i m a little bit disappointed in the economy, inflation. even if your christmas light display is not this elaborate, you ll be paying quite a bit more than last year. 15, 16, $1,700 bill this year. i m thinking inflation is affecting everything right now. sandra: geez, ba hum bug. americans scaling back for gifts as inflation remains high. a whopping 81% of the american people say the economy is right now in bad shape. john: only 19% say the economy is in good standing. all of this on the backdrop of the federal reserve hiking rates the highest level in 15 years yesterday. sandra: and consumers getting hit the hardest. raising rates, car loans,
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has not answered our repeated requests for information on his case. his next court hearing is slated for january 10th. sandra: jennifer griffin from the pentagon, thank you. john: quite a story. a guy who served with americans in afghanistan, he is the sort of person that the state department and the dod should have been getting out in the botched withdrawal from afghanistan, and now he s actually in the country and they are potentially going to send him back where he ll be killed? sandra: it s a big story. john: it s unfathomable to think that would be the process. sandra: indeed. jennifer, we ll stay on that. we are monitoring the white house grieving and john, as we hand off here to the final hour of trading, also keeping our eye on the dow, off the lows of the session, big concern about whether or not this country is going to enter a recession in the new year or bounce back. john: i ve stopped following
reaction from the white house as we await a briefing about to happen. john: brian brenberg and steve moore are on deck, but first the new polling. interesting new findings. absolutely, john, you bet. fox poll showing americans are struggling with higher prices. 7.1% if inflation had caused hardship, nearly three-quarters of americans saying yes. only 25% saying no. and folks are worried about next year with 48% saying they think the economy will get worse, and only 25% saying it will get better. this is important because when folks feel uncertain they tend to spend less and their forecast of tough times becomes reality. despite the president touting his performance on inflation this week, people are not buying it. the fox poll showing a consistent 62% of americans
chinese-backed app spies on americans and a threat to our national security. aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. there is a smaller scale bill that passed in the senate last night, aishah. that s right. that was josh hawley s bill that seeks to ban tiktok on all government devices. passed by unanimous consent in the senate but might be stalled in the house because speaker pelosi just told reporters today that it may not be brought to the floor as important as she thinks it is, she doubts they will have time to take it up before the end of this congress. the hawley bill, talk about that, first. that was passed in the senate last night but it appears it s turning out to seem that some senate democrats gave consent to this bill without even really knowing what was in it, watch. no. i don t i haven t seen what they have done, i want to go see. unanimous consent. i want to take a look.