economy into a recession which is what we don t want. the gang is here. good morning. dana: good to be here i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. all that economic news coming this week with the administration, they re swirling as well as the news. they re swirling and spinning. the central back is expected to announce a rate hike again today. it would be the fourth one in five months that will pour cold water on an economy already slowing down. bill: the feds trying to pull us back from the brink of record inflation as the white house tries to redefine the r word. president s economic advisors are saying there won t be a recession. are you sure? let me just say this. we look at a range of data. we assess that data and we lay it out for ourselves and for the president. dana: team fox coverage. connell mcshane is with analysis but let s begin with jacqui heinrich from the north lawn. good morning. as you mentioned the fed is expected to raise rates toda
give us a picture of what we might have come november. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. there is a lot to talk about. bill: every tuesday this summer we ve been doing this. dana: you have an update for everyone. the races in florida and new york are drawing intrigue. drama is new york 12th district to force nadler and maloney into a fight for their political lives and trying to unseat them is patel. there is a special election for an open seat in congress in upstate new york. it could be a bellwether for november. the democrat campaigning hard on abortion rights. dana: in florida we re waiting to see who will emerge as the democratic challenger to governor ron desantis. charlie crist and nicki freed are vying for that nomination. the republican governor sounding confident this morning. we have people that want to visit, have moved here. lower unemployment rate now than prior to covid. you continue to see us adding jobs in sp
from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
a republican can win. skipping over competitive and going red. mayra flores won. the first mexican born woman to serve in the house. bill: this is a heavily hispanic district that shares a border 80 miles with mexico. it was created 10 years ago and until now it has been a democratic stronghold. dana: what changed? critics are pointing to president biden s border policies. voters witness the crisis firsthand in donna, texas, thousands were held in squall or. bill: the world s richest man weighing in. elon musk tweets the following. the first time i ever voted republican. massive red wave in 2022. dana: team fox coverage. bill melugin is covering the crisis on the border from texas and we re live in dallas. this is exactly what the national republican party was banking on. it spent a million dollars on television ads alone for the special election in this traditionally democratic district down in south texas. and there is so much to know about this very special candi
unemployment staying at 3.6 pers percent. bill: there are at the moment 11.4 million jobs open and 6 million unemployed americans which means the math says two jobs for every person that s looking for work today. gas is soaring. another record high today. $4.76 a gallon now. that s nearly twice as high as when president biden took office. bill: here is the good news. wages rising slightly up 5.2%. not enough to keep up with inflation is the bad news. that disparity creating a nationwide pay cut. team fox coverage this morning. jacqui heinrich and we begin with kelly o grady live from los angeles. kelly. today marks the first weekend of june. you would normally have people excited for weekend getaways, beach trips. instead drivers are facing more dread at the pumps. today is the seventh straight day of record highs. the national average jumped 5 cents overnight. that s just two cents shy of double the price when president biden took office. that means an extra $33 ev