senator john thune is the other republican ending the 2022 suspense.cluded this. salk deserves a strong senator who can deliver and i'm the senator to get that done. ron johnson says he's a truth-teller. not exactly. >> a conspiracy theorist, proponent of the big lie and believes all kinds of crazy things about covid and the vaccine but he's a true trumper. i mean, when i saw this announcement that he was going to run for re-election, no real surprise there even though he said he wouldn't run. it makes sense. makes sense in the only for 2022, also for 2024. i mean, is he someone who sees himself when he looks in the mirror as someone who could run for president, particularly if donald trump doesn't run in 2024. there are all sorts of people, people like ron desantis and greg abbott who are trying to fill that void should there be one if trump doesn't want to run in 2024 so running in 2020 makes sense to set him up and possibly for 2024. >> if you look at the landscape here, the cook political report does it this way. 34 seats up, one leans dem. the wis

because john thune is likely seen as mitch mcconnell's successor. he is the number two senate republican, he is eyeing that spot. so that is why republicans wanted him to run for reelection. he is 61, fairly dwyounger than other senators so he can seek another term. now all eyes turn to senator ron johnson of wisconsin, he is the last republican who has still not said whether he will run for reelection, however, senate republicans are hopeful that he will because of course the goal being the republicans want to win back their majority in the house and the senate in the 2022 midterms. fred? >> thank you so much for that. >>> coming up, a busy and emotional week for president biden on the heels of the january 6th insurrection anniversary. he traveled to colorado to tour the widespread damage from the wildfire there and speak with those who have lost everything. so much more straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm

then from the floor senator john thune, lindsey graham, john cornyn and chuck schumer all talk about the issue. together this runs about 90 minutes. >> something disturbing is happening in washington this week. a group of politicians are trying to set aside election results, overrule american voters, and break, break our institutions to get a political outcome they want. i'm speaking of course about the senate democratic leader and the radical left. the senate democratic leader is trying to bully hisrs own membes into breaking their word, breaking the senate and silencing the voices of millions of citizens. so that one political party can take over our nation's elections from the top down. in january 2021, a mob try to intimidate and change the senate, and they failed. in january of 2021, the senate stayed true to itself and it stood strong. but in january of 2022, some of the senates own members want to permanently damage this institution from within. they want to shatter central feature. the democratic leader is using fake hysteria, fake hysteria, about 2021 state one state laws to

mitch mcconnell, richard shelby, susan collins, james inhofe, john thune, john cornyn, lindsey graham, chuck grassley, richard burr, lisa murkowski. what is so different now? t-r-u-m-p, f-e-a-r, the big l-i-e? what is so different now? voting rights protections haven't changed. we haven't grown all of a sudden a different group of ethnicit ethnicities. those are members of congress who voted in favor of voting rights then and they are in the senate now. that is roy blunt, john bozeman, shelby moore, capito, jerry moran, roger vick wicker and marsha blackmon. every one of those republicans took a stand for voting rights more than 15 years ago. where did they stand now? what's different? ask them. you put them in office. ask them what is different now. i'll hold. here's our breaking news tonight, kevin mccarthy says he won't cooperate with the january 6th committee. he says that he has got nothing to hide. so why won't he talk? >> do i think he will, we'll see. but you know, holding a title in congress doesn't make you exempt from having to be, you know, to bring information you may hav

the senator john thune, he just said something about giving food or water. these people take money from lobbyists, meals and stuff. they just banned that recently, but it's preventing voters to get any typey of water. that's kind of hypocrisy. another thing the gentleman just before me mentioned about it's not a democracy, it's a republic. 37 states dont not have a filibuster. okay. 13 do, 37 do not have a filibuster. the gentleman before that also mentioned if this that also mentioned if this thing passed will be another january 6, this is the type of sentiment that is beingem responded to. i you just played a clip on 2005 of joe biden, again, the replacement of the filibuster laws. it's's a different world. after trump, after these legislature passing these laws makingas restrictions on minori and people of color to vote. they're not crying over that for nothing. it's reality. a person has too for an hour to vote if they're black or people of color. white people in suburbia or other places wait five minutes. that's public record, i don't know why people ar

>> normally the types of john thunes have been heading for the exits.probably are nice and saying hey, pat toomey, we saw him leave. john thune wants to stick around in the republican party. it's still dominated by donald trump. there are some voices that are necessarily super trumpy that will come after the 2022 midterms. so a sigh of relief, but also one of the exceptions rather than the norms. >> one of the three johns we're watching for future republican leadership. but that's a segment for another day. charles and mark, thank you both. and up next, an update on the worst fire in new york city has seen more than 30 years. stay with us. s seen more than 30 years. seen more than 30 years. ay with us his girlfriend just caught the bouquet, so he's checking in on that ring fund. that photographer? he's looking for something a little more zen, so he's thinking, “i'll open a yoga studio.” and as for the father of the bride? he's checking to see if he's on track to do this all over again... and again. bank of america's digital tools are so impressive, you

john thune says there'sinterest in reforming the electoral count act of 1887.fying the role the vice president and congress play in certifying presidential elections. in other words, making it clear the vice president's role is ceremonial and doesn't have the power to pick and choose electors he or she wants to certify. chuck schumer says that is not enough. >> that plan, the mcconnell plan, that's what it is, is unacceptable insufficient and even offensive. some score keeping matters little if the game is rigged. >> with the two parties in their corners, it would seem unlikely congress will send anything on this issue to the president's desk for his signature. martha? >> martha: thanks, mike. let's bring in andy mccarthy, former prosecutor and fox news contributor. he wrote about this today in his column. thanks for being here. first of all, to address what has been taking place here today, which is to kind of intertwine voting reform bills from democrats in to january 6 and to sort of dangle this idea that because of what happened on january 6, future voting

end of the day john thune has a pretty good chance of staying right where he is. >> and mitch mcconnell has learned from recent elections, sometimes his friends disappeared, he's happy to keep john thune on hand. appreciate everybody coming in. listen to our podcast. don't forgot that. download "inside politics" wherever you get your podcasts. busy news day. stick with us. erica hill picks up right now. >>> good afternoon. i'm erica hill in for ana cabrera. the loss of america's best-known tv dads is in shock. actor and comedian bob saget was found unresponsive in his hotel room. he was just 65. best known as danny tanner on "full house" where he gave out advice for eight seasons and some that we could use today. >> talking about it, that's what helps me. talking about the memories. that's what keeps her had in your heart. >> saget, of course, was also a familiar face to fans of "america's funniest home videos," a show he hosted making him a fixture in your living rooms in the 1990s. it's a lovable sitcom dad that they knee had a very funny side. saget's routines were hugely successful.

but what difference does it make if he passes it down to john thune, who is basically his groomed on number 2, that is not with the republican base, is i do though, think that this year, it's not just that the advantage is so big. it's that how the presidency of donald trump ended in the mood put the republican voter in plus the national moves which appears to be significantly favoring republicans. they have a unique opportunity here to make some real changes. and there are some very different candid it's running. now, it takes a lot to throw in a convent out of office, but if republicans are going to do it, and if they're going to, you know, re brand their party if they're going to change the face and the policy of their party, this would be the year to do it, peter, you know, and i, as an x one example, joe, can't washington 3 voters do not have to settle for, put her out there. joe can if he wins the jungle, he will. when are the run off? it's that simple. that's the mood we're in right now. so it would be a significant improvement from, ah, you know, from her, for the work, if yo

. >>> south dakota republican senator john thune announced he will run for reelection this november. senator and the likely success tor to mitch mcconnell. the announcement came after speculation that thune would retire, and president trump declared thune political career over after the senator called out his lies about the 2020 election. joining me now are sabrina siddiqui of the "wall street journal," and rachel, i want to start with you. the fascinating thing, if he runs, he wins, he's from a red state. no primary was going to have a different impact on him. this was a different calculation in terms of whether or not he wanted to be in the party to some degree anymore as a sitting lawmaker. what did you make of his decision? >> yeah, look, i think a lot of republicans have sort of put off this decision about whether or not to run again. they think the closer you can get to a primary, or i'm sorry, the closer you can get to the primary time, the more likely they won't have an opponent, and obviously you mentioned donald trump being out there wanting to possibly recruit someone agai

dakota senator john thune announcing today he will run for re-election.r more, let's bring in daniella diaz on capitol hill. daniella, what more are we learning about his announcement? >> reporter: fred, he made this announcement on twitter just an hour ago. this is huge news. you know, he is the senate minority whip, making him the number two senate republican and likely the successor for senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. he could take over leadership in the senate for republicans. i want to read a little bit about what he said in his tweet when he announced he is running for re-election. he said south dakota deserves a strong and effective senator who can deliver the results they expect. i'm uniquely positioned to get that job done and i look forward to earning the support of all south dakotaens in the 2022 election to u.s. senate. he was mulling over this decision for a few weeks. it wasn't clear that he was going to announce he would run for re-election. he's 61 years old, which makes him a little younger than some of the other senators he serve

the adults in the room, mitch mcconnell, deputy john thune, they don't believe it's a good strategy,but the reason we see so many republicans echo this is because they are trying to curry favor with the former president. i traveled to ohio several months ago, covered that senate republican primary. they are all vying for his endorsement, and it's hard to see how any of them get it without continuing to echo this lie that the 2020 election was somehow rigged or stolen. >> and, nicholas, if you talk to those around leader mcconnell who raises a lot of money to funnel into these senate races, who because of some disappointments in past campaigns pays very close paengs to t -- attention to the primaries and the like, and they say what could blow it, and they think trump. >> that is certainly a concern for them. look what happened in these special elections last year in georgia. republicans said if not for trump coming in and saying votes might not count in a depressing turnout, they might have won those races. yes, it is a concern for them heading into this fall where they think they can

rounds, a senator, a former governor, is saying the truth in public, frankly much like others, john thune that he was going to run for re-election even though he has been on the -- the wrong side of donald trump many a time for saying outrageous things like joe biden is the actual president, but it seems as though people like mike rounds, grown-ups, people who have been around a long time, who feel like they can't do it anymore are stepping out with a little bit, maybe a baby toe, and it shouldn't be this surprising. it shouldn't be this controversial to say something like that, but it is. every time this happens it is a prime example of the tantrum that the former president has and the grip that he thinks he has on the gop still. >> right, so you don't want to overstate it because it's still a minority of republicans who are willing to stand up consistently and say it, but in the case of senator rounds, he said on the sunday show matter of factually biden won, let's move on. trump attacked him in a long statement in which he uses those unpresidential words, called him a jerk, said he'd n

mike brown stood up to donald trump and got the support of john thune of mitch mcconnell. i'm curious. they feel comfortable, feel they have the political cover now to do that. i'm wondering how big that movement can grow? >> which trump blame and mcconnell. having other republicans fall in line. what's at heart of the ma thor matter of all of this? e, you can talk what they're saying national level, but it's also state-by-state. these local officials installed. a lot of trump loyalists are the ones also at center of what's happening with elections going forward. not just what senate republicans are saying. it's the state and local officials. a lot are trump loyalists that have been installed in these new roles. we'll see how that goes. good job by stephen to keep pressing are the former president on that. >>> meanwhile, the pandemic toll on the food industry has been absolutely relentless. we're going to hear from some restaurant owners on how they plan to cope with this, next. >>> plus, to governor ron desantis and others less than enthusiastic about promoting vaccine bo

number two rewill palin in the senate, john thune, announcing his plans to run for he election, viewedr to mitch mcconnell, and senator ron johnson announcing he is going to run which means the republican prospects for winning back the nat in december. -- senate in december. panel, thank you. we'll see you next week. thank you very much. that's it for us today. i'll see you tomorrow at "special report" at 6 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. have a great week, we'll see you next "fox news and then was sent out to police about an unresponsive man in a hotel room. the orange county sheriff's office says there was no foul play or drug use. bob saget was love so no space on many with his rollout danny tanner in full house.

first up, senate minority whip john thune as he runs for a fourth term saying in a statement he's, quoteways promised to do the work even when it was hard, uncomfortable or unpopular. meantime, sources close to senate ron johnson report that he's decided to go back on his promise to retire after two terms and that he could announce a re-election campaign sometime next week. >>> but while the republicans appear ready for re-election, more and more democrats are bowing out of congressional races. so far 25 house democrats have announced they will not be seeking re-election in november, possibly putting the democrats' razor thin majority in jeopardy. joining us now is minnesota congressman tom amore. congressman, 25 democrats in all say they're not going to go back and try and retake their house seats. what does that do for you and your party? >> well, it just, it's actually a sign that they see what's coming. it's not just 25, jon, and i think you're going to see more. three of them are very powerful committee chairs, and there's even a subcommittee chair from the appropriations committee.

and also on sunday we will find out the plans of john thune, the republican whip from south dakota. >bret: okay. we will follow it, chad, thanks as always. agent facing new foe at the southern border. we will explain. here is what some fox affiliates around the country are covering. fox 61 in hartford, connecticut a predobkin winter blast dumped a foot of snow closing schools and state offices. blizzard-like conditions froze roads all across new england and led to widespread flight cancellations. one massachusetts snowplow driver summed it up 2022 is off to a bang. fox 29 in philadelphia where investigators are looking at the possibility that a 5-year-old playing a lighter under the christmas tree could have caused the fire that killed 12 people earlier this week. it was a philadelphia's worst single fire in a century. none of the building's four smoke alarms worked. this is a look at glen falls, new york. the big story there tonight from fox 5, our affiliate, four mobile phone sports betting sites will begin accepting wages from workers saturday morning after meeting state requiremen

and i want you to listen just to a short clip of what the republican minority whip in the, senate john thuned to say at a news conference they had. sen. thune: pretty much on every level -- you can go right down the list -- this administration has been a failure. and i believe the only way they can fix and cure that is to quit listening to the far left, to get away from the radical agenda that is driving their decision-making process, and come to the middle. judy: so, matt bennett, i don't expect you to necessarily agree with the republican line of thinking, but does -- but is there a seed of a problem? how do you see whether the president has been leaning too far to the left or not? matt: well, first of all, just to be clear, i definitely do not agree with senator thune or what the republicans are saying about joe biden or about democrats. but it is true that joe biden inherited a very, very broad coalition and a very narrow congressional majority. i mean, he has no margin at all in the senate and a three-or-five vote margin, depending on the day, in the house, which means he has to kind of

but you noted john thune, the republican, this is interesting, there is this sort of conservative thinkve seen a lot of op-eds recently discussing the notion that maybe republicans and democrats could get behind a consensus reform just dealing with the electoral count act of 1887. what we saw on january 6th, the rules of presiding over the certification of a presidential election, that law dictates what that looks like. obviously it wasn't very clear because donald trump and his allies thought they could drive a mac truck through it and get mike pence to overturn the election. they couldn't. but there is a movement on the right that says, hey, we'll get on board with some kind of election reform, it could reform this law. of course, that will be totally insufficient to democrats who are looking for actual fortifying and securing of voting rights in the country. >> i will say that law is written so poorly and convolutedly that any reform would be welcome there. like cdc mask guidelines. it is, like, it makes no sense at all. finally, david, this was really interesting to me, jeff weaver,

number two rewill palin in the senate, john thune, announcing his plans to run for he election, viewed senator ron johnson announcing he is going to run which means the republican prospects for winning back the nat in december. -- senate in december. panel, thank you. we'll see you next week. thank you very much. that's it for us today. i'll see you tomorrow at "special report" at 6 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. have a great week, we'll see you next "fox news sunday." ♪ ♪ maria: good sunday morning, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. welcome come to "sunday morning futures," i'm maria bartiromo. happy new year. it is a new day. congress returns to work tomorrow, and we officially kicked off the midterm election year. coming up,ia the man hoping to take gavel for the gop majority after thisin november's electio, leaderer kevin mccarthy is here laying out the gop agenda as the supreme court takes up joe biden's vaccine mandates as he pleads to follow his rules. >> for p

john thune's reaction, he has occasionally come under criticism from trump for stating the plain fact. well, i say to my colleague welcome to the club. he joked. i don't think that relitigating and rehashing the past is a winning strategy. i mean, i think, if we want to be a majority in january 2023. this is the most that thune or anyone will muster which is like an instrumental, tactical argument for why indulging this truly dangerous lie that resulted in a deadly insurrection is maybe not the best thing to do politically, but that's about as far as anyone will go, other than romney. >> you know, sadly, i think that's right. even more sad to my point of view is the point you were making earlier, which is it looked like it was going to be different a year ago in the aftermath of that terrible, tragic day. it looked like the republican party was going to finally recognize the disastrous ends to which donald trump had brought the country and they weren't going to go along with this big lie and didn't expect anybody else to go along with the big lie. not even sean hannity expected the pa

republican in the senate and tried to get the south dakota governor to run in a primary against john thuneat has not played out. no one has talked about reelection and now thune is as well. he is viewed as one of the potential successors to mitch mcconnell in the senate in the event that eventually mitch mcconnell leaves the senate. that contest could be really important and obviously th une is looking to stick around for that. host: harry reid, he held both the majority and minority leap there positions -- minority positions. guest: harry reid's funeral was this weekend. president obama and president biden and leader schumer and speaker pelosi all spoke. now reid will lie in state at the capitol. his body will lie in state in the rotunda, the sort of standing that was used for lincoln's body after he was assassinated, and he will be there for a couple of hours on wednesday and i expect we will see a few more memorial remarks for the former democratic senate majority leader, the man who helped get obama's letter slate -- legislative agenda through the senate, the affordable care act being

senator john thune talked about giving food or water. these people take money from lobbyists. another thing the gentleman just before me mentioned about it's not a democracy it's a republic. 37 states do not have a filibuster. 13 do and 37 do not. the gentleman before that also mentioned if this passes there will be another january 6. this is the type of sentiment that's being responded to. you just put a clip from 2005 of joe biden against the replacement of the filibuster. it is a different world. after trump, after these legislators passing these laws making restrictions on minority and people of color to vote. they are not crying over that for nothing. a person has to wait for an hour for a vote. white people in suburbia and other places wait five minutes. i don't know how people are saying these types of things that's in response to fake elections. 66% of republicans say the election was stolen. 20 million people are saying if it doesn't go back to a republican administration and trump that they are going to take arms. this is not the same world we were living in. 2013 th

director and attorney general as to what should be done next. is♪ ♪ ♪ griff: senate minority whip john thunehen it was hard, uncomfortable or unpopular and the work continues and with the support of my family i'm asking south dakotans for the opportunity to keep serving them in the u.s. senate. ♪ ♪ ♪ griff: live images from our southern border, still no sign of the biden administration's report on the arrest and deportations made by the immigration and customs enforcement in fiscal year 2021. now as that drone flies over panetas, texas, ground zero for president biden's border crisis, our own bill with the latest, a little slow for you right now but as the weather warms, could pick up. bill: griff, absolutely. despite the fact that it's been a slower week in the rgv that doesn't takeaway from the fact that dhs source since october 1st out here in the rgv there have been well over 140,000 migrant apprehensions, we are expecting the activity to pick up once again once the temperatures start cranking up. take a look at the video. we will show you the activity out here. in mission yesterday basi

yes, they could take this negotiated thing from mitch mcconnell on john thune talking about it and say let's make it clear the vice president can't overturn the will of states that have certified elections around the country. let's say what congress's role specifically is. most experts say constitutionally the founders were not planning on the overthrow in the certification process. but they aren't going to do that because they believe there is a bigger fight here to happen. i agree with you, dana, i think that just like the political experts that say former president trump should not focus on the 2020 election, i think that there are a number of people who say there was a choice here to be made whether president biden was going to stir that emotion and stir that pot or talk about getting things done together moving forward. he tried to cross that bridge but clearly is taking advantage of the situation. but making clear we shouldn't forget what happened on january 6th and it can't be accepted what happened on the capitol. >> trace: i'm curious, what happens next in your estimation? you

here's republican senator john thune. as a resident of a rural state, i've long been a proponent of telehealth. if you live in a major city, you usually don't have to think too much about where you'll find a doctor if you need one. that's not always the case for americans in rural areas. the smallest towns in america access to specialty care can be a challenge. the only providers may be primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists. these providers are essential to rural families in times when specialty dare is needed. when there isn't a specialist close by, telehealth can get patients to the mel care they need from a remote location through the use of technology. telehealth services are also critical in nursing home facilities. in my state, we have strong programs designed to bring on-demand support into facilities to help avoid unnecessary emergency department transfers. by reducing unnecessary senior hospitalizations, i should say by reducing them the rush act would facilitate more arrangements like we have in south dako

here's republican senator john thune. as a resident of a rural state, i've long been a proponent of telehealth. if you live in a major city, you usually don't have to think too much about where you'll find a doctor if you need one. that's not always the case for americans in rural areas. the smallest towns in america access to specialty care can be a challenge. the only providers may be primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists. these providers are essential to rural families in times when specialty dare is needed. when there isn't a specialist close by, telehealth can get patients to the mel care they need from a remote location through the use of technology. telehealth services are also critical in nursing home facilities. in my state, we have strong programs designed to bring on-demand support into facilities to help avoid unnecessary emergency department transfers. by reducing unnecessary senior hospitalizations, i should say by reducing them the rush act would facilitate more arrangements like we have in south dako

john louisville. no one stood up and joined us in allowing for a debate on these bills. no one. so that is why we are here. and i say to senator thune the reason we are looking to restore the rules of the senate is because there is no other way to move forward and guarantee americans the right to vote. in the past this was bipartisan. 2006 voting rights act, reauthorized under president george w. bush by a vote of 98-0, 98-0. but that is sadly not where we are today. when it comes to the rules of the senate i am not going to belabor this. i see my friend senator merkley, historical expert on all of this, but i will say this, there are 160 exceptions. 160 exceptions to the filibuster rule. things have been changed to benefit my colleagues from the other side of the aisle. somehow it only takes 51 votes to put in place the trump tax cuts were the bush tax cuts. somehow it only took 51 votes to put amy coney barrett on the supreme court of the united states. somehow it only takes 61 votes to try to overturn a regulation or try to mess around with the affordable care act. but then when it comes to something like voting rights, suddenly

john lewis bill. no one stood up and joined us in allowing for a debate on these bills. no one. so that is why we are here. and i say to senator thune, the reason we are looking to restore the rules of the senate is because there is no other way to move forward to guarantee americans the right to vote. in the past, this was bipartisan. 2006, voting rights act reauthorized under president george w. bush by a vote of 98-0. 98-0. but that is sadly not where we are today. when it comes to the rules of the senate, i am not going to belabor this. i see my friend, senator merkley of oregon, an historical expert on all of this. but i will say this -- there are 160 exceptions, 160 exceptions to the filibuster rule. things have been changed to benefit my colleague from the other side of the aisle. somehow it only takes 51 votes to put in place the trump tax cuts or the bush tax cuts. somehow it only took 51 votes to put amy kony barrett on the supreme court of the united states. somehow it only takes 51 votes to try to overturn a regulation or try to mess around with the affordable care act. but then when it comes to something shrike voting r