racing toward what janet yellen calls economic catastrophe, thanks to congress and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle engaging in a game of chicken with the economic recovery at stake. america is on the verge of default unless congress raises the debt limit. house democrats expected to vote today on a bill that would essentially dare republicans to vote against it. minority leader mitch mcconnell indicating he s not budging. since democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get senate republicans help with raising the debt limit. default or economic catastrophe would be the worst birthday present ever for brianna keilar. it is her birthday today. happy birthday. thank you. on top of that, house speaker nancy pelosi says the fate of president biden s economic agenda faces a critical 48 hours. she s trying to lock down a deal on the huge spending package. also the bipartisan infrastructure deal. but as reported, it is currently open warfare between progressives a
new york i m emit in for chris hayes. there is a new coronavirus variant raising questions and concerns around the globe. while scientists and public health experts are helping to answer questions and ease those concerns, the pro curled white in this country is meeting this challenge with the same old mix of misinformation and conspiracy theories. world health organization naming the new covid variant omicron. last week the south african government warned that the world should be aware of this variant. it was first detected there earlier this month. of course, this is far from the first variant we have seen emerge. quite honestly, it is not unexpected. this is what viruses do. they mutate. we have already cycled through the alpha variant that came out of the united kingdom late last year. beta first detected in south africa. gamma emerging from brazil. and of course delta, first documented in india. which has become the dominant strain worldwide. now we do not know yet how mu
wanted he was good at it. he was very good at. it he had been peaking at her dorm room window. i m being blackmailed for money. lauren kept saying, the police will handle it. we got the notification on her phone saying lockdown. he had been i was like, this is not real. this isn t happening. how do not recognize that this girl needs your help. this could be going on at any campus cross country. . hello, welcome to dateline. as a star athlete. if you knew that off the field, she was trapped in an abusive relationship. she turned to campus police for protection, not once, but several times. most of us would agree that it was the right thing to do. why did things turn out so very wrong here s josh mankiewicz, with lawrence promise. graduation at the university of utah and salt lake city, home of the utes. a time for selfies, smiles and celebrations. in may, 2019, 8500 grad students and their families packed the universities huge reena. lauren mccloske
a.m. on the east coast. thursday, january 25th. welcome to fox & friends. well, it s a texas-sized showdown with the white house and governor greg abbott invoking the founding fathers insisting on defending the texas, mexico border his way. carley: and new revelations in the mysterious death of those three chiefs friends as a fifth man at the party claims he wasn t the last person to see them alive. we re going to talk to one of the victims brothers about the developments. brian: froze to death. 30 years later hillary clinton still hasn t mastered the macarena. hey m macarena. i thought that was american version of a spanish dance. steve: macarena guy right there. brian: fox & friends starts right there. remember, mornings are better with friends. get dressed. barnes. lawrence: the border battle down in texas intensifies with democrats now calling on the president, joe biden to federalize the state national guard. ainsley: but, governor greg abbott
it s just indicative of what kind of world we re living in. [crowd] the people united [woman] we are going to be a force to be reckoned with. and i m here to protest it. [cecile] one of us can be dismissed, two of us can be ignored. but together, we are a movement, and we are unstoppable. welcome to the revolution. [music] [scott] a ferocious recession is now tightening its grip on the nation. because of, i think, some bad decisions that were made, we have the worst economy since the great depression. [will] well, at the start of the 2010s, there was just a lot of economic displacement. and people were feelin it from all sides. it s a war out there. i mean, these people are losing homes every single day. the debate over using billions in taxpayer dollars to help homeowners in trouble spilled out onto live television today. in february of 2009, rick santelli is on cnbc. he s a commentator there, and gets really, really angry about the financial crisis and about bailouts. [tr