the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temper
john: all with her pen. she also knows how to shoot pretty damn good. but look, the democrats wanted extension, permanent extension of the very expensive child tax credit, didn t happen. no irs budget increase included in this for the coming fiscal year, no typically what happens on the omnibus, equal amount of increase in defense spending and discretionary domestic spending or mandatory, did not happen. no weed banking measure to allow the marijuana growers to use public banks, no tech regulation bill. unfortunately, title 42 did not get reinstituted nor did any other immigration things. but look, i want to focus on what brian said. this is a sign how broken it is, and an opportunity for the republicans. if they want to be serious, they need to go through the regular order and begin preparing in january the budget bills for the next fiscal year. we are now five months into the fiscal year and we with the