york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
cavuto on this busy weekend for the present himself at camp david. the white house they are preparing for something very big come tuesday. for that we go to lucas tomlinson. neil, as you mentioned present biden s spending the weekend at camp david days ahead of the expected announcement is running for reelection officially this time out on tuesday. yesterday the white house did not want to talk about it. i m not going to talk about 2024 georgia look like part of not to talk about that from here. as a government employee federal law prohibits me from discussing campaign related topics from this podium. [inaudible] do not have anything to say about 2024. a new poll from the associated press says most people do not want biden to do it again. 73% of all adults in fact do not want to read again. 41% of democrats say they will definitely be voting for biden if he is the nominee. another 40% say though probably vote if he is the nominee. the rest what robert f kennedy jr. to b
bret: but breaking tonight, there are growing questions about the biden administration s policy on china. while the president talks tough, critics say president biden appears to be taking a kid glove approach in several key areas. we have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. looks at how the american military is preparing for a conflicted with beijing possibly. we begin hour with white house correspondent peter doocy on the white house s north lawn and the president s reluctance to push china too hard. that s exactly right officials are putting out the word they are not trying to beat china economically or at anything. but they are trying to make things more competitive with china by taking some pieces off the board. mr. president, welcome. peter: as mr. biden talks colombia. key to the hemisphere. peter: and climate change. we are at a moment of great peril but great opportunities. treasury secretary teasing a move to move u.s. business to
in my much simpler world all we can do at this point is provide the country with modest examples of people who prospered as a result of learning a skill, mastering a trade, going to work. it is discouraging to those people. it is very discouraging to those people who played by the rules to see somebody else s thumb on the scale and to see things weighted against them like this. i wish i could speak to it other than to say that we don t do that. you say it might not be your lane, the lane of economists, the administration likes to lean on s economists for their thoughts. we spoke to one that worked in the obama administration who advised former president obama who said on this program we get wanting to help out homeowners, get people into homes, but this is not the way to do it. here are two economic experts slamming the proposal. listen. it is a bad policy
at job for people with good credit for the former ceo of the mortgage bankers association says this is essentially subsidizes those with risky credit. it is a bad policy step it lacks integrity. and that is not how was make a house in policy should not include tinkering by a regulator for their own social or political purposes at a time like this. for example a person with a 625 fica score down payment of 5% if they one and three-quarter fee discount on a 30 year mortgage. but those with a score of 740 or above with 15 20% down will see an increase of 75% in fees from the current level. these supply to people of all income levels. as you have a high credit score you have to pay more? we are talking real money this could be $100 a month or more depending upon the size of your loan. makes no sense paper bill whose family found when the largest home building companies were a