my mom would be so proud. my posture has never been better. thank you for having me. dr. siegel, i love you. marc: great to be on the couch with you. harris: it is 15 days until the midterm elections, two weeks from tomorrow. there s a lot at stake, particularly for democrats and president biden. right now democrats have very slim majorities in congress. crisis after crisis is making the effort to cling to power all the more difficult. we are getting some stunning new numbers putting the surge of illegal immigrants coming to our country into perspective. are we showing that? on one side is the infrared that you can see from the chopper when you fly with the dps of texas. that s what you see. the last report from customs and border protection ahead of the midterms was released on friday night. very quietly. we collect the classic bad news dump on a friday. after another record breaker in september, fiscal year 2022 made history with the highest number of encounters. nearly
nobody has told joe yet. instead of hitting the campaign trail and talking to voters, president biden was cooped up with dnc staffers. i bet it smelled wonderful. biden giving a rousing pep talk on how his party has it in the bag. we re running against the tide and beating the tide. we the democrats are the ones that are fiscally responsible. let s get that straight now. republicans are fiscally reckless, pushing tax cuts for the very wealthy that aren t paid for, and exploiting the deficit that is making inflation worse. republicans are determined to hold the economy hostage, either give into their demands on social security and medicare which millions of americans rely on and paid for, and republicans will crash the economy. that is rousing. if biden s blame the republicans strategy fails to catch on, there s a nancy pelosi method of changing the subject. it s about getting out the vote. everything else is a conversation compared to that. in order to do that, you
. rachel: good morning, everyone. it is 6:00 a.m. i love starting the morning with the sar spangled banner. did you see the dogs? will: good morning. todd: goo morning. rachel: very patriotic. i looked at my wardrobe. i will be america today. i did it. i did it. by the way love seeing dogs watching the three of us on the couch with dann bongino. that was awesome. will: did you have a great birthday yesterday? rachel: i did. i had a movie marathon with the kids. something i never do. usually get home from work i look at all the stuff they didn t clean up when i was at work and i ended up cleaning. i watched the prince of egypt because my kids are studying about egypt. it is a cartoon about the story of moses. we watched another cartoon, animated film, joseph of the coat of many colors. todd: wholesome clean and wholesome and some nc-17 movie. will: my wife i put something on to watch, i escape and relax, it is inevitably violent. rachel: same with my boys. they like that. s
to cross the southern border illegally. only the ones the border agents know about. coming for your suv. now the liberal media claims our dogs are responsible for global warming. all right. first president biden trying to put a spin on the bad economy. doubling down on his incidents didn t that republicans will make it worse if they take control of washington. the republicans have made it clear. most of them voted against the bill to reconstruct america through that infrastructure bill now they are voted against to a person voted against the inflation reduction act which provides environmental security and safety. they don t have a platform other than tear down what we ve been able to do. when people start talking about inflation, democrats should change the subject. so proud of the president to help america s working families to do so to reduce the deficit. we had to change that subject. inflation is at the top of the minds of voters. republican say biden spending
prices are rising faster than they have done for a0 years in the uk. the bank of england says the recent increases in energy hills, which are set to be three times more than they were a year ago, will drive inflation the rate at which prices rise even higher, to 13%. uk inflation hit that a0 year high injune, reaching 9.a%. july s figures are released in a few hours and there is a real chance that headline uk inflation could hit double figures. joining me now is liz martins, uk economist, hsbc welcome and it is good to have you on the programme. what do you on the programme. what do you think? do you think we will hit double digits today and if so how significant is that? that is our forecast that we get to exactly 10% year on year injuly and some of our fellow economists don t think it is quite that bad they say nine point 8% perhaps but 9.8, ten, these are incredible figures that even a few months ago we would have found hard to believe. yesterday we had the labour mark