the reason behind your suspension was it found you to have espoused conspiratorall views orly, in writing and indicated support for the events of january 6th, is that correct, yes or no? that is the language that they placed on the letter. that s a yes then. do you believe it s important for federal agents to have allegiance to the united states, yes or no. it is absolutely important that personnel have allegiance. do you believe you should have allegiance to the united states to possess a security clearance. absolutely. do you believe your obligations as an agent should supersede your please rephrase the question. do you believe your obligation as an agent should supersede your first amount right. do you believe that you have an obligation to serve as a federal agent regardless of what your personal political beliefs are? yes, i have an obligation to serve the united states. do you believe that f.b.i. agents should be permitted to express support for
debt ceiling before we default. should be most consequential g7 in years. the bottom line is this should be g7 in which the president projects strength and resolve to our allies. if biden was on the top of his games, he would say we re going to protect our allies and i have a deal with mccarthy. that is what he should be saying, he s not. todd: lucas tomlinson live in washington with more. lucas. lucas: this trip hurts to move beyond that spy balloon. jake sullivan spoke en route to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices, the people s republic of china will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around the principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. lucas: that is good dc wong speak. china will not be there, but will be focus of the meetings. trip was supposed to include a trip to new guinea. but the president s trip will be cut short. the president seemed optimistic before his flight to jap
was placed on unpaid suspension on the first day of a new assignment. congressman jim jordan is expected to take the podium any moment and we ll take you there live. we know there is interest in what is going on there. ainsley: one agent lost his security clearance yesterday. brian: so much going on. think about this, a whistleblower comes out and says, i cannot knowledge the irs is not moving forward with the investigation to hunter biden. now other whistleblowers are saying, i have a problem with the way this group this is law and lack of order and in the backdrop of all of that is the release of the durham report and all the different ways the fbi let america down during the trump years. ainsley: and some were investigating child abuse cases and claim the agency said, those are not your priority anymore, you need to focus on january 6. steve: as soon as they take the stage in the house, we ll take you there live. meanwhile, one case that captivated since may 1 is
airlines 777 jet crossed a runway as a smaller cargo plane was landing. and then days before that, an american airlines flight at jfk crossed in front of a delta plane trying to take off. and then there is the near miss in austin, where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. i want to bring in our aviation expert david soucie, who has tried to make me feel better about these things. but david, i m starting to think these are not all anomalies. it s going to feel like there s one of these a week that we report on. it seems like they are a lot more often. and that s only because they are more often right now. if you look at the traffic that s going on in boston right now, boston is at 12,000 flights in january 2021. and now it s come up to 29,000 into january 2023. so, it s nearly three times as much traffic. and they re spacing the airplanes a lot closer together to try to get them out faster. this particular one, alisyn, to make you feel more comfortable
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a