president biden s focus today on the fight to raise the debt limit and the dress of consequences that could be in store for the country have no actions taken. not a single solitary has this data is not that i accumulated. but that is not that occurred of the last several years. it is 200 years of debt. 200 years. the idea that we wouldn t pay our debt is bizarre. it s estimated that we didn t pay the debt, we lose 750,000 jobs, we have a recession, would be a disaster. the idea is for the first time saying, unless you can approve this ridiculous budget what the republican mega budget is, if you pass this budget, we re not going to increase the debt limit. then we re going to go bankrupt. the white house has also warning that if the white house default, it would result in severe damage. a default according to the white house would result in hud to thousands of job losses, which could increase to millions the longer it goes on. joining me now is nbc s correspondent, a
A trojan horse, perhaps, ill Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week, the university of southern california, where nearly 100 arrests have been made him, its protests since the university canceled its muslim valedictorian speaker announced it was now canceling its main stage Commencement Ceremony next month they cited insufficient time to carry out, quote, new Safety Measures its the latest most highprofile ramification of the surge of propalestinian protests disrupting campuses all across america students saying they have a right to free speech. Jewish students saying that speeches often antisemitic so what is the current reaction or protesters, the modern day greeks who use the deceptive tactic to enter the campus and defeat the trojans. May, im sympathetic to the University President s and administrators who now have to engage in a difficult balancing act. Campuses have become the Staging Ground for americas growing divide over supporting israel as It Retaliates for hamass octo
35 it is the 8:00 a.m. hour of fox and friends we can start with this. trump is taking the verdict dick head on. is a very sad thing happening in our country and honored to be involved because were but fighting for our constitution. to effect political warrants and democrats might went to think twice between hyping up the type verdict on the campaign trail. will: new jersey woman saving her own life by hitting by a train and losing her legs. pulling yourself on the platform and using her shirt as a tourniquet. rachel: she is amazing. will: will hear her incredible story. we are going rv the third hour of fox and friends weekend starts right now. . will: south carolina. rachel: i don t know guys. [laughter] main it. i was going to guess main and look to early there. i feel like a mane, the son is already hi hi i guess it is only 8:00 a.m. rachel: i didn t think they had such sandy beaches i thought more rock in my mind. cooked york beach main for those of you
live in the moment. ask your doctor about otezla. i m thrilled to be back in beautiful arizona with thousands and thousands in the crowd. hardworking americans. we are the party of common sense. as an example, it is big stuff, bigger than people think. why would anybody want to have men play in women s sports? why? [boos] we want strong voters, powerful military. we don t want wars. we want to have great education for our children and we want to have low interest rates, and i will be slamming the door shut on the biden migrant app, and i will terminate every single open borders policy of the biden administration as soon as i take the oath of office. sandra: former president donald trump back in battleground arizona for a raucous town hall last night. he took 30 minutes of questions after his speech, and laid out what he calls a common sense agenda on things that matter to everyday americans. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york, and john, here it
come under the hood. the civilian labor force itself cell 250,000. sandra: what is all of this telling? it tells me there s a lot of weakness out there. it s telling me, for example, outside of sandra: so maybe it s time to lower interest rates. i wouldn t do that, that s an inflation problem. you are still running inflation for the first four months of the year and the cpi was above 4% at an annual rate. let me give you a number. the employment to population ratio sandra: what is it? there was a fabulous economist who worked for george w. bush, a labor economist named ed lazear from stanford university. he used to always tell me for 20 years, you want to look at the health of the labor market. employment as a share of the population. okay? it fell in this report, down one percentage point from the peak.