john: we are going to talk to the first term assemblyman looking to unseat one of the most powerful democrats in congress and in a district that president biden won by double digits. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. boy, sandra, getting exciting. sandra: here we go, two weeks from election day. sandra smith in new york, crime is the talk of many here in this city, but it s happening in american cities and towns all across the country. we begin with covid at this hour. president biden and his party accused of exploiting it and what critics called the consequences of their refusal to move on from it. it s a fox news alert. john: kicking things off, more than a month since president biden told the american people the pandemic is over. the damage done from how the president and other democratic leaders handle the pandemic may last forever. sandra: the worst drop in children s test scores in decades, after the most
sign for the u.s. economy. inflation finally starting to cool off and it was flat for the month of july. consumer prices increasing by 8.5% year over year. that s slightly lower than the 9.1% increase back in june. and we ll be talking about what that means in just a moment. it is really good news for every consumer out there. plus, former president trump set to be deposed today by the new york attorney general s office. this is in connection to a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances. we have details on that. we are also learning this morning much more about that fbi search of president trump s mar-a-lago home. the justice department was concerned that trump had not returned sensitive documents, which could have national security implications. new details this morning about how trump may frame his defense in all of it. let s get straight to the good news. relatively speaking, on the economy, this morning. wall street poised for a positive open in just
at downing street. at the height of coronavirus lockdowns, people in the uk were banned from socialising, or even attending funerals because of the pandemic. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg. we are taking a look at a new podcast that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co hosts, pandora sykes. and, wagatha christie how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bizarre column, which is a0 this weekend. he faced significant pressure to stand as a witness. simon, i have got to ask, who would play you in the movie? it s funny, we actually had this conversation in the office. what is the answer? well, my hairline is going rather quickly, probably from the stress of thisjob, so ross kemp was mooted. that is harsh. martin compston would suit me. great. and the other person we hav
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and nearly a million people have been affected. water levels in rivers are also running high in bangladesh where about two million people have been hit by the floods. coming up at six o clock, breakfast with ben thompson and sima kotecha. but first on bbc news, the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg. we are taking a look at a new podcast that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co hosts, pandora sykes. and, wagatha christie how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bizarre column, which is a0 this weekend. he faced significant pressure to stand as a witness. simon, i have got to ask, who would play you in the movie? it s funny, we actually had this conversation in the office. what is the answer? well, my hairline is going rather quickly, probably from the stress of this job, so ross kemp was