Dont look now, but the border crisis is back with a vengeance and a big concern among president ial candidates that make that a primary start. Why tim scott shows this time to do it. Scary numbers are probably the reason. Kevin corke has more. Kevin . Griff jenkins. I apologize. Look out, kevin corke. Neil my bad. Ive covered the border forever. Theres a reason why tim scott isnt just going to the border for a photo open. Hes going there because the situation is not under control. Sources tell me that Border Encounters are trending up, averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 a day across the entire southwest border. Cbp says they seized more than 22,000 pounds this fiscal year alone as mexican cartels tightener that grip on the border. Heres senator scott. As president of the united states, i would sign the legislation i created that would freeze the assets of the mexican car tens. We have the power to do that. Just a few hours area, jason owens tweeted this saying yesterday Border Patrol ag
administration down playing the recession call. there s semantics. what is a recession, how do you technically define it. no matter what, there s widespread agreement no matter who you talk to. that is that economic growth is slowing. the treasury secretary, janet yellen acknowledges as much. but then she maintains that that does not mean a recession is inevitable. this is not in an economy that is in recession. but we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing. and that s necessary and appropriate. we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. yellen says the job market is still strong. she says a recession would have to be a broad-based economic contraction. consumers are still spending. household balance sheets are still in good shape. all of that said, the economy did contract the first quarter. economists think at beast we ll see slow growth when the numbers release thursday. the white house insists even if that number does go negative and some
without paying for the i.p. now, the congressional select committee held a hearing here. they discussed how this is part of china s efforts to lessen their dependency on u.s. crops perhaps before an invasion of taiwan and a possible conflict with the u.s. china and chinese companies have also been buying up u.s. agricultural land. china owns 384,000 acres of land in the u.s. that s up 456% since 2011. there s national security concerns about proximities to bases and whether china can unleash some kind of hell on our own crops. keeps me up at night. if they re reverse engineering our seeds to what makes them hardy and drought resistant and pest resistant, what makes them say they can t turn it around on
issues include the sanctions and export bans the u.s. has imposed on chinese firms. also even u.s. businesses during trying to sell technology products in china. so i think those will be discussed. what logic the secretary of state s objective? what will he hope to return home with? as mentioned already, i think trying to get china to dial down the temperature, if you will, in some of these hot spots like south china sea, the taiwan straits. and have a channel of communication in case the two militaries are in close proximities with each other. i think that will be very, very important. and if blinken were to be able to establish some kind of communication channel with chinese counterparts during these times of tension, i think that would be quite an accomplishment.
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