yesterday said u.s. banking system is safe and sound. katie pavlich, robert wolf in a matter of minutes coming shortly. sandra: waiting the white house and the pentagon at this hour. we are each expected to brief reporters within the next hour as president biden takes major steps towards sending u.s. troops to our southern border. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith and surprise on this tuesday, william hemmer. bill: i m in for john roberts, hope you are doing well at home. the 1500 active duty troops deployed for three months, initially, anyway, to help border agents handle the expected tens of thousands of migrants to cross once title 42 ends, which is about nine days away. the timing of the decision likely to be scrutinized. president heeding republican calls to try and restore some level of operational control one week after launching his re-election bid for the white house. sandra: in order to keep his job, the president will likely need to alleviate voter con
hunting lodge. gillian: the judge in the case is deciding where some of the evidence of murdaugh s alleged crimes will be admissible for the jury to hear. phil holloway is going to break that down coming up, criminal defense attorney. we do know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and intern international law, it moves eastward over the continental of the united states. currently assess the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time. john: fox news alert to start off this friday afternoon, no, it s not a weather balloon, not a civilian aircraft and definitely no mistake. the response from the pentagon in the last hour to china calling bluntly, chinese spying in our air space. gillian: this is america reports. secretary of state antony blinken was supposed to leave today for his own visit to china, high stakes diplomatic trip. he has indefinitely postponed the visit. the chinese foreign ministry admits it did origi
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
as you know, last tuesday, the annual inflation rate came in as 8.3%. the stock market skydived. people are shocked by their grocery bills. inflation is up hardly at all. you re not arguing 8.3 is not good news? no. but it was 8.2 before. you re making sound like, oh, my god, all of a sudden it went to 8.3%. it s the highest inflation in over 40 years. i got that. biden has used the pandemic as the legal reasoning behind why request he could cost up to $20,000 worth of student loan debt, but seems like he completely undercut his own argument. mr. president, first detroit auto show in three years. yeah. is the pandemic over? the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid. we re still doing a lot of work on it. the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one is wearing masks. everyone seems to be in pretty good shape. i think it s changing. this is a perfect example of it. those remarks were apparently not scripted, catching several of his top heal
supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? donald trump justifying the chants of his supporters calling for the death of mike pence. the january 6th committee holds its third public hearing today, focused on the pressure trump put on his vice president to overturn the election. we will tell you what to expect. plus, new reporting that ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, was in communication with trump lawyer john eastman as he tried to overturn the election. and new reporting that pro-trump lawyers hoped the wild scene that trump teased to his supporters ahead of the capitol attack would pressure the supreme court to get involved in their election efforts. and dow futures fall more than 500 points after markets first rallied around the fed decision to hike interest rates. steve rattner helps us break down the latest moves on the economy. we re also follo