so who is right? i don t know what he s looking at, but i can tell you from talking to people across my state and i m sure you hear in from other places around the country, the impact this has had on students and their kids and the ability to learn at the fastest rate possible. you want to optimize your children s opportunities to learn. i have a couple of grandkids starting school this year. i can t imagine educating them at home virtually. the fact that the statistics bear out that there were some serious harm done to our children who weren t able to be in the classroom and get the benefit of everything that comes with that. there s no question about that. so i don t know how you can make a statement like that, a blanket statement like that. i don t think it s squares with the facts. certainly doesn t square with the experience that parents and kids in this country had during the course of the pandemic.
oh, is it? that doesn t square with our reporting sources telling fox news that we just hit a new record on migrant encounters. fox news national correspondent matt chynn is in our west coast newsroom with all the details matt . hey, jason . customs and border patrol sources tell fox news there s been a record two million plus migrant encounters at the border so far this fiscal year. for comparison, last fiscal year is a record high at about eight hundred thousand less, with a total of one point seven million encounters. the federal government also announced there were one hundred ninety nine thousand migrant encounters in the month of july. for comparison, at the end of 2020 migrant encounters were around seventy two thousand per month. they have now skyrocketed to nearly two hundred thousand last month. the biden administration claims the numbers of encounters is inflated under title forty two expulsions where migrants are quickly expelled under a covid-19 order allowing them to pote
doubled over the past several months, it hasn t affected housing. the last thing i would note on this chart is the red line to the right. that is the consensus projection of economists for what could happen in the next two quarters, which is slightly positive gdp, i.e. not a contraction. i still think there is a very substantial chance, probably more than 50%, that we have some kind of recession at some point to get inflation under control, but it is not where we are today. so as we move to your second chart, steve, one of the points that people like jerome powell and janet yellen have been making, is if you look at the unemployment picture, it is not an economy in recession. we have twice as many jobs as people looking for them. it just doesn t square with the argument that this is a recession. do you agree with them on that? this chart shows exactly what you just said. this goes back through every recession from the mid-1950s on, with the exception of the pandemic, because unempl
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
president obama and his 2008 rival are at it again. senator john mccain is here for an exclusive interview. plus, it is lethal and highly effective, but is the president s drone war making more enemies than it kills? congresswoman lynn woolsey and congressman peter king join me. then the shifting campaign terrain with cnn s senior congressional correspondent, dana bash and michael shear of the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. to review the bidding, the president s last ten days include a bleak jobs report, off-message surrogates, a shellacking in the wisconsin recall, a $17 million fund-raising gap with mitt romney, and bipartisan outrage over security leaks. friday, the president held a news conference, pressing congress to pass his jobs bill, including more funding to states to ease layoffs of public workers. he noted 27 months of progress on jobs in the private sector. the private sector is doing fine. oops. it s an extra