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will: is the sunrises east to west we replicate westies from st. louis to wildwood, new jersey there s your national anthem brought to you by the marine corps band. welcome to fox and friends on saturday morning. with us this morning is ashley strohmeyer. good morning, excellent color. i was referencing myself. i m here so good morning to you guys. will: great to have you back. pete: i m somewhat disappointed not it being back and work, i loved my vacation. i did go all the way to hawaii, the furthest west state but i was disappointed that i am only rivaled by a new jersey poolside pantomime left. much tanner than you. i m just in new jersey pool boy. i will take it. hope you recharged the batteries a little bit. pete: a great time. will: and you return and it turns out the whole world changed in about a week. pete: it went insane by returning to something we are familiar with and that is the height of insane covid protocols. we are looking at mask mandate ....
close. the s&p 500 was up seven, that s also a new top finish for the nasdaq lost 60. however, the covid related labor shortage and rising inflation are still significant problems throughout the country. luscombe of the fight against the delta variant of covid-19 presents many unknowns. white house correspond to peter doocy leads us off tonight live from the north lawn, good evening peter. good evening, bret. officials think it s the way to keep the economy on the right track by keeping as many people vaccinated. there are now stats, level conversations about possibly starting to withhold federal funds from places that don t require federal workers or people that are getting federal money to get faxed. the biden plan is working. the president is taking credit for july s jobs report. exceeding estimates as the country clause back from covid from covid. we were in a dark winter with real concerns about what spring would bring. but then we got to work. cabinet of ....
we feel like we know this story and we have heard from some of those police officers, not all of them, and we have seen so much of the painful an agonizing video and we ve had six months of coverage of it and so what s new could today bring and it was all new. it was an experience like we ve never had watching any congressional hearing in history. i agree and you covered a lot of them. and those who capture best the motion of what would it be like to be at the united states capitol today is about to be on your show. yes, we re gonna have a full hour and much more coverage is going to be on that hearing. have a good evening lawrence, . thank you, ali. well, in today s story house hearing we heard things that we have never heard before in the history of congressional hearings. we heard, on live television, on this network words that have never been said on this network before and those words are going into print tonight. in the new york times where those words h ....
return to house investigators on the committee. the committee first made the request 849 days ago. the bill barr justice department which operated as the donald trump justice department block his return from being released despite the fact that the law is absolutely clear that the treasury department shall turn over any tax documents requested by a tax writing committee in the congress. today merrick garland s justice department says the committee s request to see the records is lawful, valid and should be fulfilled. quote, applying the proper degree of deference due to the committee we agree that there is ample basis to conclude that it s june 2021 requests for trump s tax information was for the committee s principal objective to assessing the irs s presidential audit program, a legitimate area for inquiry and possible legislation. ways and means chairman said this about the decision as i ve maintained for years the, committees cases very strong and the law is on ou ....
eighties. do you remember the movie the princess bride? and billy crystal s character, miracle max? he came to mind for some of us when we were thinking about the few days in congress. especially with infrastructure. we could soon know if the bipartisan deal is alive or dead or maybe, as lyrical max would say, it s only mostly dead. mostly dead is slightly alive. senators from both parties say that they re close to finalizing a deal, maybe as soon as tomorrow. we are down to the last couple of items and i think you re gonna see a bill monday afternoon. we re about 90% of the way there were kind of legislative language with colleagues and with staff and i feel good about getting it done this week. we have one issue outstanding. but that outstanding issue is big. how much to spend on transportation projects. democrats want to follow what s known as the 80 20 rule. 20% will go to public transit and 80% would go to highways but many republican senators are advocating ....