jacqui. >> jacqui: terrible story. >> bill: sure is. experts have debated whether there will be a soft landing with a stable economy or hard landing with a deep recession. what happens if there is no landing at all? the scenario bank of america predicts for the first half the year. interest rates will remain high for longer with inflation still way above the fed target number. robert wolf worked for president obama, steve moore for president trump, and gentlemen, start your engines, here we go, all right, daytona 500 words. michael hartnet, bank of america warns no landing scenario could clobber stocks later this year. no landing means no fed pausing, he warns, the fed will always break something, he projects s & p 500 could tumble 7%, quite the fall. how do you see it, is he on to something? >> he's too negative for me. one, i think inflation will stay above the fed target, probably into 24. that being said, i don't see recession and don't see the stock market being off 10% in the next 30 days. the the reason i don't see a recession co

jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. and alan shaw just finished meeting in east palestine, including with bill thompson. and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? >> that's right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. >> to support the community? >> like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio's governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio's governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who live

jacqui. >> jacqui: all right.or the breaking details in santa fe, new mexico, thanks, matt. >> sure. >> bill: that was the scene president biden touring the streets of kyiv with president zelenskyy earlier today, he was met with the repeated sounds of air raid sirens, illustrates the dangers of the trip. michael allen, senior director for counter proliferation strategy at the national security council. dana and i were on earlier today with general jack keane and i asked him, are we in this same place getting ready to talk about the dawn of year three for this war? and his answer was yes, unless something changes. how would you answer that? >> well, there is something to that. i think the biden administration needs to speed up the transfer of weapons to the ukrainians. they are playing it too safe, they are too worried about what vladimir putin might do, and by the way, a war of attrition, something that is grinding and slow, only benefits the russians because the thing that the russians have in excessive quantitie

jacqui. jacqui: republican strategist and cofounder of south and hill strategies and david, former obama campaign adviser and state official. thank you both for being with us. watching this unfold in east palestine, ohio, you feel for the residents there and a lot of their concerns that can they believe what they are being told. i want to start with the soundbite from the mayor sympathizing with those concerns and expressing a lot of what we are hearing. take a listen. >> with we have a town of 4700 people that are squared and wan- scared and want answers. it's not a political thing. it's just -- it's true. they were late to the dance as i like to say and, you know, our people deserve better. jacqui: is it fair to say they are late to the dance and something politically that will affect how residents there folks affiliated with the federal government's response to this? >> jacqui, it's an issue of competence and confidence. people don't know if they can drink the water and exposed to long-ter

jacqui. jacqui: katie, i feel for you. get back in the car and tell your crew thank you so much and get a hot chocolate and get warm. this cold is no joke. appreciate it. to stay up-to-date on your weather, scan the qr code on your screen right now, if you can rush over and get close to it long enough for it to stay up. download the fox news weather app there. the weather-- fox weather app brings you live local updates as well as national outlooks, it's all in one place so go ahead and download it now. ♪ . griff: well, police are searching for answers after a doctor in southern california was killed earlier this week in a shocking encounter. officials say the doctor was riding his bike along a scenic route when he was hit from behind by a car. witnesses say the driver of the car then got out and stabbed the doctor before being restrained by bystanders. christina coleman joins us live with the latest details. a shocking story, christina. >> hi, griff, yeah, shocking and disturbing, a violent way to die to be hit by a car an

. >> jacqui: good to be with you, john. jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. kim gardner forced out after facing an ultimatum after she was accused of turning a blind eye on a ticking time bomb career criminal set free on bond and he caused a crash that left a teenager fighting to survive. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has more on the story for us. what can you say? >> well, jacqui, the missouri attorney general is trying to force out kim gardner. he has not actually done so yet. he had given her until noon local time to resign and having not received that resignation at 12:01 central time he began the legal process to have her removed. the a.g. saying gardner has been negligent in her duties as circuit attorney and has repeatedly let down the people of st. louis. >> this is about the rule of law and about justice. instead of protecting victims, which is her obligation, she's creating more victims by neglect in office. >> the final straw for the a.g. appears to have been an incident over the weekend in which 17-year-old janay edmonson, in town for a volley

jacqui. jacqui: reactions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on capitol hill as pressure mounts for a stronger u.s. response to this chinese spy balloon. alexandria hoff with the latest on that. >> alex: 118th congress was sharpening its focus on china, the republican-led house selected new committee to do just that and democrats on it are voicing their concern over handling of the surveillance tool. congressman torres ended tweet with this, quote, we must protect sovereignty of america and privacy of americans from foreign espionage and senator john tester, senator from montana was more frank, we are still waiting for real answers on how this happened and what steps the administration took to protect our country and i will hold everyone accountable until i get them. of course, his skies were aware of the high altitude tool was first spotted. governor stated today foreign officials were not informed it was lingering and says it's time to take it down. >> we have a lot of open space her

>> so great question, jacqui. so the prosecution and the snapchat video we talked about, the fact at least what he had told law enforcement, he had touched both paul and maggie yesterday there was no blood residue whatsoever, the fact that they found the crumpled raincoat that was filled with gun rescue crumpled up in his mother's home, that is obviously another devastating point that the prosecution is definitely exploited during their case. and the changing -- the changes that he made with respect to his story. now flip it over to the defense, now they have to infuse some explanation. they are going to emphasize how close this family was, that there really isn't any motive for alec murdaugh to have killed both paul and maggie, not like there is some life insurance benefit that he'll draw from their deaths. and theory is a little odd, the theory the prosecution has is alex murdaugh killed both maggie and paul to deflect attention he had on the financial crimes that were sort of bubbling up in the civil case again

good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret.oday the white house cleared up one thing saying that there are no indications of alien or strel extraterrestrial related these objects after the pentagon said over the weekend that they weren't ruling anything out. but the president still has not explained what has been happening in our skies or how he plans to deal with it. officials today only announcing a new multi-agency team to study policy proposals going forward. >> we have never shot anything down over the united states. now we have shot four objects down that we can't even fully describe in the last week. this is a time to hear from the president. >> despite mounting pressure, not a word from president biden after he directed three more objects shot down since friday. >> has the biden administration just dialed the sensitivity of our radars all the way up? if so, what are these objects that we are just now noticing for the very first time? >> today the white house revealing one new piece of the president's thinking after he w

jacqui heinrich with more on where this drama stands. jacqui?on brigade on my bingo card but it's been great. the president said yesterday that he expects to be talking with xi jinping soon. we learned today there's no formal request phone a phone call between the two leaders and we're learning the administration is hoping, wanting secretary state antony blinken to smooth things over with his chinese counterpart in munich next week. if no meeting happens, this would be a telling sign of the state of u.s. and china relations. biden and harris have said they don't think the spy balloon debacle will impact relations. but officials say we learned about china's spy program from the debris of the spy balloon. final pieces are headed to the fbi lab. for the three other objects, we may never learned much more. weather has been a big obstacle. a hobby group is missing their balloon in alaska. they lost a party style balloon the same day a fighter jet shot down and open over there. it's both the u.s. military used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 ba

jacqui heinrich is live at the white house and jacqui, these jets that shot these objects down all have gun cameras, releasing that video might be a start in transparency. >> might be a start, john, but of course people would love to hear from president biden directly. the president does not have any events on his public schedule, meaning we won't be able to shout questions at him as he is passing us or going about the activities of his day. there will be a press briefing here shortly, we do expect the national security council spokesman, john kirby, to be part of the briefing as well. with the u.s. shooting down three objects just since friday, all over north america, people are clamoring for answers. >> we have not been able to gain access to the three shot down friday, saturday and yesterday, in large part because of the weather conditions, and the third one yesterday was shot down over lake huron, and as soon as we do that well learn more about them and absolutely share what we can learn with the american people. >> as he went to church this weekend, reporters tried to get the presi

let's get to it with jacqui at the white house. jacqui? >> "the washington post" has been reporting that the chinese spy balloon's path over the u.s. may have been driven by the wind and that analysts are examining the possibility that the chinese did not intend to penetrate the american heartland with their surveillance equipment. i'm told that that is not the full story. we're learning a lot more right now. officials tell me that we don't know if the balloon's direction over the continental u.s. was intentional. because it's a balloon, its trajectory depends on a range of factors that includes the wind. the balloon also went over guam, we've learned, which is u.s. territory. it also later loitered over several sensitive sites in the continue -- continental u.s. the chinese still had the ability to maneuver this thing. they sent it to guam and loitered over u.s. sites. we learned that the u.s. has detected and tracked this balloon program for a long time. they take off and go in didn't directions. it doesn't always mean that they're comin

good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret.ven though the american people watched live as the president seemingly negotiated a deal to protect medicare and social security at the state of the union, it appears he is embracing the old adage never let the truth get in the way of a good story. >> looks like this was short-lived. >> so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off the books now, right? [applause] >> all right. >> we got yuma anonymity. unanimity.acknowledging last nie broader republican party rejects the idea. >> i believe it when i see it and their budgets laid down with the cuts they are proposing. >> you know, i remind you rick scott from florida the guy who ran the u.s. senate campaign has a plan. i have got his brochure right here. >> republicans predictably calling foul. >> i have said it many times before, social security and medicare are off the table. he tries to use that for a political employee. >> even senator rick scott defending the details of his proposal which would have ma

jacqui heinrich on that. jacqui?hing the president wants to talk about. his jobs reports, achievements since he took office. we're about a week out from the state of the union and an announcement after that. so this balloon is looming large, they say, over all of that news coming up. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by my healthcare provider, every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling. hiv pills aren't on my mind. a quick change in my plans is no big deal. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions post-injection reactions, liver problems, and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get

jacqui, hanks a lot. house republicans are going after the president's homeland security chief they contend hall alejandro mayorkas has bundled the situation at the southern border. he halves rejected calls to resign. here is congressional correspondent aishah hasnie. >> you have a public official who has violated public trust. and there is nobody who typifies that more in my opinion than secretary alejandro mayorkas. >> congressman andy biggs announcing tonight he will introduce articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he's now the second republican to do so within a month. but the g.o.p. hasn't yet announced when they will take a vote. >> that's a decision that we would makes a a conference. >> first on judiciary chairman jim jordan's to-do list a battle with house democrats over the border crisis. his committee held its first hearing on the southern border today focusing on fentanyl, with gut-wrenching testimony from a father who lost his son to an overdose. >> no

>> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thank you.tocks were up today on strong retail sales data. the dow gained 39. the s&p 500 finished ahead 11. the nasdaq rose 110. the republican presidential race now includes two declared candidates. former south carolina governor and u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley kicked off her campaign today officially after making an announcement yesterday on social media. she joins former president donald trump who is 76, probably trying to defeat president joe biden who is 80 years old. the 51-year-old hali says it is time for younger leaders. >> we're ready. ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past. we'll have term limits for congress. and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old. [applause] >> bret: former president trump welcomed haley to the race telling fox news digital, quote the more the merrier. we will speak with south dakota governor kristi noem about the presidential landscape in just a bit. still ahead, the latest testimony in

a lot of cheering there good evening, jacqui. [cheers] >> good evening, shannon.he program is about to get underway here. a dnc official tells us the president is going to highlight his achievements and outline maga republicans extreme out-of-touch agenda as the biggest threat to continue progress under democratic leadership. but the big thing that he is not talking about chinese spy balloon is what has everyone's attention. >> less than a week out from his state of the union address, and a 2024 announcement some time shortly after, president biden wants to focus on his achievements booed by. [no audio] >> all right. we will get back to jacqui, a little bit of technical trouble there. we will finish up that story. for now much better jobs report for january. employers added more than a half million positions. and the jobless rate dipped it its lowest level since 1969. susan li of fox business joins us from new york to tell us what all of these numbers mean. hello, susan. >> hi there, shannon. the u.s. jobs market starting off 2023 with its biggest gain in five mon

but jacqui heinrich is live at the white house, jacqui. >> hey, sandra. dr. fauci says that the world may never know the true origins of covid, but china for one thinks that the book is open and shut on that matter after they strong armed the world health organization into writing a report saying that a lab leak theory was extremely unlikely. china pointed half of the scientists who wrote that report also withheld access and information and all this prompted the w.h.o. chief to publicly raise doubts about that report in a highly unusual step. now china has been using this report to swat down findings from the biden administration probe saying the conclusions about natural transmission as the cause "was accurately recorded in the missions report and has received extensive recognition from the international community." certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative, stop smearing china and stop politicizing origins tracing. yesterday the white house stopped short of responding. >> there is not a consensus right now in the u.s. government about exa

hi, jacqui. >> hey, gillian. yeah, one of the biggest things that came out of president biden's trip to bali for the g20 summit a few months back and the meeting with chinese president xi jinping was plans for secretary of state antony blinken to go to beijing. that was supposed to happen tonight, he was going to leave. and that is no longer happening. the state department says they have noted the prc's expression of regret over all of this, but they have also said that it's a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and also international law. we are told an official did brief staff on the gang of 8 to bring this information to members of congress in an expeditious way but not fast enough or widespread enough for some of the president's republican critics. >> i can tell you the overwhelming majority of members of congress that i've spoken to in the last 24 hours had no idea about this. so, this administration again is the least transparent administration in the history of america. this is very concerning. >> the pres

jacqui, thank you.lian. >> gillian: more americans now are racking up debt as they try to cope with inflation and rising interest rates. according to a new study from wallethub, the typical household owed more than $142,000 by the end of last year, adds up nationwide to $17 trillion, the highest national debt level since the 2008 financial crisis. let's bring in james freeman, and fox news contributor. so, james, americans are grappling with historically high levels of debt, pretty much across the board every kind of debt you could think of, personal credit card loans, to mortgages, we just laid out there, household debt. and then, of course, compounding this problem is the fact that interest rates are simultaneously reaching historic highs. >> it's disturbing, and it's one of the puzzles of this economy. you look at this great, what's still a great job market, historically low unemployment and you wonder how are consumers seemingly so stressed. you mentioned the debt increase, biggest since 2008, in te

and what are we expecting, jacqui? >> if history is any guide, we will not get a lot from the press briefing with karine jean-pierre. all the questions are referred to the doj, biden's personal attorneys and the white house council's office. it's a good thing ian will talk to reporters, a big scrum of folks wanting to talk to him. we want to know how the white house can claim they are being so transparent when news of today's fbi search in rehobeth did not come out until it was leaked to a news agency, only then they commented on it and don't have any answers why the november search at the penn biden center did not appear on timelines given to us by the president's personal attorneys and ian sams from the white house counsel office. biden's attorney said today's search in rehobeth was not announced in advance because the justice department wanted to protect the integrity of the investigation, it lasted about three and a half hours, and are told no classified documents were found but consistent with the process in wilmi

jacqui heinrich at the white house in how it went down. jacqui? >> hi, neil. yeah, in virginia, we didn't hear president biden talk as much about the need to protect social security as we have before since congressional republicans have disavowed any efforts to cut those programs. biden did raise the spector of cuts to the affordable care able and repeals to the inflation reduction act that could reverse some prescription drugs savings. despite all of this talk about healthcare, he did not mention any of the health concerns that americans are still having in east palestine, ohio despite officials there declaring the area is safe. virginia's republican governor is pressuring biden to make a visit. as far as he's concerned, he's been showing up in the form of federal assistance. >> updated travel to ohio, any plans to travel to ohio? >> no new news for you there. the president has been engaged from the earliest hours since the derailment. you can see the administrator regan is back there today. the president has directed his team to stay on top of this and they

jacqui heinrich on how the visit went down. jacqui? >> hey, neil.e fire alarm in the background. i don't see or smell fire. this trip is part of a 20-state blitz by the president, the vice president and other officials after the state of the union in the lead up to an expected 2024 campaign. the republicans vowing to protect entitlement programs maybe took a bite out of the president's planned remarks to the senior population. biden conceded a vast majority of republicans don't support cuts to entitlement programs. he admitted kevin mccarthy has been reasonable so far to pass a budget and raise the debt limit. biden is skeptical. until he sees the final budget passed because if republicans want to reduce spending, it has to come from somewhere. he's staying skeptical. meantime, he's going to stick to this platform. >> rick scott is the guy who ran the senate campaign committee for republicans last year. he had a plan to sunset, maybe he changed his mind, maybe he's seen the lord. if that's your dream, i'm your nightmare. >> senate eric scott seems t

good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, john.nly hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato's strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. >> success. >> a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can't say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president's biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. >> and pose a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object. >> the biden administration has defended allowing last week's chinese spy balloon to make its way across the u.s. before shooting it down off the coast of south carolina. >> that raises the question would they do this agai

what are you hearing tonight, jacqui?>> we know house republicans nearly held a vote today condemning president biden over his handling of the spy balloon but several members pressured gop leadership to drop that effort and instead deliver a bipartisan resolution condemning china on this, so that on the issue of china the split government is speaking with one voice and that bipartisan vote could come as soon as later this week. the white house is denying, though, that president biden had to rewrite portions of his state of the union address after the spy balloon incident and the speech has been considered an anchor for an upcoming 2024 announcement from the president. white house officials said this morning that biden will lay out a new set of priorities where he thinks he can advance his unity agenda in the coming year, including efforts to end cancer, support veterans, opioid crisis and expand mental health resources but have not heard a response yet to reports that house speaker kevin mccarthy specifically asked presid

jacqui heinrich live at the white house with the latest. jacqui? >> good morning to you guys.oday, president biden is going to be meeting virtually with g-7 leaders and also ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as the u.s. announces another $2 billion in security assistance for ukraine. the group is announcing also a fresh round of sanctions and is also at this time going to include companies and countries that are trying to backfill products that russia is having a tough time getting because of the sanctions. also target russian banks, including the companies and people involved in them. today's package includes himars, artillery, laser guided rockets, a number of drones. also mine clearing equipment, communications equipment, and funding for training and maintenance. this is happening as we mark the one-year anniversary of russia's invasion. and ahead of the russian mercenary group vogner says his fighters have taken control of a suburb. ukraine defending it territory in the east with the most difficulty. the new aid was not going to arrive quickly but it is part of a lon

we've got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. >> we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china's spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we're going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we're now detecting more objects in our airspace since we've dialled up the radar and we learned today that we're actually not going to hear the details. >> i'll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they're completed and remain classified so we don't give our road map to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. going forward, this will handle unidentified objects. >> we also did not learn a lot about t

jacqui heinrich is at the white house now.nt biden has several domestic issues waiting for him upon his arrival. >> reporter: yeah, lauren, you know, when the president left for poland, we were still getting news about how the administration made decisions to shoot down three likely harmless objects over north america and also news on his apparent miss a handling of classified cock can units. but what has probably drawn the most criticism is his absencing from east pal sign the, ohio. the mayor there criticizing the president for going to ukraine before his community. >> that was the biggest slap in the face. that tells you right now he doesn't care about us. so he can send every agency he wants to, but i found that out this morning in one of the briefings, that he was in the ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there, not to us. i'm furious. >> reporter: well, the president responded overnight saying after his speech in warsaw, he had calls with the epa administrator, the governors of ohio and neighboring pe

jacqui heinrich at the white house with the biden administration resisting the calls for the presidento comment. but, we begin with congressional correspondent aishah hasnie live on capitol hill with the latest. good evening, aishah. >> bret, good evening to you. as it turns out, lawmakers didn't really learn a whole lot more than what they already knew about these three new objects in the sky. that's why you are seeing now democrats joining republicans in really calling for this administration to go ahead and declassify most of what they heard today. >> the american people are the ones who don't know and they deserve to know more. >> tonight, senate democrats are joining their republican colleagues in pressuring the administration to address the country about three unidentified objects shot down over the remote terrains of alaska, canada, and lake huron. republicans, specifically, want the president to do the talking. >> the american people deserve to hear more from the president on all of these issues and hopefully we will in the coming days. >> while democrats aren't completely push

the white house emphatically denied the claims. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. let's go to jennifer griffin. we did later from the defense secretary, lloyd austin, on all of this. jennifer, what did hi have to say? >> the pentagon says the opens that they shot down this weekend over north america are very different in nature than the chinese spy balloon shot down off of the coast of south carolina. >> i want to reassure americans that these objects do not present a military threat to anyone on the ground. they do present a risk to civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat. we'll get to the bottom of it. >> martha: the white house, national security spokesman john kirby shut down a growing rumor about the objects that have entered u.s. airspace. >> i don't think the american people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft, period. nothing else needs to be said there. >> unlike the spy balloon that the u.s. intelligence were tracking, these objects were smaller, flying lower and not being steered. kirby said the u.s. military i

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that's pretty scary and a daunting thought as we all try to navigate in this post-pandemic world, jacqui i'm not sure you are going to see that kind of crash, still seems to be people who see value in their homes, and we were saying during the break, everybody is saying i'm not putting my house on the market, if i sell it, where am i going to go. if people stay put across the country, except in some pockets, you see a market that ends upholding up. it's that low inventory right now that's doing it. >> sandra: meanwhile, seeing trillions wiped out of the u.s. housing market. from the period june through december of 2022, $2.3 trillion, the biggest percentage drop since 2008. >> looking at the value of unsold inventory, interest rates go up and buyers say i can't afford a house now, so their demand drops, that means the value of housing drops. you start with the question, this is a confusing market, it's very confusing and i would say it almost seems not penetrable, and sales are going up, even though rates are up, and desperate, and i'm going to move now. >> sandra: and people feel they m

tucker carlson wanted to fire jacqui heinrich for telling the truth. that jacqui heinrich was telling the truth, that he believed that you should be fired for telling the truth. at fox, because they are not in the news business, and their profit depends on them staying in the lie business. the stock price is down. that's what tucker carlson cared about. tucker carlson believed the stock price has to be maintained by lying. weeks after saying, he knew it was all a lie, tucker carlson invited and even crazier liar on his show, because at that point, the guest he invited was the biggest advertiser on tucker carlson's show. >> well, of course, you will likely recognize our next guest. his mike lindell, he advertises every night on this show for my pillow and across fox news. he's one of our big sponsors and we are grateful for that, he sponsoring free speech when he does it. >> with this particular thing that's going on now, i've been all in trying to find the machine fraud, and we found it. we have all the evidence. >> that is what tucker looks like when

jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue.acqui. >> hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we're learning that they're hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. >> we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we're going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. >> but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects shot down since friday. recovery efforts hampered by weather fizzling out a hobby gr

john, as you have seen, it's unlikely we will get any major answers on these. >> john: jacqui is there, good questions to ask, see if karine jean-pierre is in a mood to answer them or if she's passed over again. mark, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: hunter biden admitting the infamous laptop uncovered before the 2020 election was in fact his. claiming the contents from that computer were illegally revealed. all that coming as house republicans are set to hold their first hearing into president biden and his family's business dealings next week. new york post summing it up today saying "it's mine." let's bring in miranda divine, author of the laptop from hell, hunter biden, big tech, dirty secrets the president tried to hide. you've been reporting on this for years as we mentioned. we know the briefing is underway at the white house. karine jean-pierre is set to take questions from reporters. to what extent to bring it to this moment, what extent do you believe the white house will bring any transparency, any answers on this revelation? >> well, i mean, 0. we have seen the complete lack o

good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret.he department of energy overseas national labs and now reportedly concludes a lab leak in china most likely caused the pandemic albeit that conclusion with low confidence. but, this theory became a political lightning rod after former president donald trump embraced it and top scientists shot it down. now, team biden is holding back of talk about lessons learned and also, responding to china's denials. >> china has repeatedly blocked the world health organization's covid origins probe and now is swiftly rebuking the reported findings from the u.s. department of energy. china's foreign minister saying in part a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science-based authoritative conclusion reached certain parties should stop rehashing the lab leak narrative, stop smearing china and stop politic siding origin's tracing. white house officials careful not to confirm or deny the report also stopping short of punching back at china. >> what the president

jacqui, let's start with this meeting between kevin mccarthy and president biden. republicans are no longer talking about cutting medicare and social security. so what are they talking about? >> yes, stephanie, that is the question. you are making the billion dollar point here, and i think the contours of what republicans are going to be willing to come to agreement about democrats in terms of cutting is still up in the air. mccarthy the biden were more optimistic than people were expecting after the meeting, but this was a sort of perfunctory first meeting in they haven't gotten yet down to the details. i think there is this meeting, though, at least among democrats, that republicans aren't actually serious about cutting the deficit and that the case in point, they point to there, is that the first vote that republicans took when there was finally as speaker mccarthy was to eliminate billions of dollars a virus funding that would add to the deficit 100 billion dollars. so i think that biden held his line, that the debt ceiling needs to be raised, no conditions, no

good evening, jacqui. >> hey, good evening, mike.resident biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. >> i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. >> critics watching the president's remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china's spy program. >> in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has known about for some time. chinese are using balloons for surveillance purposes. they are using them also for offensive capabilities. >> lawmakers have been clamoring for better answers. >> i mean, i have never been in briefings where i learned so little. >> left to wonder why biden didn't speak sooner. >> if a civilian had not spotted this spy balloon over montana and rep

jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. jacqui? speaker kevin mccarthy for an account of what happened in the meeting. the white house doesn't want to get ahead of anything the president was going to talk about and we were not allowed in. so we're waiting on whatever kevin mccarthy has to say. the white house is facing questions on these documents after the fbi searched the president's rehoboth home and we learned yesterday about a search that happened in november at the penn biden center that was not previously disclosed to us. we pressed the white house counsel's office for why that search did not appear on timelines and also the attorney general's statements was not any reference to that search in there. it doesn't really satisfy the questions that we have, but this is what we've got. >> we've been transparent with providing information as it occurs throughout this process. we have released probably thousands of words of statements from the president's personal attorney and the white house's office about the process undertaken h

. >> ainsley: jacqui heinrich joins us live from the white house with the very latest. jacqui?orning to you, guys. yeah, three weeks after the train derailment and the transportation secretary is now saying that he will in fact go pay the people of that community a visit but not just yet. >> i am planning to go and our folks were on the ground from the first hour. when i go the focus is going to be on actions if there are two kinds of people who show up when you have that kind of disaster experience. people who are there because they have a specific job to do and are there to get something done and people who are there to look good and have their picture taken. when i go, it will be about action on rail safety. >> that comes after florida's republican senate delegation, including rick scott and marco rubio have both called for buttigieg to resign or be fired over his absence. buttigieg fired back saying rubio had previously pushed for railroad deregulation by backing the industry's push to increase automated track inspections and reduce human inspections. rubio snapped back wit

good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. this speech is widely seen as an anchor to president biden's 2024 announcement. but, looming over it is the fallout from his handling of the chinese spy balloon exposing division within his own party and doubts about his job in office. hours before his speech, the pentagon admits china denied a u.s. request for a phone call between biden's secretary of defense and china's defense minister. >> officials denied president biden had to rewrite portions of his state of the union address in light of the chinese spy balloon but they say he will address it big picture. >> the president has obviously worked to continue to manage our relationship with china, to a place of competition and not conflict. >> but talking about china as a competitor, not an adversary touting, for instance, efforts to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to america may not be forceful enough even for democrats. >> he needs to articulate exactly what our china strategy is going to be. there should be a clear message

jacqui heinrich.bout the classified documents search at the president's beach house in rehoboth beach. she got as you might imagine a nonresponse and a referral to special counsel. nikki haley one step closer to becoming a republican candidate for president in 2024. pollster lee carter with some pointers for the former ambassador next. >> vice president pence has indicated that he wouldn't rule out running if president trump does run. you said you wouldn't run if he ran. does that leave open a door potentially for you to be on a ticket with the former president? >> no. it opens a door that if for some reason that i see there's a place for me, i'll sit down and have a conversation with president trump at that time. then we'll talk about it and go from there. [ coughing/sneezing ] [ door knocking ] dude, you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style! plop plop fizz fizz, with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief! welcome to the next level. this is

let's go to jacqui heinrich at the white house.e have not heard the president say anything directly on any of this. has that changed, jacqui. >> nope. we don't know when or if it will. the only new news is they're considering the possibility of these three objects were benign, possibly related to commercial entities or research. the white house says that they've not been contacted by any state or any company claiming this as their own. the faa says that they're certain that these were not u.s. government objects, so that is the latest news there. so the white house is still defending the takedowns for the same reasons that we heard laid out yesterday. potential risk to civilian aircraft and potential risk for surveillance over the u.s. there's growing pressure for the president to address any of this, all of this, directly with the american people. he did direct his administration yesterday to come up with some policy recommendations on how we can better identify, detect the opens over our airspace. but so far, that's it. >> when t

jacqui heinrich at the white house, what she is hearing., jackie. >> reporter: neil, we're waiting for an update on this speech we've been hearing so much about. in the meantime though the news is coming out of china. today they have enacted the countyter measures they have been threatening, announcing sanctions on two u.s. defense manufacturers raytheon and lockheed martin in response to the u.s. shooting down their spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. they cite the reason for it being arms sales to taiwan. read between the lines on that one. also a response to the u.s. blacklisting six chinese entities for their role in supporting the chinese military's reconnaissance and intelligence gathering efforts related to their balloon and airship programs that happened last week. china's foreign ministry is still maintaining this was just a weather balloon blown off course by the wind and fox can confirm that the u.s. is now examining when wind might have played a bit of a factor not at all how the chinese are claiming. u.s. officials tel

so those statements, they seem to be sticking to, gillian. >> gillian: jacqui heinrich in philly this: shannon bream, what game is hunter biden's new legal team playing here, is this in response to a defamation lawsuit that was filed by the computer shop owner, an attempt to change the subject from classified documents, an attempt to chill reporting about the laptop ahead of the 2024 election, all of the above, none of the above, what do you think? >> yeah, feels like a brush back pitch over the plate from his legal team and we know hunter biden has been under investigation, federal investigation for a while. so, there could be developments in that case that are prompting this, it could be the defamation issue, whatever it is, what they have now launched is something that is unlikely to go anywhere because there are the optics now of these particular attorneys viewed as doing the bidding of hunter biden, the president's son, when he may be in some serious legal trouble. >> gillian: shannon, the legal team is asking the doj to launch criminal probes into multiple american citizens. is

>> bret: jacqui heinrich on the north lawn, thank you.irector's news by the covid lab later in the show. we are getting new information tonight about how taliban leaders in afghanistan are targeting afghans who worked with the u.s. government who worked with the u.s. military cleve national security jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. >> a new mandate inspector general report says the taliban are using dodd collected biometric data even gun records to establish the identity of afghans alongside u.s. forces. fingerprints, iris images, facial images and, when possible, contextual data such as where a person lived. a spokesman for the afghan national resistance front says in some cases the taliban aren't just using the information to kill those who served with u.s. forces. >> there's going to be others who will recruit them and use their competence, their training is the best in the region everyone wants a slice of it. >> a defense department spokesman says the u.s. took prudent actions to ensure that sensitive data does not fall

. >> john: jacqui heinrich live at the white house. reaction there? >> no response on china yet, john, but china has had a lot to say, china has blocked the world health organization from fully investigating covid origins pushing out this claim, china has always supported and participated in global science based origin tracing, laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely is a science based conclusion reached by the w.h.o. joint mission. certain parties should stop smearing china and stop politicizing origin tracing. we have not yet heard from the white house in response to this or the substance of the report from the department of energy, previously, by the way, made no assessment about covid origins and cautions the judgment was made with low confidence but they do join the fbi in making this assessment. the white house is not weighing in one way or another. >> president biden specifically requested that the national labs, which are part of the department of energy, be brought into this assessment because he wants to put

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gill gym jacqui heinrich at the white house tonight. thank. mixed today the dow lost 39. the s&p 500 gained 61. nasdaq surged 384.5. the republican led house has voted to bar democratic congresswoman ilhan omar from an assignment on the foreign relations committee. republicans say she has a history of making anti-semitic remarks upsetting to many americans. chad pergram has details tonight from capitol hill. >> omar ousted. >> this is not about vengeance or retribution. it is about accountability. >> party line vote on the house floor to knicks omar from the foreign affairs committee after controversial comments about 9/11 and israel. >> representative omar has espoused anti-semitic and anti-israel rhetoric time and time again. >> words matter. rhetoric matters. >> democrats say omar made amends. >> ilhan omar has apologized. she has indicated that she will learn from her mistakes. >> democrats say the vote was an assault on one of the first two muslim women elected to congress. >> this is about targeting women of color in the united states of