important, america first committee in 1940-41, was almost a million members in size. it was lead by industrialists, by members of congress, punitive spokesman was lindbergh, it was made up of all kinds of people, patriotic americans, communist, ain t semites, they had one thing in mind, keep america out of the european war. you see, they had just fought world war i. the country was going through a horrific economic cycle, depression. they didn t want to fight any more. the argument was basically, let s build up our military to protects continental u.s., bombers and other air war craft, ships and subs, but stay out of europe, we went there and lost enough lives. franklin roosevelt was frustrated. he got around neutrality act too give some support to england. which was under attack by the nazis, the nazis moved through much of eastern europe, they were attacking england, we had many people who opposed us getting involved because they didn t think we were ready and tired of the
taxpayers and disproportionately benefit the wealthy. in recent days, there has been considerable bipartisan pushback to the plan. that is now going forward as the country faces record high up beflation. president biden today claiming the plan will have no meaningful affect on inflation but his critics, including some former obama administration officials remain unconvinced. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. white house officials say they have no idea how much this plan is actually going to cost because they think there are plenty of eligible student loan debt holders who are going to choose not to go online and tell the government that they want to cancel up to $10,000 in that debt. now it s time to address the burden of student debt. the president s announcement benefits 43 million borrowers including 20 million who will see their student debt totally canceled up to 10,000 in
a republican can win. skipping over competitive and going red. mayra flores won. the first mexican born woman to serve in the house. bill: this is a heavily hispanic district that shares a border 80 miles with mexico. it was created 10 years ago and until now it has been a democratic stronghold. dana: what changed? critics are pointing to president biden s border policies. voters witness the crisis firsthand in donna, texas, thousands were held in squall or. bill: the world s richest man weighing in. elon musk tweets the following. the first time i ever voted republican. massive red wave in 2022. dana: team fox coverage. bill melugin is covering the crisis on the border from texas and we re live in dallas. this is exactly what the national republican party was banking on. it spent a million dollars on television ads alone for the special election in this traditionally democratic district down in south texas. and there is so much to know about this very special candi
one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
of justice kavanaugh. on capitol hill this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to the senate vote. senate republicans lined up in lockstep behind mitch mcconnell and donald trump to vote to rip away the constitutional right to health freedom for american women across the country. this hour, i will speak with president obama s former attorney general eric holder about the supreme court, voting rights and the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trump defense secretary mark esper joining me to talk about the astounding revelations about the former commander in chief. with covid cases rising, president biden mourning the loss of 1 million lives to the virus. 1 million covid deaths. 1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table. around the world, many more millions have died. millions of children have been orphaned. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. we start with the fight for abortion ri