Level as the controversy continues. President biden met with his Economic Team at the white house today, the administration has not yet said much on the controversy only saying talk to the sec and the feds are monitoring the situation. Strong backlash by some lawmakers including alexandria ocasiocortez and republican ted cruz. Republican senator josh hawley talked about this on fox news earlier. What youve seen with this gamestop meltdown that wall street is having now is these folks at home have got more criticism and more scrutiny than the people who singlehandedly crash the entire Financial Market in 2008. And they got bailed out, the government bailed out those people. It shows you that the fix is in. John White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher picks up reporting for us on this friday live on the north lawn. For the third day in a row, the white house is declining to weigh in on this controversy that has consumed both wall street and main street. The White House Press secretary w
That they short. This is a startling development in a battle that has taken it to washington as both sides are preparing to meet the politicians who have it out to regulate wall street. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. This is your world. And in case those big hedge funds were looking for trouble, well, they found it for themselves. Because theyre going to put up quite a stink, quite a fight that theyre no ones tool, capitalist or otherwise. Charlie gasparino has more. Whats happening here . Neil, the speculation in these stocks has farranging implications. The markets are going nuts. The stocks are up and town. Gamestop is down dramatically. Somehow the focus get on hedge funds following comments by massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren who thought this was a good time to crack down on hedge funds. She seems to have some support in congress, and some republicans. The Hedge Fund Business is fighting back. Theyre worried about restrict Tiff Measures from congress that curtails what
Information. I guarantee i did not. Thats not true, is it, mr. Hur . That is inconsistent with the findings based on the evidence in my report. Its a lie. You exonerated him. I did not exonerate him. That word does not appear in the report. Mr. Hur, its my time. All i have to do when im caught taking home classified vehicles but im sorry. Im getting old and my memory is not so great. This is the doctrine that you established in our laws now and its frightening. You cannot tell me your so naive to think that your words would not have created a political firestorm. What your suggesting is that i shaped, sanitize, omit portions of my reasons for political reasons. I suggest you not shape your report for political reasons, which is what you did. That did not happen. Neil so it wentz for almost six hours talking past each other. Robert hur caught up in the food fight, right in the middle of a food fight. That wouldnt stop and didnt stop. Why robert f. Kennedy jr. Says theres got to be a bet
have not and of course, measures that have been used to address that have not gotten very far. we are going to talk momentarily with the two congressmen from texas, both named gonzalez, spelled differently and what it takes to improve the situation, right now bad to worse. casey stegall with stunning numbers out. what happens now. he s at eagle pass with more. good to see you. governor abbott, as you know made a stop here in eagle pass this past week on thursday along with more than 20 state lawmakers where they touted the success of operation lonestar. as you know, operation lonestar is the state s border enforcement and security mission, a mission, by the way, with more than a $10 billion price tag so far. the governor essentially saying texas will continue to take matters into its own hands until the biden administration or congress takes steps to slow the migrant surge. abbott says they re currently working on a plan to add more national guard troops in and around eagle
we will take all necessary actions to defend the u.s. and our troops. neil: defense secretary lloyd austin s first day back promising action after three americans were killed. intelligence officialings are blaming the drone strike on iran backed rebels. iran says not so. but mike turner here to say not so fast. he s not the only one saying that iran is at war with us, so we better wake up to the reality that like it or not, we re at war with iran. first, fox team coverage of jennifer griffin at the pentagon where a briefing just wrapped up. jacqui heinrich at the white house of where the pressure is now building up. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s go first to the pentagon. that s where we ll find jennifer griffin with the latest. jennifer? neil, we now know the identities of the three american army reserve soldiers killed in jordan. specialingist kennedy laden sanders of georgia, a soldier with the 718th engineering company, a u.s. army reserve unit. she was 24