at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism tha
fetterman pounced responding via twitter in pennsylvania it s called a veggie tray. a minor story on a slow august day, you wonder? hardly. $500,000 from the flap. enough to buy him plenty more television ads showcasing his gym shorts and at thes and hoodies. the projects of a persona that republicans equate to that of a professional wrestler. coverage of crude tate gate to dwell on whether oz is really living in pennsylvania. fetterman as included snooki of jersey shore fame and little steven from the e street band tying dr. oz to the garden state of new jersey. this week, the social media mud slinging escalated after a daily beast report that oz owns ten houses, not the two he had previously claimed. fetterman tweeted this, i have never spoke on the a p.a. resident who doesn t know how many house that is a have, let alone be off by eight. now, oz struck back saying he bought them with his own money. a diss of fetterman long relied on financial assistance from his family. yo
pennsylvania. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. all eyes are on pennsylvania in the midterm elections. with the senate tied at 50/50 and senator pat toomey retiring at the end of his current term, the commonwealth may well determine control of the entire legislative body. tens of millions are already being spent here, but the race has been far from substantive. presumably there are major policy differences between the democratic nominee john fetterman and the republican dr. mehmet oz on economy, crime, reproductive rights, but we really don t know because instead the rhus thus far is more defined by car heart hoodies, residences and the nomenclature of vegetables. this week, a video first released by dr. oz in april suddenly went viral. it features oz in the aisle of a grocery store that he misidentified, but that wasn t his unforced campaign error. instead, it was the way he labeled what he was buying.