don t think that joe manchin or kyrsten sinema care what aoc has to say and they re the ones that could possibly hold up this bill in the senate. todd: one area where democrats are united, silence over hunter biden. i wasn t telling you to be quiet. hunter biden s firm reportedly helping a chinese company purchase one of the most lucrative cobalt mines in the congo from an american company. the new york times reporting, quote, the president s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a chinese conglomerate of one of the world s largest cobalt deposits. james comer had this reaction a little earlier. when a republican says something about hunter biden, all you hear is crickets. they know hunter biden is a problem. they just don t want to talk about it and they hope he ll go away but he s not going to go away. he makes the news every week. and every week it s something a little worse than the previous week. so the democrats are going to continue to turn a
that china wants to become one of the one of the ways that china wants to become the world s leading super power is to own all of these rare earth minerals, cobalt being one of them. so this cobalt mine used to be owned by an american company and through hunter biden s firm it exchanged hands and it s now in the hands of a chinese company, of course his firm made money off of that. so this whole deal that hunter biden brokered helped china and it certainly hurt us and we re talking about the president s son here. todd: we need information on it. time now, 17 minutes after the hour. kyle rittenhouse sitting down with our own tucker carlson for his first interview since his acquittal. carley: despite that verdict, some lawmakers and members of the media are convicting him in the court of public opinion. this case has nothing to do with race. i never had anything to do with race. it had to do with the right to
says he thinks americans are ready to fight back against democrats radical agenda at the polls. this country has tremendous potential. tremendous. but we re giving it away. and there will be a point there will be a point where the country can t come back and we can never allow that that point to be reached so i think things are going to happen very big in the midterm elections and i think in 2024 it s going to be a great result. carley: the former president also tearing into president biden, blaming him for the soaring inflation and calling his policies incompetent. i think the aoc interview with the new york times is very interesting because she said that if the senate doesn t pass the social spending bill as it was passed in the house, that pro egress i ves progressives may try to stone wall the rest of president biden s agenda which is music to republicans ears. todd: what s insane to me about this is they created leverage by being the loudest voices in the
we do have a person of interest in custody at the moment. but this is still a very fluid investigation. reporter: police did not say whether that person of interest is a suspect. today, the local school district canceled classes and the city is asking businesses around the parade to remain closed as entry in and out of the area is limited. the next press conference is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. that s about 15 hours give or take since the last time we heard, so obviously there s a lot of questions that still need to be answered and hopefully we get those then. todd: ashley, thank you. carley: the white house says president biden has been briefed on the situation and the fbi is assisting state and local law enforcement in their investigation. todd: lauren blanchard has more from washington. lauren. reporter: good morning, carley, todd. president biden has been briefed on the ongoing investigation. the white house putting out this statement last night. quote, the white h
nobody was saying i need more of the aoc stuff. they were talking about kitchen table issues and the normal american approach to it, not everything is free and let sers abandon our let s abandon our principles that we established over the last 250 years. carley: if you look at how president biden has governed, he s definitely tipping his hat much more to the progressive agenda, if you think about $400,000 paychecks possibly to illegal immigrants, rejecting any semblance of border policies, this big, massive social spending bill that he is pushing to be his legacy. those are all extremely progressive ideas. and if you do think about why he s doing it, it s because there is a great fear there by the president that if he doesn t if he doesn t make the progressives in his party happy, then they will abandon him and that s why aoc gave this interview to the new york times, saying exactly that. the only problem with that is i