Look at that, up 46 eggs. Wow. Up 65 . Wow, School Lunches up 65 . How can a family afford that . But look at this over here. What a nice job. I think im going to take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of fun. Like the cheerios. I havent seen cheerios for a long time. That was donald Trump Yesterday at a News Conference but he eventually wept off script with false claims and perm attacks against Vice President harris. Meanwhile they were on stage together yesterday celebrating a big achievement for their administration. Well recap all of that for you in just a moment. And well have the latest on the ceasefire talks in Gauze Ozas diplomats from the United States and other countries work to prevent a wider war in the region. All right, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early. Youve made it. Its friday, august 16th. Im Sam Stein in for jonathan lemire. Well start this morning for Donald Trumps second socalled News Conference in as many weeks. This one was at bedminster, his Ne
The u. S. Adding just 235,000 jobs last month, nearly a half A Million short of economists projections. We have fox team coverage. David spunt in wilmington on the problems piling up for the president and Jeff Paul in New Orleans as the city struggles to get back on its feet after ida. But first, bryan llenas live in patterson, New Jersey, where more misery could be on the way, if possible. Wow, brian . Alicia, it is incredible, three days after the Storm Hit came through, New Jersey, were still talking about flooding, as you can see behind me here. The Passaic River is right behind what was well a normal Salvage Yard. It was at major Flood Stage as of this Morning And Wont go back to normal levels till monday afternoon. We spoke to the owner of the Salvage Yard who said the water had reached up to where the Stop Sign begins, at about six feet. He says hes never seen anything like this. He was expecting 18 inches, not 5 1 2, 6 feet of water. Tragically 25 people lost their lives in New
Continuing to deploy thousands of american troops, we will maintain the fight against afghanistan and other countries, we just dont need to fight a Ground War to do it. Paul lets bring in retired army general petraus served as commander in Coalition Services in afghanistan and director of central intelligence agency. General, great to see you again. Thanks for coming in. So now that we are out, the u. S. Troops are out, how do we get those americans and afghan allies who are still there out . Well, we are going to have some kind of relationship with the new rulers of afghanistan. Obviously the taliban. They have still not completely formed their government but its taking shape. We know the leader will be some of the key ministers, we have a diplomatic presence in qatar which is the location in which the negotiations with the taliban were carried out. A lot of countries have removed embassy from kabul and establishing a Shadow Embassy again in doha, qatar. Thats where that will take pla
ready. in moments, i will talk with a democratic congresswoman of georgia. she s the democratic party chairwoman there. what congress is doing after the address. kristin welker is at the white house. leigh ann caldwell is on the hill. we are waiting for the president to depart to georgia. he may or may not speak with reporters on the way out. he laid out these big plans. big government, big price tag. talk to us about how he is trying to sell them in georgia and in the days ahead. reporter: this is going to be a big sales job, hallie. you are right, that interview with craig melvin just wrapped up. we expect that president biden will be departing for georgia any minute now. that is when he is going to try to build on the case that he started to make last night, that now is the time for big government. this is a major departure from how presidents past have tried to enact their agenda. you go back to former president bill clinton who said the time of big government is over.
time for a look at the business news now with tadhg enright. luxmy gopal, thank you very much. we are going to talk about tax. a new report, funded by the european union, has found that the world s super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite decades of efforts to reduce evasion. the study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than 0.5% of their wealth. the eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3,000 people in the world paid 2%, then it would raise $250 billion a year. earlier, i spoke to richard murphy a tax reform campaigner and professor of accounting practice, sheffield university management school and asked how feasible that would be. the good news in this report today is that a lot of measures that are being put in place which i campaigned for over the last 15 years are working. for example, tax havens are now causing o