it s not easy these days. mortgage rates have hit the highest level in 22 years. the 30-year fixed is now averaging 7.23%. that s a look at the average jump in monthly payments from two years ago. we were just under 3%. remember that americans also have a record credit card debt. moving your money around to try to pay the bills and the mortgage, people are dipping into their credit card reserves as well. kevin o leary will be with with his advice on how to manage this. first to fox business white house correspondent, edward lawrence. hi, edward. hi, martha. jay powell is hinting that a little more pain for americans is coming in the form of another rate hike. one of the reasons he s pointing to that is bake of the economic growth that we ve seen over the first half of the year. too hot to bring inflation down like he would want. as we ve seen with president joe biden touting the spending that he s doing through the inflation reduction act to push the economy, here s powell
always dancing. new questions surrounding the collapse of hunter biden s controversial plea deal and why the judge blew up the deal over immunity provision. the hearing was supposed to be cut and dry, in and out. the president s son was expected to agree with the plea deal and plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun charge. the hearing didn t go the way as expected. judge maryellen noreika took exception to several parts of what has been called a sweetheart deal and questioned the terms of immunity provision granted within the agreement. noreika claimed she had never seen an agreement quite like it, the deal was too broad and should state hunter protection from future charges. judge the said, i have concerns about the agreement, i can t let him plea to something if he thinks he has protection from something and he doesn t. emily, break it down legally. where is he today? next steps for him? emily: i would like to provide detail so viewers understand w
issue, only this time her answer was different. she said that she had been asked the question a million times and the answer, quote, remains the same. but, in fact, the first time, instead of saying the president had never spoken to hunter about his business dealings, she said this. the president was never in business with his son. so on wednesday, phil wegman from real clear politics pointed out the inconsistency, but john pierr pierre insisted it was the same. i just want to clear this up once for all. the president has said he s never discussed overseas business dealings with his son, but the white house now says that the president has never been in business with his son. so why the updated language? which statement is true? or is it semantics and they are both true? as i stated on monday, when i was asked this question multiple times, nothing has changed. nothing has changed. nothing has changed on this. and so you can ask me a million different ways on this quest
artist by colbie wouldn t dream of just mailing it in. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. thank you, mailman mike. can you do that again? i have never heard you do that. i m warm. you are warm. especially when it s 95 degrees outside. the next hour of cnn this morning starts now. good morning, welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. spending part your saturday with us. i used to love mail as a kid. something was for everyone else. and i had usually current resident mail, but it was for me. now i go to the mailbox, ugh. i might have all this junk in there. here s what we re working on. former president trump mostly steered clear of his legal troubles in iowa. some of his rivals, not so much. if we elect donald trump, we are willingly giving joe biden four more years in the white house and america can t handle that. the message the candidates are pushing to try to stand out in the crowded field and what voters are saying about the new charges. millions a
smerconish in philadelphia. in september of 2019, joe biden was asked how many$#ursqj he ha spoken to son hunter about his overseas business activities. the then candidate s answer a was this. i have never spoken to my son about that. that has remained his answer until this week. on monday white house press secretary was asked about this issue, only this time her answer was different. she said that she had been asked the question a million times and the answer remains the same. but in fact the first time instead of saying the president had never spoken to hunter about his business dealings, she said this. the president was never in business with his son. so on wednesday, phil wegman pointed out the insistent sit, but she insisted the answer was the same. i just want to clear this up once if and are all. the president has said he s never discussed overseas business dealings with his son, but the white house now says that the president has never been in business with