doctored out, you know, whatever that you, you know, step thing he does to south lawn and with an unusual mark on his now look really closely because apparently he just removed what s called a cpap machine moments earlier. he was just sleepy. well, you know, he needs to be friends with mark levin because you get a call at 7 a.m.. did you read this piece, adam schiff? and i m like, no. anyway, according to reports, biden goes to bed early, wakes up. his few lucid hours are largely unprintable with few scheduled events, as we all know. still, there are much bigger problems at 1600 pennsylvania avenue tonight than biden s mental and physical decline. biden s house of cards mark my words, it is crumbling before this nation s eyes. the media have been ignoring it. they will not be able to ignore much longer. now his beloved attorney general, merrick garland, now been exposed. garland has promised over and over again that the u.s. attorney look into hunter biden. david weiss
right now secretary of state antony blinken is in the west bank, set to speak at any moment. this at the end of his three-day tour of the middle east, the trip gained new urgency following an outbreak of deadly violence. he met with mahmoud abbas earlier today and met with benjamin netanyahu yesterday in an effort to get both sides to work together to end the bloodshed. also kevin mccarthy will meet tomorrow with president biden at the white house for the first time since becoming house speaker. top of his agenda the debt ceiling. republicans with that slim majority in the house are holding the threat of defaulting on the nation s debt to demand budget cuts. and this morning two more memphis police officers have been put on leave in connection to the death of tyre nichols. that in addition to the five officers who have already been fired, charged with second-degree murder. plus, the memphis fire department has also fired three employees for their response or nonresponse
news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of julyy, zero percent. okay, we ll have more on that a little bit later in the show, i promise. but first, there never been a more important day for the permanent washington time than inauguration day for joe biden. january 20th last year it was moment democrats and their voters in the federal bureaucracy have been waiting for for four years. none of it had to do with joe biden or possibilities his presidency could bring to them.t the best part about joe biden taking office was donald trump was leaving office, although it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemicus had accomplished what, four years off witch hunts, pausing to investigate the full force of surveillance state could not removing donald trump from the white house despite getting seventy four million votes. but it quickly becameus clear removing donald trump was not the end goal. believe it or not, almost immediately joe biden and his
i m erin burnett, outfront tonight,a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those makes less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there s a lot of differ