Nonstop on cable news. Not just on cable news. We are hearing the very same thing from elected officials including some republican elected officials. We are hearing it from the leaders of federal Law Enforcement agencies and of the intelligence agencies. We are hearing it from the pentagon. Just this week the new Secretary Of Defense ordered the entire u. S. Military to, quote, stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists. And of course we are hearing it from the Business Establishment from wall street from the Tech Monopolies from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of american life. All of them are now on the hunt for political extremists. And at one level that does not sound bad. Because no sane person is for political extremism, especially violent extremism. We are against it. Were for moderation. We are for incremental change. We are for the consent of the governed. We said that every day for four years and we m
the notes from the us central bank s last meetings show policy makers are feeling better about inflation. they a . ree better about inflation. they agree with better about inflation. they agree with investors - better about inflation. they agree with investors that i better about inflation. tie: agree with investors that rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree that that will come down this year. but they offer no clues as to how or when that will happen. just to remind viewers it started raising rates in march 2022. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark weight to a range of five and a quarter to five and a half percent. inflation had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. new data out on wednesday showed the number of job out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to a .70 9 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour, but it is still way above pre labels. that is consistent with the goal to slow the
we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
statement that five additional pages of documentsad with classified markingsdition e found at biden s home thursday evening. now, surely this new hs was to those democrats who have spent the past seven years squawkingre about the rule of law and normsa whght? wrong. t what is the proper thing for a former president to do if he i finds that there are government documents or classifiedovernmen documents that are in hisession possession? and my understanding is they did the right thing. my de a different procedure for dealing with them that we are unaware of. uand that s a meaningful thingo that we could look at. bu.t obviously, we don t wantca to turn this into just a political football. i know exactlotball.y what president biden said when he was informed that these documents were found in his office, in his office in washington. and that was a oh, followed washin, by a four letter explet. and it s an embarrassment, no doubt, about it. e to i there more to it? i doubt it. y