street. president biden pushes his case for a massive tax and spending increase in his new budget. and a stronger than expected jobs report is not necessarily what the fed wanted to see. we have fox team coverage tonight. charles payne in new york tells us what happened with the silicon valley bank and what that means for the rest of us. but we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy and the president s take on the unemployment numbers. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. there was a run on a struggling bank known for loans to startups and things went south so quickly within about a 48-hour period that the feds came in to take control of the country s 16th largest bank. i think we got a good jobs report. peter: 311,000 last month better than expected. so no plans to back off the spending plan paid for with new taxes for the rich and corporations. ronald reagan was doing 8% tax rate. you know that whacko liberal guy. you know. peter: it s been ec
always dark. will:ed good morning, california. welcome to the fourth you are hour of fox & friends . pete: when you go out to people, i talk to people and say does anybody watch, it s so early, and there are people that get up real early. will: yes. rachel: they re getting up to go fishing will: or they dvr it. a little bit earlier in the show i told pete and rachel and you at home about a little bit of a parental debate that the id had. my son had sort of accepted a dare/bet with his buddies at school to get the haircut called the r9 haircut. he had a huge head of moppy hair and his friends dared him for him the get that haircut. i was, like, i don t want him to learn van i the, i don t want him to the not take himself seriously, but should i let him collect money? long and short is of it, you see the answer. i gave it to him, he did get the haircut, and he has to wear it for the entire week. so i put it to pete and rachel, did i do the right thing as a parent? pete didn
state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi
it s no longer true. tonight how many americans know it s good friday? after hundreds of years, it s a non-christian country. it s not a secular country. people call it that, but they re wrong. there are no secular countries. every country has a religion because every person has a religion, even if it s atheism. everybody worships something. we re born that way. can t get away with it. what is american s religion now? we have video. this is from fargo, north dakota. taken april 2. the first sunday after the mass killing in nashville in which three adults and three children were murdered at a christian school. four being christian. in the old america, christian pastors would have preached about this. acknowledged the evil on display and prayed for those who had been killed. a form of that is still happening today but the roles have been inverted. in america s new religion, the victims are not the children that died in nashville. the victim is the woman who killed them. because
his green energy policies are endangers our national security and increasing america s reliance on china for critical raw materials. and still biden is forging ahead on a radical proposal to crack down on gas powered cars with insane new environmental regulations. meanwhile, a new report from nbc news found that china did in fact gather sensitive intelligence from the spy balloon that it piloted over nuclear sites and military installations in the continental united states. china was able to control the balloon to make multiple passes over some of the sites at times flying figure eight formations and transmit the information it collected back to beijing in real time. of course it did. keep in mind, biden refused to shoot down the balloon for more than a week when it was not over the continental united states. in the middle east, after two years of placating iran, four separate a tax from iranian backed militants killed a u.s. contractor and left many with severe brain injurie