President biden i speak today as president of the United States at the very start of my administration and im sending a clear message to the world. America is back. John just hours from now, President Biden has a chance to defend the pledge made almost exactly three years ago today. Sandra set the tone for the 2024 campaign and a lot of issues and questions facing the incumbent. John hello, john roberts in washington as we get ever closer to the big event tonight. Sandra hours away now, john. Welcome everyone, this is america reports. President biden says america is back, but twothirds of americans say they feel the u. S. Is less respected now on the world stage. Why is that . Wars in the middle east and europe, withdrawal from afghanistan, rising china, not to mention displays of antisemitism and a growing Border Crisis. John the border has become the top issue for americans and one of the biggest weak spots for the president. Jeff paul is live at the border where fox news teams just
we now have a start date for donald trump s manhattan. it s right in the heart of primary season. the lead starts right now. the former president just learned he will be back in a new york city courtroom for the stormy daniels hush money case, and like i said, it will be right in the middle of the presidential primary season next year. trump says he understands he s not allowed to talk about certain parts of the case. then the charges now facing a 19-year-old accused of driving a u hall into the security barrier at the white house. inside the truck, according to the secret service, duct tape, a backpack, and a nazi flag. plus, well, that s going to give them something to tweet about. florida governor ron desantis turning to one of the most controversial ceos in world to help officially launch his 2024 presidential bid on social media. i m jake tapper. we begin in our law and justice lead. today a new york judge gave donald trump an official trial date, march 25th, 2024,
and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u
i get paid tomorrow, and already my whole paycheck is spoken for. plus, adjusting for inflations. how surging prices are forcing some to make very tough choices just to make ends meet. welcome to your new day. we are thrilled to have you this sunday, july 17. the days just keep slipping away. boris, i am so sorry, i m having a tough time hearing you but good morning to you, boris, and good morning to all of you at home. unfortunately, we begin with a very sad story this morning. that search for answers in the tragic shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. hours from now the families of the shooting victims are going to get that preliminary finding of the texas house committee investigation. 19 children and two teachers were killed in the massacre. the committee is also set to present the families with surveillance video of the school shooting which was leaked to a texas newspaper and published this week. let s take you now to uvalde, texas, and cnn s
this inflation and if it can be tamed. and border patrol agents, we re told, are furious that the department of homeland security is about to discipline their colleagues who were falsely accused of whipping haitian migrants last summer when they were actually using reins of their horses to control those animals. we have live fox team coverage and all these stories for you coast to coast. let s begin first with bill melugin with more on the situation among the border patrol agents because of those photographs that went viral with a lot of false accusations. hey, bill. reporter: eric, good afternoon to you. that s exactly right, multiple sources tell me they are irate about this. they feel that the president and other politicians essentially convict these horseback agents before they ever had a chance at an investigation, and now we re hearing they re going to be disciplined. if we can rewind the clock to last september, del rio, those horseback agents were responding to thou