Brandnew hour and fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump staring down four federal charges stemming from Special Counsel jack smith investigation into january 6th. Im sandra smith in new york. A brandnew hour of America Reports starts right now and it is a treat to have you here today. Hello, rich. Rich great to be here, sandra. Thanks so much. Im rich edson, john roberts has the day off. The former president is expected to be arraigned in Federal Court In Washington tomorrow. Sandra many think the latest indictment will do that again. Rich aishah, what are lawmakers saying . Rich, congress is still on its august recess, but we are already seeing House Republicans begin to strategize on what actions they might take next in response to this latest indictment of the former president , including pulling on the purse strings, that is congresss power. Republican firebrand matt gaetz and Marjorie Taylor greene are calling to defund Special Counsel jack smith. Some folks are eyeing the
me directly. sandra: she s defiant, saying it never should have been downgraded. i don t think the fitch credit rating means a thing, fitch was given aaa ratings to mortgage-back bonds in the 2000s so much for fitch. a problem with spending, 25% of g.d.p. federal spending, historic range is 20. so you are at 25, and there s no sign of that letting up. second point, i know joe biden says he cut the budget deficit by 1.7 trillion, for which the washington post gives him a bottom line pinocchio, correctly. but this year, this year the budget deficit is heading for 2.25 trillion, roughly 6% of
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out on this day because it makes people feel good politically. joe biden is a thoughtful guy and ifu wish he thought about t real life human implications of end this when he didn t have to. we ll have to leave it there for today. thank you fore joining us on ts today. as we approach the top of the next hour, we want to share a few numbers. first the war in afghanistan is america s longest war. it s been called the forgotten car war and america s paid the pprice. 20,000 wounded, 2,000 killed. the u.s. spent about $2.25 trillion. 143 billion was spent on rebuilding the country after ridding it of the taliban. there were new reports that kabul airport is taking fire.is gunshots there. at the top of the hour my colleague will join me. we llgu go through all the late breaking developments there.
price tag is below what president biden wanted. let s get to cnn white house reporter jasmine wright. not even president biden has seen the final version of the proposal? reporter: well, we don t exactly know how president biden is going to react. that s kind of the million-dollar question today. going into tomorrow, president biden said on friday that he would react to the proposal monday after he has read it, though we know that he has been briefed. so this bipartisan group of senators, remember, that they penned this, it was senator mitt romney, senator kyrsten sinema among a bunch of others, and but remember that the price tag is a lot smaller than what president biden originally proposed. so it s an open question of exactly how president biden is going to move forward, if he is going to move forward, right? he called for $2.25 trillion in