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let's bring in our panel, "wall street journal" editorial page editor, dan henninger, kim strassel senior fellow, jason the president laid out his winter covid strategy this week, what you think of it? >> my first question was, why did we need a presidential address to layout that covid strategy? quite seriously, he called on national television to let him say he was reducing the testing time for foreign travelers from 72 hours to 24 hours and extending the federal mask mandate from january into march. that was it. you've got to ask yourself, why does joe biden feel he has to go on television to announce things like that? i agree with doctor marty makary, i think the public remains confused about exactly what the purpose is of the biden covid policy, is it to prevent infection or to prevent hospitalizations and death? if it's just to prevent infections, the omicron carried makes it clear that's not going to happen. nothing will prevent us from getting infected by one variance or another going forward so they would make the policy clearer, it's probable are possible people what understand and try to com

wall street journal columnist dan heninger and kim stross all and jason riley.he biden spending project is this failure to pass it this year? >> a massive blow. they expect to get this done this year. in large part because the bill is so ambitious and that is understating it. when it started we had three or four new entitlements, all these new laws and regulations related to climate, healthcare and an enormous number of new taxes to pay for. the most ambitious piece of legislation in 60 years, doing it with a very narrow majority, they knew they had to get it done to get towards election in the next year and the difficulty now is they have made so little progress over the past year. it has gone nowhere. the expectation was senator joe manchin would eventually bend and get on board. he has not done that. it is not going to pass by christmas and it is in big trouble next year as well. the democrats of really really dug themselves a whole. at the moment they are still digging. eric: to what do you attribute this failure to do that? you can't -- one thing you can't

hillary clinton did and he's going after her campaign as well as dan janco, michael salzman, one of the lawyers for the campaign, and others. >> jasont know why it has taken durham so long, but it is encouraging to hear and see court filings. i believe they have until friday to respond to this conflict of interest that is pointed out by durham. gregg jarrett, thank you so much for being on top of this and they give for joining us tonight and merry christmas. coming up, violent crime is surging in america's major cities. last night, a top illinois democrat state senator was carjacked in the chicago suburb. chicago mayor lori lightfoot is begging the federal government for help. but one local pastor is taking action on his own pair and he will join us next. stay with us. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. ♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome back to "hannity." a shocking wave of violent crime is sweeping across america cities and no one seems to be immune. earlier today, democratic congresswoman mary scanlon of pennsylvania was carjacked at gunpoint after a meeting in philadelphia. in a separate incident in il

jason: my next guest represents the state on the front line of the border wars, texas lieutenant governor danrick joins us. thank you for joining us on the ingraham angle, the border is closed, there's no problem there, but i don't think so. >> they would be lying to say that or clueless and i don't believe they are clueless is this is a plan they have set about to let millions of people invade our country and they don't care who they are including terrorists. tomorrow the president is going to address the nation on omicron. what he should be addressing the nation is on issue is the border and terrorists coming into the country. is anyone surprised by this? are you? i am not. 173,000 people will probably cross the border this month alone, 2 million this year, we caught one today. how many more do you think of come in? this president doesn't care. look, mister president, here's my address to you on behalf of millions looking at the poll numbers who would agree with me, a year ago you took the oath of office, solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the unite

brian: i can see jason aldean on the dan bongino podcast or on the unfiltered show. >> great idea thankhanks for looking past me and booking the show, actually passed the person interviewing you. i appreciate it. thanks for almost wearing a tie. all right i want to check in with meteorologist adam klotz for the fox weather forecast because it's cold and he is cold too. >> exactly right brian it is cold on fox square. i am also cold out here on fox square, but i'm not alone. it's that way in large portions across the country let's dive into that forecast, we're early this morning seeing temperatures 28 degrees in new york city, below freezing also in kansas city, chicago, very cold if you get up into the northern plains, warms up a little bit turns into a nice day here in new york city , 40 degrees, i know a lot of folks are happy about that back out here on fox square, because we've got really nice crowds i've been talking to folks from across the country or california, i heard georgia, i heard texas, kentucky, we're going to talk to a couple of these folks find out where they are from,

jason: thank you very much. my next guest represents the state on the front lines in the border wars, texas lieutenant governor danrick joins me now. mr. lieutenant governor, thank you so much for joining on the "the ingraham angle." to hear the administration, they say the border is closed. that there is no problem here. but i don't think so. >> jason, they would be lying to say that. were clueless. and i don't believe they are clueless. this is a plan that they have set about to lead millions of people invade our country, they don't care who they are, including terrorists. daemonic in the present is going to address the nation on the omicron. what he should be addressing the nation's own an issue as serious as the border and no terrorists coming into our country. is anyone surprised by this? i am not. 173,000 people will probably cross the border in this month alone. over 2 million this year. we caught one today. how many more do you think have come in? this president doesn't care. look, mr. president, here's my address to you. i think of a mic on behalf of millions looking your poll numbers who would agree with

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jason potter, brad slattery, katie sutton, eric cater, adam tool, t.c. williams, robert winkler andy caputo. from my staff, i had luke holland, danhillen gillibrand gillibrand -- hillen hillengillibrandester solders, alexandra slokerm, dixon yonin, a lacey burke, what would we do without her and we have the floor staff. nobody mentions them and we couldn't operate without them and they were really busy on this bill and that's robert dunkon, chris tuck, tony han began, --hanagan, max ford, and i'm grateful for all of their services. this is only half the battle. we have to go through and after we made the priorities that we made, the appropriators will get busy to do what they have done to be a part of this effort that was the most significant effort that we're having. so today i encourage all of my colleagues to suffer this national defense authorization act, i know they will, and extend our 60-year track record of getting this bill done. let's tell the troops that we love them and support them. with that, i'll yield to chairman jack reed. mr. reed: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr