normally would have people fearful the federal reserve will be inclined to start hiking rates again in the face of this. again, that was not a worry for the markets. maybe with a strong jobs report, there s a lot less worry about a decision and a lot more hope that we could dodge one altogether. welcome. i m neil cavuto. because you ve got that juxtaposed against republican candidates criss-crossing battle ground states talking about how awful things are. we re following the principals and how the economy is going and the debt ceiling package and relief that we have a package and avoided default fed into this rally today. let s go to rich edson in pella, iowa. how that is going down there. rich? good afternoon, neil. got a couple of republican candidates in iowa today. many more coming tomorrow for senator joni ernst s roast and ride in des moines about an hour drive from pella. governor ron desantis will be at that roast and ride event. he s finishing up a full day of camp
we have the conversation about he won t be given security, won t be given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he s born. fox & friends first starts right now. i m on top of the work. i m on top of the world. waiting on this for a while now. jillian: we might not be necessarily on top of the world. we re coming at you live from all across the world with benjamin hall live in long of don, i m live in new york city. and welcome to the show. that line thrown under the bus like get it, thrown, like the royals, pretty good one. there are shock waves on this side of the pond this morning. that interview causing a lot of headlines. we ll get to that later on in the show. it s going to be busy. jillian: with that we say good morning, you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m jillian mele. i m benjamin hall, in for todd piro. the house is set to receive the covid relief bill after it passes the senate
Way. regardless the way you feel politically or personally, one thing i notice that s been a trend and maybe it was illustrated in this roger stone tweet where he does obviously an inflated picture of the former new jersey governor, saying that chris christie needs to run, not for president. he just needs to run. fat jokes are common here. i sometimes get one or two myself. my point here is that this has come up a lot in chris christie s career. i m a new jerseyian. you can say he was an effective governor. you can say obviously he kept property taxes better than 400 vetoes to stop tax increases in the state. a promising presidential candidate but always a reference back to the weight. the elephant in the room, the famous speed shot. if he were a thin governor, would that shot have
what do you think? you re looking at the money end of this thing. are you curious what went down in hoboken that afternoon in that parking lot, or not? aren t you curious than? i think every new jerseyian is interested in knowing what happened. know one would approve of strong-arm tactics like that. we just want to rebuild our towns and cities. is this the behavior you would expect of christie or not? well, this is an administration that plays, as been known to play hardball. i ve had some personal experiences with it myself. anything like this? where they say you don t play ball with us on this, you re not going to get something you would normally get? anything like that? well, you know, chris, i m not sure how much we would get done if elected officials did not use the levers of power. lyndon johnson wouldn t have gotten the civil rights act through congress unless he threatened some southern senators with withholding federal money. but when you do things like shut
This something you would like to know whether it was a strong-arm tactic used down there in hoboken by the lieutenant governor on behalf of the governor? chris, i have seen no evidence of any kind of strong-arm tactics or politics. i think this was just managerial incompetence. wait a minute. the charge for the mayor issue is caught on a parking lot on shoprite and told on the parking lot it shouldn t be this way, but the governor wants you to know that he is saying if you don t support this real estate deal, forget the money. you re not getting it. that s not about managerial incompetence. that s a charge to me of extortion. what do you take it as? it s not managerial incompetence. the situation with the sandy recovery money that we re investigating. what do you think? you re looking at the money end of this thing. are you curious what went down in hoboken that afternoon in that parking lot, or not? aren t you curious than? i think every new jerseyian is interested in knowin