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Cancellations plague airports around the country. multiple states hitting records for new cases in the past week going back to the beginning of the pandemic. tomorrow, the cdc will release new data on how many new cases are listed as the omicron variant. meantime, the biden administration is facing growing pressure to deliver after promising to distribute half a billion free home tests and finally admitting more should have been done to prevent nationwide testing headaches. we have fox team coverage tonight. rich edson at the white house with the biden administration's response to ongoing test...

Is where we are as a country right now. >> president biden says his administration is prepared for this omicron powered surge so he has admitted the federal government should have purchased more testing two months ago. >> if i had -- if we had known we would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. >> though a group of public health officials from the harvard th chan school of public health, the rockefeller foundation, the covid collaborative and several other organizations pitched the administration in october with a plan to secure hundreds of millions of tests. send them to americans a...

Bret? >> bret: steve harrigan in atlanta. thank you. we will have a closer look at those flight delays and some of the root causes with a live report from new york's laguardia airport later this hour. president biden and covid response team met virtually with the nation's governors today to discuss efforts to cure the omicron variant or deal with it effectively. the president maintains his administration's covid testing strategy is not a failure even as a new report says the white house rejected a plan to ramp up holiday testing before the holidays started and president biden sounds different ...

Administration rejected proposal for pretests for the holidays. told vanity fair while everyone present shared the same goal of rapid testing as soon as possible the plan could not be implemented at that time. would did not have the capacity to manufacture over-the-counter test in that scale. the problem was two fold the fda had authorized only a handful of different home tests and those had it authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough. byron? >> yeah, well, you know, the idea of mailing out rapid tests has been around for quite a while. president biden himself admitted that he w...

This president considering all the things he is facing inflation and build back better and repercussions from afghanistan but really this is the biggest. >> i agree no other issue more important that got president biden elected. there is no issue on which his presidency is going to be judged more first and foremost than getting a handle on the pandemic. one problem is he declared, i think, vink tri prematurely. remember july 4th he said independence day from wearing mask we had beaten the virus. that turned out not to be true. then this latest issue of not having enough rapid tests is one i th...