nomination more crowded by the day, a tech entrepreneur is the third candidate to toss his hat into the ring. as the gop field grows larger, no one in the democratic party has announced candidacy, including president biden, currently staring down multiple crisis here at home and abroad. gillian: could the president face a challenge in his own party if he continues to wait to make his announcement? karl rove and marc thiessen will break down the implications of the long wait coming up. russia and chinese relations are developing as we planned. previous years, everything has been going forward, developing and we are reaching new frontiers. the current international situation is indeed serious and complex, but the reallies are tested by ups and downs in the past, never targets third parties and is not interfered with or provoked by any third party. cooperation in the international arena between the peoples republic of china and the russian federation as we have repeatedl
griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday s verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise
it s their constitutional obligation to do that. we re talking about programs when they talk about medicare, social security, we re talking about programs that they want to take hostage that will affect taxpayers, that will affect seniors and veterans. again, it s their constitutional duty. they should do this without conditions. trying to address market-related chatters. jerome powell was asked about the debt ceiling. there s only one option. for congress to pass the increase. is that the crew here, there s one option, there s no off ramps to consider? congress is the only option here? on any of the coins that s come up before. that s something that the treasury deals with and answers on. so i m not going to comment there. i think we ve been very clear from here that this should be done without conditions. and it is their basic job, congress, right? it s their basic duty to lift the debt ceiling. it s something that has been consistently done over the years. that s how
get this story out when the white house was aware that this was an issue, and essentially karine jean-pierre had a similar answer pretty much every time. watch. where you or any member of your staff involved in the crafting of a strategy as to when this disclosure should be made? seemed like he was thinking the investigation would end soon. was he surprised? does this episode undercut that argument, that he restored confidence? here we have in the headline that he is now under investigation. follow whatever protocol was in place. again, this is something that he takes very seriously. the president, when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to classified information. i am not going to go into any specifics from here. john: on sat with me, harold ford jr. and kellyanne conway, but first, bret baier, fox news chief political anchor and executive editor and interim special reporter joins me. bret, good happy with us today. he goes into that weekend and into d
now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. i think you ll see it change sooner than quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can t stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector, in the u.s. and other places around the world. it wasn t so much it wasn t the people were wrong with the facts that they had. it s that things happened after that that affected the outcome. so we had not just delta, but omicron. we had gas prices at $3.31 january 17 when putin first started doing military ex