anderson, thank you. matt gaetz, he single handedly held up kevin mccarthy s election as speaker, you ll recall. well, tonight, he s threatening to do it again in a new battle on capitol hill. and he s here. i m michael smerconish. live from new york city on the day that president joe biden asks americans for another four years, the nation is at risk of a potential economic disaster. thanks to partisan and interparty politics in washington, the u.s. is scheduled to default on its debt as early as june. something that s never happened before. and if the nation defaults, that means massive job losses, almost assures a recession. federal benefits, like social security are at risk. interest rates, what you pay on your house, your car, your college loan, they all skyrocket. the stock market, it tumbles, drag with it your 401(k)s. i know what you re thinking. michael, come on. we have seen the movie before and we know how it ends. they re going to figure it out. just before t
the white house with a familiar comment today about this whole search and where it s going next. watch. again, i would refer you to the white house s counsel s office that has been regularly in touch with you answering these questions about this legal ongoing matter. i don t have anything to share. martha: nothing to share from the white house podium today. andy mccarthy and ari fleischer weigh-in on the growing situation surrounding folks that have classified documents at home. first to david spunt with all of the very latest on this from washington. hi, david. a few weeks ago, the president s team said the attorneys searched the rehoboth beach home and didn t find any classified documents. that s coming from the mouth of biden s legal team. if a search happens, that s a didn t situation. if there is a search in rehoboth beach, we ll hear about it after its concluded. that s the way this has been trickling down from the white house counsel s office. this is coming afte
skin pigmentation, we can t publish this book? flat out, my agents were told i think the issue here, michael, can the bounds of literature crossed the bounds of identity and reach our common humanity and empathy? and that s what literature has always done. that s what literature should do. and i think if we have this literary segregation, we re going to end up increasing the polarization and insensitivity we already have too much of in our society. okay, i m playing devils advocate with you, but is the argument here that you re taking a seat at the table that would otherwise go to a person of color? no, because every book is its own creation. it exists only because the author imagined it. no two books are alike. it s not like you are applying for the same job. novels aren t like that. posting isn t a zero sum game. it doesn t mean that if a book by a white author, good enough of his public, that some other book by some other author will
i went to a rural school. we raised our children in rural public school. any daughter is a rural public school teacher. as i was talking to rural superintendents, i know i m not going to change your mind but i want to look you in the face and talk about, you know, public education is the foundation of our educational system. it s the foundation of our society. our state economy. so this isn t a zero sum gain. it will elevate education overall. so what can i help you do to make you feel more competitive? i heard over and over, we need flexibility, we can t be competitive when it comes to teacher s salaries. we put that in the bill. we gave them the flexibility to increase teacher salaries. we removed some of the burdensome lange and provided new money for some of the districts that have a private school if their system. so it s a win. our rural schools, even if they don t have a private school are getting a lot of options. martha: it makes things more competitive. it makes some public