prompting concerns now that the fed could keep raising those interest rates well into this year. welcome to fox news live, i m aishah hasnie, hi, griff. griff: i m griff jenkins. and it s great to be with you. and the biden administration is facing scrutiny over the massive amount of spending over ukraine. lucas tomlinson is on the snowy white lawn of the white house kicking things off for us. high inflation is reducing savings nationwide and producing more credit card debt coupled with higher interest rates. many americans are feeling the squeeze and we don t have to tell the viewers, we feel it every day. let s look at the new inflation index that just came out. this is the personal consumption price index, the feds preferred gauge of inflation. and it rose and beating analyst expectations roughly 4% increase and annual rate 5.4%, as you mentioned the first inflation in inflation data since it peaked in june making some wondering if fed is behind in inflation fight. and p
they talk to us right here on fox & friends this hour. in about 10 minutes. plus, joe biden taking on the economy in an interview yesterday, listen to how good things are going. we have the strongest knee in the world. if you take a look at what the people have. they have the money to spend. i think people are talking to their television right now because the numbers tell a different story and we got the numbers. ainsley: plus it s the gavel battle speaker of the house mike johnson sur riffe vifing a move to oust him. is he going to join us fox news live a few minutes. seconds hour of fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, mornings are better with friends. let s get loud. brian: this is the speaker s bump-in music? this is true. i didn t know that. ainsley: people were referring to people are getting loud screaming at their tvs when they hear joe biden talking about the economy and how great it is and how donald trump didn t create any new jobs.
head quarters in new york. breaking right now on the story, $500,000 in cash stashed in envelopes in pockets of jackets and in closets, a mercedes and a lot of gold. prosecutors say those are just some of the bribes that were paid to new jersey democratic senator bob menendez, chairman of the foreign relations committee. the feds say that menendez cashed in by giving sensitive u.s. information to egypt and trying to interfere to block criminal cases against people he knew. bribes. the form of cash, gold, home mortgage payments, a low show or a no-show job for a.d. menendez, a mercedes benz and other things of value to the senator and his wife. senator menendez says that the accusations are baseless. he goes on to say there s been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources to create an air of impropriety where none exists. chad pergram live with the latest on this huge story today on capitol hill. hi, chad. hi martha, good afternoon. the feds say menendez tried to
Millions of dollars from. so, put yourself in the jury s shoes, griff. they re out there hearing this guy say, yeah, i lie, i stole, i cheated from people who i loved and cared about, why can t the jury go back in the deliberation room. hey if you re able to do to friends you love and care about, you can surely kill your wife and husband because you re a lunatic drug addict, you re unhinged and you re a train wreck. so this was a disaster for murdaugh. griff: we shall see what the jury decides to do. brian claypool, thank you for joining us and getting your insight as always. a quick reaction here, aishah, you and i were talking about before the show i m not sure it s as clean cut and devastating as brian points out. i listened to our colleague judge janine who works in consumers, there could be sympathy in one of the jurors, saying he s going to be guilty
Of constitutionalism. is that fair? it s fair and it is a culture war. i think this is what drove justice sotomayor to make this very strident statement about the stench and whether or not the court could recover from it in oral argument recently. because in creasingly on the right in this newly conservative court, there appears to be a results oriented approach towards making decisions and of course when you contrast the decision making that s apparently going on on abortion, we don t have a final decision on that mississippi case yet, but there, there s a willingness to for instance force baby, force women to carry babies to term where the vaccination case takes a different approach. of course there s more grounded in administrative law and as brian points out, what joe biden has the authority to do under the law, but increasingly, this sort of semi hypocritical approach to rule making is going to diminish the court s