words. critics say president biden s words not nearly strong enough. house speaker s nancy pelosi visit to taiwan adding tension between the u.s. and china. this is the faulkner focus and i m dagen mcdowell in for harris. xi warning biden not to play with fire when it comes to taiwan. speaker pelosi s possible stop there. the speaker is set to leave for asia today and expect to hear from her later this hour. general jack keane criticizing america s passive approach to an aggressive china. the old paradigm we ve used for years, which is self-censorship and self-deterring in our relationship with china all because we don t want to spook them. we don t want to aggravate them. that paradigm has failed massively. dagen: jacqui heinrich live at the white house. good to see you. president biden and president xi had a long conversation today, 2 hours and 17 minutes. then the white house agreed to a face-to-face meeting. an odd thing to do critics say after a death warning. th
during covid how prepared is it for the next pandemic? good evening a catastrophe is how kentucky officials are describing the deadly situation unfolding there tonight after one in a thousand year floods left residents stranded on roof tops, washed roads away, and triggered mud slides after at least 9 inches of rain fell over 12 hours. by late afternoon the death toll climbing to eight with more feared all of it part of the same storm system that triggered massive flash floods in st. louis. it s the kind of heavy precipitation event experts say are becoming more common as the climate continues to change. the hard hit city of hazard, kentucky tweeting, help your neighbors and pray for a break in the rain. but more is expected the rain a compound disaster in a state still recovering from a deadly hit by an ef-4 tornado in mayfield back in december in a moment i ll speak to the governor for a late update. reporter: in a swath of the south submerged total devastation and a de
cold. i will be discussing all of that with these two, there they are. the boss of the american conference board which elects official data on american consumer confidence and one of the advisers who advised the father white house. also the show, its august peak holiday season. but with luyken s cancellations and holiday makers concerned about the bottom line, what is happening on the travel season. i will find out in the big boss of the company that owns the online travel giants, booking.com. wherever you are watching from around the world, once again a big hello and warm welcome to the show. you know, while the emergence of a new middle class of millions of consumers across asia and africa will change how companies operate this century, the american shopper, for now, remembers the most powerful on the planet. the most recent numbers from the world bag shows the american consumer spent a massive $14 trillion in 2020. that s nearly three times that of the chinese, who spent a
all those visits despite the president s claim. the new york post. the business partner called joe biden the big guy in a panicked message to hunter after the bombshell lap taupe story broke. ted cruz says enough is enough. this guy, how many films has he made of himself committing multiple felonies? i have to sai, jesse, if you put out a film with you with a pile of crack and prostitutes, somebody would come knocking on your door and they would prosecute you. but if daddy lives at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, apparently the criminal laws do not apply and it is deeply corrosive to our system of justice. griff jenkins is live in washington good morning, dagen. top news for hunter biden on multiple fronts. the new york post headline you referenced appearing to finally put to rest speculation around the identity of the big guy. the subject of much speculation as part of the ongoing grand jury probe into hunter biden s business dealings. but even more telling, dagen, fox n
official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov