. o er the ramparts we watched were so ball lantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave? o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . rachel: good morning, america and happy independence weekend to all of you you. it is 6:00 a.m. here in west point, new york, where we re having fox & friends all weaken long. good morning will, good morning pete. pete: it good morning. beautiful day for pt. cadets are up and at em. no rest for the weary, for them and us. rachel: you have bad memories of pt? pete: i have fond memories in retrospect. you never want to get up that early and work out if you don t have to. rachel: are you morning workout person? will: i am not a morning workout person. pete: part of the pt test. liveselves on both sides. intense. will: keep sending your photos to us on independence day weekend. friend at foxne
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we re beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts efforts. and the abortion rights drama that testified in april that the draft opinion would soon be published. tensions over the fate of roe were heightened over the course of the leak that diminished whatever chance roberts had to disloch the five votes to overturn the rule. joining us, joan biscupic. joan, tell us how hard he was fighting to bring some folks over to his time. good morning, brianna
administration down playing the recession call. there s semantics. what is a recession, how do you technically define it. no matter what, there s widespread agreement no matter who you talk to. that is that economic growth is slowing. the treasury secretary, janet yellen acknowledges as much. but then she maintains that that does not mean a recession is inevitable. this is not in an economy that is in recession. but we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing. and that s necessary and appropriate. we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. yellen says the job market is still strong. she says a recession would have to be a broad-based economic contraction. consumers are still spending. household balance sheets are still in good shape. all of that said, the economy did contract the first quarter. economists think at beast we ll see slow growth when the numbers release thursday. the white house insists even if that number does go negative and some
georgia voters are mortified than ever with the primaries just two days away, we ve got new numbers from georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger s office, and it shows early voting in the peak state surged ahead of tuesday s primaries. 2022 s total is up to 112% from 2020. and 2020 was a presidential election year, so that s pretty good. now let s look at the party lines, we ve got republicans who cast nearly 500,000 early ballots, while democrats cast just over 368,000. so, what insight can early voting numbers and the primaries actually tell us about how things will shake out in the general? i m so glad you asked, because we have nbc news correspondent ellison barber, on the ground in hot land to break it down, welcome ellison. okay, so nearly 900,000 people voted early in a primary, in a midterm here. what is happening and what can this mean for november? yeah, i, mean it s a really big deal for me when i look at those numbers and think, what does it mean as we mov