have hit a snag over cuts to discretionary spending and the setback is dashing hopes of a potential deal by the weekend. john: meanwhile, president biden is backing a joint effort with allies to train ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. lindsey graham on what that could mean for the war in ukraine and we ll ask him about the impact of the stalled debt talks. sandra: chad pergram is live on capitol hill, and peter doocy is on the ground in japan with the president. is the u.s. sending jets or just training the pilots? what are we hearing here? for now, it s training in europe. and the training over the coming months, coalition of countries participating in the effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide and who will provide them, it does represent a softening of president biden s positioning softening, earlier this year could be summarized with just one word. he said no, that seems to be possibly changing on the ground here in hiroshima, presi
goods but they couldn t off load them. there was no place to do it. the containers sat there. thanks to the biden administration s vaccine mandates, there weren t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. so all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottle neck in memory and lasted for months. the price of transporting goods rose by 600%. so if you re wondering why inflation started to go up, that s a big part of the reason. none of this happened by accident. the bottle neck was a manmade disaster. it could have been, should have been fixed by the people in charge of transportation. they re called the department of transportation. but for much of the time, this disaster was unfolding, joe biden s secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg from south bend, indiana, was disengaged. he wasn t on the job. he was at home. i was on paid paternity leave posing for selfies for social media. buttigieg didn t seem embarrassed at all by this. this is work, h
until the mid-terms. things are tightening up out here. here s a look at the focus sharpening to abortion and the economy and both sides try to turn voters their way. 40-year high inflation, ripping away your savings. dr. oz would vote to elimination abortion rights here in america. the economy, inflation and gas prices are the top three issues. anti-choice maga republicans. biden and the democrat congress keep spending us further and further into oblivion. extremists so-called leaders are passing laws to criminalize health care providers and punish women. you get the idea. senator lindsey graham on the hot seat over the timing of a bill that he launched to ban most abortions in the united states after 15 weeks. we ll talk to him about his commitment to the bill as the senate hangs in the balance. for to david asman and the strapped united states economy. david, good afternoon to you. good afternoon. martha: let me start with this sound bite from jerome powe
it would be in the best interest of all the candidates to show up for that debate because momentum is a fleeting thing and if you miss even a little bit, particularly given the location and the fact that it s the first debate, not showing up probably is not a good idea. sandra: those debates are very important. john: they are. as we saw in 2016. we are expecting to learn more about hunter biden s finances over the next few weeks. according to court filing reviewed by the washington freebie con, hunter s business partners could soon testify. comes at the request of the mother of his 4-year-old daughter as part of a custody case and child support case in arkansas. new york post columnist and fox news contributor miranda divine joins me. so alexis roberts, the mother of the 4-year-old, wants people like rob walker, devon archer and eric to come in, clearly
and wide and i m grateful that you re willing to tell us i don t remember story. brian, thank you. thank you, tucker. i appreciate it. tucker: i do. so joe biden, who even if you like him, is not a genius. wound up with an institute, an academic institute at the university of delaware. turns out that institute operated a lot like joe biden s fake think tank, the university of pennsylvania. both of them attracted suspiciously large amount of foreign money from foreign governments. china, saudi arabia, turkey. donated millions to the university of delaware after the biden institute opened. we have details on this thanks to the washington freebie con. thanks so much. you may have answered the question, what is the bide institute? what have you learned? i think the biggest concern on this story is the millions of dollars that have been pouring in in foreign money to penn, to