partner. i'm todd piro. more on that showdown on capitol hill. ramming through partisan agenda. chris. >> chris: the president is taking his fight breaking the filibuster to advance the voting rights legislation he says is critical to protecting fundamental rights. >> he's quite focused on how -- ensuring the american people understand what is at stake here, protecting fundamental right to vote. efrp needs to take a hard look where they want to be in this country. >> they passed a state election law last year democrats say impede voting kochltalition of civil rights groups in georgia announce they are skipping the president's visit because he is coming without a clear plan, saying, we don't need more photo ops, we need action in the john lewis voting rights act and freedom to vote act and we need that immediately. senate majority leader chuck schumer says he plans to hold a vote to change the rules on filibuster. that is dead on arrival without the support of senator manchin. >> i'm hoping it wouldn't come to this to fix things, every american has a right to vote. >> republicans are unanimously opposed. >> it has nothing to do with protecting the ballot box. this is not a voting rights bill. it's a sweeping takeover of our democracy. >> the president speaks this afternoon, todd and carley and one observation, the president may want to start the speech with how about them dogs, otherwise nobody may not be listening in the state, just won the national championship last night. >> big and happy news coming from georgia, more on the voting rights legislation front. thank you so much. >> carley: chicago studentss will return to class on wednesday. the teachers union suspending the strike after a bitter blowout in the windy city. the union tweeting the strike suspension as ranking members negotiated with cps and mayor lori lightfoot, the union had choice words for the mayor before calling off the walkout. >> the mayor is being relentless, but she is relentlessly stupid. we are trying to find a way to get people back in school. >> carley: during negotiations, teachers staged a car caravan as part of resistance to vote in person, shutting down traffic around city hall. in just hours cdc director rochelle walensky and dr. fauci will face senators for questioning on president biden's handling of the pandemic. >> todd: the cdc's confidence crisis hits fever pitch. here is what we can expect. matt. >> good morning. director walensky and dr. fauci will face lawmakers today and we can expect questioning on the administration's guidance on prioritizing testing and treatments of nonwhites. former surgeon general adams is one critic blasting white house for using race to prioritize treatment. >> clear data shows that race is an independent risk factor for dying from covid. i don't approve of how they did it, we shouldn't be using race to decide who gets treatment. >> the cdc faces its own confidence crisis after receiving backlash from what people are calling confusing isolation guidance, fuelling rampant spread of misinformation even to high courts for justice sotomayor catching heat for way-off claims on childhood cases. white house refusing to set the record straight. >> what do you think about justice sotomayor claim that children are in serious condition, many on ventilators. >> i will not speak to supreme court arguments, what is at stake here is our effort to protect health workers and most importantly, protect patients. >> it does not stop there. a republican group led by house minority whip scalise and james comer are looking for the covid response team, writing tragically, almost 100,000 americans died in 2021 than in 2020, confounding since president biden inherited treatments and therapeutics, millions with immunity. 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 promised 500,000 free tests to the american people. yesterday we learned the contract for the tests, some have not been completed and will be completed over the next few weeks. maybe americans will get tests before spring, maybe after. it is a total mess, if you get covid and many people are, you have to miss work 5-10 days, get a test in order to confirm that you can come back to work. there aren't enough tests. so many people are confused and left in the cold on what exactly to do and how to handle this. >> todd: it is absolute debacle, carley, that video we keep showing of people innin loos, what are we? a third-world country? the lines look like a bread line in communist russia or a communist country back in the day when there were bread lines. biden ran on covid, there was nothing stopping joe biden from ramping up manufacture of test kits when covid numbers were low in anticipation of the holiday surge. again, i keep driving this christmas falls on december 25th every year and people gather with their family every year, you know it is going to happen, you should have been prepared. you were focused on destroying afghanistan and trying to push through unnecessary spending and destroying our economy far into the future. if they can't do testing, what hope they can do anything else? >> carley: yeah, todd, the other thing, biden administration guidance says race should be a factor when it comes to getting monoclonal antibody treatment. two people walk into a office, one white and the other hispanic or black, and they have diabetes, the black or hispanic person would get the monoclonal antibody treatment over the person, which is not fair. why don't we have enough treatment to go around in the first place? >> todd: exactly right. it is also illegal. let's remember that, discrimination based upon race is day one constitutional law illegal, it is the first thing you learn, you can't do it. race is a protected class, you can't do this. back to the contracts, you mentioned carley, why did it take so long, why haven't we signed these yet? we were talking, i haven't seen you in a couple weeks issue the holidays and you had time off, we were talking about this before christmas. why weren't the contracts signed then? we were expressing outrage then. it looks like this could plateau by the end of the month and i'm not saying they will be useless, they will not be as valuable as they would be this week and the weeks prior when everybody wants a test. >> carley: i know, so true. we have dr. rochelle walensky and dr. fauci speaking before senate committee today. they will get questions on this as relates to the racial issue and why there seem to be lack of therapeutics at this phase in the game. >> todd: doesn't make any sense. another developing story, no plans to invade ukraine, says russia. 100,000 troops remain at the border. >> carley: amy, good morning. >> good morning, carley and todd. no tangible progress has been made and that is leading western analysts to say they still wonder whether russia is using talks as pretext to invade ukraine. in other words, if talks break down, they can say they tried and then just roll into ukraine. central demand remains nato not expand eastward, it has moved close to russian borders since the end of the cold war and i was at one of president putin's first meetings 21 years ago and recall back then what seemed a frantic plea for nato to stop expanding. russia has invaded its neighborss since then and fear is it will do it again, despite assurances at the geneva meeting yesterday. >> the threats are real and we want to avert the circumstance. >> meanwhile, republicans are increasingly calling to hit russia where it might hurt worst. sanctions gas pipeline to europe that biden administration greenlighted. haley tweeted for all the noise democrats made about trump favoring russia, how do they justify biden giving sanction relief to russia's pipeline. democrats would be hypocritical to support them. pay attention, we will be taking names. russia controls the gas flow to europe, bit of good news, talks haven't broken down yet and they continue wednesday in brussels. carley and todd. >> carley: amy kellogg, thank you. daily mail reveal an apartment damaged by the devastating fire that took the life of 17 people in the bronx. the blaze broke out in this very apartment on the third floor, where a nine-person family lived. the entire unit is covered in ash and debris, completely destroyed by the fire. all sfaep victims were killed by smoke inhalation, 15 hospitalized in critical condition. the building only had a sprinkler system in laundry and contractor room. many residents ignored the fire alarm since the system frequently went off with false alarm. fire investigators are looking into why the self-closing doors at top and bottom failed causing fumes to spread through every level of the building. >> todd: just an absolute tragedy there. florida authorities releasing the 911 call from officers after staffers found actor and comedian bob saget. >> we have unresponsive guest in the room. officers telling me there is no pulse, no response, not breathing and no pulse. >> todd: "full house" star was found on his bed. investigators say there were no signs of trauma on saget's body when they found him, quickly ruled out foul play or drug use in saget's death. >> carley: novak djokovic returns to training after australian judge rules he can stay in the country. he was released after being confined to an immigration hotel for four nights. djokovic tweeting, i'm pleased and grateful the judge overturned my visa cancellation. despite all that has happened, i want to stay and try to compete. it is unclear if djokovic will play in the australian open, which starts on monday. the visa could still be cancelled by australia's min administration minister. >> todd: and georgia bulldogs are your national champs. >> launching down field and underthrown and intercepted. down the sideline. [cheering] -- >> all the way to the end zone, georgia will conquer the crimson tide. >> todd: georgia taking down number one alabama, 33-18, to win the title. head coach kirby smart beating his former boss nick saban. welcome quarterback stetson bennett, what a journey that young man has had, in tears on the sideline as the clock wound down. we were named offensive m.v.p. he went to a junior college, was a walk-on, finally made the team and made this year his own and led his team to the national championship. you mentioned grif earlier, his daughter goess to uga, mary carroll, bailey, congrats and catherine astell, our apology on bamma losing. >> carley: there are a lot of georgia fans on the staff. you mentioned them like congrat population speech like an award show. good for you on that front. a lot of happy people this morning. >> todd: i'd like to thank my parents, my agent. i'm joking. time is 17 minutes after the hour. republicans unveiling plan to shake up washington if they take back the house and stripping three of the most controversial democrats. congressman buddy carter gives us a look at the gop agenda and dr. janette, and tomi lahren. don't miss a minute. ♪ when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. tony here from creditrepair.com taking shipstato the streets to the #1 talk about credit. of online sellers. can you repair your credit yourself? 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>> no question about it, this is nothing more than election power grab by the democrats. they want to defederalize the election and take away voter id, both sides of the aisle like vote or id and want to keep that. they want to take that away and federalize the election and make it to where candidates you may not agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. it is ridiculous what they are trying to do here, defederalize the election, it is clear in article 2 section 2 clause 2 the state legislators are given the right exclusively to set the laws for voting rights for the states and union. >> carley: anothering kevin mccarthy says if he becomes speaker of the house, he would strip schiff and omar of committee assignments, take a listen to this. >> if eric swolwell, not reason he should be on intel or homeland security. >> omar should not be serving on foreign affairs. look at adam schiff, he should not be serving on intel, when he knowingly used a fake dossier. >> carley: kevin mccarthy says democrats started this by stripping marjorie taylor greene and goldbar of their assignments, what do you make of this? is it the right thing to do? >> kevin mccarthy will be speaker of the house, when he is, i have faith in kevin. he makes good decisions, this is the right thing to do. democrats have to understand, they started all this, started it with marjorie taylor greene and if the minority party is not going to be able to make their own committee assignments, if that is the role of the majority party, democrats have to understand what is good for the goose is good for the gander. i agree, eric swellwell should not be on intel, schiff or omar should not be on foreign relations, they should not be on those committees. >> todd: makes no sense why they were put on there in the first place. before we let you go, you are in cella bratory mood, georgia bulldogs won the championship. here is video of kirby smart hoisting the trophy. how excited are you, congressman? >> go, dogs, stetson bennett is from the first district, we have eight or 10 of the players from first district of georgia. we are so proud. we are waited so long and we are ecstatic. go, dogs. >> carley: it was 33-18, it wasn't even close. congratulations on the big win for georgia and thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> carley: the time is 27 minutes after the hour. california governor has big plans for spending taxpayer dollars, including health insurance for illegal immigrants. we take a look at the radical proposal coming up. >> todd: and across the country, new york city opening the door to let noncitizens vote in elections, we'll tell you about the legal action to stop it. cue up dualipa. ♪ why do nearly one million businesses choose stamps.com to mail and ship? 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>> you know, that's a good question and this is why i'm hoping today's report is going to get a lot of attention. when you look at safety of law enforcement, no mistake, it links directly to our communities and the safety of our communities. when law enforcement thinkings fatalities are up, it can be linked to communities and crime. when you look at what is happening around the country today, there is no mistake that crime is up and that law enforcement officers are putting their life on the line daily to make sure that our communities are remaining safe. >> carley: yeah, when you're talking about crime in the future of law enforcement safety, you have to look at current events happening right now that could affect police officer safety in 2022. the nypd commissioner wrote a letter to police officers about the district attorney, the new district attorney's policies here, some of them like resisting arrest will no longer be prosecuted, armed robbery, according to him, will be charged as petty larceny. she's worried about this. what does that mean to law enforcement safety here in new york city? >> you know, we all should be worried about it, not just in new york city, but all around the country. the policy and procedures being put in place that are not helping law enforcement stay safe. these men and women are waking up every morning to put their lives on the line to make sure that we are safe. and we need to make sure that we do our part as a nation to ensure their safety. >> carley: without a doubt. marcia, my hope is the same as yours that your report will be eye-opening and police officer safety will be on the minds of many and changes can be made. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: todd, over to you. >> todd: that is chilling. time is 36 after the hour, carley. another horrifying smash and grab robbery caught on camera in the bay area. we'll tell you how this one ends. top accurates escape blue states for red ones, desantis is cashing in on the hypocrisy. ♪ >> carley: horrifying surveillance footage shows a group of robbers armed with sledge hammers stealing jewelry in california. the group made off with $100,000 worth of necklaces and other jewelry. no arrests have been made. police say the culprits will be hit with felonies if nabbed. a businessowner lost between $50 and $100,000, is calling for stricter punishment for criminals. todd. >> todd: new york city new district attorney. >> the person who is on their eighth arrest, people say how did this happen? how did the assault happen? there were seven prior times with that person struggling with addiction or mental health. we need to get that person services. it is common sense, i don't understand the pushback. >> todd: lieutenant randy sutton is joining me. that guy doesn't understand the pushback, lieutenant, how disheartening and quite frankly, frightening is it he is ushering in criminality to the big apple? >> i got to tell you, i'm really disappointed in the voters of manhattan for electing this guy. i consider him a trojan horse district attorney. when i say that, he is literally the enemy ush erred into the gates of the city, who is the enemy of justice and the enemy of public safety. and yet, he's been given carte blanche to put in his radical ideas about criminal justice and they are literally irrationale and insane. this is -- what he's doing is he is creating the purge in new york city. i got to tell you, what we're going to see here now because of his desires to decriminalize basically everything is going to lead to a blood bath in new york. >> todd: so far, so good for criminals in 2022. here is, as of sunday, year to date robbery up 25.1%, murder up 33.3%, grand larceny up 63%. so the bad guys clearly got the d.a.'s memo, lieutenant randy sutton. can police do anything to stem the tide or is this -- are their hands tied? >> here is the problem, you have a mayor elected to try and fight the criminal surge in new york and yet at the same time, the district attorney is the one who is in charge of actually prosecuting the crimes. he's saying, i'm not doing it. when he says he will prosecute armed robbery as petty larceny, this is something absolutely unheard of. here is the reality, for the people of new york, you have elected an individual who cares nothing about the lives and the victims of criminality, he cares nothing. he cares only about the criminal. you're looking at a guy who is now ushering in, you said the golden age of criminality, you weren't really exaggerating one little bit. your previous guest marcia, talking about the officers who were killed last year. not only are the people in new york less safe, law enforcement officers themselves are less safe because of the policies that he just announced. my organization, wounded blue, deal with injured officers. last year, more than 60,000 american law enforcement officers were physically assaulted in the line of duty. new york city, you have just released the cracken when it comes down to the crime in new york city. >> todd: right. it is unconscionable. i am nervous to go back when we go back, i do not know what we are getting into. it is reality in the big apple. randy sutton, we appreciate your time. carley. >> carley: happy to have you. we are learning the biden administration is prioritizing race when administering covid drugs. is this following the science or dangerous infiltration in our healthcare system? dr. janette nesheiwat is coming up and has facts on that. take a look at this incredible video, shows exact moment police pull a pilot from a downed plane right before a train plows through the wreckage. we'll be talking to one of the officerss who helped save that man's life, coming up. ♪ moving is a handful. no kidding! fortunately, xfinity makes moving easy. easy? -easy? switch your xfinity services to your new address online in about a minute. that was easy. i know, right? and even save with special offers just for movers. really? yep! so while you handle that, you can keep your internet and all those shows you love, and save money while you're at it with special offers just for movers at xfinity.com/moving. >> todd: welcome back. fox news peter doocy calling out biden administration for blaming unvaccinated americans for the pandemic. >> why is the president referring this as pandemic of the unva xed? >> you are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die. >> carley: dr. janette nesheiwat, is it time for the white house to change their language when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic? >> dr. nesheiwat: yes, this pandemic involves every single one of us. you can pick up covid if you are vaccinated. it works to minimize symptoms and reduce severe complications. anyone can pick up coronavirus and spread it, vaccinated or not. instead of focusing on the unvaccinated, focus on need for therapeutics, monoclonal antibodies, rather than point the blame on people. two-thirds of americans are fully vaccinated, we are moving in the right direction on that. we need to focus on managing this pandemic, carley. >> todd: yeah, the biden white house is focusing on monoclonal aspectbodies in a curious way, showing race is being prioritized in administering drugs like monoclonal antibodies. here is guidance from the white house, their own words. race or ethnicity may place individual patients at high risk for progression of severe covid-19 and authorization of rab is not limited to medical conditions or factors listed above. doesn't this guidance force you to violate your oath to protect and serve and help all patients? >> dr. nesheiwat: this is medical discrimination, i treat a patient based on what they present with, not based on the color of th skin. look at core root of the problem and why they are at high risk. how do we get them healthcare they need? anyone that needs life-saving medical therapy, doctors will fight tooth and nail to make sure they get what they need. i think the focus is to see what is the core root of the problem rather than putting a bandaid on the issue. we can't deny anyone in need of medical care what could potentially make a difference between life and death. i think we need to shift our focus there. >> carley: yeah, doctor, why are we rationing monoclonal antibodies at all? shouldn't we be in a place where there is enough treatment to go around? >> dr. nesheiwat: exactly. what we're seeing, scrambling because of lack of preparation by current administration. we have a lack of testing and lack of aernt-viral pills by merck. exactly right. let's use the dpa, defense production act, to ramp up supply and access of medicine so we don't have continuation of a thousand deaths a day. >> carley: yeah, you are absolutely right. something 100% needs to change on that front. dr. janette nesheiwat thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, have a good one. >> carley: on the covid-19 topic, lightening it up a bit. ron desantis is selling special merchandise to mark lockdown politician escape to the sunshine state. >> if i had $1 for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to florida over the last two years, i'd be a pretty doggone wealthy man. >> carley: the t-shirtss say "escape to florida," will be available on the governor's website after congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez vacationing mask less in miami went viral and new york congresswoman now tested positive for covid-19. shirts, pretty funny issue todd. i wonder if the lockdown pop tigzss will buy them? >> todd: there is another reason to move to florida right now. fox weather app, 14 degrees where i am. it is cold. florida much warmer, i'm freezing, carley. freezing. >> carley: freedom and warm weather, very good things. unbelievable video that will have your heart racing the whole way through. watch this. >> go, go, go. [train horn] >> yeah. >> carley: that video showing a pilot pulled from the tracks just secondss before a train barrels through. this morning, you will meet one of the heroes behind that incredible rescue. >> todd: wow. plus congressman harvey korman, congressman jody hice, joining us live next hour, "fox and friends first." do not go anywhere. ♪ hi. i'm wolfgang puck when i started my online store wolfgang puck home i knew there would be a lot of orders to fill and i wanted them to ship out fast that's why i chose shipstation shipstation helps manage orders reduce shipping costs and print out shipping labels it's my secret ingredient shipstation the number 1 choice of online sellers and wolfgang puck go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep? qunol sleep formula combines 5 key nutrients and wolfgang puck that can help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed. the brand i trust is qunol. >> todd: two breaks stories this morning. cdc director rochelle walensky and dr. fauci bracing for a contentious hearing, the broken promises on the pandemic, as president biden hits the road to sell his radical plan to overhaul our election system. it is tuesday, january 11, you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. look who is back, great to see you, partner. >> carley: so good to be back,