you know how you go to instagram and maybe watch cat videos. maybe that is just me. amazon wants you to watch short tiktok reels, whatever you want to call it, videos of things you want to buy. dana: i better not do this. serious. i needed a fire extinguisher for my apartment. i went to amazon and watched a video of this guy yangs using it. but then i decided i will buy it on amazon. they know it s happening. if you shop on amazon a lot you will see there are more and more videos about products and what amazon is doing is hiring influencers. 20 something gorgeous young people that say look at me in this new skin cream. they will be hiring them and paying them to create these videos on amazon so you buy the face serum or the outfit or whatever it is. dana: this sounds much more dangerous for me than roblox.
let s not forget that. dana: congressman let s get your thoughts today especially given that traditionally it has been that if you re in a situation like this you would take the one held the longest. that did not happen here. of course we re happy for her family. when you have an american come home it s a great thing for her family. but the concerns are at least two-fold. the first is just the terms of the trade itself. as you point out, we re talking about one of the most dangerous men in the world who is a convicted terrorist, the merchant of death, tried to kill americans. in return for a professional athlete on trumped up drug charges. the reality is putin took a hostage and used it to exert leverage over the united states in the middle of a conflict in europe and we re supporting the other side. the signal it sends more broadly. i m concerned the signal it sends that it is open season to take american citizens hostage because this is not just an isolated incident. the biden ad
lower than places in california like los angeles, san francisco. but more likely it is generally in the 20 to 25% range. so what does it mean? california now projects a $25 billion budget shortfall for next year. governor newsom says he is not worried as the state just passed france and germany as the world s fourth largest economy. top destinations, mike, texas, tennessee, nevada, florida, arizona, and new capital projects california ranks 16th but we do have sunshine. back to you. mike: interesting they aren t moving to washington, d.c. how about that? william la jeunesse live in los angeles. william, thanks a lot. dana: cash may no longer be king. a social gaming platform called roadblocks is an app that combines gaming, social media and e-commerce, the ultimate
crypto collapse and where the funds went. in numerous interviews in recent weeks you heard him admit some of the funds to his personal hedge fund alameda. one phrase one could use to be alameda sent the dollars to the dollars. but that s the answer is they were wired to alameda. i can only speculate about what happened after that. that would be illegal as it violates the terms of service and he wrote this ftx u.s. was solvent. not sure if u.s. customers will get their money back. dana: i will pay attention to that one as well. susan lee, thank you so much. mike: to the murder mystery in moscow, idaho. a neighbor tells fox news the front door of the house where those four college students were killed nearly four weeks ago was wide open in the early morning hours before the 911 call came
government spending that is making it harder to get that inflation under control because the amount of money we have spent over the past 20 months. dana: thank you, edward lawrence. keeping an eye out for us. mike. mike: dana, brittney griner may have been one of the highest profile americans held overseas but her release spotlights the others anguishing in foreign jails. one study found at left 67 u.s. citizens were being detained in 19 countries. one is amad locked up in iran since 2018. his sister joins us now. welcome. president biden says he wants to bring home all americans detained overseas. let s play the clip. president biden: i don t want any americans to sit wrongfully detained one extra day if we can bring that person home. make no mistake about it. this work is not easy. negotiations are always