we will get there at the end of the show. all right, a lot to get to this hour but we look ahead to tonight, president biden will deliver the state of the union address in less than nine hours from now. and he certainly will have a lot of explaining to do to the nation. first, there is the growing controversy over the chinese spy balloon that flew over the country for more than a week. before he took action. the record-breaking biden search at the southern border and the scandal surrounding his son hunter. i don t think he will mention that. plus, his address tonight seen as a kickoff for his 2024 campaigns. yes, he is running, i told you he was but he may have a lot of convincing on that front. the poll says majority of democrats don t want him to run again and biden to talk about unity but that may be a tough selling point considering he just said this on friday. judgment till my jobs are up, which is a rub from inflation is down and covid no longer controls our life. the
highly classified and damaging pentagon memos. 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman jack to shira was identified after a cascade of shocking news reporting reports in the washington post, new york times and belling cat show that tachira allegedly led a small online chat group on the encrypted platform discord often used by gamers. members of that group that tachira reportedly dubbed thug shaker central. seems to mostly be teenage boys who share a love of guns and military gear, and they described to shira as the quote undisputed leader of that chat group. the post also reviewed a video posted by teixeira, who members of the chat group call o g that seemed to show him yelling anti semitic and racial slurs and showing off his gun. those who know to share a say he was just trying to impress his friends and keep them in the loop on classified intelligence , which he then allegedly swiped from highly sensitive briefing emails and apparently leaked to his small group ov
department is considering four separate charges against the president s son, two sn misdemeanors for failing to file taxes, one count of lying on a gun application. we re also reporting that the fbi and irs have been finished with their investigation for more than a year and there s growing frustration within the fbi, for example, as to why nothing is moving on this case, and now there s a whistleblower who has come forward, raising questions as to whether there s been political interference at levels of the biden administration ken dilanian, thank you for that i want to go to capitol hill where kevin mccarthy is scrambling to get skeptical republicans behind his plan to raise the debt limit garrett haake is on capitol hill at this point, how confident or not is mccarthy that he can get to 218 mccarthy and his team have been projecting confidence all week they just rolled out this debt limit plan the other day they re hoping to get it on the floor early next week. that wi
bring down inflation or ease up on the fight to calm the banking sector. downplayed the federal reserve through all of this. we started out the sa santa clas by bringing zero interest rates which pushed people out of saved investments into venture capital. they became the arsenate dome arsenate during covid m no one would loan it to us the $5 trilf thin air and that caused inflation. but don t worry, they came in as the firefighters to put the fire out by dousing it with high interest rates. now, they are like the triage doctor to stabilize the patients, which are the banks. ashley: alexandria hoff with more from washington, alex. good morning, the federal reserve is in a tricky spot with rising consumer prices being revealed today. it has led to a rate hike but giving the turmoil the interest rates have caused the fight against inflation may have to be placed on hold. it was an attempt by silicon valley to lower interest rate risk which led to selling off securities we
it s a political stunt and disservice to the american people. what a hideous miscarriage of justice, a majority power crisising influence over house committee assignments right on cue, squad members tried to out outrage one another with their full outrage. [screaming]. [bleating]. the white supremacy happening is just a bunch of racist gas lighting. they turn congress into a place of fear mongering. my voice will get loudered and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. so utterly disingenuous but predicting. the fbi to the epa suddenly crying foul. why? because their committee position was actually put to a vote. how dare they be held accountable for their own toxic words and abysmal record? naturally their dog eared scripts about racism and mysogyny. this is an extension of that record. there is nothing consistent about the republican party s attack except for the incitement of women of color in this body. don t tell me th