statens. and leon panetta on a scary warning for americans in ukraine. two words. get out. get ready. it s about to get very interesting. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. dr. fauci in a moment. first, to the fall-out from his announced resignation, peter doocy with the president in delaware. peter? and there is a split along party lines here with the reaction to dr. fauci. one of the precovid presidents he worked with, barack obama, is saying now i will always be grateful that we had a once in a century public health leader to guide us through a once in a century pandemic. i m glad he s not done yet. andy slavit part of the white house covid team says the president always wanted to understand the science and tony was a vector for what the scientific community understood and was saying. we faced tricky decisions and tony was a steady, trusted person. trusted is disputed by kevin mccarthy. he tweets dr. fauci lost the trust of american people when he
may or may not match up with what you are feeling every day. we re about to get the biggest hard data dump of the summer. a multifaceted look at what the cold hard facts tell us about where the u.s. economy stands. you have these big hitters all announcing their earnings this week. it s going to be a big reflection of where we are, what we re buying out there. what we re not buying and participating in in this market. look at the reports coming out this week. it s a huge week for this summer. you have gdp, the cost of goods. perhaps the most important, consumer sentiment that we ll get at the end of this week. as you know, two quarters of gdp contraction. we ll get that second quarter gdp number. signalling a recession in the u.s. economy. the white house is changing its tune on the long-accepted benchmark. janet yellen is starting to hedge on what the definition of a recession is. with that, we bring in neil cavuto from your world. always good to have you with us. neil:
doesn t get a free pass. if he committed the crime, he deserves to do the time. would the justice system do you favors? you know the answer to that. this morning paul pelosi was due in court to face the music. papa pauly p is too much of a bigwig to show up himself, so he sent the lawyer in his place. the entire hearing was literally over in two minutes. his case got to be heard first, even though it was in alphabetical order. correct me if i m wrong, but does p come before a ? at least we did get to hear from our good friends, allison haley. hey, ali. my name is allison haley, napa county s district attorney. he appeared 977, meaning a dui defendant can appear through his attorney. he was arraigned on the charges of driving causing injury with a blood alcohol level above 8.0. his defense attorney is amanda bevins, and acknowledged real rt of the criminal complaint. they punted the whole thing to august 23rd, thinking i ll be on vacation that week, but i m not. we re n
the island. 27 chinese war planes have buzzed through taiwan s defense zone in the last several hours. it s a show of aggression by china that we have not seen in 30 years in this kind of force. we ve seen smaller versions of this over the last year. but now russia has decided that they want to get in on this whole conversation scolding the united states for her visit to stay out of taiwan. watch this. i have no doubt that this same line that we ve been talking about regarding the ukrainian situation. it s a desire to prove to everyone impunity. i do what i want, something like that. i see no other reason to create an annoyance out of the blue knowing very well what it means for the people s republic of china. with that, we bring in congressman mike gallagher a marine veteran that serves on the armed services committee. very good to have you with us today. there s a piece in the post today new york times, and they talk about two competing blocks that are forming in th
Jesse now you are thinking. Bret all right, thanks. Greg see you. Bret good evening from washington. Im bret baier. Another potential firestorm over Republican Leadership in the house. A second g. O. P. Lawmaker says he would cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair. In other words, get rid of Speaker Mike Johnson. This comes as the speaker tries to push an International Aid package through the chamber. Congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie starts us off with the breaking news tonight. Good evening, aishah. Good evening to you, bret. We still dont have tests for that International Aid package. In fact, a source is telling me just now that they are still having meetings about that text. That is a very, very bad sign if the house really does intend to take votes by the end of the week. We dont know what the holdup is but Speaker Johnson today was vowing that he is not going to let any threat to oust him try to deter this. I am not resigning. House Speaker Mike Johnson defiant amid a ne