joining us tonight congressman michael waltz, james comer, jason smith and greg stuebe.the washington examiner"'s david drucker, fox news contributor deroy murdoch and national border patrol council vice president, he is art del cueto. these stories tonight. 330 children in chicago again out of school. children out on a second day of their illegal strike. they are getting slammed for joking on social media like facebook about their time off. year going to dig into that. this shocking story, how did the boston marathon bomber end up with a covid relief check? also this, as president biden, he is trying to move on the pandemic. he is going to tell americans, reports coming in, just live with covid. this is a new normal? but this is six months after president biden declared independence from it. where are the treatments as vaccines are waning in power? and communist china now mocking the u.s. for not having free speech as twitter and facebook sensor conservatives. plus a new member of the rules for thee not for me club, democrat congressman eric swalwell caught maskless in

and i think the american people want to know the answers to. >> griff: congressman james comer, thankhis early monday morning. we will be watching. this will be an interesting midterm election, thank you, sir. >> thank you for having me on. >> griff: ashley. >> ashley: okay, griff still had democratic cities are feeling the impact of defining the place, especially the nation's capitol where more than half of the case is unsolved. the next guest lost his 11-year-old grandson with a shooting in washington, d.c., in december 2020. his plea for the public to back the blue next. ♪ ♪ new york city eric adam saved the subways are safe after a man pushed a woman in front of a train. adam's aching "i think it is 1.7% of the crimes in new york city that occur on the subway system. think about that for a moment. what we must do is remove the perception of fear. a witness of a murder says the suspect simon marshall showed no emotion as he shoved 40-year-old michelle at the times square station. he confessed the attack quickly after. the victim was a senior manager at the town consulting firm and

. >> now a republican group led by house minority whip steve scalise and james comer looking to probe leaders on the biden covid response team, scathing letter to the president writing in part, "tragically, almost 100,000 more americans died in 2021 than in 2020," this is confounding considering president biden inherited vaccines, millions with natural immunity and well established testing apras u james comer will join "fox and friends first" later. >> todd: matt, thank you. happening today, president biden hitting the road to sell radical plan to overhaul our election system. >> carley: that is right. griff joins us live, some plan to stand up to the president. good morning. >> that is right, the president hoping to pressure lawmakers into breaking the filibuster over an issue he says is critical to protecting institutional rights. >> he's quite focused on how ensuring the american people understand what is at stake here, protecting fundamental right to vote. everyone has to take a look at where they want to be at this moment in history? >> georgia has become the epicenter in the vot

james comer will join us next. >> todd: matt, thank you. leo torrel hitting back on joe biden's race-based stance. >> biden injected race everywhere he can, critical race theory and now divide this country on distribution of therapeutics based on skin color when number one for a doctor is -- you can't have affirmative action in medical decisions. >> carley: white house press secretary jen psaki taking heat over the white house's covid testing failures. listen to this. >> why so unprepared for the need for testing at the holidays? >> there has been a massive surge in cases, unprecedented demand for test. >> the president talked about winter severe illness and test, the tests will not be available until spring, will you admit free tests you guys promised will not be ready until after the omicron surge? >> we gave update we will have tests in the coming weeks very soon. >> carley: jen psaki says more choices for testing are on the way. many americans are still left standing in the cold. todd, when it comes to testing, biden administration prom

and consulting deals," remember james comer is ranking member of the oversight committee.aintings for upward of $500,000 per painting, an ethics issue with the white house. more bad news with inflation, more data coming out and the producer price index showed record year over year jump of 9.7% after consumer price hit high of 7%. despite hitting new lows over the economy, he has not taken responsibility. >> reality is, you can't flip the global economic light back on and not expect this to happen. capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it is exploitation. >> call it corporate greed, sure, call it jacking up prices during a pandemic. >> carley: most economists and analysts agree spending stam lus coming from washington over the last year has contributed to record high inflation. >> todd: finally, your auto correct now going woke. >> cheryl: weird. microsoft introducing a new feature to let you know if you are woke enough. here is an example. mankind issue the program changes to humankind. postman becomes mail carrier. maid becomes house cleaner, manpower changes t

everyone i've talked to in the last 24 hours says we've reached a breaking point and congressman james comer joining the calls for president biden's impeachment. watch. >> james: this is something i respect a republican majority to hold president biden accountable. joe biden has explaining to do to people looking out their window seeing people transported in the dead of night into their neighborhood. >> griff: ice has become unofficial travel agency in the wake of the leaked video you are seeing showing migrants being flown in under the cover of darkness. >> i get the secrecy, this is -- [indiscernible] -- the american people. >> griff: more stunning video of single adult males in brownsville and san antonio being released into the community, some with criminal records. that is part of why texas governor abbott convened meeting of a dozen state attorneys general and not having it. >> people are dying today because of open border policy allowing into the country. joe biden doesn't care about victims of human trafficking, if he cared, he would step up and do something about it. >> griff: since

james comer and jim jordan released e-mail exchange between dr. frances collins and dr. fauci that took place in august of 20 20, the start of the pandemic. a lot of people are believing this covid lab leak theory, can you do something to squash this reporting and fauci responded saying, i would not do anything about this right now, it is a shiny object that will go away in time. of course it didn't go away even though social media companies tried to that area, now it is prevailing theory. why squash that theory as opposed to asking about it being true. >> todd: and why are republicans attacked for asking the questions? you want answers. i want answers. everybody in america should want answers. on exchanging throughout the day, the american people are not looking to anthony fauci to be right all the time, what we are looking for is some sense of humility that science is an ongoing and evolving process and just because dr. fauci says something it is not the be all, end all bible. dr. fauci does not seem to have that humility. to rand paul's question, why can't anyone ques

james comer demand another hearing on his e-mails conspiring to push the theory covid could not have been man-made. senator paul on "the ingraham angle" last night. >> it is dangerous he has gotten in his head he represents all of science and anybody criticizes him, prepare for the takedown, prepare for fauci and others to conspire to ruin your reputation. >> the april 2020 e-mails fall called possibility of lab leak a shiny object that will go away in time. back to you guys. >> carley: ashley, thank you. staying on the covid topic, the white house is promising to distribute five million free rapid tests to schools each month to help k-12 schools stay open. it comes as many districts cancel classess and revert to remote learning due to teacher shortages. biden is facing backlash for a testing shortage with people waiting in miles long lines to get swabbed, biden administration facing backlash to closed schools after teacher union shuttered classrooms for nearly a week. >> todd: and education secretary cardona asked letter from the national school board association calling parents dom

kentucky congressman james comer saying they have a lot of questions about where he gets his money fromrk and consulting deals. don't we all. president biden denied any inclusion in the business dealings. hunter biden's laptop tell a different story. >> carley: a texas judge says the arrest of an illegal immigrant violated the constitution and ordered the case dismissed, the issue focusing on whether it is unconstitutional to have stase enforcement of federal immigration laws. the ruling opening the flood gate by other migrants charged with trespassing to fight their arrest. thousands to the border ark mida spike in illegal crossings. white house facing tough questions on the pandemic, when asked if they should change their strategy vice president kamala harris left many americans confused. listen. >> it is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is everyday. everyday it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. >> todd: joining us live federal ist columnist eddie scarry. great to have you. you know what tha

. >> todd: joining us is congressman james comer.an come every republicans ultimately do take back congress do you expect joe biden to be impeached by a trial of the american people? >> it certainly up a trail but i don't think republicans need to take our eye off the ball just yet. we need to focus on winning the elections in november. were going to continue to grow. i spoke with jim jordan over the weekend and he's got plenty of investigations on judiciary. we have as well, the numbers were trying to act millet data we are asking for the administration to preserve every document they know what's going to happen in january. they're going to start getting real oversight and the american people want answers. i think joe biden has a lot of explaining to do. we knew they were doing something with the illegals. until this video came out to actually prove it, we didn't know exactly how they were transporting these illegals from one point to the other, but the american people did not want these people in their neighborhood. this is somethi

james comer joined you last hour. >> priority number one hold biden administration accountable.ebacle in this administration from afghanistan to the wuhan lab lab for gain of function research. >> cheryl: 55% of americans disapprove of president biden's performance one year into the four-year term. >> griff: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez making headlines again talking about covid and when you can go back to work. what is she say something >> cheryl: she is the gift that keeps on giving. new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez says that forcing people back to work after a five-day quarantine is "sociopathic."and says, got covid, probably omicron, i'm recovered, wrappaing up quarantine. it was no joke, mild is misleading when the bar is hospitalization and death. mild cases can result in long covid, including cognitive impair sxment chronic fatigue. her claim goes against what doctors, researchers, even the cdc has said about the omicron variant of covid. >> ashley: it is better to leave this to the health officials and keep quiet on it. by the way, she goes on to

elizabeth: we have gop congressman james comer, ranking republican on house oversight.archives release information on the sale of an african cobalt mine that was basically orchestrated by a company in china hunter biden's investment firm china owns stakes in. we reported on "the evening edit," how the cobalt mine was accused of human rights abuses from watchdogs around the world. listen to senator ron johnson what is going on. listen to this. >> they're completely, you know, not being transparent with congress, with the american public. so that just raises my suspicion. all we were trying to figure out is, to what extent does he have financial foreign entanglements, that could represent a national security risk to america. tony bobulinski said he joe biden was compromised. we've been trying to uncover this for year and this is the kind of crap we get from the secret service. elizabeth: how could the president be compromised? >> if he has a son engaged in deals across the world, involved with china, russia, ukraine. these are hot spots around the globe, it will impact de

elizabeth: we've got republicans jim jordan and james comer, they have emails with scientists from tulaneindicating they told dr. fauci early in 2020, january, february, this virus looks genetically altered and looked like it escaped from a lab in china. there were multiple labs, not just the wuhan lab working on gain of function work. dr. fauci, looks like emails keep coming out, congressman. what do you think of this? >> i think it is horrible. i think he should be made accountable for that, lose his job again because of his lying, people got sick and actually died. this is really serious business. i can't believe that so many people are overlooking it at the government level and certainly the administration is. it is not right and jim jordan is doing a good job, they both are, doing a good job digging into this, finding out what the truth is. this whole thing has been unbelievable. first fauci told us you need no masks. then one mask, two masks, three masks. then you didn't need, you get the vaccine you wouldn't, you would be totally protected, you wouldn't need masks at all. that wasn

james comer is a ranking member of house oversight of economic advisers is a thomas phillipson.eat to have you both on its good to you both. but first you congressman, the white house may cut off russia entirely from dealing with in a u.s. bank or individual that would cut off russia's bank from international financial network. it would hit russia's economy hard. how would a rush or respond to that? >> i think russia is prepared for that. i think they know we are going to implement the most severe sanctions that's ever been handed down by the united states congress. think putin is a prepared unfortunately do sanctions on a country the people affected most are the average citizens. putin is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. i think his government is prepared. they are going to do whatever their end goal is and it appears there in goal is to invade a big part of ukraine. >> to the congressman's point, thomas, if this goes into a hot war in russia invades wall street, excuse me if russia invades ukraine sorry about that. there warning gas at $5 a gallon. >> yes the co

cheryl: that is is right, maria, steve scalise and james comer calling the president's action a derelictiony supply at-home covid tests and abandoned the national pandemic response and undermined science. lawmakers are looking to probe some of the top including anthony fauci and hhs secretary javier becerra. officials say the fire was turned by space heater and didn't spread far. malfunctioning fire door allowed smoke to travel throughout the buildings. the folks died from smoke inhalation, 50 people remain in critical condition this morning. the death toll from 19 to 17. little bit of good news in all of this. surveillance video capturing a group of robbers armed with sledge hammers stealing a hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry, san jose, california, the group used the sledge hammers to smash and grab necklaces and other pieces of jewelry, so far no arrests have been made. and finally people getting comfy in crocs, revenue surged 67% in 2021. crocs is projecting a billion dollar increase in revenue compared to 2020. other company shoe makers like ugg and deckers have seen surge in t

to hold a hearing on the president's broken pandemic promises, joining me kentucky congressman james comermember, congressman great to see you your leading the push for an investigation into biden's failed policies tell me more about it. >> these policies are having a detrimental effect on our economy we are seeing labor shortage seeing a crisis that with healthcare workers, not having healthcare workers, vaccine mandates are pushing people, to the edge, to the point where they are just walking away from workforce at a time when we have to get our economy back to work, where it was during trump years before covid, so, we want to hold a hearing this is a big decision, that joe biden madew without input without any debate from congress, and we feel ric there should be hearings so we can -- the funds i think american people on side of the house republicans on this issue. >> how many democrats onboard with you about that i note senate side a range of democrats sent a letter, tersely worded letter to the white house end of the last week unauthorized, by senator jacky rosen but, also -- senators

thank you so much, carry woman maloney for the invitation to speak here today and ranking member james comer as well and for the entire committee for holding a hearing on this issue. it is well past time of lifting the time limit. and well past time of talking about the equal rights amendment, and the first full committee hearing since the 1970s is absolutely long overdue. this is an important step for sex equality, and for democracy, and we are grateful to be here, and i especially am grateful to be in this room, named for one of my heroes, elijah cummings and i always loved one of his admonishments to us that we can do better than this, and this is what i feel about america and its girls and women. we can do better than this. i'm glad to be here with my board members, alyssa milano, who are leading this effort in this country for equality. my name is carol jenkins, and i'm grateful to be serving as the president and ceo of e.r.a. coalition and its sister organization the fund for women's equality. i've been fighting for what i call simple and pure equality, which is the concept for the equ

> thank you so much, chairwoman moroney, for the invitation to speak here today, and to ranking james comer as well and to the entire committee for holding a hearing on this issue. it is well past time of lifting the time limit. and ratifying the rights of the 1970s is long overdue. we are grateful to be here, and i especially am grateful to be in this room named for one of my hearings, elijah cummings. i always loved one of his admonishments to us that we can do better than this. that's what i say to girls and women, we can do better than this. i'm grateful for alyssa milano who is leading this issue. i am proud to be serving as the ceo for the women's equality. i've been fighting for simple and pure equality which is the concept of the equal rights amendment for almost my entire life. this what i call an agitation for democracy and equality runs through my veins. i was born in one of the poorest counties in north america. i was born some time ago and still today one of the poorest. louns county, alabama. my friend got beaten for asking for a cup of coffee. my successful business uncle, he