fires in their camps trying to stay warm waiting to get in in a week or so. new inflation numbers are out today with mixed reaction. fox business s larry kudlow says this. prices are still up 7% and even excluding food and energy. food prices are still strong. you have a split story here, okay? wall street likes it better for stocks, main street still has to struggle with higher prices. harris: and we know it s basically two americas. the latest report showing americans are still dealing with what it costs to eat and heat this holiday season. steve forbes on the mez with me next in focus.
i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. americans want answers but we won t get them today. his testimony on capitol hill before congress is now on hold. bankman-fried arrested in the bahamas last night one month after ftx was forced to file for bankruptcy after an astounding $8 billion shortfall. and it s an implosion affecting more than just crypto currency investors. in the world of politics, a major player for democrats as i just mentioned. let s dig deeper. he donated nearly $40 million to party causes and candidates last election cycle. second only to billionaire liberal activist george soros. some are scrambling to off load that dirty money. can they do that fast enough? others we re not so sure. house financial services committee going ahead with the hearing despite bankman-fried s absence. i look forward to getting his
now at twitter. even if that number was smaller during the election, again a candidate buying space, paying for that service, getting out their information. it is not just twitter, folks. we re talking instagram, facebook, a whole host of things. i want to know also who in the government was contacting these people? that information should be readily available. who was putting the pressure on them. not just out there saying we should do this. who in positions of authority, people who were the regulators of these companies, was calling and saying you need to do this? that s undue influence. harris: we ve asked those questions about the hunter biden laptop story and the f.b.i. and potential white house connections. we ll continue to stay on it. thank you very much. good to see you, jason. the end of title 42, the trump-era border policy that kept people south of the border, slowed down the surge so we
for anybody to say anything outside of this is something that we need to work on immediately is gas lighting and lying to us. harris: gentlemen, i have to let you go but when we come back together again, let s talk about title 42. you know they don t have they could move that date. the white house could do that. maybe they ll do the right thing and push it back to stem the tide while we catch up and maybe spend some of those resources to hire more people and judges. good to see you both. outnumbered is next. you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home s value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no. give us a call. my name is austin james.
we re expecting more updates later on today. dana: mark meredith, thank you. he can read fast. bill: quick two hours. a lot covered. dana: indeed. more to come today. we have the five coming up today. bill: lovely outfit. dana: thank you. it was great being with you today. harris faulkner is up next. here is the the faulkner focus. harris: fox news alert now. his young mastermind ideas were supposed to make people rich beyond belief. now disgraced sam bankman-fried, the founder of the failed crypto currency exchange ftx is a felon in the bahamas. he was the second largest democratic donor this last election cycle shelling out tens of millions of dollars. what did he get for investing so heavily in that democrat political party?