president biden insists the u.s. is not in or heading in to a recession. despite many economists looking at it differently. the president is feeling better from his covid-19 diagnosis last week. this week will determine whether his good feeling about the u.s. economy will pan out as well. a pivotal week for the president and his party as the gross domestic product or g.d.p. number comes out. the economy could be in a recession just a few months ahead of the midterms. but the biden team is already trying to get ahead of that by attempting to essentially change the definition of what a recession is. white house correspondent peter doocy has our top story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. officials here are talking about how well the economy is doing because of how many jobs have been created since this president took office. but, jobs are just one economic i observed carat. some other economic indicators may show this week the country
Those lawmakers on that delegation in just a few minutes. and china is once again warning the u.s. not to allow house speaker nancy pelosi to visit taiwan. pelosi has defended her planned visit today taiwan held widespread air drills and emergency plans for any chinese missile attacks there. we have fox team coverage tonight. lucas tomlinson is in kyiv with the latest on ukraine but we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot on the china threat. good evening, greg. hi, bret. more tough talk today from beijing. texts remain high over china, taiwan and a possible visit there. the u.s. right in the middle. residents scrambled on the streets of taiwan s cam toll taipei during air raid drill. china claims the island nation as its own and threatens to take it back. this as air force fired jets took to the skies preparing for a possible chinese invasion. all prescheduled exercises. buff they come at a time when
Muscular when it comes to china and they can t tell us where we can and can not travel. family roomer secretary of state mike pompeo now sanctioned by beijing tweeted: speaker pelosi, nancy, i will go with you. i m banned in china but not freedom loving taiwan. see you there. late today president biden said that he would speak with chinese put xi jinping by the end of the week as earlier planned. as for speaker pelosi, her future travel plans are still up in the air. bret? bret: greg, thank you. now to ukraine where the drum beat for more u.s. involvement in the war with russia is picking up. and the concern of, quote: provoking russia at the beginning of the war seems to be fading, at least a bit. lucas tomlinson is in kyiv tonight. russian forces striking a that grade school in eastern ukraine. this time nobody was hurt. but the school was completely destroyed. there is no evidence that putin is going to stop until he
jessica: kimball. jesse: richard kimball one of the best movies of all time. greg: weird left turn. judge jeanine: he had prosthetic arm. jesse: you call yourself a film guy? jessica: i don t know. judge jeanine: i think it s the end of the show. jesse: special report we got it show. hey, bret. bret: county judge train my dog? [laughter] jesse: that s it for dogs. bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. the senate tries to pass a bill pumping up the chip industry. $50 billion more than 1,000 pages long. we will tell you what s in it will the summer extreme heat leave your family in the dark or without air conditioning? rolling brown out or blackout threats. and tension with china grows over house speaker nancy pelosi s possible trip to taiwan. but first, breaking tonight,
Local hospital. extreme heat threatening to force large scale and recurring brown outs or blackouts in many parts of the country. casey stegall tells us one of the other contributing factors is the transition between renewable and green energy sources. dog days of summer americans in search of relief any way that he can get it. heat is crazy. extreme temperatures are driving energy demands to unprecedented levels in many states. texas, which relies largely on its own grid topped 80,000 greg go was at one point last week. that s more than california and new york s usage combined. we are concerned about potential of rolling blackouts. former u.s. congressman jim matheson now ceo of an electric co-op says severe drought, wildfires, and green energy are also to blame for the current scarcity. we are shutting down coal