chain issues and we heard them say had they saved christmas by doing so. joining us now is house ways and means ranking member, kevin brady. great to see you. merry christmas to you. >> thank you. merry christmas. maria: what a do you make of the letter that the white house is sending to supporters that people are better off today than they were a year ago under president trump? >> yeah, in what world are they living in? truth of the matter is, they cited unprecedented crises. by the way, the ones they created, whether it's on the border, on in

the biden administration might dig his concern as the biden administration demonstrates concern. one is just like the previous obama administration the biden administration there's u a gap u do you know what they say versus what they do. trump had the same problem but it was opposite. he made us cringe when he spoke about it. putinll is great. he is not your friend. he surrounded himself with people who are really strong on national security. trump's policies work tough on russia and really tough on china. the biden administration was exactly opposite. the biden administration will make tough talk about china and russia. their policies are exactly the opposite. the policies have been very soft so even though the biden administration continues policy on china i think a revealing event was what happened between diplomatic meetings between chinese diplomats and american diplomats in alaska. keep in mind alaska was on our soil. they came at our invitation. i don't know if you've read any reports about what happened. basically the chinese diplomat used the talking points out of "the ne

the biden administration is announcing a diplomatic boycott. we're joint live from hong kong. >> reporter: we just heard from china's ministry of foreign affairs. they will take resolute counter measures. we've been monitoring chinese social media and the words united states olympic boycott have been actively blocked and accept sored. this after several sources told cnn that this week the biden administration plans to announce a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming beijing galgs. t games. this means they would not attend the opening ceremonies. this was expected. u.s. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been demanding diplomatic boycott over human rights issues in china including the fact that they are abusing we g we gars. this is the polite tieization of sport. we have fresh comment from the spokesman of the administrator. the u.s. should stop politicizing sports and hyping up the so-called diplomatic boycott so as not to affect china-u.s. dialogue. this is a grave offense to the 1.4 billion people of china and he mocked american politici

talk about gas prices and inflation and i think more generally talk about how biden and his administration are bystanders, not lead pg but reacting. >> arthel: a specific question for you. is there political or policy life raft that can keep the biden presidency afloat? >> i think there certainly is. matt and i agree on one point. this election will be about bread and butter issues, the american people are frustrated with covid, this latest variant and rising prices across the board. democrats have a lot to campaign on. we see the largest wage increase since 1999. the first year irt was tracked. we're seeing some of the best economic indicators in terms of the job rates in 50 years. obviously inflation is a serious concern as gerri reported at the outset. it is set to go up. you are also seeing a biden administration focused on inflation and encouraging the feds do all they can with inflation rates spiking as well as tackling the omicron variant. you saw the president with the governors yesterday speaking about that. we have 315 days left until the mid-terms. that's an eternity. democrats

that the biden administration continues to reward saudi arabia with weapons seems to indicate that president biden is not really serious about withholding arms sales to end the war in yemen. indeed, if this administration were serious about ending the saudi blockade, they could do one thing, and this thing would end the war, would end the blockade tomorrow. the saudis, i think would immediately stop the blockade if this administration would stop sending spare parts, stop fixing the planes. bruce rydell writes the saudi blockade would be grounded in short order if we quit sending them spare parts, quit repairing their aircraft. we could stop this war if we really had the will to do it. all america should be appalled at the humanitarian disaster caused by the saudi blockade of yemen. for years now ships would otherwise carry food, fuel and medicine are turned away by the saudi led coalition. yemen is one of the poorest countries on the planet. they have to import their food. the blockade is killing their children. saudi arabia's intervention of the yemeni civil war is a chilling example of the

how does the biden administration, if you want to touch on this, how does their policy change or has differed any from what was affected under the trump administration? brian, if you want to start there. >> the biden administration has largely kind of followed the lead the trump administration established. abraham accords were one of the success stories of the trump administration in bringing israel into the fold of its neighbors which are arab countries. it's a very important meeting, obviously. we're seeing much more cooperation between israel and its arab neighbors militarily, diplomatically. and they're presenting a more united front against iran, which they perceive as being the potential threat to all of their stability and security in the region. so i think this is really important. it will remain to be seen how far this goes in terms of actually their alignment. the trump -- the biden administration has not been necessarily as aggressive and pushing these connections as maybe the trump administration had been. they have kind of left it to the local countries to work it out as

you mention the biden administration opposed this.that it was passed unanimously in congress. it imposes sanctions on individuals but you have to impose the sanctions. raymond: italy bans imports from that region. intel, they apologized to the chinese government because they have to end certain supply chains. how do you ensure that they don't wash those goods and those items through other parts of china, move them to hong kong and then the united states? >> absolutely right, much larger problem is the chinese leadership does not believe the biden administration is going to impose serious sanctions. it is going to go after china, others, hong kong and many other issues related to the policy. many reasons, we need to pay attention to, one of which is this administration conducted foreign-policy near china. the chinese -- what we are doing with the iran deal, the chinese saw that and the domestic situation which we have been talking about. the regime believe the biden administration though they signed off on legislation, i'm not going to

what is the challenge for the biden administration?think the biggest challenge for the biden administration is figuring out what they have left in their toolbox to address this. vaccine mandates have been tied up in courts. the mandate on employers for vaccinations or testing, on healthier, which the biden administration is asking the supreme court to reinstate. they asked that yesterday. and masking mandates. all of these different techniques and tactics they have, there is does not seem to be a whole lot of stomach for that. the biden administration's to encourage people to get vaccinated but realizing force will not be a possibility. jane: i don't all of this is interrelated -- i know all of this is interrelated but do you get a feeling voters are more read about the economy, the rising cost of fuel, energy costs, and the economy in geral? is that a distraction for the biden administration, particularly as they get ready for the midterms? >> i think coming into this year, the biden administration realized they had to tackle covid fi

in the previous in menstruation and the biden administration has gaps in with a state and what they dolems with the exact opposite so when trump administration, he made them cringe when he spoke about that she is my friend and putin is great and the policies. and people felt really strong better national securities, and china's policies was with russia and then from china. [inaudible]. the biden administration is the exact opposite the biden administration and will talk about - with russia and the policies is exact opposite in the policies have been very soft the biden administration with policy in china, that i think is what happens between the regions, chinese and american diplomats in alaska and keep in mind that alaska with our independentt imitation it and read in the reports about what happened in the region basically the chinese diplomats came out and scolded our group and the trojans and talking about the americans have no life to talk about china to anybody because their own sailors did not have racial justice. [inaudible]. and, the chinese diplomats in the island and india in

between how the trump i've been pence administration dealt with ukraine and how the obama-biden administration dealt with ukraine. when we came into office, it was in the wake of russia overrunning the border of crimea, literally changing the boundary lines of europe by force. the last administration's response was much of what we hear president biden saying today, was economic sanctions. in terms of assistance to ukraine, when he was vice president, all joe biden and barack obama provided was blankets and military meals in boxes. when the trump-pence administration took office, we sent arms to ukraine to defend themselves, we provided resources. and the reality is, weakness results in people, whether it be along the border of ukraine, whether be china's provocations in the south china sea, whether it be iran pounding the table at the ill advised negotiations over returning to the disastrous iran nuclear deal. i truly do believe all of these things are result of the weakness the biden administration has projected abroad. the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan was a disgrace that dishonored

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and the biden administration, it is worth remembering, biden campaigned and was elected on a promise nherited a robust vaccination program, multiple vaccines that were obtained through this operation warp speed, a tremendous accomplishment by the trump administration and has done just next to nothing when it comes to testing and has been pushing vaccines not for the vulnerable elderly who really have a strong case to be made for getting the vaccine and getting boosted but for younger and younger cohorts even as we learn more about the vaccine and how contrary to what was claimed by some of these same bureaucratic elites at the onset that the vaccine, us know, we were told would prevent transmission it would prevent people from getting covid. we now know those things aren't true. and, yet, their rhetoric has not changed. it's just a mess. >> bret: okay. panel, stand by if you would. when we come back, tomorrow's headlines. ♪ trix... serena... matrix... ♪ ♪ ♪ get your tv together with the best of live and on demand. introducing directv stream. at university of phoenix, we have scholarsh

the point is this: the president and the biden administration, they have two standards.u'ree going to pay money into the united states of america lawfully, you have to be tested. however, if you come into the country illegally, you don't have to be tested. and as you know the numbers, there have been more than a million people who have come across the border illegally that we know of this year, most of whom have not been tested. and so the biden administration actually has no adequate information to determine the extent to which people are coming across the border by the millions to know whether or not they were bringing covid or the omicron variant, whatever the case may be, into the united states ofme america. that is completely irresponsible and extremely dangerous. you talked about -- maria: absolutely. >> -- the gotaways, and the reason why we have gotaways is because the biden administration has tied the hands of both the border patrol as well as i.c.e. they have insufficient number of people on the border to secure the border, and that's exactly why texas the has

nuclear deal, i truly do believe all of these things are a result of the weakness that the biden administration has projected abroad. the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan was a disgrace that dishonored the belong service of men and women who had defended iraq and afghanistan. let me also say whatever missteps by this administration will never take away from the debt this nation owes to every one much our soldiers who served in afghanistan. we will always honor their service. i believe it will take more than talk. i have met vladimir putin. i saw what he did in crimea. i think it's going to take action and it will take a kind of action that our administration provided. it achieved peace through strength, and so providing lethal arms and weapons to ukraine to defend themselves is precisely what the biden administration should be doing today, not waiting for russia to act. we should make it clear that we will provide and continue to provide ukraine with the military resources to defend themselves. putin will only understand strength and america has to show strength in this moment there and a

i think it is endemic throughout the biden administration.try, that you're very suspicious of capitalists and the capitalist system and, you know i see it, as i said in almost every regulatory agency. these are hyper regulators. they want the government in many cases to strangle businesses. they think that companies that make profits that are too large are somehow dangerous to the american economy. as you and i know, profits are what make the world go round. it is what makes our economy work, that businesses have a profit motive. when is it a crime to make money for your shareholders and your workers. i think it is systemic. i think it is very troubling and i'm glad to see that the omarova dropped out but there are many others, and i wouldn't be surprised if they follow her up with someone with just as radical views. david: we should just to really put a fine point on how radical this is, this is beyond sort of the mild-mannered democrat socialists of bernie sanders. this is hardcore marxism where you actually take private capital, all of pri

benjamin: also starting today, the biden administration will reinstate the trump era remain in mexico policy. migrants will be sent back to mexico to wait while their asylum claims are considered. the biden administration abolished the program in june but missouri and texas argued the policy was ended unlawfully. the supreme court upheld the state's argument. former president trump introduced the policy in 2017. that -- a 2019. that resulted in 100,000 fewer border apprehensions in may of that year. well, texas attorney general ken paxton says he doesn't anticipate the biden administration will change their stance on immigration and he is bashing the double standard between illegal immigrants and a american citizens. >> we have a situation where the federal government, the biden administration is encouraging people to cross the border, knowing full well that they have covid, not vaccinating them and not testing them and i believe on purpose. they don't want to know they have covid, then they can transport them secretly all over the country. i don't know how you explain that other than

the biden administration hasn't been willing to do that. ed the construction of the nord stream pipeline. biden administration backed down from that. if you are putin and watching the biden administration's actions and gauging whether there will be a willingness there to confront you on your actions you are thinking that this may be the time to do what you've long wanted to do when it comes to ukraine. >> benjamin: gosh, of course all this comes at a time when russia is holding two former marines. i know their families are very concerned any escalation would make it harder for them to come home. thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate it and happy new year. julie. >> julie: cameras watching, the good, the bad and the ugly in 2021. we'll take a look back at some of the most memorable moments next. the line with their two and a quarter refi. that's 2.25%, with an apr of 2.48. this is their lowest rate in history. the newday two and a quarter refi can cut thousands of dollars off your mortgage payments. there's no money out of poc

biden administration spent 10 months flip-flopping on this issue. president biden ran from his basement during the campaign, saying he was the answer to covid. he's not. hasn't been. he sent one mixed message after another, and then he has issued a nationwide mandate. it's been inconsistent, ineffective, incompetent. when president biden issued his mandate, he said we've been patient with the unvaccinated. he said, but our patience is running thin. well, i'll tell you, mr. president, the american people have been patient. it's the patience of the american people now with you, president biden, that is wearing thin. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i ask unanimous consent that senator lankford be recognized for five minutes, senator murphy six minutes, and i last for 12 minutes prior to the scheduled vote. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: it's hard to recognize the system fact that this is the united states of america, home of the free, land of the brave. then why

guest: the biden administration largely follow the ways of the trump administration.he abraham accords were one of the success stories of the trump administration in bringing israel into the fault of its neighbor that are obviously era countries is a very important meeting, obviously. we are seeing much more cooperation between israel and arab neighbors militarily, diplomatically. they are presenting a more united front against iran, which they perceive as being a potential threat to all of their stability and security in the region. i think this is really important. it will bring to be seen how far this goes in terms of their alignment. the biden administration has not been necessarily as aggressive in pushing these connections as may be the trump administration has been. they collected the local countries to work it out as opposed to working, but they are probably going to continue without necessarily hindering it. host: max, your thoughts? guest: i think the abraham accords overseen by the trump administration was one of the major foreign policy successes of the tr

how significant is this from the biden administration?ct this has to do with executive privilege. >> reporter: that's right. this is a bunch of documents they are tasked with reviewing before the national archives sends it to the committee. the house select committee paring back that request from the trump white house aftered bide -- after the biden administration pushed back on that. they worked in lockstep and continued to do so as the house select committee is acquiescing to what the biden administration wants. the biden administration determined that documents were not relevant. in that case, the house select committee said, we won't even try to go after those. in other cases, the committee is deferring its request for documents, the administration decided were highly sensitive and originated outside of the white house. they are deferring the request. there's a chance that they could come back to this and actually get those documents. these are the kinds of developments that show the committee is still working really at warp speed to

this will be the defining foreign policy issue for the biden administration. i hope they understand the stakes are absolutely in norma's. -- absolutely in norma's -- enormous. >> i agree. we are very close to what may be a point of no return for putin. the publication of those draft treaties basically renew -- basically removed his maneuvering room. by making a public key is making it possible for us to find a way to de-escalate, meaning he would pull back his forces. he is quite serious in his paranoia about nato. he sees it as the number one bogeyman, the main enemy, the united states is using to undermine the putin regime at home and deprive russia of its great power status, which for putin means a sphere of influence and a free hand to dominate neighbors. i judged by his statements yesterday to the ministry of defense he really believes if he doesn't act now, he will lose ukraine forever. of course underlying this is putin's fear and recognition that if ukraine does succeed in becoming a stable, prosperous western democracy, it will ultimately a dagger poi

a week into the biden administration -- a year into the biden administration, a virus they knew existed. a plan they said they and they would crush it. you were in the trump administration when the china virus was unleashed and no one saw it coming. we are a year into this. how are they so far behind the curve? >> they are not paying attention to the data. there seems like there are other objectives here. we should look at omicron is a blessing in disguise. it's extremely infectious but not particularly virulent. if you contracted omicron, you can develop immunity to the delta variants. that could get us to herd immunity faster than anybody expected. even though the cdc and nih and all of the government officials are preaching doom and gloom, it doesn't matter what they think. if this is getting less virulent and spreading throughout the community it it will take care of itself. this is actually something that is very helpful. we also have very good news about the pfizer drug which is a treatment which reduces hospitalizations by almost 90 percent. paxlovid. [audio breaking up]. there h

but it was the biden administration my biggest concern is as the biden administration demonstrated there's two things i'm concerned about most. one is just like the previous administration there's a gap between what they say versus whate they do. trump had thehe same problem but it was opposite. with trump, he made us cringe when he spoke about us as dictators, no they are not a great. but you look at these policies with people that were really strong on national security so it was tough on russia and on china but the biden administration it's kind of exactly the opposite. the biden administration will make tough talks about the adverse but even the policies are exactly the opposite. the policies have been very soft. even though the biden administration continued a few policies on china i think the evidenceto is what happened between the diplomatic meetings between the chinese diplomats and american diplomats in alaska. back in march keep in mind alaska was on our soil so the diplomats came but i don't know if you read any reports about what happened with that meeting basically the chinese

now, the biden administration had tried to terminate that early on, but a federal judge in texas blocked august. and just this month we saw the administration start to implement that all over again. and all of that has really fueled frustration among advocates who say it's time to do exactly that, course correct. now, the administration, despite these setbacks which have stemmed largely from lawsuits, the public health order, they say, is still in effect because of the variants. now, the setbacks have happened, but they also say we've made inroads on immigration enforcement. we are reviewing legal immigration, lawful pathways for people to come to the united states. and also set up a task force to reunite families who were separated under the trump administration, but they are still a long ways away to where they want to be and where advocates expected them to be at this point in the administration. now, i asked a white house spokesperson about this and they said in a statement that they are committed to restoring, quote, the order, fairness and humanity to the immigration system. but cl

will be very convincing for the international community. >> ambassador, you have praised the biden administration for handling the crisis capably. however, since the biden-putin your call, putin has not de-escalated,'s demands have only grown, and it looks like he got his demands met by the united states without escalating. is biden blowing it? >> i appraised the initial response when we during the press conference tony blinken had with ukrainian foreign minister in them love november, where we laid out the three things we would do if moscow invaded, meaning major sections, military arms to ukraine. and putting more nato forces in the east. unfortunately, though, we have seen alongside that initial strong response, wavering and weakness been dealing with kremlin provocations. but i need to talk first about cyber to explain this. the kremlin has in provoking us on cyber since may, without any response from the administration. there were red lines in geneva which putin broke in early july. biden laid down those clear red lines again in phone calls to putin in july, and putin broke those in septembe

as you pointed out, more rough times ahead for the biden administration if the latest surveys are to elieved. 49% of those surveyed in the latest fox business poll say they disapprove of the job mr. biden is doing. his worst marks on the pandemic to date and a far cry from his ratings in the spring when he enjoyed 64% approval. the number of those saying the virus is not under control has inched up. 44% saying it's somewhat contained. 28% thinking it's not at all under control. that's up six-point since october. meanwhile nearly eight and tensing the pandemic is at least somewhat responsible for inflation and almost as many blame government spending and regulations and yeah, you guessed it, price gouging. smaller majority say it's biden's leadership and regular open loans responsible. split between cities mandating proof of vaccination for indoor activities like restaurants as well as cities requiring private businesses to mandate vaccines for workers on site. perhaps most noteworthy from the latest polling from fox business, the massive number of americans who are extremely or very c

that's where we are today with the biden administration. despite bernie sanders pounding the drum again, a national healthcare system is a bad idea for americans. >> that's so true. there is an image of president biden with an umbrella walking out of the white house to his 31st vacation to delaware. talk about priorities. coming up the media double standard on full display. president biden struggles with a nationwide testing shortage. that's next. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪i'm so defensive,♪ ♪i got bongos thumping in my chest♪ ♪and something tells me they don't beat me♪ ♪ ♪ ♪he'd better not take the ring from me.♪ veteran homeowners, newday's rates have dropped again. ♪ ♪ it's time to refinance. newday's low rate refi offers their lowest rate in history. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. save thousands every year and there are no upfront

the president and the biden administration has two standards if you gonna pay money to come into thet of texas. it is almost a month since the president open the southern border is nonessential travel after it was closed due to covid restrictions. as new cases of omicron variant are popping up what is preventing people from crossing into the u.s. and bringing the variant with them. ken paxton joins us with the latest on the crisis at the border. it's irony peter doocy asses spokeswoman jen psaki about earlier this week. if you gonna come in from europe on an airplane you have to take covid test and exercise precautions. if you want to walk across the southern border you can do what you want. >> is a very good point even american citizens coming from foreign companies have to be tested otherwise they cannot come in. here we have a situation where the federal government the biden administration is encouraging people to cross the border knowing full well that they of covid not vaccinating not testing, i believe they don't want to know the day of covid they can transport them circulate o

everyone is looking for these tests in the biden administration failed yet again. >> you look back onhink about how president trump handled covid. it was obviously a new virus we knew nothing about it, with no test no vaccine for to work with the private sector he really pushed to make sure those things were there and essentially handed those tools over too this administration. therapeutics were out there as well. all they had to do was ramp up the supplies just to make sure we had enough for everybody. they push real hard on vaccines but seemed to drop the ball on everything else. >> they absolutely did. the trumpet demonstration that a herculean effort they got ppe they got the testing done, they got vaccines they made sure the therapeutics were available. all of that was done he handed to biden and biden dropped the ball it was a major fumble and now we are in a position more people having covid, or people have died of covid under biden's watch than in 2020 with the vaccine on so many levels a biden administration as a failure. not just cover the border was secure and trump left of

now the biden administration recently reinstated the trump administration policy of having asylum seekers remain in mexico waiting in mexico while their claims are considered. now the sheriff thinks that the administration's actions are fueling, the crisis, told this administration if they decided to do in mtv. it was going to cause these problems and obviously the ancillary impacts in up in our back yard. so we end up with the death in the desert, the robberies happening along the border. the pursuits then the ancillary criminal activity, like the large amounts of drugs that are being smuggled into our country, from mexico, all are occurring in every order, county alone, the southwestern board. now the local mayor has declared a state of emergency. he's calling on federal officials for help. 110 agents from the department of homeland security of already been re committed. however, local officials are slamming biden for not doing enough. human is facing an escalating humanitarian and bought a crisis. and it's a direct result of the biden administration's poor communication, lack of organi

now that the handling of the pandemic sunday the biden administration, no one wants to point any fingers unless those fingers are pointed at the unvaccinated, those horrible people. and even china gets the biden shield. >> well, bret, i'm really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people because, frankly, we still don't know. there is no evidence really to say most of the scientific community, myself included, think that is a possibility but far more likely this was a natural way in which a virus left a bat, maybe traveled through some other species and got to humans. >> brian: why do they give china a pass and a lab leak a distraction? here now to respond texas congressman and former navy seal dan crenshaw. dan, we spoke moment ago, you kind of like some of the things the president is doing, using the military to help out hospitals, expanding testing and things to that nature, making vaccines easier, where else do you go from here when it comes to the holidays and the winter? >> sure, so let's look at what he said. he wants to put federal support for hospit

in terms of the flaws in the jcpoa, the biden administration doesn't want to go back to it fully. rtly, the bind administration does see some benefit to the jcpoa. i say this not necessarily in a positive sense. they see benefit in being full members of the jcpoa in order to use the jcpoa for two reasons. one, to invoke its snake -- sanctions clause which means the united states could go into the secured counsel at any time and snapback sanctions not just from the united states or the europeans but for china and russia as well. the other reason that the united states sees the gcl poa is useful is that it's a platform to discuss and pressure around on authorship -- other issues like it's missiles and the like. anchor: i would like to bring you in, you are a specialist on foreign policy. these are the first talks in five months, the first since they elected their new president. given everything we've heard from our contributors to this point, what is it that -- that got all the sides to the negotiating table to revive these talks now? >> first of all, i should say that i'm not oppose