carton of cigarettes and they ll be fine. those are the good old days. laura: i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington everyr. where is al? that s the focus on the. this is only one thing worse than al sharpton claim to go care about black people, it s al and one of his protege s claiming to care about black people. first time we had convictions after police officer like that in tall years that i ve been involved and this was monumental. you ve said the template on how to do these cases. all of us remember you talked about get off our neck. you remember that was such an important moment and were you a voice for the people because of the press dent you laid down and many others. al sharpton? did he say a voice for the people? please. just remember, they always care more than anyone else, always, specially if it s police involved like the tragic case of george floyd. cared about the family the human price that people paid to lose a loved on
get out the dictionary. we ll define recession for you. here is the bottom line. the biden economy is shrinking as the fed unleashes rapid fire rate hikes to stave off the highest inflation in 40 years. let s get right to it. maria bartiromo joins us now. go ahead and give us the news because they projected .5% on the positive side. the number was a negative .9. we are now in recession and we can confirm that because it is two quarters straight of contraction. the economy shrank in the second quarter by 9/10 percent on top of shrinking in the first quarter by 1.6%. now so far all of the commentary that i m hearing is talking about a shrinking of the economy but the good news for the economy is that job growth has stayed strong. that was why some people were questioning well maybe it is different this time. it is hard to believe that job growth can be up to 300,000 in one month when you are in a recession. what s different this time is that we have an inventory build-up. a l
traditional definition of being in a recession. the second quarter gross domestic product g.d.p. shrank at annual rate of nine tenths of a percentage point. that s the second straight quarterly deficit and that checks the box, historically considered as recessionary. president biden says it s no surprise the economy is slowing down because of inflation. but he insists he has the nation on the right path and, quote: it doesn t look like a recession to me. the president also spent time today on a call with his chinese counterpart in a time increasing tension with communist china. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. the numbers are right there in black and white. the u.s. economy shrunk for a second consecutive quarter. but, until large, well-respected groups, nonpartisan groups of economists issue some sort of a formal declaration that a recession is underway, then officials here
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber took senior status in 2002, but he continued to preside over blockbuster trials 20 years later. They included the trial of former R&B star R. Kelly in 2022, and a major corruption trial involving four political insiders tied to ComEd. 'He was an honorable judge and an honorable man,' said Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean.