all of 22. the economy grew at 1%, sean. that s the worst performance since the financial meltdown in 2008 and 2009. the inflation rate for the whole year was 6.3%. that is the highest inflation in 40 years. what is the culprit here? five to $6 trillion of spending and the borrowing. and then student debt cancellations could add another 600 billion or 800 billion. you are right. there will be negotiations. the gop is not going to destroy the big entitlement programs. the gop will make good on the debt. here s the thing. they will insist on spending cuts, on new caps for future spending and they will also have the penalty and across-the-board sequester, across-the-board automatic cuts.
0 okay. how about article 2? neither is article 2. you want to be a federal judge and you don t know what article 5 and article 2 which creates executive. you don t know what they are. you want to be a federal judge? you don t know what its articles say? we will be back tomorrow. have a great night. welcome to hannity. we begin this busy newsnight with a fox news alert. the state of tennessee is on edge. five former memphis police officers now have been arrested and they have been charged with second-degree murder after reportedly beating a fedex delivery driver to death after a traffic stop. this all happened on january 7t. tyre nichols was pulled over for reckless driving. he was, according to reports, asking why he was pulled over. that involved a back-and-forth with the police. tonight he is dead. tomorrow body cam footage showing this reportedly horrific beating, look at the space. it will be released to the public. we are told it will be extremely graphic in nature and ha
veto of this defense bill. what are the next couple of months looking like? it is going to be terrible here in washington. i have to say, the way that we govern now is exactly the opposite of what it should be. congress basically governed from one crisis to the next. sometimes getting policies in place at the last minute, almost always not the ideal policy. here is what we re facing. we have to fund a government for the coming fiscal year, which started october 1st. they put in place a temporary measure. we re going to have to deal with that in december. we have to decide whether to get the discretionary cuts that make up a sequestration moved and replaced with smarter cuts. we would do that, get rid of some of the across the board sequester and replace it with savings from the real problems in our budget, the mandatory or entitlement programs, but that s another heavy political lift. we have to deal with the highway trust fund, which needs to be reauthorized and figure out how to fu
tour richl campaign. investigators agreeing on a trillion dollar spending plan that funds the federal government through 2014. it ends those drastic across the board sequester cuts. house leaders are hope to vote on this bill tomorrow. happening now, secretary of state john kerry meeting with his vatican counter part. they re expected to discuss major issues including the mideast peace process. later the secretary will travel to kuwait for a conference on syria. new details on of an evacuation of a texas high school. more than 3,000 students were evacuated. one student was taken into custody. the threat was initially identified as a potential explosive device. now police say they found a home
testimony last week and some of them had lost their jobs because of the very deep across the board sequester cuts. they had a stack two feet high of applications they had submitted for jobs and hadn t gotten a job yet and so for rand paul to say, you know, we re going to really do you a favor. we re going to cut off the little compensation that you ve got for your family and that s going to do you good is absurd and demeaning. in addition, in addition to helping these families cope, you re also helping neighborhood economies and the economy in general. the congressional budget office which is a nonpartisan group has said if we don t extend unemployment compensation, we will have 200,000 fewer jobs by the end of the year, by this time next year. and that s not the folks who are unemployed, that s because those families will not have the money to go out and buy goods and services at their local stores.