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the airline is still canceling thousands of flights, passengers are still outraged, and we learned the southwest airlines got a seven billion dollar bail out during the pandemic, so what did they use all that money for? but lets begin with joy santos and more of his lies getting exposed. the republican congressman elect just cannot seem to get his own story straight. he lied about going to college. he lied about graduating from college. he lied about who hes worked for. he lied about b...

real for biden. im harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." we begin with the nations current tab. more than $31 trillion. the treasury department already said it is prepared to take extraordinary measures before our ability to borrow runs out. but even treasury can only help for so long. it is a number that is so huge that we only have until probably june until we default unless congress takes action. in the past, congress has simply raised the debt ceiling to keep us borr...

ceiling. a familiar topic, but the circumstances this time are quite different. on friday, janet yellin announced that the united states will hit its debt limit this coming thursday. the debt limit is the maximum amount, according to law, that the federal government can borrow to pay for its obligations, to pay for things start to spend money on. that includes, all of the really important functions of government, everything from air traffic control to medicare and social security paym...

of ians destruction. look at the pictures in front of you. this is what it looks like, including in lee county, where rescue crews, this is a live look now, a live look at that location, rescue crews are trying to get to people, with millions of floridians without power and water. were going to take you live to the hardest-hit areas including lee county, which youre looking at now, for what is expected to be obviously a years-long recovery. im halle jackson in washington. lets get to s...

raising interest rates five times this year to combat inflation. and even with this new report, economists say people should still be bracing for the possibility of a recession in tough times ahead. so lets get to the new report and what it means and what is it doesnt. matt egan is here. and what does this good news say about what is next? >> well, kate, not that much. this is a rearview mirror number. it is a snapshot in time. we know the economy got knocked down in the first half of ...

by republican gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin. he confrontee confhed the curret governor , kathy hochul, on the stage. violent crime wave, leavinger hochul to wonder, you know, mysteriously, wh y do you care so much about this issue of crime? governor , heres a hint. people are dying now.s st both tooter dixon and leeead zeldin will join us straight. had also georgia senated candidate herschel walker will be here. but we begin tonight in the great state of pennsylvania. the commonwe...

not so much. here was the botched afghanistan pullout caving toe china on every whim. and now, of course, war i the dangerous never ending war in ukraine. biden has turned our country into a doormat for china and into ukraines bottomless piggy bank. and now its all escalating. biden warning that under his watch were heading towardsheadn a nuclear armageddon, saying at a fundraiser, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cubanon se missile crisis. and thats w...

the democrats are cratering,, y and yet they want everyone tot r believybode that the opposite is true as we approachdt the midterms. so over the pasterm st month, all weve heard about is joes turnosed midterm momentum, that hes turned the corner after r a rocky summer. actuf course, the opposite is actually true. in fact, reuters as bidens approval rating at a pathetic 39%. even so, reuters spins it to attack trump somehow you see how it works, right? >> democrats have zero accomplish...

because it took this long, we learned how to go. well be able to get the job done. >> jesse: the dam could be breaking in the battle for the gavel. it kevin mccarthy inching closer than ever to capture how speaker but hes coming up a little short the arco mccarthy was able to flip 15 of 21 republican holdouts but not enough. needs a few more votes to save yours truly from the embarrassment of calling kevin speaker for the last few months. right now, republicans are taking a timeout unt...

ukraine a major focus. good day to you. im peter alexander here in washington in for andrea mitchell as she travels back from london. shes en route to new york for the u.n. general assembly. nbc news heard reports a charters flight is in the air from texas and florida heading to the northeast, this as legal action is being considered against governors ron desantis and greg abbotts response to their sending migrants to areas like new york, d.c. and marthas vineyard. we are following t...