the now, this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud.st yes just yesterday, wete learned tht nearly four hundred department of homeland security employees took pandemiarly 400c unemploymt even though they were working. but my friends, this is justinyc a teeny tiny fraction of the massive in brazen coviden theft that has occurred since d the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who s in chargeh of overseeing the distribution of the relieributionf has calleh the biggest fraud inbigges a generation. t frau it was the theft of asc as 80 billion dollars, or about 10% of the eight hundred billion dollars that was handed out in that paycheck protection program. now,in tha remember, that s on l the 90 billion to four hundredio billion believed to have been stolen from the nine hundred billion covid unemploy payment relief program. that s a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the tidal wave of inflatiotle n tha
lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
country. welcome back into a special weekend edition of america reports as a rome to our second hour but i am john roberts in washington. hyper shit coordination john it works for us but here we go into our second hour. sandra smith in new york. earlier i said three days that would been fair this morning we are almost in the 48 hour window now for pulses are closed on the final edition of fox news and power rankings projecting a big night for republicans in the house. but the senate a bit of a different story their democrats are running tightly in for tossup s and there is even one race that could be breaking blue late in the game or watching all the progressive from the decision to walk us through some of the possible scenarios at the touch board. it s literally walk us through old choice of touchscreen and take us through the key races. and byron york is on deck with understanding the next days we can all use the help. let s get right to it. two senate races he ll reb
on vacation, this time ate in a very sunny tropical, lush destination. a full report straight ahead. but first, let s begin with joe biden s unyielding commitment co free speech. he loves the to free speech. he loves the first amendment. here is press secretaryre s p karine jean-pierre with more. takree a look at this.rine-j eahour. h support for free speechupport and free press is well documented. just twitter, as you know, is a private company and they will make their own decision. so content moderation. but our support again for free press and free speech has been well documented. and so i ll leave it there.il okay, that that s laughable.s obviously, in reality, the documents tell a dramatically different story and a new batch of internalerna twitter files published by david zweig show that the biden white house frequently attempted to strongen arm social media platform into censoring speech, especially surrounding covid-19. here s a quote, the biden teamte was very
that s the focus of tonight s angle. at the end of his speech today, i don t know if you sathw it at the white house. biden ended on a note that wase. it was sweet. iitt was hopeful.as u itni wasfy unifying or simply nothing, nothing beyondg our capacitybeyond get done if o it together. so god bless god bless you all t that we can figureo out how to come together better than we deve so far , because a lot of people s lives and futures depend upon it.ou act ua if you actually believe that, then you re juste th as ne as one of those poor rejectedthe girls on the bachelor. r never stop fighting for you, don t you?yo u.and rachel, i know you don t mean you re going to put me in this. all right. well, i could be is i promise you, it s the truth about this administration and the democrat party in general. the demoparty init s not funny . i in fact, it s dark and it s sinister. while they ve been busy destroying our prosperity, our borderrder, an and our safeo they ve also been