the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
calls are growing to prevent future mass shootings. the president has a plan he s pushing, but not all republicans, even some democrats, are buying. a bipart a san group of lawmakers searching for common ground. welcome, everybody, i m neil ca view eau. very good to have you in the weekend cavuto. a very busy weekend because across the pond and all the way to london we have the jubilee going on. we ll give you the latest there. first to florida right now where i guess drenched is the word of the moment. will nunley reporter: neil, good morning. yeah, the three days we ve been monitoring this storm system, this has been the heaviest of the rain, started about 3:00 morning leading to moderate flooding in riviera beach and west palm beach where we re standing. it s nice and clear, but actually in praises it s half a foot to a foot deep. this is a1a. this is not quite as dramatic as some of the scenes just down the road in miami but, sure enough, this is the kind of water y
i don t like the bill. speaker johnson s been on the job for, what, two or three weeks now and that s like throwing a quarterback in the fourth quarter and expect him to make up for three quarters of failure and you re behind 35-0. the reason he finds himself in the position he s in because of nine months under speaker mccarthy. it s also a no vote from bob good of virginia on speaker mike johnson s plan to avoid a government shutdown. but there are some democrats who are signaling they may support the funding bill. we ll tell you about that. plus former trump allies who pleaded guilty in the georgia election interference case give new details about the plans to stay in power. and also ahead, the latest from gaza where the area s largest hospitals are running out of fuel and efforts to evacuate the patients are stalled amid heavy fighting. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 14th. i m jonathan lemire. and thanks for starting your day
and a prize. a collection of disfigured classic mcdonald s characters. remember grimace and the ham burglar? now they have four eyes i don t know why. maybe it s from eating processed food i don t quite know why. laura: those are scary, those go right up to the category of puppets for me. any type of figurines, puppets, clowns, especially mimes i don t like mines and you are sending me into the weekend with that image of the ham burglar. we got to get off the slides. laura: sam is telling us to wrap. have a good weekend. what happens when dating apps go wrong? former host of couples there joins me next to explain, stay there.
yeah, and 73% of the drivers say they do it because of bad tippers. so you never tipped me, that s why. and we talk about it. neil: sure, blame me, blame me. [laughter]. we can get the truth out there. remind me when my grandmother would send me five blocks down the street to burger king and i could eat the fries, i m a grown boy, what does she expect me to do. i see it all the time with my food. neil: even jonas does, and he orders out fois gras. and with the oysters and they went through them. and apparently this has been a problem in the industry. this is why they had the ham burglar, be honest. in 2019 it was one in four did this, a u.s. food report did