the wayside and jimmy carter was that year s nominee. that was then and this could be different. let s go to alexandra hoff and look at this. you have to look at fund raising and the campaign season over, caucuses, new hampshire primaries eight months away. that s where the candidates are circling. governor ron desantis will kick off des moines, iowa on the 30th. and president trump arrives the day after. and he thinks that the top g.o.p. contender is moving to the left. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016 and i think the direction that he s going with his campaign is the wrong direction. desantis long awaited candidacy announcement was hit with glitches, but record breaking 8.2 million dollars in donations in the hours after. former president donald trump has since offered this. the question, is rob just young experienced and naive or more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what the
extreme maga republican effort to default on our debt, crash the economy. i m worried about the consequences of us not coming to terms and raising the debt ceiling. at this point, it s economic terrorism. my communications to them are, stand firm. there s no reason not to. stand firm. you have a white house that is not serious. republicans want to drive us over the cliff of default. it s idiotic for anybody to consider anything other than what we had. we will ride it out. neil: does that sound like progress? we ll see. both sides far apart as lawmakers race to cut a deal we re told a week away. this as fitch, the big ratings agency warns that a credit down grade could be in the cards and maybe soon regardless of how this works out. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much to get to. let s get to it with chad pergram on capitol hill on where things stand right now. hi, chad. good afternoon. the move by fitch and the ratings arm of morning start caught the att
russian plant. john: 51 former intel officers signed on to the letter, saying it was the earmarks of russian disinformation. sandra: and 52, the man asked to sign but said no. dan hoffman knows a thing or two about russian tactics, joining us new at 2:00. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. we have made it to friday, sandra. sandra: we have indeed, john. great to be with you. i m sandra smith in new york. welcome, everyone. plus, parents showing up and speaking out in california. they are letting boys that identify as girls change in the locker room. sandra: a school district s transgender policy reportedly leading to this schoolyard brawl. those details this hour. john: president biden promising to finish the job during his 2024 re-election bid, but as the polls show, americans wonder what finishing the job actually entails. sandra: leaning hard on president s first term accomplishments to get voters on their side so fox news d
our southern border, which is a national security exposure, americans wonder, we can go across overseas, but we can t deal with our home front? that s the kind of feckless leadership that allows a new president, president tim scott to come to the table and offer a solution to the american people that we can all embrace, common sense leads to common grounds. we can get it done, one american family, working together. neil: we are senator, much has been made about the age not only of donald trump of course, but more important these days of president biden, whether you could be too old and some calling for a competency test, and some depends on the age and the can you be too old to run for president? the problem with our current president has nothing to do with his age. i m not giving a way out. we should measure the
should have is degrading the russian military. we are preventing attacks on the homeland as well as our n.a.t.o. partners that are contiguous that means american soldiers ron desantis said this was more of a border dispute. and donald trump talked about one day i would end this thing, i don t know how he would end this thing. what do you think of those approaches? well, the bottom line we know it s more than a territory dispute. we know that degrading the russian military is in america s national vital interest and we also know we do nothing with a blank check. we need accountability as part of the apparatus that we re using in order to continue to provide resources to the ukrainians. finally, i d say this, neil. our border crisis on the mind of americans, when you see 70,000 americans losing their lives because of mexican cartels tracking fentanyl across our border and president biden is not even addressing