nicole saphier. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> mike: what is your assessment of this pill? is, mike. if you look at what we have been dealing with covid versus influenza. the reason we accept there will be an annual flu season is because we have a vaccine and tampa -- tamiflu. pfizer just today got this emergency use authorization. in a study of 2200 high risk individuals, it decreased hospitalization and deaths by up to 89%. will we be able to get this medication into the hands of out patient doctors so patience can take it early on? it has to be given within 3 to 5 days? the government has a contract of about 10 millions courses of this medication, this will be a slow roll out. there are tens of thousands of doses ready to be shipped from memphis. i don't think we will see regular use of this medication for the next few weeks. maybe even a month. that's not going to help our current surge. the number 1 thing they need to do right now is get people tested to start early treatments. >> mike: be patient but relief is coming. this pill will help elderly and people with pre-ex

nicole saphier, you had a christmas wish that you tweeted out.id you get everything that you wanted for christmas? had a number of things on that list, vaccines to targeted high-risk people, masks for those at risk, shortening time for isolation. eliminating expanded quarantines and more. did you get any of that between yesterday and today? >> well, katie, we did see pfizer and merck's medications get their emergency use authorization you there the fda. we saw the cdc shorten the post infection isolation targeted at health care workers. but that was about it. unfortunately one of the biggest things i wanted to see was the targeted vaccines and boosters for the high-risk individuals especially this as new analysis of the data from the oxford study in nature showed that the first, second, and third doses of moderna as well as the second and third doses of pfizer had a higher risk of my myocarditis ad per icar diet tis in males under 40 than covid induced my owe myocarditis alone. the booster campaigns should be targeted for those higher risk indivi

nicole saphier. we have a lot of questions. it seems like we are going backwards here.ng back to lockdown or restrictions. omicron is less severe. it may transmit faster. big picture, we lost 800,000 people. it's serious. where are you on all of this? >> we are having deju-vu heading into the holiday season. we are seeing cases rise and hospitalizations and deaths as well. half of the cases last december heading into the holidays. the arise in hospitalizations and deaths are not paralleling that yet. a third of those. the information coming out about omicron is encouraging with a more milder illness and less hospitalization rates the united states is still battling the delta variant. while the sun-belt and other southern areas throughout summer had a bad delta wave, the northeast did not have a bad wave during the summer. that's why you are seeing higher case loads in the northeast as people are indoors because of the colder weather and the holiday season. what i don't think should be parallel to last year are the talks about mandates and lockdown. we have tools between

nicole saphier. you want to be the governor of new york.t should be happening that's not happening because numbers out of new york are stunning and the confusion is just massive. >> jason, as you are talking to dr. saphier, talking about ideas, testing them at home, access to treatment, access to vaccines. these are all ideas, all levels of government, different parties, they had been talking about what happened the last few months is change for people like a bill de blasio, kathy hochul, joe biden, all their ideas fit under the box of threats, mandates, lockdowns, fines, firings. i think they've actually run out of ideas on how to do some thing productive to combat covid short of going individual lives putatively. trying to compete again each other in a way where new york city's bill de blasio has a new vaccine mandate on all private-sector employers going into effect. there is a statewide mask mandate the governor implemented an gavin newsom, they are talking about school is going to remote learning, we are going backwards and what we sho

nicole saphier board certified radiologist and fox news contributor.ays good to have your medical analysis. new case rates for covid are hitting record levels here in the u.s. hospitalizations, we heard from steve's report and deaths are rising at a much slower rate. i guess that's some good news here, right? >> that's right and yes, we are at record high new cases throughout the pandemic. new case levels have exceeded that as we saw last winter but similar to what south africa continues to report, we are seeing reduction in clinical -- in the -- the number dropped to 14% during the delta wave and less than 5% with omicron with a population that has a less than 40% vaccination rate. in the united states we're seeing the same thing. we have a drastic rise in cases and while there is a slight rise in hospitalizations, that is being driven by the sheer high trance missability and contagiousness of this but not that it is a more severe strain. >> many people going out to get booster shots because they're concerned about getting omicron and dr. fauci is say

nicole saphier, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. ♪ ♪ >> another huge day breaking news.t to get to. president biden giving his big speech on covid and getting very defensive over the surgeon omicron cases. kamala harris stepping in it again after contradicting the white house on a key issue. and after biden's agenda went up in flames, the squad pushing a radical plan for the president to still build back better. but first, president biden trying to convince americans everything is under control as cases of covid spike. the president with more harsh words for the unboxed while touting his response to the pandemic. >> if you are not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you are at a high risk to be getting sick. almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. unvaccinated. get vaccinated now. it's your patriotic duty. we should all be concerned about omicron, but not panicked. this is a critical moment. we are ready. >> and after getting caught off guard by omicron, even though they knew it was coming for weeks, b

nicole saphier. merry christmas. >> mike, merry christmas.e: a lot of folks are struggling mightily trying to get a test before this christmas holiday. first off, who should get a test in your view? >> mike, that is a great question. while you have dr. fauci and cdc director dr. cowenski you have to get a test before you congregate for the holidays, that is smart and prudent thing to do, it is clogging up urgent cares, e.r.s, testing centers. we need those for people symptomatic and needed medical care. before you get testing before you gather, it should be at home rapid tests if you can get your hands on them. they are in short supply. it is nowhere it was near ago. it was the same during the delta wave during the summer. people are testing more than ever. we're seeing a lot more asymptomatic cases and mild cases. if you're going to be in a home setting with a dinner party or being with people outside the household you may want to test to decrease the risk of transmission. the truth doing a lot more testing you are finding more cases. when y

nicole saphier is here to react. at two eastern time, will be joining us on this program live on dems and disagree and mcconnell and his pitch to joe manchin to join the republican party. that and more, coming up live as "america reports" live at the top of the hour. >> lucy, i'm home. >> kayleigh: aaron sorkin is under fire. the creator of "west wing" and "a few good men" is facing backlash after casting spanish actor have a yard barred them as the role of cuban actor desi arnaz, famously known as playing the role of ricky ricardo on i love lucy. but he's firing back at critics saying, you can act being attracted to someone but can't act a or straight, so this notion that only actors should play characters and only cuban actor should play desi, i think it's the mother of all adjuster is on a bad idea. leslie, if only we could not be offended all the time, ad nauseam. >> leslie: i can't believe i'm going to say this on national television but ladies, we all have those secret men that we have a crush on and he is mine

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saphier, did the governor of colorado get it right? >> dr nicolehen you have 110 years given to someone and that is given down to 10-year, which seems to be the right thing to do in my opinion. there's something wrong with the judicial system when that is being done. you have thousands of people sitting in prison systems right now because of nonviolent crimes. this one, as far as we know. for someone this young, he is 26, to lose his life because of something unintentional, that's a problem. when you have those people who do drive-by shootings, that's the focus, cam and get them out earlier? what about sex offenders? you can be a sex offender in new york and go to a restaurant but you cannot be an unvaccinated child. something is wrong here. our perception is skewed. i do think we need to focus on the crime itself, violent or nonviolent. and then intention, at the intention is not there, 100 10-year sentence? that in itself is criminal that they give that to that child. i call a child because of a 22-year-old son, so 26-year-old is kind of a child

nicole saphier. have a great night. "the fox report" with jon scott starts next. jon: thousands of flights canceled as the omicron variant disrupts travel plans in the u.s. and worldwide. i'm jon scott and this is "the fox report." many travelers are spending this holiday weekend stranded at our nation's airports and widespread flight delays and cancellations as the miley transmissible omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country. amid the surge, new york city is set to require employees of private businesses to be vaccinated starting tomorrow. and other cities are considering similar mandates. let's go to charles watson at hartsfield jackson in atlanta with more on these holiday travel disruptions. charles? >> the past few days have been a chaotic night mayor for many folks traveling this holiday weekend. unfortunately today isn't turning out any better. the airlines canceling 2,700 flights. a third of those cancellations are flights coming from or to the u.s. a woman who says she was forced to spend christmas eve with her two sons inside an atlanta hotel b

nicole saphier. doctor, let me start with you. he's been there a long time and makes a lot of money and wrong a lot. is that not a perfect example of washington, d.c.? >> well, pete, let's be honest. at this point i think we have not gotten anything right with covid-19 coming out of the white house and dr. fauci and the cdc. they flip flop every day. what i can tell you some of the verbiage coming out of dr. fauci recently talking about vaccine mandates for domestic air travel. shortening the isolation. i am a big fan of shortening the isolation and the post-exposure quarantine. that was far overdue. it had to be done. we have a man made worker shortage of the vaccine mandates and these long isolation protocols. the data has been there for 6 months. they had to catch up. the vaccine mandates for domestic travel will work as well as the vaccine mandate for the cruise ships. every person had to e vaccinated but they had major outbreaks. the vaccine mandates when you have transmission among the vaccinated and the boosted. it won't he

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doctor nicole saphier tells us what you and your kids could do. carly back to you. >> two teens climb out of the window their high-rise, the black smoke billowing out, onto a construction site down four stories to safety, suffered minor injuries. both teenagers are okay. terrified. todd: father and son joining forces to donate customized middle art to those killed in afghanistan. carley: justice henderson, founder flagged by justice here with us, a beautiful flag they create together. your joining forces. >> flags on the garage when you are 10 years old. he built this for years and developed a knack for the chemical, hands splattered process and went crazy and started across from mine called flags for justice. it is huge. todd: events of late august touched the nation in many different ways. why did you feel compelled to do this? >> always had to get back to the country, this is a creative way we came up with to give back to people who have sacrificed. the families -- carley: you reach out on social media to the families of the 13 who died in afgh

florida senator marco rubio and thomas matthew have the latest from capitol hill and doctor nicole saphierut omicron after the first case was confirmed in san francisco. what we know about the person, how are they and more in 15 minutes. the channel you trust for morning news, back to you for 15 minutes. carley: the omicron very transfer the distraction to the us economy. todd: cheryl casone, the president insists the embattled supply chain will hold up. crisis continues to threaten holiday plans for americans but president biden, someone else to give gifts to families on time. >> we are heading into a holiday season, ups and fedex, on track to deliver more packages together. every gift they want on time, only santa claus can keep that promise. jillian: in october, in long beach, they went 24/7, manufacturing activity did improve in november, the omicron. could be to port closers and higher prices. i said to call but have not heard back from him. todd: when you blame santa claus you are blaming everybody else for your problems. carley: commuters should not get rid of their masks. they will

nicole saphier and congressman mike gallagher and senator marsha blackburn in the white house briefinger the next two hours, more stuff to the christmas goose. join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for america reports. see you then. >> harris: it is december 7th, 80 years to the day since the horrific attack on pearl harbor. we lost 2400 u.s. service members and civilians. when japan launched that surprise assault on our naval base in hawaii. until september 11, it was the deadliest attack ever on american soil. president franklin roosevelt, famously called december 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy. as it pushed the united states into world war ii. this year, dozens of pearl harbor survivors, just 150 them, will gather. 40 of them are veterans of that very day. most of them now, nearly 100 years old. attending the ceremony. and it just moments from now, we will mark the exact time of the deadly bombing with a moment of silence. it is 12:55 p.m. on the east coast, when this happen. in 7:55 a.m., local time in hawaii. and so about six and half minutes, we will take th

nicole saphier. and the author of "holding the line" texas congressman dr. ronnie jackson. doctors, i want to thank you for joining us tonight. i want to start with dr. saphier, because quite frankly, she's my favorite of the three of us sitting here. i want to talk about masks and the mask mended, because it's driving me crazy that 4-year-olds on airplanes or having to get massed. i saw the story earlier this week about kids in new york city sitting on the 32-degree outside separated from the other classmates trying to have a meal. but having to also wear masks. what is going on with masks? what is the realityy dr. saphier? >> jason, i can tell you as we see omicron going around right now, it is extremely contagious highly transmissible. the single cloth mask that the children are wearing are likely going to be ineffective, not really doing anything. because as we see such a high transmission, it is likely a lot of these virus particles. and we know the single masks don't do much for that. many people are having mild systems or even asymptomatic, so it's not going to be th

nicole saphier, and tyrus.♪ >> joe biden is getting up and going to the beach. the president has no events today and instead is in delaware for a holiday getaway while omicron spikes all across the country. back

nicole saphier, and tyrus.is 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> joe biden is getting up and going to the beach. the president has no events today and instead is in delaware for a holiday getaway while omicron spikes all across the country. back when he was a candidate, biden promised to shutdown the virus virus. then once he was president he bashed g.o.p. governors for not doing enough. >> the administration's failure on testing is colossal. but the failure of planning, leadership, and execution. we will deal honestly with the american people. and we will never, ever, ever quit. that is how we will shed on this virus. i am going to shut down the virus. i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going to shut down the virus. we need to scale up testing. so anyone who needs one can get a test. after ten months of the pandemic, we still don't have enough testing. it's a travesty. some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. if you're not

nicole saphier. dr.these different numbers and statistics and trend lines i feel like i should feel good about them. yet, everything i'm hearing from the media and particularly from these power brokers within these major american cities is still the same type of hysteria that i feel like i have been hearing for months on end. who is out of base here? am i wrong to feel like things are looking better? >> well, undoubtedly, ben, i can tell you that when you look at the media headlines and even some of the talking medicines coming out of the administration, it would seem that we are in a perpetual state of his tear i can't understand a panic. i can tell you by looking at global data, including data of the united states, whether it comes to the latest variant, omicron which is probably about 50% to 60% of cases right now in the united states, there are much less -- there are much more mild symptoms being reported with this variant that doesn't mean that people aren't going to be hospitalized with covid-19 an

nicole saphier also familiar to our fox family tweeted part of the dash to provide monoclonal antibodies other treatments to people infected. it is a great move. one that was met with criticism when it was done months ago by governor ron desantis. guys. >> you have to imagine they are sitting down there in tallahassee or wherever he is traveling saying that seems like a really good idea. maybe someone should have thought of that. and of course that is precisely what he did in the state of florida. he was criticized for it. first they called it sort of quackery. wasn't going to work, was an proven science and then more doctors came and said this is a very effective treatment for covid. so the next allegation was that somehow this was corruption on the part of governor desantis, that he was pay for play or involved with something like that. that did not pan out at all and they have the president incorporating precisely this exact same idea in his national strategy, the battle plan for the winter against covid and it looks like governor desantis down in florida is emerging again as a leader

nicole saphier, fox news contributor and former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir.me to both of you. >> thank you for having us. >> mike: from the "new york times" the u.s. breaks single day record hospitalizations and deaths however have not followed the same dramatic increase in the last two weeks. deaths are down by 5% with the daily average of 1221. while hospitalizations increased by just 15% to an average of 78,781 per day. while you obviously want to track cases, dr. saphier, are hospitalizations and fatalities really more meaningful metrics? >> well, absolutely. as of right now, as you can see, we really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is impressive how highly transmissible and contagious this is. what is more important at this point is how many people are being hospitalized and how many people are dying from this virus. and while there is still a very high number, unfortunately what we haven't been able to do throughout the entire course of this pandemic is have true figures a goo

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nicole saphier and house minority whip congressman steve scalise. doctor, i will start with you. her remarks struck me very much like virginia, the guy running for virginia governor, his remark about, you don't have any right as parents to know what your children are being taught, this disconnect as though we are coparenting with her. it is not of her business. what is your take on this notion that 2-year-olds, it's not a big deal to have them in masks for several hours a day? >> well, tammy, first of all, merry christmas eve eve to everyone out there. i do take offense to this in the sense that i am a mother of three children, as well as a physician, and while i can tell you early on in the pandemic when we did not have a lot of tools to decrease transmission and also protect the vulnerable, mask wearing have a much bigger impact and role in our fight against covid-19. however, now that we have an arsenal between vaccines and boosters and treatments and also that we have a wall of immunity between vaccine-induced immunity and natural immunity circulating through our communities,

nicole saphier, what your reaction to this teachers comments to parents?ng up and reading an elementary level dr. seuss like a poem mocking parents and this is what she's doing in a public forum. imagine what is said behind the scenes by this technology teacher. carly, when you have the skilled workers say filling in potholes because the person filling in the pot holes every day don't actually have a say over which pothole is filled and where. they are the workers. they are there because you have elected officials who have been elected by taxpaying individuals and that's why they are there. the teachers are the exact same way. they aren't there to say their beliefs should be influenced on these children. it's the rights of the parents and taxpaying individuals who elect their leaders and school board members and that's where the content is. by the way, reality is that school board had pulled 11 books because they found there were more sexual pages and information in it then deemed acceptable so therefore the parents are on their side of the right as well a

nicole saphier, dan bongino, mike huckabee, and congressman byron donalds. steve: very nice.istmas. you and sean wrote it together and interviewed some people at fox news about our christmas stories. it is number one in the country. rachel: i know. i'm so excited about it but i have to tell you i don't think it's about me and sean. i think that there are so many people out there who are just excited about christmas. there is pent up energy around christmas after our government tried to shut it down for two years now. and i think people are saying no more we want our traditions back. we're not going to let the government cancel christmas. and i think that that's what this is really about. and about holding on to our christian and american cultural heritage. brian: sean takes full for it that was nice of to you be deferential. brian: when i was signing books i get this picture of pete hegseth in a colonial uniform i said what's this? they said it was washington's crossing. i wrote you and you said it's amazing. what can we look forward to that's streaming on fox nation? pete: s

nicole saphier. dr. saphier. always great to see you. welcome and merry christmas to you.rtually no risk or symptoms. why are they pushing this, you know, parents to give their kids the vaccine and pushing mandates on children to get this vaccine? i'm thoroughly confused by that. >> well, good morning, rachel and merry christmas to you and your beautiful family as well. first of all, we need to say it very important to have a safe and efficacious vaccine for people of all ages as those who live with chronic co-morbidity are at risk for covid-19. children as a whole are extremely low risk of i will i illness. important we have a vaccine for them. pfizer earlier this week said their two dose low dose regimen of three micrograms in six months to five-year-old or less than 5-year-olds did not produce a robust immine response. expanding clinical trial to test out a third dose. that's not so uncommon for childhood vaccines, many others that require third doses, mmr, hpv and other. we will see what their data does show for that i can say six month to 4-year-olds have a higher rat

nicole saphier. a couple things here. we know from south africa omicron is highly contagious but hospital rates are down. we are seeing here in america a lot more people are getting omicron and one of the problems for staffing either at hospitals or at these broadway shows is if you test positive, even if you aren't all that sick, if you test positive the property call says you have to stay home for 10 days and not enough staff. are we in for a couple of rough months, dr. nicole? >> i think you make a very valid point, dana. the reason a lot of things are shutting down is not necessarily meaningless mitigation measures. some are. when you have so many employees and staff testing positive and they are forced to go into isolation, who is there to run the show? we aren't just talking broadway shows or restaurants. we're talking hospitals and clinics and so forth. the cdc needs to sit down and really look at this and say what is the best path forward at this point? listen, whether you are vaccinated, boosted or not you can st

nicole saphier going from pandemic to endomic and covid will with us with forever.bility everybody will get it particularly with omicron variant and more that are more connotation. >> sandra: a sanford university professor said we can't stop the spread of covid. protect the old and vulnerable. learn to live with the virus. we will try to book him. >> john: we will have to live with this. it's arrogance to think we will defeat. breaking news in the southern border. the border patrol released new numbers about the number of migrants apprehended. it continues to spiral out of control. we will bring you that new data next. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, now introducing ensure complete! with 30 grams of protein. psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff,... ...swollen, painful. ensure complete! emerge tremfyant®. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic arthritis. some patients even felt less fatigued. serious allergic r

nicole saphier on the ticking clock and what the future may look like. >> mike: first, rich edson livethe white house. hello, rich. >> good afternoon, mike. this method was also for unvaccinated americans to get their shot to keep them out of the hospital. this also comes as the administration is focusing on a massive testing program, three tests to be sent out to americans likely not coming until next month. >> if we had known, we would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. because steps would have to be taken to increase the number of authorized tests. we are now able to purchase 500 million at-home rapid tests to be sent to the american people for free. >> heading into christmas week, americans waited on long lines for covid tests. there were also shortages of at-home kits. in this meeting with governors, the president said his administration has worked to expand testing since it took over in january. though some health officials have criticized the administration for what they say is a late push for sending these free at-home tests. >> unfortunately we do not have enough t

nicole saphier joins us now to discuss. good morning. >> good morning, carley. on president biden's speech yesterday? >> well, carley, coming out of that speech yesterday, it seems like 2022 is going to look like a mad max parody with a lot of frustration and misplaced hysteria. and, unfortunately, he is talking about deploying fema and the military to help support government made staffing shortages from burnout, lengthy quarantines and isolation as well as the mandates. it was really a missed opportunity to focus on several key aspects. one being to focus on the hospitalization rates rather than the new case counts, which thankfully, hospitalization rates per cases right now are much lower than we have seen in prior waives. he also could have come down on the fda about expediting getting these antivirals to the market. the fda has been sitting on them. they have up to 90% ability to keep people out of the hospital if they are given early on in the course of disease. he could have talked about removing cloth masks for children. come down hard on the schools that

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nicole saphier is here with more. good morning to you, doctor.ical professional. you are also a mom. so should schools be shutting down because of omicron? >> well, carley, you know, i can tell you that always during the holidays, you know, the parents we're always trying to do the best we can to make it a happy experience and good time to be with your children while the covid-19 pandemic has been very hard for adults, it translates down to our children. and they don't have the emotional or social experience to be able to navigate through these restrictions and the vaccine mandates that are ever changing and not to mention the politicization of it all. despite the fact that you have the surgeon general come out saying mental health crisis adolescents and the american academy of pediatrics declaring a mental health emergency the cdc saying children need to be in school. you continue to see not a priority keeping our children in school. you have schools closing down right now because of cases. and the truth is, we cannot continue to quickly close t