exception in the rules of congress. we have the whistleblower testimony, the whistleblower does not wish that to be made. john: fireworks on capitol hill, barbs at the house weaponization subcommittee hearing. fbi under a microscope after several whistleblowers accuse the agency of unfair treatment. sandra: employees had security clearances revoked against the politicized rot. republicans accuse the bureau of a partisan agenda. we ll take it up with katie pavlich and ben coming up. john: first, the supreme court granting a huge win for big tech and a pair of liability cases as the fight to protect free speech continues on capitol hill. i m john roberts in washington, great to have you here today. sandra: great to be here again, john. good to be with you. this is america reports. nation s highest court has now determined that twitter was not responsible when third party content was posted on its platform by the terror group isis. john: and side stepping on a case
simply saying we have no more shelters, spaces or resources. and new york city mayor eric adams blaming both sides in washington for the crisis. it is the irresponsibility of the republican party in washington for refusing to do the real immigration reform, and it s the irresponsibility of the white house for not addressing this problem. paul: let s bring in our panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, what kind of a surge do we expect? is it going to be a big one? yeah, it will be a big one. and it s been big. might be who s been watching the people just streaming nonstop across the border, it s going to simply become larger. you know, basically the southern border has become a place where anybody who wants to get into the united states can walk across whether venezuelans or ukrainians for that matter. chinese nationals have been coming over paul: in big numbers. and the biden administration s policy so to th
-what happened friday when silicon valley bank fell. svb, a top choice for tech start-ups, with more than $2 hundred billion in assets at the time. that makes it the second largest bank failure in american history behind the washington mutual meltdown in 2008. we had a great recession then. the president now keeps saying we re not headed for a recession. a host of companies affected include household names like etsy and fit bit. all deposits at the failed bank will be available today. investors knew the risk and should not be protected. yes, the fdic is up to $250,000. if you invested in the banking institutions you just lost your cash. when biden was vice president, taxpayers were on the hook for bank bail-outs. they used our cash to bail out the big guys. the administration may be looking to avoid backlash for doing that this time. president biden: customers can rest assured that he will be protected and accessed to their money. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
let s talk to steve more about this. steve, the problem is inflation is at decades high. recession around the corner. it s a heck of a one-two punch. you better believe it. the good news is that the inflation rate has come down a little bit the last two or three months, charles. that s good news. we went from almost 9% inflation this past summer to now we re down to about 7.1%. as you just said, that is still the highest inflation rate we ve had in 35, 40 years. so americans are feeling the punch. their wages and salaries have only gone up by 5 or 6%. that s one of the reasons that you reported that credit card debt is going up. people are trying to maintain their standard of living but paychecks are not keeping pace. i m nervous. i think inflation will come down in 2023 from the high rates of 2022. but i also think that the economy shows real signs of slowing down. i pray we don t crash into a recession. but we sure could. charles: steve, that s what i m concerned about.
mid-terms. that trump leads the gop and his extreme supporters are essentially poisonous for the country. watch this. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. the maga republicans believe for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail. maga republicans look at americans and see carnage and darkness and despair. they spread fear and lies. martha: okay. you get the idea. the white house feeding several questions today about the appropriateness of this speech given the military backdrop there, the red lights that were up against that building and how the white house can deny that the effort here last night was not a presidential prime time address of the nation, but political. so the president was asked about that today by peter doocy. here s how that went. watch this. mr. president, do you con