american politics. joe concha, one of many here today with us on that big story. along with our top tier mid-term political panel that joins us with their thoughts on the new wall street journal polling that i think is one of the most interesting numbers we ve seen so far. if these numbers hold up, they show huge demographic shift that may be underway in america. white suburban women that make up 20% of the electorate shows they have swung away from democrats since august. if that number is accurate, it shows a huge move. that would put plus 15 in favor of the gop with this group. let s get some analysis as we bring in mike allen, axios co-founder and co-author of smart brevity and juan williams, fox news contributor. mike, that number caught my attention. i want to go back quickly here, this is the 2018 fox voter analysis. suburban women went for president biden in a big way. you can show the split here. democrats 60%. republican 38%. so do you buy these numbers that sho
former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. very quick verdict. we re talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, it s not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two, willful failure to provide records guilty. steve bannon s team didn t put on a defense. bannon did not testify in his own defense, which was thought that he would. the government put on a case for about a day. jury selection began just on monday, a few days ago. this was an incredibly quick trial. steve bannon s team was upset. they filed a motion. last night in front of millions in the january 6 committee hearing, the committee played this audio clip of bannon from october of 2020. listen.
not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace we ve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages aren t rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. if you crunch the numbers inflation is costing the average american household $500 a month. setting on fire every single month because you aren t getting anything for that $500. bill: questions now including this how did we get here? many economists blame out of control government spending along the way. democrats are passed more than $3 trillion in new spending under president biden and they aren t taking their foot off the gas as they look to revamp build back better. let s go to mark meredith live f
against political opponents? the president believe in the rules of law and the independence of the department of justice. yes or no. it is a no for you. i m answering the question. you may not like it but i m answering the question. bill: or you could just say no. here is what we think we know at the hour. the search was related to a dispute with the national archives over the handling of presidential records is what has been reported. president trump left the white house with thoeps documents in january of 2021. later that year, the national archives contacted the president s team about potential classified information that was missing. dana: fast forward to january. the president voluntary gave more than a dozen boxes. in june d.o.j. visited mar-a-lago to get the transfer of more materials. bill: that s where things start to get murky. the talks broke down over the summer, sometime in june or july. the president disputes that however. federal officials viewed th
that is his summer residence. he s also about to meet in a few hours with several members of the republican study committee who are essentially rushing there to discuss what s going on. jim banks is the chairman of the rsd. he will be at bedminster. that s an aerial shot of the golf club. we ll keep a eye on the comings and goings and see if we hear anything from donald trump on all of this over the course of the afternoon. we saw a little reaction from him on truth social last night. we may get a public statement from him as we keep a close eye on who comes and goes from bedminster this afternoon. so the fbi, when you think about it, has been investigating donald trump for seven years. from the russia collusion days all the way until now. and this raid is likely just the beginning of the next stage in this story as it fires up the deepest entrenched forces for and against this most fiercely debated american president. he appears to have his eyes on the white house once again