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>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. >> good morning. >> great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite chinas stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. its not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported...

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 ogrady has the latest ...

in the next three to five hours. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. a to me, it is a no—brainer. there is no point taking the car and then paying for parking fees and everything. it is costing me £15, normally, for a trip, for a day ride...

new york city. so far, texas has sent more than 1800 illegal immigrants to new york on over 35 buses. that sanctuary city is now struggling to find housing for them. meanwhile, the war of words heats up between texas governor abbott and new york city mayor adams. adams team is slamming texas for using wristbands with bar codes, which adams and others in new york are saying are used to track the illegal immigrants, but the texas governor is saying not so. in fact, he is ripping it as fe...

also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nations capitol, so...

student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. >> john: you dont have todds number on speed dial, john? ill pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. >> john: biden facing ba...

sign for the u.s. economy. inflation finally starting to cool off and it was flat for the month of july. consumer prices increasing by 8.5% year over year. thats slightly lower than the 9.1% increase back in june. and well be talking about what that means in just a moment. >> it is really good news for every consumer out there. plus, former president trump set to be deposed today by the new york attorney generals office. this is in connection to a civil investigation into the trump org...

thanks for staying with us. there is a growing international focus on nancy pelosis big trip to asia after warnings from the white house and the pentagon against her going to taiwan, a major red flag for chinas leaders, who have again today threatened potential military action. here at home communities throughout kentucky still underwater at this hour. at least 30 people are dead as catastrophic flooding, continuing rain, high temperatures and another wave of storms hampering the despe...

arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didnt just refuse to participate in trumps campaign to, i dont know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didnt have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a r...

[chanting] >> as a parent, i do not agree with these political theories being taught to my children. [chanting] >> they will never stop pushing this radical agendas. parents, we will not sleep either. [chanting] >> we need to get away from all of this indoctrination and gets back to teaching! >> john: parents around the country pushing back on what is being taught to their children and purists over the damage to kids education. closing classrooms during the pandemic. hello im john robe...