The president gives a rare interview and gets the economy dead wrong. Biden says inflation was at 9 when he took office. Thats wrong. It was 1. 4 . He says inflation is the result of corporate greed. Thats debatable. He says we have the strongest economy in the world with. Lets just say the president was in heavy spin mode six months from the election. And an astonishing reversal of decadeslong policy. Biden has placed an embargo on weapons for israel. The president does not want the israelis to finish off hamas. Netanyahu insists theyre going to do it, so biden cuts off the weapons. In effect, biden is protecting hamas. To the markets. Stocks mostly lower in the premarket session. Were down 80 on the dow, the rest are just fractional losses, s p and nasdaq. Interest rates a little higher, the 10year moving back right around 4. 5 , were now at 4. 50 precisely. The 2year, last time i checked it was 4. 84, now its 4. 83. Moving a bit lower there. Oil, 79 a barrel. Gas, no change at 3. 64
Also we have 60 degrees. Its beautiful outside. Ainsley its going to be nice. Steve going to see some dogs in a while. In the meantime, its may 9th, 2024, on a thursday. You are watching fox friends. Meanwhile you have heard about this, the white house is putting a weapons shipment to israel on hold. We are not walking away from israels security. We are walking away from israels ability to wage war in those areas. Brian now i feel better. Plus, three janitors are suing Columbia University over the violent antiisrael riots that left them traumatized fearing for their lives. Temporarily hostages by the way. They join us with their story. Carley a tornado rolling into that neighborhood in tennessee. The Severe Weather has already left three people dead and several injured. We have a live report from nashville where damage is devastating. Steve look at that hail. Ainsley fox friends starts right now. Ainsley its a fox news alert. President biden laying out the consequences if israel crosse
Fails to begin the process of trying to get rid of the House Speaker who is a member of her own party. We have been following this for from the beginning. Georgias Marjorie Taylor greene triggered motion late this afternoon to vacate. It is immediately rebuffed by her colleagues. 10 other republicans voted to continue that effort. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram is at capitol hill right now with the latest. A lot of drama but kind of as we expected. Good evening, chad. Good evening, bret. A lot of drama but we kind of knew the outcome for the second time in 8 months. There was an effort to kick out the speaker of the house. In october, it was successful. Today, it was not. The house has just voted to kill this resolution by Marjorie Taylor greene. The vote was 349 in an effort to table this, to kill, this to put this off the table. There were 47 members who voted in favor of it. In other words, they wanted to advance to an actual vote to remove the speaker. There were S
George stephanopoulos starts right now. Jonathan dead heat. Lets get out and Work Together and get this done. We will make America Great again. Jonathan six months to election day. Our new poll shows a tight race for the white house as democrats dig in on abortion. This is the new reality under a trump abortion ban. Jonathan trump continues to campaign from the courtroom. All of this is greatly affecting our country negatively. Jonathan this morning, rick klein breaks down the new numbers, senator tom cotton joins us live, and our powerhouse round table weighs in. Campus clashes. [ chanting ] jonathan student protests erupt over the war in gaza. We will not stop fighting. This is only the beginning. Jonathan police move in. More than 2,000 arrested, many of them not students as universities crack down. There is the right to protest, but not the right the cause chaos. We have to get this under control, end of story. Jonathan the latest from new york city mayor eric adams. And youve shak
Courtroom right now. We do anticipate at some point Michael Cohen will take the stand. We say that each day because we dont have the witness list but we know he is a prime one for them and it could be any moment. Or another day. A former Trump Organization executive is on stand at this moment. And we will bring you all the details as they unfold during our coverage on The Faulkner Focus all hour long. Keep a close watch on that box on your right because it has some realtime notes and things that are coming out of the courtroom for our journalists and producers. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Breaking right now, Columbia University has capitulated to the mob. Theyve caved. Can you imagine paying 588,000 for four years for your kid to go to school there for four years and they cancel commencement . We still dont know what they are doing with the end of the year school tests, the finals. It is still a mystery, all of it. But today those kids will not have a Graduati