Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. To serve as United States secretary of labor. Let me say before i begin my pening statement that we welcome secretary chao. Good to see you and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so well well it wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement nd i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more than 30 years ago to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. So we welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays t
right now we re watching the manhattan d.a. s office where we believe a grand jury will hear today from robert costello, a former legal adviser to michael cohen, and heightening the interest today, he s potentially the final act before a decision is made about whether to issue an indictment against donald trump. costello was called in at the request of trump s attorneys, leading many to believe his testimony will be aimed at undermining cohen s credibility. cohen himself is also there, he says, as a rebuttal witness. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake outside the d.a. s office. legal analyst glenn kirschner joins us as well. garrett, what have you seen or heard today, if anything, of the comings and goings? what s the very latest? reporter: chris, we re all operating on the same scraps of information. no signs of costello or cohen yet. that shouldn t be a surprise. the grand jury typically meets in the afternoon. we would expect to potentially see them sometime here in
meet that young women that put norfolk southern represents on notice. she s coming up. but first president biden is set to announce new taxes next week, most are just guessing on what he will be proposing. he says millionaires and businesses will bare the brunt and nobody making less than $400,000 a year with the nation s debt already well over $31 trillion, even some democrats are getting antsy. senator joe manchin telling me, we can t tax our way out of this. i can assure you, you can t basically just tax your way out of debt. you can t borrow your way out of debt. you can t cut your way out of debt. you can do a combination of all of those to a certain extent and manage your debt. we re not managing debt. neil: no, we re not. we re frozen in place right now. stuck at our credit limit with neither party coming up with solutions to advance the ball or get the government going. good luck with that. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. very happy to have you this very bu
could make inflation worse. because of my economic plan, we are better positioned than any other major economy in the world to weather the challenges and come through this as a strong iser company. republicans win, inflation if s going to get worse. it s that simple. paul: let s bring in texas congressman kevin brady. welcome, congressman, appreciate your coming in. the president says lots of progress, but wait, look, you ve got the last three months it came down from 9% to 8 and something, now 8.2%, so three months in a row it s gone down, so isn t that progress? yeah, no, it really isn t. and this week we saw, as you know, a double dose of bad if news for families and main street businesses. obviously, wholesale prices are still very, very high, and we know at the end of the day those get passed down to consumers in the future. and, of course, core inflation now hit the highest level in joe biden s presidency. that s a full year after he declared inflation had peaked. h
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