if they attacked our allies in north korea and japan. bill: you have to think he is getting help from the chinese and the russians. what do you think about that? i do think the chinese see the north koreans as a useful distraction for the west. they see us fighting back in europe. they see increased tensions with china over taiwan. i think they like it when north korea pops off a little bit because it helps them because it distracts us. dana: you wrote a piece for foxnews.com saying if china concurs taiwan a huge blow to u.s. national security and our economy. explain a little more here. i think viewers hear about taiwan but don t necessarily understand what it would mean for them. that s right. what i tried to do was say what would happen if they absorbed the market power of taiwan and had this new platform in the middle of the south china sea?
before the election. the results are mixed. bill: 261,000 jobs added. it s good but a hot number. we ll explain. we expect 200,000. slightly better than expected. unemployment rising. dana: the bump in unemployment days ahead of an election where 80% of voters say the economy is the most important issue. david spunt is live at the white house. a long day for you as well between now and tuesday. it really is. we re waiting to see what the white house has to say about the 261,000 jobs added to see what they will say just days before the election. after all, this is the final jobs report before the mid-term election, which is telling if you look at it. white house officials and bill don t want to use the word recession or focus too much on the economy, but it is hard to escape the president talked about the economy last night in
dana: miranda devine wrote a piece and said in american injustice my battle to disclose the troop. he said he was met with skepticism and death threats. i feared for my life in the face of a hostile f.b.i. where did the death threats come from? i thought i gave it to the f.b.i. and don t call us, we ll call you. apparently the f.b.i. at various points made very strange comments to him along the lines of well, nothing happens to people that don t talk. who have you been talking to about this? what is that supposed to mean? we need a more complete account of this. bill: his father is living half a country away in new mexico and enlisted the help of his father, retired air force colonel. he goes to get help and the f.b.i. has a lot of questions for him and essentially says you better get a lawyer and don t talk to anyone. why would that be if that story
surprisingly strong jobs report. lucas thomason is live at the white house with the latest. the white house hopes the second negative covid test comes back quickly so he can get to he s in kentucky to tour the flood damage to have affected them. democrats are pushing through this inflation reduction act, they want to reduce inflation to this country from a president biden says he will not force americans to come up with more cash. this bill will not raise taxes on anybody making less than $400,000 a year. when it comes to the benefits of the bill don t have to take my word for it. president george h.w. bush pledged no new taxes. the white house points to strong jobs report, beating
implementation and the washington post had a headline this week saying he s been handed billions of dollars, gained influence with the opportunity to shape national infrastructure priorities. sop how do you see these two together? talk about being handed a portfolio that s good and something you can promote. he s been traveling all over the country already promoting this popular infrastructure law and continue to do so. what he gets to do within the department of transportation is crucial because a lot of things, he gets a lot of money, a lot of grants and one of the missions is to promote racial equity in how transportation is built and he was talking about that when he made his appearance on the white house briefing room. it is in terms of policy quite the contrast with what you see with vice president harris, because she gets the very difficult issues that don t have an immediate answer, such as the issues on the border, the root causes of migration, such as voting rights, which