world. and welcome to hannity and happy new year and happypy election year 2024. now, the exodus ou t of big states like new jersey, california, illinois and new york, itew jerse c continues. in fact, tonight, we are now broadcasting from my new hom ar the great free state of florida. like so manyflor americans, i li new york for good. and now in the state with, let s see, warmen r law and order, better education, more freedomr , better quality of life. and guess what? no state income tax. noe inco tw, here is my predict. this mass migration out of dee e blue statep,s like the ones i just mentioned, that will continue unless untilless a the change they change their governing philosophiesnd, that are overtaxing people, overregulating people. they re under-performing in schools and safety and issues of public importance . and that s why it s happening. but no matter what state you call home, i will say this 2024 is going to be a critical year not only for our country, but for t
gaza through the rafah crossing. the number of people allowed in is very small but we understand that egypt will keep the rafa crossing border open until they evacuate 7000 people. rishi sunak is giving a news conference now saying that like minded countries had reached agreement on testing new artificial intelligence models before they are released. more than all of those headline stories in a moment. firstly, let s get the business news from the day. ben thompson is here. hello, matthew. we will start with news here in the uk. uk interest rates have been left unchanged for a second consecutive month remaining at their highest level for 15 years. the bank of england held rates at 5.25%. up until september, the bank had raised rates 14 times in a row to tame soaring inflation which has been squeezing households. it has led to increases in mortgage payments but also higher savings rates. the governor of the bank of england, andrew bailey, warned of the risk of energy instabi
is unacceptable that it took harvard a month to demanptable d the resignation of claudine de penn made the right decision immediately. e th but this is after it was forcedn in front of the world to see . i and i believe these university presidents sit at top, these institutionsty that have rottedout an out and have institutionalized anti-semitisd m, particularly after hamas s terrorist attack against israel ianti-semn early october, we ve seen jewish students assaulted, physically hamaharassed and facing just vie by its bio attacks. viery single day. well, let me ask you this. a if ittacf it didn t violatee coe the code of contact, our code of conduct, and it depends ot an context, would they apply that standard? would they have answered the question the same way if it was clearly something said that was racist misogynist, xenophobic, transphobe, ma what would they give it? would they have given you the same answer? i suspect the answer is no. they wouldn t say, well, ite depends on th
an army scientist, bruce ivans, primary suspect. and he died of an apparent suicide. in the years since some called that investigation into question and several lawmakers calling for an investigation into whether the u.s. is now better prepared to handle similar bio-attacks in the future that may or may not be the situation in which we find ourselves now. it s too early to say, but we are getting an awful lot of reports from lawmakers offices who are concerned about suspicious letters right now. at the moment, back to boston where the fbi originally had a news conference scheduled to begin right now, but now we are told that they have delayed that briefing for reasons the bureau will not explain. it has now been roughly 48 hours since three people were murdered and more than 170 injured and grief is giving way to anger in the search for