government reported a second straight quarter of negative economic growth. so this complicated picture is why president biden is pushing back against talk of a recession. with both senator schumer and manchin. that s consistent with the transition to a stable steady growth and lower inflation, but if you look at our job market consumer spending, business investment, we see signs of economic progress in the second quarter as well. joining us now to take a closer look at this, cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman and ben white, politico chief economic correspondent and host of the politico money podcast. steve, when you take all of this data into account, all these indexes, what does it tell you about the state of the economy right now? it tells us that for sure the economy has slowed. remember, we did like 6% growth in the fourth quarter and now we ve come off two quarters in a row. the first quarter we came off because of what was happening with inventories. thi
who just got fed upwith the world, got fedup with being told go to college,get a job, make a living. frankly,that s just not realistic for our generation. you know,it is really frustrating. the boomers,they think we re lazy. you know the whole term, pull up your bootstrapsand work hard and you get the same lifethat they had? no. the world is very,very different these days. hell, the next pandemicin 2025 might wipe us all out anyways. i ain t got timeto wait for retirement. you got to will itinto existence. life s just not fair.the world is a harsh place and the stock market was justthe purest form of yolo. [music playing] reporter: stocks up againthis morning, 12%. short sellerscontinue to get hurt by the thread wallstreetbets and other retail [interposing voices] reporter: all this whiningby wall street, it s making me sick. reporter: this is populismcoming for capitalism. gamestop. matt kelly: on surface,i can be pretty scattered. in the water, though,it s calming for me,
and the rockets red glare the bombs burting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave welcome to fox and friends this saturday in august, your wonderful patriotic pictures begin our morning, send them in at friends@foxnews.com. it has been a week since i have been on the weekend couch, up been a couple weeks since i ve heard that patriotic anthem intro, good to be back. rachel: you were on vacation and the best thing about vacation is wanted is wrapped up, i am ready to go home. is that how you felt? will: i had big plans for vacation to come back rest and relaxed, you heard the weekend before, i spent most of july fighting a sickness. i got all the sicknesses and i was sick on vacation, one rolled into the other. i am not asking for any world is me. i got a little son and i m glad to be back. joey:you missed but i will nev
abortion rights after the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade. while republican mark molinaro focused on inflation and crime. in the end, pat ryan, the democrat, beat his republican opponent. here is how his fellow new yorker and congressman sean patrick maloney, who runs the dccc and just won his own primary viewed that race. that is an earthquake and should send sifrs down the sign of kevin mccarthy and tom elmert, because their dreams of a big republican wave just went up in flames. the person you want to break this down, steve kornacki, who called the race the single biggest results of the primary season. we re going to get steve s ear piece fixed in a moment. he ll join me in just a second to break down all of these results out of new york and florida. and more revelations about the classified documents at the center of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago, including new questions about the risk to our national security. those boxes contain documents classifie
and they want any work paused before the potential third party review is done. so we want to bring in dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good early morning to you. i want to start here, is there any legitimacy to this request for a special master from the trump team or is this just another one of his delay tactics that we ve seen play out in cases throughout his long legal history? good morning, omar. it is a delay tactic because he is too late to ask for this. the whole thing is moot. this is what happens when you have trouble finding experienced criminal defense lawyers to represent you, you end up litigating the case in right wing media instead of a courtroom and then the clock runs out. because it is difficult to justify the extraordinary request for a special master two weeks after your home has been searched. you waited too long. and, you know, these documents have almost certainly been reviewed already by the department of justice. and that