will: president biden and republican leaders coming to an alternative deal to lift the debt ceiling last night after lengthy negotiations. rachel: house speaker kevin mccarthy calling the deal worthy of the american people. joey: c chad pergram is live n the capitol. reporter: the deal does not hike the debt ceiling, only suspends it through the presidential election. it caps most spending at a growth rate of 1% but pentagon spending could increase. has historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, rein in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programs. there s a lot more within the bill. we still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it. reporter: the deal will need the right mix of democrats and gop members to pass. the selling begins now. members feel great about the
i ve seen coat h hanger abortio, back in the 90s when i was in med school. i want access to birth control care and abortion care. i would like biden to focus getting more people into the middle class. in 2015 it tipped. we need to bring more people into the middle class and i would like to see a ban on automatic weapons and a he focus on domestic terrorism in this country. rachel: all right. frank? we just had in the earlier segment talking about the mining ban thats was put into place in minnesota. and those are good jobs they that could occur here. the same week this administration approved hundreds of millions of dollars to be sent to the democratic republic of congo to support its mining operations, where unicef says 40,000 children are employed. rachel: that s heart breaking. as miners. rachel: slave labor. if you want a green economy, great. you need mining, you need
the chinese at all. we ve got to make sure we stand up tall with them, we have capabilities but you also have to rally our allies and friends and as well as the american thithis is a wakeup call to the american people. i don t want anybody waking up on egg shells. only way to maintain peace is through strength. lieutenant general newton, thank you so much for your perspective this morning. very p insightful. rachel: thank you, lieutenant general. thank you, good morning. rachel: i want to make a point on something that he said as well. this is to your question to pete earlier. this is a quote from casey wardinski. he said because of the situation like this, for example, who chooses to join this team. this will make recruiting harder. people will look at this and say, well, this is a feckless bunch. this is right. when we look weak and don t act and we re not he d decisive, pee
you are so true. rachel: we re going to move to a fox news alert. the u.s. air force shoots down the chinese air balloon that hovered over the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean yesterday. navy war ships, surface divers and fbi are searching the area to recover debris. debris, brookesigman is here wi. fox news captured the moment the chinese spy balloon was shot down yesterday. the fighter jet shot down the balloon which floated across the mainland u.s. this week. shortly after, president biden claimed he wanted to down the balloon earlier but was overruled. on wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday, as soon as possible. without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water, so it was within 12-mile limit. the 12-mile limit biden
we need to increase people in the middle class. rachel: thank you. i want to say something on abortion. we need to stop the genocide and slaughter of black babies in the womb. rachel: amen to that. you re not going to get any argument from me on that one. back to our top story, a week after it passed through alaska, the chinese spy balloon has been shot down off the coast of the carolinas. senator eric schmitt is demanding an investigation into the biden administration s response and he will join us next. thanks, you guys. great panel.wh (dog barks) silverado zr2, trail boss, and custom trail boss. because adventure is everywhere.