and certainly i think you see folks like chris christie, and others eager to take on the president putting resources into making that debate stage from a polling perspective, and funds raised perspective. i m hopeful the former president will be on the stage, i think he owes it to be voterless not to be inevitable candidate, to come back swinging and he is knowa effective debater, as we ve talked about in the past, trey. trey: what happens on debate stages, they ask for unity pledge. i will play a clip from senator murkowski and ask on the other side. if match up between biden and trump, i know where i d go. i would go with joe joe manchin. i have no qualms, no qualms, providing my endorsement to a democrat who has been
system. president biden trying very hard to keep distance between himself and the department of justice has reportedly directed his campaign and the dnc not to comment at all on trump s indictment but that has not stopped the first lady who twice now has weigh waded 2024. biden is the most requested biden surrogate. biden on the north lawn, thank you. the federal reserve is keeping its key interest rate unchanged after raising it 10 straight times over the past 15 months to combat high inflation. this action leaves the benchmark rate at highest level in 16 years. in a surprise move, the feds signaled it may raise rates twice more this year. beginning as soon as next month. the main issue that we are forecussed on now is determining the extent of additional policy firming that may be appropriate to return inflation to 2% over
latter former assistant to president trump, chief communications director and kevin walling, democratic strategist and former biden surrogate. i was listening to alex s report mark, and karine jean-pierre was calling ron desantis a maga republican. so but ron desantis who hasn t declared yet make america great again is trump. every republican who runs and still yet to run is a maga republican. they are going to run on trump policies because they worked and it s a great contrast to what we have right now. they ll emphasize different things, smile different ways, use their own distinct personalities but they are all running on the trump policies regardless of which ones eventually wins the nomination. is ron getting in? all indications. if you re in iowa, sounds like you re getting in. griff: let s talk about your
to be not another flying object, congressman jim himes addressed it all on abc, rather on nbc this morning. i have real concerns about why the administration is not being more forthcoming with everything that it knows. part of the problem is the second and the third objects were shot down in very remote areas, so my guess is that there s just not a lot of information out there yet to share. mike: congressman himes, ranking member of panel expressing concerns over the biden administration s response to string of unidentified objects. for more on this let s bring terry holt, former george w. bush spokesperson and kevin walling, democratic strategist and former president biden surrogate. gentlemen, welcome. you heard from jim himes, serious national security democrat expressing concerns about wanting more information,
and former biden surrogate, kevin, quill, thank you for being here. i want to start with you, kevin, we learned this week bipartisan effort to see the documents in the senate threatening to halt all judicial nominations, your reaction, your thoughts on that? well, i think any time you threaten to hold any nomination is problematic and we have seen this from senator cotton in the past. that hurts national security and that hurts the judicial system. i do think the senators especially on the intelligence committee to determine what documents were found both in wilmington with president biden s residence as well as vice president s residence in indiana with mike pence as well as documents coming out of mar-a-lago, 300 some documents found in florida. they have right in capacity as oversight to those documents and i think that s an important thing for the american people to have a hand in as well. griff: you know, quill, i want to play for you the oversight