david spunt live for us in washington. thank you, david. first it was the bad poll numbers, then it was a cnn article talking about a riff between the president and vice president and now staff members are leaving, either because they are unhappy or maybe because they see being tied her would hurt their own political careers. one thing that i found notable a is that she has apparently had a problem of keeping people wanting to work for her throughout her career. one democratic strategist who worked for her in 2013 says she has a group of text messages and he said the common theme of people leaving is her. the question is why? is she mean? we've seen a banner that says we propped up a bully. is that she's mean or ineffective or maybe both? >> you go back to her time be in california and you hear a numerous stories about how it's a toxic workplace environment. she hides behind the laugh that you can see on screen there now. it comes out, frankly, at the worst times when she is in a corner, she laughs her way through it. you wonder whether or

david spunt.on. this case will not be decided for another six or seven months. but both sides of this issue are trying to make their positions known not only to the public, maybe even to a supreme court justice or two watching the news. several thousand people were outside the supreme court yesterday very passionate crowd. some excited, others concerned. pro life supporters are celebraing before the supreme court. each state would be allowed to decide what happened. for example, it may outlaw abortion in nevada. but next door, california abortion may be legal. at issue, banning abortion at 15 weeks or later. roe decided in 1973 set that threshold around 23 weeks and set a nationwide standard. the house of representatives passed a measure to make roe permanent. now it's up to the senate. >> we need to pass roe v. wade in the senate and the president will sign it. this is a ninth amendment right. it's a right to privacy. it's a right to due process under the 14th and 15th amendment. what is happenin

we do have david spunt, our white house reporter, standing by. s as well and, david, i'm not sure if you can hear me, but have you gotten any information in terms of what the president may be saying today? >> reporter: hi, arthel. we know that president biden will likely be discussing approving the emergency disaster deck la that he a-- declaration that he approve on the request of the governor from kentucky. the president in wilmington, delaware, for the weekend, but he made this trip over to downtown wilmington to speak about this devastation. we also know, arthel, that he was on the phone -- here is the president right now. >> --■ç late on saturday afternoon, but i want to provide to an update on the deadly and devastating tornadoes that have moved across several states in the central united states including touching down across 227 miles of kentucky alone. i'm monitoring the situation very closely since early this morning. this is likely to be one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history. earlier today i called the governors of the stat

correspondent david spunt has new information. >> we want justice right away!frustration and pain outside the department of justice. victims of another pandemic, overdoses, calling on biden administration officials to take action. more than 100,000 people died from an overdose between april 2020 and april 2021, the highest level recorded. >> finding her daughter on the floor with a needle still in her hand is an image i'll never get out of my head. >> she lost her daughter to an overdose. she says that cassie became addicted to opioids after a surgery and then switch to heroin. >> it's gut wrenching. you can't do anything. we tried recovery, tried intervention. >> wanting the doj officials to continue taking on drugmakers and prosecute the settlers, the billionaire family who ran purdue pharma. they dea out with another warning about overdoses. >> is an existential threat to our communities. bring harm and violence and shattering families. >> last year doj settled with purdue pharma. department attorneys must decide by a court imposed january 5th deadline wheth

mike. >> mike: david spunt, thanks a lot.cago's teachers union is demanding more action for lori lightfoot before returning to classrooms after winter break going so far to ask teachers in a survey if they would walk out if demands not met. in chicago, they are not alone. many mental health experts worry return to remote learning would mean for students well-being. senior correspondent mike tobin reported tonight from chicago. >> the return to normal seems to be out of reach for some students with winter break almost over and the oma cron. causing to search and parents must face schools returning to remote learning. >> something has got to give. we are scared to start on january 3rd without testing and protection that we need in place. >> the chicago teachers union told rank and file an overwhelming majority supported a shift back to remote learning. teachers had been demanding mayor lori lightfoot provide more testing, get more access to contact tracing and expressed concern with teachers getting sick, there were not enough

jon: david spunt from the white house.or dole left his mark on capitol hill and many who looked up to him as a sample of bipartisanship or honoring his legacy. alexandria hoff has more. >> the former senator offer bipartisanship and in death there is no i'll awarded by the accolades. she became widow and he wrote on twitter, rest in peace, you the last of the alliance of the senate vermont senator bernie sanders provided this and encouraged in his dignity and the senate and mike pence wrote bob dole was a truly great man with service to america and deeply missed by all of us in the privilege to know him. many are sharing the personal connection that they head to the former republican leader of the senate bob took me under his wing when i came to the senate and i couldn't have a better senator to learn from. he was a great friend and mentor. god bless. debbie scholz wrote in part, our country could use more like him right about now, may his memory be a blessing. they hope that bob dole's legacy will encourage reaching acros

jon: david spunt live at the white house.g the economic troubles to the cover pandemic. this amid shrinking support for president biden on economic issues. in the abc news poll finds majorities of americans disapprove of the handling of inflation the economic recovery and taxes republican senator marshall joins us with the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions. in just a moment the jen psaki sound that i stepped on because she had something interesting to say and i want to get your reaction. first tell us about the inflation situation and we see the blame is lying. >> the number one problem that were hearing from folks back home, a 39 year high created by joe biden think about his policies that causes inflation he borrowed an extra $3 trillion on top of the regular 5 trillion so they're spending money like drunken sailors think about the energy policy we shut off the supply by pipeline by stopping julie nonpublicly and in making it hard to borrow money and finally his pain people were to stay home then to

correspondent david spunt tells us what happened from the justice department tonight. >> bret, good evening to you. that suspect is michael sussmann and today both sides met before a judge on the phone and argued over declassifying sensitive information. michael sussmann's attorneys they say they want to move this process along as soon as possible. a judge has yet to set a date. but right now is looking potentially at late june, or late may, i should say, or early june of next year. sussmann's team wants to get this done. sussmann is a former clinton campaign attorney. he was charged in september with lying to the fbi. specifically lying to then general counsel james baker during a conversation that took place just before the 2016 election. special counsel john durham claims that sussmann went to the fbi and delivered information he knew was suspect about donald trump's campaign, communicating with the putin government via a russian bank. the information turned out to be false. the indictment claims that when sussmann went to the fbi he failed to disclose that he was w

david spunt live at the white house with more on the administration's response. david.jon, the president has message for americans specifically those affected by the aftermath of these deadly storms. help is on the way. >> i want to emphasize what i told all the governors, the federal government will do everything, everything it can possibly do to help. this is one of those times when rearen't democrats or republicans, sounds like hyperbole but it's real. we are all americans. we stand together as the united states of america. and so i say to all of the victims, you're in our prayers and all those first responders and emergency personnel and everyone helping fellow americans that this is the right thing to do at the right time. david: the president received full briefing including head of fema and continues to be in touch with governors of all the states affected. when the president signs emergency declaration like he did today in kentucky, assistance comes in at 75% federal funding, we are talking about tens of millions of dollars. vice president kamala harris also twe

veteran former senate majority leader and presidential nominee bob dole died at the age of 98, david spunt his legacy and service to the country, good afternoon, david. david: mike good afternoon to you, sad day across the country, bob dole known as patriot and hero and someone who had close relationship with the current man that occupies this house, president joe biden. you have to remember that joe biden was a senator for many years. he first joined the senate in 1973 after taking the oath of office. bob dole a young senator from kansas at that point was in for several years so they knew each other in the senate all the way up until bob dole left the senate in 1996. we have some video of president biden and dr. jill biden, the first lady arriving from camp david where they spent the weekend just -- just about an hour ago, not even an hour ago. i shouted out a few questions about senator dole, however, he just said that president biden said, i spoke to mrs. dole this morning. so we know that he did speak to senator elizabeth dole this morning to express condolences, nothing from the presi

here is correspondent david spunt from the justice department. want justice right abe. >> frustration and pain outside the department of justice. victims of another pandemic calling on biden administration officials to take action. more than 100,000 people died from an overdose between april 2020 and april 2021. the highest level recorded. >> finding your daughters on the floor with a needle still in her hand is an image i will never get out of my head. >> patricia lost her 34-year-old daughter cassie to an overdose. she said cassie became addicted to opioids after a surgery and then switched to heroin. >> it's gut-wrenching and you can't do anything. i mean, we tried. we tried recovery. we tried intervention. >> she and others want doj officials to continue taking on drug makers and prosecute the sacklers the perdue pharma. the d.a. out with another warning about overdoses. >> this is existential threat to our communities. bringing harm last year they settled. they must january imposed deadline whether to oppose a drug injection site in philadel

chris: david spunt reported from the white house. thank you.lier at the reagan defense forum i sent them with republican senator joni ernst. the first female combat veteran elected to the senate who is now a member of the armed services committee. also michelle, former secretary of defense under president obama. we began with a growing crisis on ukraine's border. senator, michelle, walk in the "fox news sunday". senator, what do you think vladimir putin is up to here. do you think he intends to invade ukraine and what should president biden tell him on tuesday. were not going to go to war with russia over ukraine. >> it's hard to know what vladimir putin is thinking and what his true intentions are. we do see a very aggressive action on his part unmasking his troops on the ukrainian border. we must prepare for the worst, not knowing what the intentions are. i do think president biden needs to be very clear and very strong in his message to vladimir putin. he needs to say to vladimir putin, that we are no longer going to allow you to continue wi

but first, let's turn to david spunt at the white house for a look at how the biden administration ising. david. >> reporter: chris, the white house and justice department are pumping millions of dollars into fighting crime, but city leaders on the ground say it's not working fast enough. >> this betterrers me very much. -- bothers me very much. reporter: attorney general merrick garland sounding the alarm on a nationwide spike in crime. more than 1,000 murders this year on the streets of chicago and surrounding areas, america's cities -- small and large -- are urn the microscope and breaking records. >> when you have people that have no regard for others and expecting them to change their behavior dramatically, it's not working out. >> reporter: the white house fending off criticism from the national sheriffs' association over just how much the biden administration is helping. >> the president and members of our administration have been longtime advocates for supporting and funding the cops program, something where the president proposed almost $300 million in additional assistance t

harris. >> harris: david spunt reporting from washington to give us that federal level view of all ofnow two law enforcement veterans james smallwood, national fraternal order of police treasurer you are and the president of the san francisco police officer's guild. james, your initial reaction to what the feds are doing at this point? >> thank you for having me on, harris. i think the biden administration is looking at the same numbers we all are and frankly americans are tired of the violent crime in this nation and tired of being terrorized and victimized across our country and we can't continue to do the same things we've done year after year if we are going to expect a change in course on polling numbers and on violent crime. we have to do something different. the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and continue to expect a different result. that's what we're doing. we have to change course and hold these violent criminals accountable and focus on the policies that are looking at resolving criminal justice system and make sure we're doing what we ne

arthel: david spunt begins our coverage this hour from the white house. david. >> reporter: a lot of tributes and memories coming in about senator bob dole. president biden and the first lady, dr. jill biden, personally spoke to elizabeth dole, senator elizabeth dole, this morning to express their condolences. joe biden and bob dole had a relationship that lasted almost half a century. they first began working together in the united states senate when then the young senator from delaware, joe biden, took the oath of office in early january, 1973. at that point, arthel, bob dole had already been in the senate for several years, a stain the. conservative from kansas -- staunch conservative from county. they didn't agree much pretty -- politically, but president biden said, quote, i will miss my friend, but with i am grateful for the times we shared and the friendships we have with the entire dole family. bob was a man to be admired by americans. he had an unerring sense of integrity and honor. may our nation draw upon his legacy of decency, good humor and pa

ben. >> benjamin: david spunt, good to see you.cklash against trans swimmer lia thomas is even bigger than we previously thought. a report in the daily mail.com says her teammates at the university of pennsylvania were actually considering boycotting the final competition of the season but finally decided against it. what made them change their decision? the daily mail cites a source close to the team. they have been ignored by both penn and ncaa and a feeling among some of the girls they should make a statement. seize the opportunity while they have a spotlight on them to make their feelings about the issue known. joining us now is clay travis, the founder of outkick.com. the swimmers who considered that boycott at their last home meet, the reason they decided against it was for fear they would be labeled transphobic and be banned from the ivy league championship. with the threat of backlash and even a championship ban looming, the question is, is the university an ncaa effectively silencing the players being ellipseed by thomas's

david spunt is in washington with the details on that, david. >> this was all caught on camera the daytly to the president of the united states. listen. >> i hope you guys have a wonderful christmas as well. merry christmas and let's go, brandon. >> let's go, brandon, i agree. >> the let's go brandon, phrase, means the f word combined with the president's name and the person on the other end of that line said to the president after the president spent some time with children on christmas eve to track santa virtually. the caller jared said he was joking and he is under attack for freedom of speech. the phrase originated during an interview with nascar driver brandon brown. fans were chanting f joe biden during the interview but the reporting claimed they were saying let's go, brandon. he served as the inspiration and says he is having a difficult time finding corporate sponsors now the chant has picked up so much attention and become so polarizing. he said he has nothing to do with chant and he wants to stay out of politics. chants of this type have been -- look at these three president

david spunt has more. >> good afternoon trace.e charged in october of 2020. tj garbin is serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty. the prosecutors say that they were upset over her stay-at-home orders. according to defense motions, they said that the government developed a conspiracy. when a trial begins, they brought up the name of this man, former fbi special agent richard traffic. he was arrested on a domestic violence charge. he pleaded no contest. he was the lead investigator in the case. prosecutors said that trask posted a tirade about obscenities about president trump. >> and i don't think the dirt about the agents or informants gets a lot of traction. at trial, you shouldn't underestimate that. you have some strange shenanigans with an fbi case agent where the government has announced they're not going to call several witnesses that are probably pretty consistently important witnesses for proving their case. >> the dog and the fbi not commenting as the pending case. the trial is set for march. we'll follow it. tr

correspondent david spunt with the controversy behind the slogan. >> i hope you guys have a wonderfulmas and let's go, brandon. >> let's go, brandon, i agree. >> let's go, brandon may sound innocent enough to the president of the united states after children with their parents on christmas eve but that simple phrase does not offer praise. it disparages him indirectly attaching the f word to his name. he was on the other line of the call with the president and posted his reporting of the exchange online were several hundred thousand have watched. >> i hope you have a wonderful christmas as well. merry christmas, and let's go, brandon. bye-bye. >> he has since claimed he's been threatened for exercising his free-speech. he also says, that we thinks the president could be doing a better job, he meant the quote as an innocent gesture. the phrase originated in october with nascar driver brandon brown. the racing fans chanting ">> it's been difficult with sponsorship because of those three words. the white house previously downplaying the phrase. >> what did the president make of that? i do

let's go to david spunt on what we learned. david. reporter: hi, neil.c day here at united states supreme court. the oral arguments were supposed to last 70 minutes. they last the two hours long. pro-life groups have been trying to reverse roe v. wade, sending the issue back to the individual states. they have never been successful since roe v. wade decided in 1973, but with this conservative majority it may happen. you mare noise behind me. i'm sure you hear the noise behind me. a lot of people have been out here since 2:00, 3:00, this morning letting their voices heard. inside of the court today not only was it a historic day but historic for people watching at home because fox news covered the entire oral arguments. the reason we could do that, neil, because at the beginning of the pandemic the justices met just by phone. the supreme court for the first time started piping those arguments through, that everybody could hear the arguments that exactly what happened today. i want to play two sound bites from inside of the court. take a listen. >> the con

david spunt traveling with the president in delaware. >> the president's covid response team is holdingbriefing right now and members of that team just announced about 15 minutes ago that members of the national guard, 13,000 members of the national guard, are in 48 states right now to help with testing. on another note there are about 30 states that the federal government is sending ventilators to. we know clearly there is some sort of federal response despite those words from the president a couple of days ago. but testing, trace, continues to be a major headache for this administration. people are waiting in line not one or two but three or four hours in some places to just get a test. the president himself on monday admitted his team was behind the 8 ball on testing and also denying a "vanity fair" report that claims his team turned down the opportunity for more testing just a few months ago. the author is standing behind it tweeting i interviewed seven people who attended that meeting. five experts and two administration officials, three days after that meeting a white house offici

we have fox team coverage with david spunt traveling with the president on if a vaccine mandate is inhts. steve harrigan in atlanta on the new five-day quarantine spark

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david spunt at the white house has more. >> reporter: hell he low, mike. -- hello, mike. president biden back at the white house this afternoon after spending part of the weekend in delaware where he received updates from his team on the devastation. the president spoke twice with kentucky governor andy beshear just yesterday. >> i want to emphasize what i told the governors, the federal government will do everything, everything they can possibly do to help. fema is working with each state to assess the damages and focus on federal support where it is needed most and how we can get it there most rapidly. >> reporter: alejandro mayorkas and deanne chriswell will visit the devastation today. >> we have reports of people missing and unaccounted for. the live sustaining efforts are our priority today. >> reporter: the president says he plans to visit kentucky. when a president travels, there's a large footprint. president biden wants to make sure it's done at the appropriate time. mike: thanks very much. for more details on the rescue operations underway, we're joined by the

correspondent david spunt is following the case tonight. >> attorneys for these men accused of developingchigan governor gretchen whitmer say not only are they innocent but the fbi and justice department plot to entrap them. one of the original defendants pleaded guilty and is serving a 6-year sentence in prison. federal prosecutors say the six were upset over covid-19 staked out whitmer's vacation home in northern michigan with hopes of taking her. >> there are debraved things happening in our society. i trust law enforcement and the judicial process to get justice. >> according to a recent 20 page pre-trial motion, defense attorneys wrote in part when the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused refused to accept failure and continued to push its plan. >> a lot of room for mischief. the government can do a lot of enticing persuading, con geology to get people to commit a crime and it's up hill to even raise the issue of entrapment for a jury. >> defense trorns expected in trials to raise questions about the credibili

we have fox team coverage with david spunt traveling with the president on if a vaccine mandate is in the cards for domestic flights. steve harrigan in atlanta on the new five-day quarantine sparking a fierce debate between businesses and unions. david, we begin with you. >> jackie, good afternoon to you. there's been talk recently of testing problems. no question about that. people are waiting in line hours to get a test. today the administration mentioned national guard troops helping out with testing. that brings people back to the early days of 2020. people don't want to hear the terms together. however, the administration asserting that they have a strong plan to deal with testing after people are waiting in line. administration officials announced a plan, 13,000 national guard troops helping in covid related issues in 48 starts. testing is a serious problem with people waiting not just one or two hours or three or four, sometimes five or six hours to get a simple test. the president himself just two days ago admitted his team is behind the eight ball when it comes to testing. li

david spunt from the white house with more. david?t crime, even if it's local crime, from the north lawn of the white house, because this is an issue that is coming all away to 1600 pennsylvania avenue, just a few moments ago jen psaki the press secretary was asked about the rise in crime some of those brazen attacks in the united states across the united states. i want to show you a poll, just a new abc poll that discusses the president's rating when it cops to gun violence, 32% approving of how biden is handl ing gun violence, 66% disapproving. look at this video we've been showing it today it's from over the weekend, thieves smashed the windows of a high-end car dealer in chicago, to be clear, this didn't happen at 3:00 in the morning, police were called to the scene of gold coast exotic motor cars at 12:11 p.m., broad daylight. the thieves broke a display case , stole millions of dollars in jewelry and the owner of the dealer spoke to fox this morning about this brazen attack. listen, neil. >> people come and break into your store

david spunt joins us from washington with more on this front. good morning, david. >> reporter: hi, carley, it's not uncommon for staff to leave the white house after the first year but no question the story is out there and these are some high profile departures. the washington post out with a headline, a kamala harris staff exodus reignites questions about her leadership style and her future ambition. an anonymous former harris staff member tells the post it's clear that you're not working with somebody who was willing to do the prep and the work. with cay kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul destroying criticism and her lack of confidence so you're constantly sort of propping up a bully and it's not really clear why. here are the people leaving her office, symone sanders, the chief spokesperson, the communications director, the hill reporting peter vels, the press operations director and vince evans, deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs. harris herself along with white house officials including

to start, let's bring in david spunt at the white house on the latest between the stand off of u.s. and russia. >> tensions between moscow and kiev go back decades. things appear to be coming to a head. now president biden is getting personally involved. president biden looking to press concerns. russia could invade ukraine. russia's more than 100,000 troops along the border. >> president biden: my expectation is when you have a long discussion. >> just days ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says that his team discovered a russian coup plot that would take him out. speak of what we have to know is that we are in complete control of our borders and fully ready for escalation. >> some kind of escalation appears eminent. defense secretary lloyd austin saying that the u.s. has helped shore up ukraine. >> we have provided them with a number of different things over the years including lethal capability, a lot of nonlethal capability. >> rush is trying to block you came from joining nato. biden and vladimir putin met face-to-face in a june summit and publicly, putin has and cont

correspondent david spunt examines this controversy behind the slogan. >> i hope you guys have a wonderfulmerry christmas and let's go brandon. >> let's go brandon, i agree. >> let's go brandon. three words that may have sounded innocent enough to the president of the united states as he spoke to children and their parents on christmas eve. but that simple phrase doesn't offer presidential praise. it disparages him indirectly. attaching the f word to his name. >> this is jared. >> oregon parent jared smek was on the other line of the call with the president and posted his recording of the exchange online where several hundred thousands have watched. >> i hope you guys have a wonderful christmas as well. merry christmas and let's go brandon. >> let's go brandon, i agree. hey, by the way, are you in oregon? >> bye-bye. >> smek has since claimed he has been threatened for exercising his free speech. he says that though he thinks the president could be doing a better job he meant the line as quote an innocent guest racing fans f joe biden. the interviewer claimed they were shouting let's go br

maybe providing more questions than answers correspondent david spunt was with the president earlierch. >> just one day after the u.s. saw the highest number of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic the president's covid response team announced national guard troops and ventilators are on the way to states. a move reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic. >> our message to governors around the country is simple. if you need something, say something. >> the administration preparing to send out 500 million free at home tests in a matter of weeks to help quell long lines that in some cases last not one or two but three or four hours. earlier this week, the president admitted his team is behind the 8 ball on testing. >> not enough. it's clearly not enough. if we had known we would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. >> to make matters even more complicated, the fda on tuesday expressed concern about the effectiveness of anti-general rapid tests. nose swab tests that yield results in just minutes. according to early data, those tests are less effective in detecti

david spunt is live in washington with more. david? >> hi, good morning to you three.s that has president biden third from the bottom. the president coming in at 43% approval. 451% disapproval. the vice president at 44% approval, 54% disapproval. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell bottoms out the list while chief justice john roberts sits at the top of the list. the poll comes as the president and his team continue to be criticized for the testing shortage. the president yesterday admitted in a call with the nation's governors more test something needed and his team is behind the 8 ball when it comes to testing. >> it's not enough. it's clearly not enough. if we had known, we would have gone harder quicker if we could have. >> president biden, why did your administration reject a holiday testing surge in october. >> we didn't reject it. >> despite a shortage of tests and a rise of cases, the cdc announced yesterday quarantine measures will be cut in half. good news for the workforce and that's why it's being done according to the cdc director according to the new

. >> rich: david spunt to the shore with president biden. david, thanks so much.lian: dr. marty makary, he is a john hopkins professor and a fox news contributor. dr. mccarrick, despite the cdc revising down the numbers, you say that omicron will displace delta at some point. some point soon. presumably. is that a predictable pattern? is each new variant with that we have seen it during the pandemic displace the one that can before? or is this sort of an anomaly? >> well good point, gillian. more contagious variants have displace prior variance. this was an open question. we were not sure, if omicron was simply coexisting with delta, or if it was pushing back delta. now, we got good data out of south africa that shows that omicron gives you cross immunity to delta. that tells us a lot. it tells us that it is displacing delta, now it got epidemiological data from the cdc that suggest it's. although they did revise that estimate significant, it does tell us that it is eating away at delta. those showing up at the hospital, are probably those that have delta. >> dr.

. >> benjamin: david spunt is traveling with the president in delaware. good morning, david. >> good morning to you. a difficult morning when you look at those covid numbers specifically yesterday we reached the highest amount of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. getting ready to enter the third year of this nightmare that's really stretched across the world. clearly those numbers not going in the right direction. the white house keenly aware of that situation all the way up to the president of the united states who is here in wilmington, delaware this week. the president on monday made a comment there is no federal response when it comes to covid-19 and trying to eradicate covid-19. but there is a federal plan. he is under increasing pressure to make a decision about whether he will mandate vaccinations for the millions of people who get on a plane or even train to travel. last night while taking a walk on the beach here in delaware with the first lady and his new dog, commander, the president was specifically asked about trav

david spunt here in washington, thanks so much. >> mike: big tech being accused of censoring conservativepanies like facebook and twitter to be punished or broken up, but tech entrepreneur peter rex has a different idea in a new op-ed. the headline reads, "big tech is still radically leftist and intolerant. here's the real way to beat it." he joins us now. he is the founder and ceo of an ecosystem of tech companies based in a beautiful city of austin, texas. welcome. >> thanks for having me. hope you had a merry christmas. >> mike: thank you, sir. and you. he said it won't work. "tech will still be envisioned, underwritten, and assembled by the same silicon valley set, a group that is radicalized, uniform, and overtly hostile to anything and everyone who thinks differently. the new fruit would be poisoned the same as the old because it springs from the same tainted soil." why is big tech, and your view, so universal he woke progressive? >> well, as you quoted me there, i summarize that as we need to create new tech leadership, and i'm going to get into why they are the way they are just r

fox news correspondent david spunt is in rehobeth beach, delaware with the latest on the administration response. reporter: david, hi to you. within the last hour the president's covid response team held a news conference highlighted a federal response beginning with an moments of that briefing announcing 13,000 national guard troops would be helping in 48 states at this point with testing problems. we also know that ventilators have been shipped out to more than 30 states at this point. so clearly the covid response team showing that there is a federal response. testing david, continues to be a headache for this administration. people are waiting in lines not one, not two, not three, but in some cases, four, five, six hours. on monday the president himself admitted his team was behind the eight ball on testing. the president also is denying a "vanity fair" report that his team turned an opportunity for more testing opportunities months ago. but the author stands by it. she is a investigative reporter the she tweeted in part i interviewed seven people who attended the meeting five exper

david spunt in outside the courthouse in alexandria. >> the quick hearing over in 20 minutes.g, the russian analyst living in northern virginia plans to fight those five counts of lying to the f.b.i. put forward by special counsel john durham. we have shots of him heading into the courtroom 30 minutes ago and said nothing in front of our cameras as he did that. the primary source for british spy christopher steele who compiled that widely talked about debunked steele dossier full of accusations about the former president. it alleges he lied to the f.b.i. about working for steele has his primary source of information and indictment mentions danchenko's involvement with pr executive one, chuck dolan, a long time confidant of bill and hillary clinton. danchenko's attorney said the latest injustice will not stand and we'll expose how he has been unfairly maligned by these false allegations. his trial was tentatively scheduled for april. today defense attorneys asked to move it to at least september. a judge will take it under advisement. he is the third defendant to be charged in

david spunt is live outside the court to tell us what's happening on boekt sides now.ou. historic day. for years pro-life groups have aggressively tried to overturn roe v. wade. they've come close and never been able to quite do it. today may be that day with those oral arguments and a 6-3 conservative majority of supreme court justices. people have been out here since 2:00, 3:00 this morning passionately arguing their side of this issue. this is a big one. a case out of mississippi. the one operating abortion clinic in that state the court could leave roe alone, strike it down or severely limit roe decided in 1973 nearly 50 years ago. >> the court is going to decide whether or not people are going to be able to enjoy their right to choose for themselves whether, when and how to have a child or whether states will be able to put serious and grave restrictions on that right. >> pro-lifeers led by mississippi attorney general lynn fix say now is the time to make a change. >> it is time. it has been nearly 50 years. the reality is this is a rule of law question. it is tim

david spunt has all the details of what went down during and after the call. >> good afternoon.e job. but supporters of president biden believe this was below the belt, especially a day before christmas. >> i hope you guys have a wonderful christmas, as well. merry christmas, and let's go brandon. >> let's go brandon, i agree. >> the "let's go brandon" phrase may sound innocent but it means the f word with the president's name. and he said after the president spent time with children and norad officials on christmas eve to track santa. that collar, from oregon, said he was joking and is under attack for freedom of speech. the disparaging phrase originated in october during an interview with nascar driver brandon brown, hence, "brandon." his fans were chanting "s biden" in the stands, but a reporter claimed they were saying "let's go brandon." he said he is having trouble finding corporate sponsors now that that's picked up some attention. he wants to stay out of politics and wants nothing to do with the phrase. meanwhile, the white house has not spent much time weighing in on th

david spunt is live at the justice department. people are paying a lot of attention to this. might have gotten the attorney general's attention as well. >> it has. people at the justice department, top brass keenly aware of this crime wave hitting across the united states. this is a real story with real consequences. we've been following it. the attorney general knows that. the chief law enforcement officer for the united states and i asked him about the recent crime wave yesterday. listen. >> this bothers me very much and the violent crime increase is one we must address and that we're putting all of our resources toward. >> this comment from the attorney general comes days after the department announced another investigation into a local police department mount vernon, new york, joins the list of pattern or practice investigations. this specific investigation in mount vernon focuses on potential violations of how officers conduct searches and treat citizens. same story in minneapolis following the defgt george floyd. louisville, kentucky following the death of breonna, tayl