one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and the new york times reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the times. the investigators appear focused on trump s state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on janu
aid. so far, the united states has appropriated $113 billion of your dollars for the ukrainian war effort with no end in sight. that s all joe biden will say. this will never end. florida congressman matt gaetz told foxnews.com, on president s day, i m not surprised that joe biden is ditching america for ukraine. they can keep him. sure can. gaetz was referencing the disaster in east palestine, ohio which had been ignored from this administration. no visits from biden or pothole pete or anybody else. until recently, fema, the federal emergency managing agency has been mia until they were shamed to deploying a team two weeks later and moments after donald trump said he would be visiting. under biden, serious problems have atten tendency to fester. at home and abroad. communist china continues to descyber rattle all over the wo and refuses to apologize for flying a balloon across on country. you just got out of a meeting with wong li of china. we have read the read-out. what
charles. let me start with this stat. even with the small gain that you re seeing on the dow, it s the first eight-week losing streak for the dow jones industrial average in 90 years. since 1932. you re correct as wells that the s&p 500 did touch the bear market territory. that was significant. bear market territory is when the index is down 20% from its highs. the selling on wall street continues as investors are worried about inflation, the consumer and a recession. the concern of course is that the fed can t tamp this inflation down quickly enough and that the consumer will just have to go without nonessentials to pay for essentials. that means that the economy will eventually take a big hit. if that doesn t do it, the flip side is that rate hikes, they re coming and they will put us into a recession as well so many investors, analysts and company ceos are pointing the finger at bidenomics, excessive spending, regulation and money printing as the causes of what put this co
a 21-year-old man murdered eight people at a local spa. the terrifying 911 call made by one woman inside one of those spas. hurry. do you have a description of him, ma am? i am hiding right now. is it a male or female. they have a gun. a gun that killed eight people including six asian women. here are the names of the dead we know so far. age 33, yong, paul an andre michels age 54. yan age 49, daoyou feng at 44. very concerned. i have been speaking about brutality against asian americans the last couple of months, it is very very troublesome. i am making no connection at this moment of the killer. i am waiting for an answer as the investigation proceeds from the fbi and from the justice department. we are all waiting. in the meantime the fear among asian americans in this country is growing. crimes against asians in america have spiked during the pandemic. 150% in antiasian hate crimes in major u.s. cities in 2020 while overall hate crimes fell by 7%. tonigh
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the government and for manafort to keep things moving along. they did. that is the same judge that challenged the special counsel s office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against president trump. the trial proceeded anyway and the former trump campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a no-knock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit $60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. the charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. if convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. there s sentencing guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. shepard: what is the next step in this trial, peter? any minute, shep, we expec