lucas tomlinson live at the white house, thank you. eric. eric: attorney general eric garland directing fbi to look at threats of violence contentious school board phoenix. the national school boards association preparing for thoughts to some parents to domestic terrorism. officials confirming the fox news they did peak with an fda and justice department before the letter was sent to the president. live in washington with mark on this circular route. alexandria. reporter: does a lot of timing issues here people are looking closely at. right now the white house is trying to distance itself from the attorney general's office telling fox news contacts was made with the justice department, d.o.j. took enforcement action on its own. it was outlined in the memo released by merrick garland, federal law enforcement, school boards. national school work association documents obtained by fox news shows they met with white house as early as september 14 and the association was actively engaged in the department of justice as well. the association also t

arthel: lucas tomlinson, thank you.the way, we're going to have a lot more with congressional correspondent chad pilling grim who knows herring about it. he's going to join us in about 20 minutes. eric: yeah. if anybody can explain it, that will be chad. meanwhile, president biden is clarifying statements made earlier this past week about those payments that may be given to migrant families who were separated by trump administration border policies. he said that was not going to happen. well, the president says he was disagreeing with the reporter's amount, $450,000 per migrant, but he does support compensation now. he says as long as it's part of settling those lawsuits over the trump white house actions. steve harrigan live from the border in del rio, texas, with the very latest on all this. hi, steve. >> reporter: eric, there's been some real mixed messages coming out of the biden administration when it comes to paying migrant settlements, migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally. on wednesday president biden sai

molly: lucas tomlinson, thank you. griff?ngled by trucking shortages, add rising inflation, and this could add up to be one of the most expensive high school day season -- holiday seasons ever. charles watson is lye in savannah, georgia, with the latest. hi, charles. >> reporter: hi, griff. there's certainly plenty of frustrations here at the savannah port. you know, they've been trying to to get goods in and out to where they should be quickly, but with so many supply chain challenges clashing at once, it's a hard task. one of the wig issues being -- big issues being a lack of space to hold all of the new and back dated cargo often showing up to the savannah port at the same time. reports the ships sit off the coast for days until the port finds space to unload the cargo on the ships. bad news, of course, for hearn manufacturers who according to the institute of supply management are waiting a record 92 days to get the raw materials they need to assemble their products. we spoke to the manager of a trucking company here in s

lucas tomlinson in delaware where the president is spending the weekend, hello, lucas.as: good afternoon, mike, unlike the infrastructure bill that passed the house and senate the other economic agenda has yet to pass in either chamber. the democrats only have a slim 3-seat majority in the house which republicans think is toast next year in the midterms. here is john barrasso on fox sunday morning futures. >> they are basically are in your face saying, we know nancy pelosi is done as speaker, the squad has come out and said, we me we will lose the majority in 2022. we don't care, we are going to go as far as we can to the radical left until you get a chance of the election of 2022 to throw us out. lucas: democrats hoped to pass both bills together to satisfy progressive and moderate wings of the party but divorced when infrastructure passed. moderates are worried of price tag of special spending bill. senators joe manchin, kristen - kristen sinema will be the deciding vote. one of the president's top advisers sounded hopeful. >> senator manchin has been a partner. he's

lucas tomlinson in delaware where the president is spending the weekend, hello, lucas.,

republican congressional committee chair, tom and/or is here with his reaction but we begin with lucas tomlinsone at the white house. >> inflation in this country is the highest it's been in three decades. across the united states from college football, the dinner table, americans are feeling the squeeze. lawmakers from both parties admitted inflation is a big problem. >> of course inflation israel. i'm back home and prices have gone up at the gas pump. i was at the grocery store, meet cost more and cost more, we have to acknowledge the problem. >> inflation spring the everyday. energy prices have gone through the roof. the american public is going to feel this at every level in the biden administration caused every bit of it. >> is not just the thanksgiving table where americans are feeling the effects of inflation. driving to the feast will be costing a lot more. gas prices houston to new york to l.a. spiking 40 to 60%, even president biden appearing surprised. >> pain for this much. gallon of gas, some parts of california are paying $4.50 a gallon. >> much more than last year for thanks givin

. >> lucas tomlinson live in delaware thank you lucas. >> coming up will have the latest on the federal appeals court temporarily blocking the president vaccine requirement for employers. this could be an uphill battle for the administration or is it a win question at plus the national spotlight on the issue of education and schools the big question remains, how can we make our schools better? keep our students competitive in the world, that is a big question but will get answers the head of appearance group head on "fox news live". they can even change the world around us. packed with protein plus 21 vitamins and minerals we nourish them with carnation breakfast essentials. because today could change everything. >> u.s. federal appeals court has defendant present biden's vaccine mandate for private employers louisiana attorney jeff landry call an unlawful outreach or overreach. alexander has details. >> a by demonstration plans to the court of appeals for louisiana by the state attorney general praise the decision writing the president will not impose procedures on the american people

lucas tomlinson is live with the latest at the white house. >> not often we get to talk turkey, but with inflation, the cost of the bird is highest in this century and americans are feeling the squeeze at the pump and president biden announcing yesterday. >> paying this much for a gallon of gas, in some parts of california paying $4.50 a gallon. >> the price of a 15-pound turkey surged from $11 in 2018 to $21, the j ump in the past year and just been everything that you need to make your meal complete. eggnog, eggs up 30%, dessert, sugar up 12%, a far cry from the summer when the white house boasted the cost after july fourth cookout would be cheaper. >> the american people amidst the economic crisis, not to them, looking out there from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more, and we face challenges and tackle them head-on. >> it's not just heartburn over the inflation issue, it's over the president's vaccine mandate. and a court is upholding the mandate. the oklahoma national guard says it will not enforce the mandate. >> thanks, griff. griff: the judge in the kyle rittenhouse tri

we began with lucas tomlinson live in delaware where the president is spending the weekend. >> good evening, the infrastructure bill has passed through the senate and the house of representatives the socials the deed is passing through either. they say the social spending bill true price tag that the $4 trillion and the president disputes that number. >> the bill that the republicans continue to describe his continuous misinformation. our bill cost 1.75, 1.9 as amended and what we raised in terms of revenue is somewhere around 2.1 trillion but the real thing were paying for every penny in this bill. >> democrats had hoped to pass to satisfy the progressive immoderate wings of the party but the house divorced the two bills friday night when the infrastructure bill passed moderates are worried about the social spending bill passing the 1.2 trillion dollars infrastructure bill it's very unlikely that democrats will get 13 republicans for the social welfare and climate change plan like they did with infrastructure friday night, joe manchin kyrsten sinema will play a leading role over the massiv

lucas tomlinson, fox news. and the president.his administration has a plan to identify and pay for upgrades to u. s ports within the next 90 days. the white house hopes that will tempt down the inflation being caused by ships waiting to dock and a shortage of truck drivers to haul goods. new attend the islamic center of san francisco insist it won't be deterred by vandalism it considers an active hate officials there say someone threw a beer bottle through the window of the mosque late last night. when isis seth reviewed the security video, they found the quality of the recording was too poor to be of any use to find the vandal, but they do want to speak with that person. they say they want the vandal to visit the mosque and learn more about what it does and what islam represents. meantime the senate was asking for donations to go towards repairs and for upgrading its security cameras as well. an arson investigation is underway in petaluma. after a 50 ft yacht caught fire early this morning. police and firefighters responded arou

ainsley: lucas tomlinson is live in rehobeth beach with the latest on biden's response to all of thisvisors rushed to defend it. >> the president of the administration wouldn't have put these requirements in place if they didn't think they were appropriate and necessary, and the administration is certainly prepared to defend them. >> i'm quite confident the value validity of this requirement will be upheld. if osha can tell people to wear a hard hat on-the-job it can put in place simple measures to keep our workers safe. reporter: more than two dozen, mostly republican-led states filed lawsuits friday challeng ing the vaccine mandate for private companies setting up a high stakes show down with the courts late last week the biden administration said all businesses with more than 100 employees must require their workers to be vaccinated. kansas democratic governor laura kelly says i don't believe this directive is the correct or most effective solution for kansas, states have been leading the fight against covid-19 from the start of the pandemic. last night a florida congresswoman soun

arthel: lucas tomlinson at the white house. president biden acknowledged that inflation is taken on many of us. he promises to tackle the issue head-on. consumers are paying more for everything from groceries to gas as we have seen. and shed, since november of 1990. back in july the president said he does believe the spike in prices was only temporary. >> our economy has come running back, we see price increases. some folks have raised worried that this could be assigned of persistent inflation. that is not our view. our experts believe in the data shows that most of the price increases that we have seen were expecting and expected to be temporary. eric: founder and ceo of the firm, dirty to advisors and former economic advisor to president obama. former chairman and ceo of ubs america. you just heard, this wiki promise relief, but when will it come? >> you and i have chatted before. as you know i was nonsupportive of said chairs powell's view of transitory. it is clear to me that inflation was here then, it's here now and it w

. >> bret: lucas tomlinson in arlington, thank you. as we honor veterans here at home, two retired u.s. marines remain in captivity in russia. they remained no closer to freedom now than the day they were arrested. correspondent benjamin hall shows us. >> trevor is a great young man. he has so much going for him. he had such drive and he was achieving his goals. >> trevor rita, texas special force marina is still behind bars in russia. he is now on hunger strike to protest poor prison conditions, held in solitary confinement, and his mother thinks he knows why. >> he was a marine and they will leverage for him to get people back that they want from the united states. >> also a former marine was detained in moscow in 2018 and sentenced to 16 years for espionage charge he says was entrapment. >> he spends most of his days making button holes in the labor camp, it's a cold part of russia right now. >> president biden raised both cases in june, pledging to do everything he could. >> the families of the detained, we are going to follow thro

john kirby was asked by our lucas tomlinson when we see battery-powered fighter jets.irby would not give a timeline. he was asked by where china and climate change rank as national security threat. he said they are equal. lauren: hillary vaughn, thanks for your reporting there. we have tim walberg and michael burgess. both on house and energy commerce. congressman walberg, what is your reaction to nancy pelosi saying that the u.s. military pollutes more than 140 countries combined? >> this is absurd. it runs along the agenda that they have that has no common sense at all or in touch with reality. to equate our military as being polluters that are beyond repair to the point that we have to turn them over to a total different fighting force because of so-called climate change that they're impact something absurd and shows why the leadership team that is there right now does not have america's best interests at heart nor are they capable of leading this nation. elizabeth: congressman burgess, like your reaction to biden's comptroller nominee saying that the white house wa

fox news pentagon producer lucas tomlinson and his wife ann are the proud parents of the 7-pound baby it is one viewer at a time. we ever adding one viewer at a time. "special report." tomorrow on "special report," we are following the rittenhouse trial of course possible verdict from the jury we will see and we will look at the president's agenda on capitol hill. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair balanced and still unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by jesse watters this week starts right now. hey, jesse. >> jesse: you are in my dream foresome, bret baier. [laughter] >> jesse: i will see you out on the links. >> bret: sounds good. >> jesse: good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." i'm jesse watters. we begin with a fox news alert. moments ago the judge dismissed the jury in the kyle rittenhouse trial for the evening. they will return for deliberations first thing tomorrow morning. the jury has been under intense pressure by protesters and the media to deliver a guilty verdict. we have seen reports of jurors being reco

lucas tomlinson reports from the marine corps memorial overlooking the arlington cemetery. >> 100 yearspresident biden honored america's veterans. >> you are the very spine of american, not just the backbone, the spine. >> justly did a century ago, military procession march through arlington military cemetery. throughout the nation's capital, more ceremonies took place at the world war i and world war ii memorials. as well as a wreath laying at the navy memorial and for the first time, and reading of all 7,070 names of those americans killed in action since 9/11. read by gold star families at the tunnel to tower ceremony at the lincoln memorial. at the vietnam memorial, a ceremony in front of the wall lists all 58,318 americans killed in action. when hundred years ago today, unknown american soldiers killed in world war i was placed in a horse-drawn carriage and paraded through the nation's capital to a state funeral at arlington. speed of the tomb of the unknown soldier itself has become our natural place of mourning for all of those who have lost a lod one. >> president harding spoke

we are getting an idea from lucas tomlinson, an official washington response to this, all hands on deck. >> it is not often we talk turkey but the highest inflation in 30 years, thanksgiving turkey will cost more than any time this century. americans feeling the squeeze at the pump. president biden recognizing the skyrocketing costs. >> you pay this much for gallatin of gas, some parts of california paying $4.50 a gallon. >> reporter: the price of a 15 pound turkey surged from $11 to $21, the highest in decades after a 25% jump in the past year. everything else you might need to make the thanksgiving meal cost more. the eggnog meal will price the cost of eggs 30% a year, dessert, sugar is up 12%, far cry from this past summer when the white house boasted the cost of a july 4th cookout would be $0.16 cheaper despite skyrocketing prices the president tried to remain optimistic. >> president biden: today at the economic report showing unemployment continuing to fall. consumer prices remain too high. amid the economic crisis, showing strong results, still looking out there. everything from

that raises national security concerns and from the pentagon lucas tomlinson picks up the story. >> good from boot camp over their refusal to get vaccinated. pentagon hopes others get the message. >> secretary has been very clear with the leaders of the military departments he wants them to execute the mandate with a sense of compassion and understanding. >> 12,000 active duty airmen remain unvaccinated out of 326,000. that's roughly 4% of the air force. officials say to join the air force today you must now be already vaccinated. those serving who refuse won't be kicked out immediately. the pentagon says there is no military-wide punishment mandated. each service need to decide to handle it. the navy and army coming up. >> they have a range of tools available to them to help troops make the right decisions for themselves, for their units and families short of using the uniform code of military justice. therefore short of punitive measures. >> only six members of the air force have died of covid. proof the vaccine's utility. others say covid has not really affected much healthy people. >

lucas tomlinson is in delaware where the president spent the weekend, two days, coming back to the white house as we speak and lucas, good morning there. >> good morning, bill. president biden took off from here not long ago and heading back to the white house. not only did he take issue what was said on saturday he appeared to be down right angry responding to a question from our colleague david spunt. >> president biden: whether it's legal or illegal and you lost your child. you lost your child, he's gone, you deserve some kind of compensation no matter what the circumstance. what that will be i have no idea. >> u.s. authorities have detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the border in mexico and arrests are highest ever recorded. illegal border crossings have skyrocketed and become a political lieability nard to afghanistan, loss to the republicans last week. president biden's exchange with peter doocy over the potential payment of $450,000 to families separated at the southern border. >> there were reports that were surfacing your administration is planning to pay illegal immi

lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon. >> the air force inspector general who conducted the investigationformation. i'm confident you would agree with me. it is unfortunate when you get that volume of data and you try to interpret things the best you can and you don't have time. you don't have the luxury of time when you perceive something to be an imminent threat that's approaching you. >> 10 innocent people and seven children were killed when a missile was fired at a car after following the car for eight hours. the strike took place three days after 13 americans were killed at the suicide attack. the bomb carried in a computer bag. a similar bag was assumed going into the car that was droend. the chairman of the house intel committee says i remain unconvinced that the classified investigation provides for real accountability. no punishment has been recommended for anybody associated with the drone strike. >> dana: thank you so much, lucas. [applause] >> bill: that was the seen in douglas county, colorado south of denver after voters pushed back against the district's woke education poli

but i would like to turn to lucas tomlinson in delaware. hello. >> president biden is calling this a once in a generation opportunity to fix the country's aging infrastructure. the bill would not have passed without republican support. >> president biden: fi week. speak about the senate and the house have passed a bill but the president has not yet signed into law. >> president biden: i want people who got so hard to get this done, democrats and republicans, to be here when we sign it. >> your suits and $12 trillion bill. $66 billion for railways, 65 billion to expand access for high-speed internet, and $55 billion to protect against , floods, and wildfire. the progressive wing blocked the infrastructure bill for months to force a vote on the other massive piece of information, the social spending bill which will take place after congress returns the week of november 13th. the white house also is upbeat over a better than expected job support and pfizer's pill showing promising results after vaccine in kids ages 5-11. but asking why republi