ncaa swimmer and women s rights activist riley gaines is set to testify moments ago about a violent attack on her by left wing protestors. john: she was rushed out of an event at san francisco state university after a hostile crowd took over the venue. sandra: she told us earlier the video was only a snippet of what she endured. three hours of being yelled at, of being assaulted, of being called all kinds of names of these violent vengeful hateful things. sandra: america reports rolls into a new hour. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. we will listen in to riley s testimony, but first another live event set to begin in washington and it s a fox news alert. sandra: that s the briefing room at the white house on the left, brownsville, texas at the border on the right. john kirby is joining the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, in that briefing room today. that is expected to begin in just moments. john: the big focus on the border crisis
Right now, though, we start with this another trump lawyer confessing to election crimes today. Jenna ellis sloan in her mug shot. Third lawyer to confess within one week. Last weekended with two lawyers who used to represent donald trump going into court, confessing and pleading guilty. Ellis joins them. I want to show you briefly all three of these pleas together. How do you plead . Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. There it is. In all this is the fourth total conviction in the rico cases. D. A. Willis is 40, the key trump lawyer convicts are, of course, the higher up in the food chain of this chart. The other two Trump Lawyers, they pled out on the eve of a trial that was expected to begin this week. If they hadnt pled guilty wed be covering this right now. Ms. Ellis was not about to start a trial. She rushed back to court, her choice, trying to get a deal while she can. What you see here, this new footage is from that Atlanta Program today. Ellis plea is different from some of the other thin
time to buy a house. likely due to, what? rising interest rates. it always goes back to the money. yeah, so i mean, housing affordability right now is near an all time low, it s very unaffordable, you have high interest rates and also high home prices as well, which did tick down slightly year over year, but when you go back to spring of 2019, which was the prior peak, we are still up over 30% from there. additionally, availability is very low. so you look at existing home inventory, we are down over 40% from the spring of 2019, so there is not a lot of houses on the market, it s tough to find one you like and then if you do, you are kind of priced out of the market. sandra: you are avoiding the question. is the american dream of home ownership, is it dead? everything mark just said is right on the stats. i will say d.r. horton is one of the largest home builders in the country, and spoke and said
president trump believes he can t get them onboard. listen here. president trump: i believe that the nra, i ve spoken to them numerous times, really good people. i think they re going to get it. in the end, wayne and the nra will either be there or maybe will be a little bit more neutral. charles the president does have a good relationship with the nra. but in the past he has said similar things and then it s just gone away. i think a lot key pendz whans over the depends what happens over the next 3 or 4 weeks. it s the august recess, they re going home to listen to people talk about this. everything mark said describes what happened in the past. but this was an extraordinary event. this is two mass shoot things the course of a single weekend, one carried out for political motives, we don t know about the other one. that changes the dynamic. the mere fact the president and the senate majority leader have been hostile to any down control legislation gun control legislation fee
because they need to deal with the press, they need to worry about these russia stories but are they going to pass tax reforms or health care owe infrastructure? we have seen administrations involved in fights like this. they can be distracting and as you suggested the president can be extracted by this too. he will not be judged by history whether he beats the press. he will be judged by i don t think these fights advance him to rally his base. they rally his base. which is what a lot of this about. i agree with everything mark just said. even parts of his debates we saw over the weekend i think darrell issa is called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into some of these matters involving russia. i think you would be hard-pressed to find any reasonable person to suggest that darrell issa, somehow a left leaning liberal or somehow sympathetic to democratic calls. to your point i don t think