he ll react in moments. john: begin america reports with the teetering economy, and with just 22 days now until the midterms, time may be running out to right the ship. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, great to be back with you. sandra: i speak for the whole team when i say great to see you. john: good to be back. sandra: brand-new comments from the white house. press secretary karine jean-pierre scheduled to take reporter questions about 15 minutes from now. this as record inflation remains front and center on voters minds. john: brand-new poll finds 71% of voters saying they have had to cut back on their spending to afford basic necessities. the president appears to be in denial. our economy is strong as hell. inflation is worldwide, worse other places than the united states. john: fox team coverage. byron york joins us with more. sandra: white house correspondent peter doocy live on the north lawn to kick things off for us at this hour. here in
former vp s leadership, but republicans are asking, is it safer following a watch dog report suggesting the biden administration may have put national security at risk by failing to properly vet e vac e vac ways from the botched withdraw from afghanistan. our panel weighs in. and some residents are being told tow sweat it out conserve power even as temperatures soar to record levels. an electrifying panel on the future of the state s energy crunch ahead but first breaking news out of memphis, the 19 year old police say is responsible for several shootings around the city tonight is under arrest. cores corespondent jonathan seniory is in memphis he joins us on the phone. . reporter: good evening mike the shooting started around 4:30 central time when he walked into an auto parts store striking shots. he documented it on facebook live which led police to identify the suspect as 19 year old ezekiel kelly additional shootings followed in other parts of the city including a ma
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
the end of the tunnel, more investors by day s end concluded it was a train coming at them and fast. to susan li with what went down by stocks going way down. susan? you re right. we did close off that bear market level. the dow jones industrials sub 30,000 now. the lowest close that we ve seen for the dow jones since november 2020. that means the last two years of gains have been wiped out. you have fear an wall street at the highest in three months. several factors here affecting sentiment. that includes the on going war in ukraine and also a stark realization this week that the federal reserve and chair jay powell is serious and adamant to keep raising interest rates in order to kill and bring down 40-year high inflation. 75% of wall street now expected interest rates to cross 4% in november this year. that means you re getting the highest yields on ten-year government bonds in 12.5 years. so the good news here is that higher rates is destroying demand. that s bringing d
involving the doj s investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the new york times reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigation into january 6th. that s separate from the mar-a-lago search. and in georgia, rudy giuliani appeared before an atlanta-area grand jury for roughly six hours as the target, a target of the probe into efforts to subvert the election there. we want to circle back, though, to the case of the documents obtained at mar-a-lago. short time ago i spoke with donald trump s former impeachment lawyer davi