secretary karine jean-pierre coming up in the next hour. the president launching his campaign in a three-minute video promising to finish the job in a second term in the white house. sandra: the president will need to win over voters concerned about his age, 80 years old, as well as the millions of americans tired of stubbornly high prices and filling up gas tanks a daunting task for two straight years now. john: fox team coverage begins now, charles payne is standing by, but first peter doocy, live in wilmington, delaware, and peter, what is the biden team s early strategy in the campaign rollout? john, we have been in touch with president biden s campaign team and they are telling us the early strategy is just to let the president be the president. so official duties over campaign stops, and we are seeing that,
joe biden has put a kick me sign on uncle sam s back. when america recedes from the world, creates avoid of leadership. sandra: the white house says there is no call planned between president biden and president xi, what s the hold-up? john kirby will be at today s briefing, it is expected to begin any moment now. we will dip in there when that is underway. john: fox team coverage starts right now with jennifer griffin on where china is looking to expand power next, the middle east. sandra: peter doocy right from the white house briefing room, set to begin shortly, peter. this will obviously be a big focus of the briefing today. yes, and so far from what we have been able to see, the p utin-xi meeting is a complement fest, heaping praise and each other. over the last years china has made a huge leap forward in its development in the whole world,
evacuate their homes, some neighborhoods unrecognizable. john: fox team coverage now where they can expect to get some relief. first to robert ray, live on the pacific coast in central california. how are things looking there now? yeah, good afternoon, john. this beach in california just south of santa cruz, and you see the homes. look at this, john. all the homes have huge waves popping up and down banging up against, you see the boards, you see the sandbags all the way there, and john and sandra, look at the ocean right now. the pacific ocean roaring once again with 10, 15 foot swells out there that come in as the beach is continuing to erode. i want to show you something, too, guys. as more of these systems are coming in. and look at this. we don t have video of this, but i did just recently moments ago see video from a homeowner.
wnba player britteny griner, he s known to be a high priority for russia. john: not part of the deal, marine veteran paul whelan, serving out a 16 year sentence on espionage charges. sandra: the white house vowing to never give up on the american, but his family wonders whether there is leverage to negotiate his release. i think it s clear the u.s. does not have concessions that the russian government wants for paul and so i m not really sure, i m not really sure what the future holds. john: fox team coverage starts now with lieutenant general keith kellogg. sandra: but first, lucas tomlinson, what was the reaction we heard from the white house on all of this? that same white house press
states. john: fox team coverage. byron york joins us with more. sandra: white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn to kick things off for us at this hour. here in the home stretch of this midterm cycle we have noticed two things. thing number one, still democratic candidates in close contests who are not inviting president biden to join them on the campaign trail. thing number two, the democrats are not talking very much about president biden s biggest ticket item, the one that economists largely agree did contribute a little bit to inflation, and that is the 2 trillion american rescue plan. people are tired of being broke. they do not like this culture of chaos and uncertainty and because of that they are going to vote to defend their pocket book, their families, clean up their communities, get drugs off their street and have a say. we know republican candidates want the midterms to be about