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records. nearly 2.4 million migrants apprehended in the past 12 months including some on the terror watch list. texas congressman tony gonzalez putting the blame squarely on the president accusing joe biden about lying what s really happening there. joe biden has pinocchioed america. we know he is lying and they re full of it. the most encounters and most terrorists that have come over. the number of migrant deaths. the list goes on and on and no end in sight. dana: team fox coverage. kellyanne conway with reaction to this and the latest crime outrage in new york where the governor is saying it s all in your head. nate foye in eagle pass, texas this morning. hi, nate. congressman gonzalez tells me as more and more people cross the border the cartels are getting more bold and efficient which results in more people crossing the border, which is exactly what we re seeing this morning. two large groups passing in eagle pass. take a look at this first video. infrared drone c
So thered be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isnt its its a Great Depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were b