the faulkner focus. all the white house talk, the prices for food, energy, getting a haircut, everything going up still consumer price index for february up 6% from last year, coming off that high of 9.1% last june. so this is really slow with housing prices sky high, the fed threatening to ep coo raising interest rates to cool down inflation. new word the fed is using today, maybe they ll do that. who is to blame for america s second largest bank collapse in history and the deep economic mess we re in right now? the old go-to, our democratic president is pointing a finger at former president trump. president biden: thanks to quick action of my administration, americans can confidence the banking system is safe. during the biden administration we put in place tough requirements on banks to make sure the crisis of 2008 would not happen again. the last administration rolled back some of the requirements. harris: republicans demanding accountability and raising concerns th
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
into the business activities of the president s son. all of this comes on a dayothers name, robert f. kennedy jr. officially launches a primary challenge. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live on the north lawn with the latest. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this whistleblower s lawyer says that he is a career official in the irs criminal division and he is alleging that a political appointee at the irs lied to congress about the hunter biden tax investigation at some point in the last few years. and this whistleblower is alleging that politics and preferential treatment are interfering in the hunter biden probe. we are awaiting reply from hunter biden s representatives. the chairman of the house ways and means committee says they are going to meet with this whistleblower soon. and this does come at a politically delicate time for the president. remember, he and his political team retooled the democratic primary calendar to put south carolina first because
59 minutes, 38 seconds and counting until the first polls close on Election Night. Thank you so much for joining us for this election count down and here is what is going to be happening, every friday night from now until election day we are going to be right here, at this hour at this board, bringing you the latest in polling, the latest data, the latest on the Ground Reporting and expert analysis as we draw near one of the most anticipated Midterm Elections in modern memory. Thats going to be november the 8th. Already, voting started in more than a dozen states. That includes some of the most critical battlegrounds on the board, pennsylvania, florida, wisconsin, just over the last couple of days, ohio, arizona, and a Georgia Early Voting set to begin this coming monday. It is the peach state where we start tonight with our breaking news. A head to head televised showdown this evening between democratic senator Raphael Warnock, and his republican challenger, Herschel Walker. All year,
epic cleanup. several senate lawmakers are at the border right now getting a close-up look at the real crisis, looking for real answers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. one group, a bipartisan delegation led by texas republican john cornyn, and arizona independent kyrsten sinema making stops in their home states focused on finding solutions. what is happening now is happening on our doorstep and we need to work together to try to address it in the best way we can. a repeated failure by administration after administration to manage this crisis. the way i see for us to do that is work together by putting partisanship aside and listening to local folks and working together to find solutions. harris: we may be getting a peak from the curtain why she left the democratic party. they weren t doing that. this from the front lines. face and center hour by hour, minute by minute agents catching two illegals as they crossed across the border. we have fresh