times higher than when president biden took office. bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%. that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall
morning. they are a christian band. they have been here before. we welcome them back. they sing holy water. many of you know what that is. if you are downloading some of their music, they sing a beautiful version i found it on youtube the bills of god, famous song a lot of nondenominational songs sing. their version of it is to beautiful. steve: we know a lot of people signed up for it. if you didn t get the v.i.p. tickets, you could still come down to 48th and sixth avenue. ainsley: we will be out there. we would love to see you. brian: scandalous at all. steve: bootleg tickets? ainsley: i haven t heard that it has been. we have very honest fans. brian: look. steve: a jeweler loop? ainsley: why would you go to the counter of making a counterfeit ticket sign up for v.i.p. ticket and it s free. steve: think ahead. in addition to the ticket to come and stand there on the astro turf to watch this group you get free this morning the mclemores from master built a
spill. most people don t know this but i am thrilled to be here. my whole life i loved late night tv. remember when it was great? steve allen, johnny carson. jay leno. that s what we grew up watching. for example when i was an intern across the street at 30 rock, i interviewed david letterman before he had his beard and when he used it to be funny. i give him a t-shirt so for me to be here in the number one late-night show is truly an honor and i am honored to be with the panel that you have yet to meet. a lot of people don t know that. david letterman just opened up to his biographer and affect him exactly. he said that was indeed the moment, the one highlight of career. i made that up. i could be sued. it s no secret i cohost fox & friends, the number one morning show and all of cable news. because of that, i ve got to confess, i don t really watch this show. i didn t even know greg was full-time and have a show of his own. gutfeld is on when i am fast asleep. i don t wa
federal loan payments. none of them have to pay any of these loans back until january of 2023. president claiming that this targeted approach will actually have a positive effect, he says, on lowering inflation. but tax experts and republicans think that those numbers do not add up. this is senator tom cotton. watch this. the president doesn t have the power just to unilaterally on his own eliminate entire categories of de. of all the dumb things joe biden has done this is the dumbest yet. a terrible policy that will harm many more americans that it will help. a former obama economic advisor pushing back as well pouring roughly half a trillion of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless, says jason fuhrman who was with the obama/biden administration and thinks it is a very bad move. jacqui heinrich joins us now live with more. good morning, martha. it is not just the press secretary refusing to admit that taxpayers are footing the bill for t
acre adams scolded officers for congregating together. totally unnecessary. totally petty. to be here on the number one late night show is also an honor we also had the remove the sippy cup. i don t spill unlike the normal host who is anything but normal. steve: out in ocean county, down the shore from where we are sitting right now here in i had midtown, manhattan, you have ship bottom, new jersey. it looks like 72 degrees, clear, sun is going to come up in the next hour. going for a daytime high of 84. by the way, if you are curious how many people you live in ship bottom? 1100. katie: sounds like a dangerous place ship bottom. katie: hold on to summer as long as we can. steve: absolutely. welcome to the fourth day of the weekday version of fox & friends. katie pavlich in once again for ainsley who is on vacation. and brian kilmeade, after being up late last night up early today. katie: brian decided to match me today. brian: you were actually on gut