continued this week for president biden from plummeting approval ratings to democrat its infighting to inflation. former president trump weight in with sean hannity tonight. what they are doing is changing the social fabric of our country. it s not even believable. bernie sanders can t believe it. bernie sanders goes around telling people i can t believe what is happening here. aoc and a very tiny group of people are pushing an agenda that will destroy literally and ruin our country. trace: and the family of gabby sits down with fox news for an exclusive interview sharing their frustrations about the ongoing manhunt for brian and their hopes to find answers about gabby s death. but we can with the breaking news of a deal in the senate and many problems piling up on the desk president biden. kevin corke tracking the latest developments. kevin, good evening. good evening. once again, the g.o.p. fold and the democrats gold taking them to task for pushing the fiscal showdow
the room? todd: reaction, joining us live where we live, heart stopping moment. jillian: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning. todd: you are taking a live look at the white house where president biden is holding out hope for better jobs report after disappointing numbers in office. inflation sores and the president s agenda remains up in the air. the president is hoping to avoid a repeat of last week s dismal numbers, the economy added 235,000 jobs short of what they were projecting. today they are forecasting september to show a hiring booster 500,000 new jobs in a 0.one% drop in unemployment to 5.one%. we will find out if the projections due to cases nationwide but if they fall short again with the supply shortages and rising inflation threatening a recovery look for the president to blame the pandemic as he praises vaccine mandates yesterday for helping the economy. more people are getting vaccinated, more lives are being saved. when you see hea
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already see this movie? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that really could use a long weekend. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, october 8th. we ll start with the news. with just days go before the federal government was set to default on its national debt for the first time ever, the senate passed a short-term measure to raise the country s debt ceiling. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell provided democrats the ten votes necessary to advance the bill yesterday after a tense stalemate. the new measure lifts the country s borrowing cap by $480 billion, temporarily putting off what secretary janet yellen warned would be a, quote, utterly catastrophic democratic crisis. they look to early december when the next new limit expires and they ll have to negotiate the debt limit all over again. despite the votes democrats needed this time, mcconnell insists that won t be the case in december. former president donald trump
months that we would make them do it without our help, and we folded. i hate that. we re in a hole. we got to dig out of this hole and we can. we shot ourselves in the foot tonight, but we ll revisit this issue in december. i believe democratic leader schumer was on the verge of surrendering, and then unfortunately, yesterday republicans blinked. i think that was a mistake. i understand why republican leadership blinked. i wish they hadn t. i wish they hadn t, because i believe we were on the verge of victory. chuck schumer won this game of chicken. as two trucks drove toward each other on a country road, one or the other was going to turn, or you were going to have a lot of dead chickens. i wish republicans hadn t blinked. we shouldn t have done that. we re going to have to take that. oh, my god. you know, that s the capitol of the united states where serious stuff is supposed to happen. right? but it hasn t been happening. it hasn t been happening because there s th