Late night hosts find the lighter side of Rudy Giuliani s FBI raid
4:05 a.m. Earlier today, federal investigators raided Rudy Giuliani s Manhattan and office because of his dealings in Ukraine, Jimmy Fallon said on Wednesday s
Tonight Show. When the agents walked in, Rudy got so nervous he started sweating hair dye and tucking all the evidence down his pants. . Yep, Rudy panicked and called his lawyer, and then when his own phone started ringing, he panicked even more.
In their raid of Giuliani s apartment and office, the FBI reportedly confiscated laptops, cellphones, and a bunch of jars labeled Definitely Not Blood, Trevor Noah joked at
Biden attempts to put a dagger in the Reagan era by arguing trickle-down economics has never worked
In what
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution s Greg Bluestein called a repudiation of generations of conservative tax policy, President Biden pointedly asserted Wednesday night that trickle-down economics has never worked. Biden s critique of supply-side economics, delivered in his first address to a joint session of Congress, was an attempt to put a dagger in the Reagan era, NBC News Sahil Kapur writes.
The trickle-down theory, heavily associated with former President Ronald Reagan s economic policies, posits that tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy will help stimulate the economy and eventually lead to prosperity for the rest of society.
Fox News Chris Wallace expects Biden s speech will be popular with Americans
April 28, 2021
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace expects President Biden s address to a joint session of Congress will be well-received by the American people. I think this is gonna be a popular speech with the American public, Wallace said after Biden concluded his remarks. He offered a lot of stuff . and the other thing that s pretty popular is he said you re not gonna have to pay for it.
In his analysis, Wallace surmised that Biden and his advisers made a calculation that Americans have come to have a different feeling about government during the coronavirus pandemic, that they re now more trusting and aware of the need of government. So while some of Biden s themes might have turned a lot of people off, and probably still will, Wallace said, the White House believes the majority of people are gonna say the government s here and they re here to help you in response to the speech.
Biden s ambitious push to expand government was deliberately boring, Ted Cruz complains
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President Biden address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was the most ambitious ideological statement made by any Democratic president in decades â couched in language that made it sound as if he wasn t making an ideological argument at all,
Politico s John Harris writes. Though rarely described as gifted orator, Biden s speech was a remarkable performance in part because it didn t soar and largely didn t even try to. In plain-spoken language, he depicted a breathtakingly large agenda as plain common sense.
Or as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) groused after the speech, which he appears to have nodded off during, Biden is deliberately being boring, but the substance of what he is saying is radical.