A look at the days top news and headlines. That he was copied on, blank copied on that he had during his time at the Bush Administration and the senators on the republican side saying, he you have already said that you are going to void against them, so why do we have to go through this . I think that they are going to run into a brick wall as far as logistics of getting those requests answered, Mitch Mcconnell has said that this is going to go forward october 1st. Chuck grassley has said that youre going to see 1 million plus documents. Not only all of the writings that deal with the 300 plus different decisions that were made, so there is plenty of reams of information to look at how this judge could potentially be a justice, and i do not think that the democratic efforts will go far. Dana all right, bret baier, thank you so much. We will see you, dana. Dana fox news alert, Facebook Says it has suspended 32 swiss suspicious pages, dana what is the reaction on capitol hill . The news
everybody gets slammed by inflation. the trade off here is if you slow the economy to kill that inflation you may kill a million jobs. now you re balancing a million jobs in exchange for 320 million americans, 308 million americans that suffer inflation and that s what they re trying to do. elizabeth warren saying it s not worth it. the fed used this inflation as a leak in your roof, if you don t treat it now, you re not sure you have treated it now on the front end it could potentially become a bigger problem to solve. that s powell s and the fed s point, we have to tame it now because the risk of not taming inflation means it lingers higher for longer. i m dealing with it now with the furnace. you have inflation on your fur furnace? i had a guy come in, we can patch it, it s 20 years old
freeze to the basic property rate. this will ensure scotland has the lowest poundage in the united kingdom for the fifth year in a row and is forecast to save business tax rate payers £308 million, compared to an inflationary increase. we will reform and extend the small business bonus scheme to improve the productivity of their leaf, death of the relief, whilst ensuring it remains the most generous business relief in the uk and delivering a manifesto commitment that 100,000 properties will be taken out of rates altogether. by introducing traditional reliefs, we will help to ensure those properties that see their rates increase significantly following the revaluation to do so in a phased manner. we will use our approach to nondomestic rates to assist the transition to net zero, assist the transition to net zero, as we incentivise investment in renewables with the introduction of new prescribed plant and machinery exemptions for on site renewable
that apology he made earlier, he s apologizing for the perception of breaking the rules, not necessarily for breaking the rules. a bit of a conditional apology. bit of a half apology. matt, thanks for that reporting. staying overseas with a disturbing story that is critical to talk about and the statistics in this country, in this day, i should say, in 2022 should be upsetting to you. here it is. nearly nine million afghans could freeze and starve this winter in that country. talking about 8.7 million people. that is more than the entire state of virginia. below freezing temperatures and a drought making it almost impossible to harvest and farm crops. the united nations is now begging the international community to try to get more than $4 billion to try to help people in afghanistan. the united states has already donated about $308 million in aid. i want to bring in now somebody who knows what it is like on the ground there. david milivant.
national security council announced that the biden administration would send afghanistan $308 million in humanitarian assistance along with another million coronavirus vaccines pointing out the u.s. remains the single largest donor of humanitarian aid in afghanistan. now that s excellent news. we applaud that. it s a real step in the right direction. but, of course, scale is what really matters here. and to give you an idea of the scale of aid needed to avoid mass starvation in afghanistan. the united nations is trying to raise $5 billion to avoid a humanitarian disaster. that s a lot of money. here s the thing. there is a way to get that amount of money to afghanistan without spending a single cent of u.s. taxpayer money or diverting funds from other initiatives. right now the afghan government has assets totaling about 9.4 billion frozen in u.s. accounts. that is nearly twice what the u.n. is trying to raise in aid.