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It is christmas appropriate. we were kids back then. come on. >> julie: did you watch it? >> trace: i did. i have seen it many times since then and it is a fantastic movie. one of the christmas greats. great to be with you today, julie. i'm glad you pulled that out for us. >> julie: so great to be with you. i had to. i couldn't resist. >> trace: "the faulkner focus" right now. >> this is a fox news alert now. president biden facing off against an uncomfortable new reality ahead of the new year. the country headed into 2022 with the omicron variant spreading like wildfire and testing shortage i...

Communication. the fwo places i would say the administration needs to do a better job, communicating with the american people an making testing more widely available. >> two months ago the biden administration rejected a proposal from several public health experts for free rapid tests for the holidays. based on what many other countries are already doing. the concept the white house press secretary derided earlier this month according to "vanity fair." the white house argues there wasn't enough production capacity on the market in october. in march the president signed the american rescue plan...

Tested it would be free was the great news. the shocking news is that to get test results within an hour they would charge me $250 in cash non-reimbersible by insurance. are other people outside of the united states forced to bear that kind of financial burden. >> they're not. we're one of the few countries where we have a very limited testing supply and yet we have public health officials out there telling everyone to run and get tested sometimes multiple times. you can't have it both ways. there is this lack of acknowledgement that we are rationing a scarce resource. when you have in the uni...

Substantially in the first couple of weeks and as we get into the middle of january. >> i'll talk to dr. marty makary about this but first rich edson at the white house this morning. >> testing really is the white house focus here. they're trying to get the website up so americans can order the at-home tests trying to secure 5 million of those tests. many won't be shipped the earliest until next month well after the holiday season after you have had the surge in covid cases. people having trouble getting tests, waiting in long lines for covid tests, shortages of at-home kits. president biden a...

Time last year. omicron case count and the demand for testing has increased. in arkansas we have a test to stay school program a pilot in 50 schools and expand it and woef sufficient tests to be able to do that. we also as governors are getting pressure to do more and the need is great to do more in terms of the rapid tests and the availability of it, so one word of concern or encouragement for your team is that as the -- as you look towards federal solutions that will help alleviate the challenge, make sure that we do not let federal solutions stand in the way of state solutions and the produ...