oz in latrobe at 7 p.m. eastern. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins, and anita. we ll bring you the latest in the g.o.p. fight for control of the house and senate and that contentious match-up for the pennsylvania senate is shaping up to be one of the closest in the country. and we have fox team coverage with bryan llenas in philadelphia and rich edson in pittsburgh. and i can see you ve got the former president behind you there speaking. good afternoon, anita. former president barack obama 50 yards behind me. take the stage the first of two events. here he s campaigning for john fetterman and then out east and he ll join the gubernatorial campaign. and he s talking about the erosion of civility in our politics and now he seems to be getting more political on the race issues here. let s take an issue. inflation is a problem, not just here in america, it s worldwide and it has to do with the legacy of the pandemic. it wrecked supply chains, disrupted the economy
hearings, the supreme court overturning roe v. wade, the fbi raiding the home of a former president, and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for american politics a year that has left us with a lot of questions about the future of our country, our democracy, our rights as human beings and about whether you have more of those rights if, say, you are a former president or fewer if you have a uterus and live in a red state. well, 2023 may be the yorear we get answers. we will learn who will be running for president in 2024 and who, if any, in the republican party will stand up to donald trump. though maybe don t hold your breath on that one speaking of which, we could find out if the twicism impe disgrac former president will be held accountable in a laundry list of investigations that he is under. the new year will also present the biden administration with new challenges as the president for the first time will be faced with a split congress. democrat
poll show ramping crime higher on americans with priorities. brooke singman has details and what we re calling invisible handcuff, her name is aoc. take it away, brooke. brooke: protesting in front of the supreme court is not illegal, but blocking the way is. the arrest for obstruction began. 17 democratic lawmakers were arrested including members like congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. capitol police did not put her in handcuff. the congresswoman pretended to be cuffed for show. we have aoc there, she never misses a chance for a performance when there are cameras rolling. brooke: white house press secretary karine jean-pierre revealing everything is on the table for the biden administration response to the high court s decision to overturn roe v. wade. the white house is weighing directive to protect nationwide access to abortion pills. republicans are labeling it an attempt to distract from issues ahead of the midterms. listen to this. it doesn t matter what pa
pointing out this happened after the covid relief money, that was money that congress earmarked and the prior administration signed in to law. this was different. this was done by the executive pen. republicans came out clearly to say this president like you said may have overstepped his bounds. mitch mcconnell saying this equal to socialism in his book. i thought polling was interesting. the president of the united states cannot hijack 21-year-old emergency powers to pad the pockets of high-earning base and make suckers out of the working families that chose not to take on student debt. mitch mcconnell said the court s decision deal as heavy blow to democrats distorted and out sized view of executive power. so while republicans are saying that they were trying to protect the role that congress has here, the white house is ready to say this is a battle between the rich and the poor. the other question, neil, how much of this is an issue in next year s campaign. the polling was mixed on
midterms to go differently abortion was the event in this cycle. i never believed the red wave was coming because you can t overturn the rights of half the population and not have that impact your political party. in a way, it s mitch mcconnell s fault, not really donald trump s. yes, absolutely abortion. it s also coming out of the pandemic what you mentioned were crises this is america coming out of crises we had a president who understood how to govern not just from the white house but he understood the machinations of congress and the senate, how to pull the levers. he came in saying i m going to be a bipartisan president am the people chuckled on all sides if you look at the major pieces of legislation he passed, it was a bipartisan piece done by both parties, but on the roe v. wade the republicans didn t wouldn t want to talk about this win. so they knew, their polling showed the same thing. right now what we will see with biden is what else can he do even in this split, that i