jacqui: president biden touts the massive spending plan in oregon this weekend. we learned that president obama will be giving democrats much-needed star power at high profile events in atlanta, detroit, milwaukee in the coming weeks. we ve got coverage with dan springer in portland, but we ll start with the heated georgia senate battle. heated indeed. reverend warnock faced hershel walker running for senate as a republican. the two met in a debate in savannah last night and there were fireworks sparring on a range of issues, including abortion, take a listen. that a patient s room is too narrow and small and cramped a space for woman, her doctor, and the united states government. i just a neat talker, but did he not mention that there s a baby in that room as well? on the topic of election integrity, hershel walker acknowledged that president biden legitimately won the 2020 election. senator warnock dodged the question on whether he d support the president if he seek
get out the dictionary. we ll define recession for you. here is the bottom line. the biden economy is shrinking as the fed unleashes rapid fire rate hikes to stave off the highest inflation in 40 years. let s get right to it. maria bartiromo joins us now. go ahead and give us the news because they projected .5% on the positive side. the number was a negative .9. we are now in recession and we can confirm that because it is two quarters straight of contraction. the economy shrank in the second quarter by 9/10 percent on top of shrinking in the first quarter by 1.6%. now so far all of the commentary that i m hearing is talking about a shrinking of the economy but the good news for the economy is that job growth has stayed strong. that was why some people were questioning well maybe it is different this time. it is hard to believe that job growth can be up to 300,000 in one month when you are in a recession. what s different this time is that we have an inventory build-up. a l
climate change. capitol police arrested several staffers, progressive members. staff growing new members from the southern border tonight revealing the number of migrants coming into this country would never get caught. a troubling update tonight on the texas mom or disappeared earlier this month on her way to work. authority is not try to piece together what happened, and law enforcement panel joins us live to discuss. but first, the gross domestic product gdp number comes out this week. critics say the biden team is trying to get ahead of that by essentially changing the definition of what a recession is. corresponded matt finn joins us from our west coast with more. on thursday, the latest gdp numbers are scheduled to come out, and if we had a second consecutive quarter of negative gdp growth, we ll be in what s considered a recession, but the white house is trying to downplay the economy or even redefine recession. on monday, president biden who has covid was asked virt
arrested and then released in a matter of hours. happens all the time. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. dana has the day off. welcome back, j.b. julie: i m julie banderas and this is america s newsroom. the assault was caught on video. this happened over the weekend in harlem. police say the teen jumped a subway turnstile without paying when officers confronted him and things turned very violent very fast. bill: street fight. you can see the suspect hitting the cop. the teen puts the officer in a choke hold when a second officer steps in to try and help. julie: why did it get so out of control? former officer bill stanton has his thoughts. could you imagine if this cop felt so in fear of his life he had to use the weapons there would be riots in the street. a cop now has to worry about getting arrested. losing his job and getting sued civilly. they may well lose their lives. julie: good morning, brian, from new york city. good morning. fox news can confirm
into bear market territory yesterday. economists predict the fed will raise interest rates again in another attempt to battle rising inflation. cnn business correspondent solomon is here with me now. this ppi report, why should people at home care about this? what s it matter for us? it s interesting because ppi doesn t get as much attention as the consumer price index, but it s really important because it s factory level inflation, what producers are experiencing, and we know what companies are feeling, we ll likely see a few months down the line in terms of consumer prices. even though we did see slight moderation in categories like food, the topline number is troubling because we know after friday s report that there were no signs of moderation, that there were signs of acceleration in inflation and what we have now with this report is a sign perhaps of more pain to come down the road. okay. so, now, tomorrow, expecting this big announcement. on how much, by how much t