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brand-new at 2:00. hi, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. right into a jam packed hour with this fox news alert. faa has been charged with modernizing notam for ten years. why has it taken ten years? we have been on a journey of modernization. let me ask again, why has it taken ten years and why is it still not done. it does take a while. these systems the complexity. everyone shut down the first time since 9/11. john: acting head of the faa getting grilled on capitol hill over the air travel debacle, the first nationwide ground stop since the september 11th attacks. sandra: faa says it is now taking steps to avoid a repeat of that massive system failure but already several incidents of near collisions have travelers rethinking their next trips. john: even some lawmakers questioning the agency s priorities, listen here. do you believe that that is your mission at the faa to mitigate climate change and increase equity, is that your job at the ....
dialed in they were listening in and american officials believe the spy balloon was tuned into u.s. conversations. president biden is down playing the entire episode. president biden: it is not a measurable breach. it is a violation of national law. or airspace. we can do what we want with it once it s there. the balloon had multiple antenna to eavesdrop and soak up information. the government wants to know exactly what the chinese heard. until we actually have the hardware that was on that balloon we can t say for sure. we can take educated guesses of it. we can t know for sure. that s why we should have shot it down as soon as it was approaching alaska, china should not be able to send air ships into our airspace. upset lawmakers pressed officials about what the balloon was doing and why the u.s. held off for so long before shooting down the balloon. you can just say yes or no. you don t need to get into specifics. did we know what they were trying to collec ....
We gave our phone numbers. that s right, you can give the number but don t know they are going to make the call. about time to get together again and about time for everybody to get moving on this. i think they will. look, the republican house will not relent. they are going to combine any increase in the debt ceiling with spending restraints, new spending caps with sequestration penalties across the board, automatic cuts, they are going to do it so get ready. look at these numbers on cbo. they are talking about here, at the end of the ten years, and we just got this hot off the press, the deficit rises to $2.7 trillion. ok. but 1.4 trillion and 1.6 trillion and 2.7 trillion, as a share of gdp, the deficit rises up to 7% at the end of the period. total spending as a share of gdp ....
Automatic cuts kick in. do folks want that to happen or have a conversation based in reality what we have to do. desantis would welcome that conversation with the white house. mike: you are a florida gal. striking to me that president biden was in the great state of florida where he could take aim at governor desantis and another famous resident, former president trump. democrats would love to have florida in play in the next election cycle. it has been red in recent cycles. oh yeah. we all know that was the best story for republicans on mid-term night of 2022. desantis commanding nearly 20-point win. house seats flipped to republicans, too. it looked very red on mid-term election night. interesting, though, will it be a situation where you have president biden if he gets in officially, former president trump is in officially. if the two of them are taking shots at desantis. those who guys going after someone they see as a potent foe ....
All of 22. the economy grew at 1%, sean. that s the worst performance since the financial meltdown in 2008 and 2009. the inflation rate for the whole year was 6.3%. that is the highest inflation in 40 years. what is the culprit here? five to $6 trillion of spending and the borrowing. and then student debt cancellations could add another 600 billion or 800 billion. you are right. there will be negotiations. the gop is not going to destroy the big entitlement programs. the gop will make good on the debt. here s the thing. they will insist on spending cuts, on new caps for future spending and they will also have the penalty and across-the-board sequester, across-the-board automatic cuts. ....