Tanden. She is the Domestic Policy Adviser to President Biden. Let me ask you that. This is the president s final State Of The Union speech before this upcoming election. What are we going to see tonight . Well, i think youre going to see the president in fighting form. Im talking about what hes accomplished for the American People, what hes delivered on lower cost Prescription Drugs, millions of jobs, more people covered by Health Insurance than any time in american history. But hes also going to lay out his agenda for the future. Whole host of issues. And really fundamentally lay out the stakes what hes fighting for, and what other people may be fighting for and why his his his agenda is the one that really serves the American People and neera i mean one issue thats on a lot of americans minds is inflation. It has cooled. I mean, the data shows that its clear, but it continues to be a thorn in the side for many americans, im sure youve seen people putting on social media how much it
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
donald trump currently in his mar-a-lago florida estate and preparing to make his initial court appearance just hours fro now in miami. the 45th president of the unite states becoming the first forme president to face federal charges. he is facing 37 counts relating to his handling of classified documents. he is expected to be arraigned and to plead not guilty to all of those counts when he appears to be in a miami courtroom. that could also happen to be if they decide to make it a separate arraignment that would be more private. we will find out. but meanwhile trump will electronically be fingerprinted today. a source tells fox news not to expect in mugshot, and he will not be handcuffed. reporters will be barred from using cameras or phones inside the courtroom at today s proceedings. the judge will likely set bail and schedule the next court hearing. the former president has been expected to head back to his estate in bedminster new jersey and make some remarks this evenin
future is at stake. thank you all so much for joining us tonight. greatly appreciate your time and insights. coming up, on the second hour of ayman, democracy fights back, how people around the world are holding those in power accountable. plus, oh my pillow, the dangerous conspiracy theorist mike lindell, faces a growing list of legal problems. and the latest on the path of tropical storm ian as he let s get started. so on the show, we ve been frank second hour one okay about the often bleak state of american democracy, from rioters in the halls of our nation s capital, to elections deniers, using their elected positions of power to subvert the will of the american people. our democracy is being tested and strained time and time again, so i m sure doesn t shock you to hear that according to a new nbc news poll, voters actually ranked threats to democracy as the most important issue facing the country today. and while that fear is warranted, democracy and justice have racke
and sabotaging our energy industry. it is nothing to do with foreign forces and foreign powers or boogie men, but actual policies that have been in the process now for decades. these policies they put under the name climated change or green new deal, they started out in 1970s in europe, where professors from world activists, marxists, left wing politicians, they met, and they came up with this notion of climate control. as a venue, a system through which they would push their economic agenda. their economic, agendis, if you read research and scholarship, which i have done, is economic degrowth. degrowth the central society . marx hated the industrial society, he was shocked when he saw in latter parts of his life in united states as our industries grew and our capitalist system expanded economic activity and prosperity, that rather than the workers rising up and over throwing the owners and managers, quite the opposite occurred. that is, the life style for most people went up