Bill total number of children in u. S. Custody now more than 20,000 and climbing. Good morning, everybody. Its friday. Im bill hemmer live from new york. Dana im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. That number was 19,000 at the beginning of this week. Now were at nearly 21,000 by monday you could maybe see that go up by 1,000 a day is what they are estimating. Bill no signs of it ending. Dana not if they dont make a policy change. Bill the price tag is staggering. Dana 60 million a week just for the children. That record high in Migrant Children is coming after a month of heartbreaking images. The toddlers dropped over the border wall left to fend for themselves. Abandoned little boy crying in the desert. A Border Patrol officer comforting a frightened child. The Washington Post reports the administration is spending 60 million a week to take care of these things and Texas Governor abbott laying the blame on the president. It wasnt happening until biden took office. What will solve
Making waves. That scientist will look familiar to you. It is dr. Peter hotez who appears frequently on this program and made his mission in covid to reach out to all americans of all political per vagss to anticombat science disinformation and appears on fox news and news max and tmz and last night tweeted an article in a fringe right wing blog loaded with disinformation posted the contact information, Phone Numbers and emails and urged followers to contact him directly after falsely accusing him of committing violence through his work. He tweets this, quote, i provide this info only to keep you informed about the evolution of the movement in america. I think it might be helpful to some. He adds quote even though rationally you know they have a political agenda and use your name for nefarious purposes it can still mess with your head. Even after all these years. The emails compare him to a nazi scientists. Some call him the devil. He posted some xampls on his twitter feed. We have rev
On the right of American Politics and a wave of by residence is targeting minorities in america. A march today led by kings family to rally support for federal Voting Rights legislation that would shore up the right to vote which is under assault in states all across this country by a Republican Party in the grips of the disgraced Expresident Who incited a deadly insurrection. And he was fuelling baseless Election Fraud conspiracies. A new analysis in the Washington Post lays out a direct link between the lie about a stolen election and racial resentment today and the battles during civil rights during kings time. Quote, although a majority of americans recognize that white people enjoy racial advantages and are angry about racism in the u. S. A substantial fraction disagreeings, people who deny white racial advantages and the prevalence of racial inequities also doubt the results of the 2020 pregz election. And Absolve Former President Donald Trump of blame for the riot. These pattern
American and well celebrate in our own way over there. I give thanks to them on the other side of the atlantic on this day. Thanksgiving is back but it will cost you. Meals expected to be the most expensive on record and surging gas prices are hurting americans where it hurts. One of the busiest travel days of the year. All of this spelling major trouble for President Biden. He is struggling to address americans concerns and the polls have responded accordingly. The president and his family are spending the holiday in nantucket and thats where we find Jackie Heinrich. Good to see you both. The president s 45th year on nantucket. A tradition that politico reports he only broke for the pandemic and the death of his son, beau. It started when joe and jill first got together trying to find a way to avoid competing Family Holiday Invitations as many people are familiar with. If you walk around the island and look at local newspapers a lot of stories about the bidens on the island in years p
Today is National Manufacturing day, did you know that . The white house issued a proclamation marking the occasion and it mentioned correctly that American Manufacturing is essential to our economy. It employs over 12 million americans directly, and many more indirectly, and it noted how many manufacturing jobs were upended during the pandemic, 578,000. If the proclamation also points out that these losses and other factors adversely affected our supply chain. Supply chains disruption left our nation short of lifesaving protective equipment, ventilators, and other essential Health Equipment at a time when we needed it most. Well, theres the rub. When we import so much of what we need and use from steel to pharmaceuticals, plastics, computer chips, we leave ourselves susceptible to huge economic headwinds and during covid, it ended up being a matter of life and death. Now, biden talks a good game about helping rebuild our Supply Chains and supporting american jobs and manufacturing him