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editorial report. we hook ahead to 2024 and a new set of challenges and opportunities for the country. i m edward lawrence in this week for paul gigot, and we begin with the u.s. economy which defied expectations in 2023 as inflation fell and recession fierce faded. now the santa claus rally in the stock market giving us another record close this week for the dow jones industrial average and the federal reserve signal rate hikes are done and cuts could be in store for 2024. let s bring in jason trennert, he s the chairman and ceo of strategists and investment strategy firm. jason, let s start overall here, we get this. you know, overall we get some the contrarians won in 2023. so people were projecting the most predictive recession in history, and it didn t happen. so is the recession then off the table for 2024? edward, it probably is. i will say that the recession didn t happen in 2023 partly because we ran a budget deficit of close to 6% of gdp, $2 trillion at full em
crisis at the border. they are on pace for more than 300,000 migrant encounters in just the month of december. about that, welcome back. i m john roberts. welcome back to you. jacqui: good to be with you for a second hour. sandra smith has the day off. i m jacqui heinrich. president biden spoke with his mexican counterpart as it threatens hundreds in millions facility, biden administration is choosing not to send migrants to ice detention centers that are sitting completely empty. what is the reason for that. jacqui: complete coverage now, texas lieutenant governor dan patrick responds, but first, william in the los angeles newsroom. why aren t the ice facilities being used? jacqui, the president has said he does not want to use them. otherwise, does it make sense to be releasing thousands of migrants a day with a slip of paper, while thousands of detention beds taxpayers paid for daily go empty. take the center in california. 2000 beds, fully staffed, and operational t
even making violent threats outside his son s children s party. six moves in six months. running from herschel walker s violence. we are live in georgia where walker is getting an assist from two big names in the republican party. democrats currently have the majority in the senate with the vp as tiebreaker so they need to hold on to everything or make a pick up. they are looking at three other tight races in pennsylvania, north carolina, or ohio. all places where democrats are hoping to show republicans that loyalty to donald trump is toxic. here s how tim ryan put it in his debate last night with j.d. vance. i have been a pain in the rear end to nancy pelosi and i will be a pain in the rear end to him, too. i m for ohio. i don t kiss anyone s ass like him. ohio needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. well rehearsed line as vance said. folks, the races are tight and there is no one out there who can safely predict what is going to happen. there are just too many diff
cassidy hutchison was aide to chief of staff mark meadows. she says she was in the room when a number of conversations happened. she spoke to a special session of the january 6th committee this afternoon was w. eye-opening testimony. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. good evening, hash shah. good evening, bret. the former president has already responded almost immediately during that hearing calling this witness bad news. but, her testimony was dramatic and may have already caused serious damage. do you swear a last-minute hearing with a surprise star witness. cassidy hutchison, special assistant to former president trump in the chief of staff s office told the house committee during the riot she first felt scared when mark meadows predicted the day could go down hill. he said something to the effect of there s a lot going on cass, but, i don t know, things might get real, read bad. when january 6th came hutchison p