responsible for the house crisis as the house scrambles for a vote tonight, tonight, on a multi million dollar bill to help. plus, check out the markets. have you seen this, wall street in a free fall in the last hour of trading. investors are getting ready for the biggest loss since 2020 because retailers, walmart, target, et cetera sounding the alarm on inflation. coming up, we ll tell you what is going on and when things could turn around. i m hallie jackson in washington and i want to bring in our poll lit. caller: political team. dasha barns, vaughn is in philadelphia and tony is in north carolina and our senior political editor mark murray is with us, as well. at 3:01 eastern time, 12:01 pacific here is where we stand after last night s primaries. in pennsylvania you have oz holding a lead over david mccormick. a recount is looking more and more likely. it s coming as you have former president trump as he did in 2020 not waiting around for the official results, ur
450 hamas terror targets have been struck as they push deeper into the gaza strip. coming on the heels of idf taking over an outpost in gaza. this as u.s. central command announces a submarine is in the middle east region signalling strong message of deterrence to bad actors in the highly volatile region. ainsley: this conflict could spell trouble for president biden as new poll shows donald trump leading biden in five key swing states in rematch of the presidential election. steve: around the planet, anti-israel protests, many calling for a ceasefire. lawrence jones live across the hudson river from new jersey. also, peter doocy live at the white house to discuss poll numbers. start with trey yingst live in southern israel with the latest. good afternoon, trey. trey: hi, guys, good morning. the israeli air force is hammering the gaza strip. we ve been watching and listening throughout the day as massive airstrikes are shaking the ground. i want to step out of the frame
suggest. you have members of congress who are trying to do something about this and someways on the investigative side because that s what we re hearing now from the oregon senator, democrat from oregon who is launching this investigation out of the tax practices of abbott. explain this, right? the allegation it seems from senator widen is that abbott was sort of busy working with its numbers when it should have been looking more closely into the conditions at its facility that had shut down and triggered this recall. that s right, hallie, ron wyden is an important figure and wrote a letter asking a series of specific questions to the chair and ceo of abbott laboratories including how did their effective tax rate decline so much to 12% in the last three years? what kind of foreign tax exceptions have they taken and what has their income been? how much have they spent on
is this a stain on your legacy? not at all. it s a hoax. a big, fat hoax. reporter: one other note. while we ve been hearing from forces that the president is unlikely to grasp the reality that he will be impeached from the white house, he is hiring dozens of attorneys for what will come in january. thanks, boris. new developments on trade. china is considering tax exceptions on some pork and soy products from the u.s. the tariff waivers were based on applications of individual firms for park imports. that s what the finance ministry said in a statement. tend of the year is coming and president trump has not closed on two big deals he campaigned for in 2016. china and the north america trade deal. for china, the tariffs on chinese good is december 16th. the wall street journal reports the hangup here, the u.s. hangup, is on the size of
notion of trying to incent vised behavior it is the only law you have to hire someone else to explain it to you. we spend 400 billion on tax compliance alone. and the left would never go for that because it treats everyone equally. it is a book of favors and you can never unwind it. only way to do it junk it and come over with a flat tax and stop the political nonsense that is created the tangled web that is our tax code. wayne, but if we simplified the tax code would that help or businesses large and small. it would help everybody. i don t know why we we talk about this. but no one will do anything about it that s the problem. you know, when you have a tax an i.r.s. who for example granted over 1200 tax