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rachel: welcome back to fox and friends were dollar general's doors turning serious profit as americans if in the pinch of inflation as they tried to stretch every dollar that they can. the franchise is raking in close to 10 billion it's first quarter alone as more shoppers are flocking there for basics here to react making money host charles payne big money host taylor riggs. we'll start with you, taylor seemed like the dollar store as a bellwether tells us a lot about the economy what are these numbers in the dollar store tell you about the health of our economy and future? >> they are telling us the consumer is still feeling really pinch some people and some of the elites will come out and say the consumers good you just don't feel it truly important look at companies like dollar general saying those of people living paycheck to paycheck those are the people instead of going to walmart they're going
beating democrats in states where you sit there and go, aren't these people recognizing what's going on here? this is ill-liberal, this is anti-american in that sense. how are people processing this and why don't they see how bad the leadership is and not follow it? >> and i think that's a good point. this comes from the tea party. i mean it comes from the john burks society first but there was always this rogue element in the republican party. and it was racist. and it was sexist. and it was this sort of, misogynistic stranded. and what i think -- and they sort of gave it over to the base. with donald trump they said were just going to go in for our basest instincts because it raises money. and is so ironic that small dollar donations ended up really driving the republican party to its worst aspects that was shocking to me. you see marjorie taylor greene
announcement but is not done anything. both with regard to chinese and north korean support for the russian war effort the there isn a lot of talk, but very little action for until there is action china and north korea will continue to support russia. bill: what kind of action would you like to see? what can the u.s. do to exert political pressure here? cooks the united states and go after chinese and russian banks. that is been very effective in the past with regard to other areas of disagreement with china and north korea. last month about a dozen hong kong and china companies those are meaningless. but we went after the banks and shut them down, shut down their dollar accounts which would put them out of business that would affect our china views this conflict it wouldn't do something like that to make a statement. make the chinese north koreans of the business of supporting
does great small dollar donation numbers when she says this stuff, which is absolutely beyond the pale? so what we need are these few republicans to stand up and say this is not who we are. now, i make the case that this may have been had they were for a while, but that is neither i nor there. and i think that there is an opportunity there are a lot of republicans now reap tiring -- retiring in the house and senate. they don't have the stomach for trumpism. even jeff flake's and the people who phased out early, those people -- >> you know what? where is jeff flake? where is jeff flake? you know what? well, can i just say this. it's only 7:00 and not trying to get the gentleman riled up just yet. i think the words of the actual president, not the thick president claiming to be present is trying to be present again but the actual president are important here. joe biden said, we can play it
♪ will: politico telling democrats they might want to think twice before campaigning on former president trump's conviction suggesting it might hurt more than it helps. it comes as trump's campaign reels in nearly $53 million in the first 24 hours since his guilty verdict was issued. here to react, fox news contributor charlie hurt. charlie, good morning to you. >> good morning, will. will: i think the big question, clearly, thises has impassioned and rallied donald trump's base and probably those who were on the edge who may have been if like, oh, i was for ron desantis or nikki haley. i think it has motivated some of those people as a well. the question, charlie, or is what does it do to independents,
republicans, i was leading the democrats, i was leading everybody, and all of a sudden they brought it back. it's a very sad thing that's happening in our country, but i'm very honored to be involved because we're fighting for our constitution. >> reporter: trump has some top-dollar fundraisers in california next week as he tries to close the gap with president biden's $192 million war chest. will, pete and rachel. ing. will: yeah, $53 million in one day reflects a huge amount of grass roots support, a flood of support for president trump in the wake of this verdict. rae iowa yeah, it's incredible. and what they're saying is that a huge portion of that are coming from small dollar donors. so these are regular americans. although the i did see an article about stephanie raoul, she's from msnbc, and apparently she heard the verdict, heard that all this money was coming in to donald trump, got stressed
of that roof and get five more years or ten more years, it's a no brainer. what roof backs does is it helps people in. they don't have to spend that 15, $20,000 on a new roof. they can spend pennies on the dollar. the roof match product was a small percentage of cost of replacing a roof. this is a great financial decision for us as a community . >> you open your mailbox and see the envelope from your health insurance company. you hold your breath. will they pay for your child's treatment this time? you open the letter and find that you've been denied again. a month later, another letter arrives. your premiums are going up again. they're banking, record profits and still plan on increasing their rates 12%. how can the health insurance companies away with this saturday? >> as far as the trial itself, it was ver
nonviolent, 77-year-old person with no record whatsoever in a crime, anderson, where they're not talking about stealing millions of dollars dollar or any kind of massive corruption that's taken little old ladies dealing that they were not prove it wasn't proven that he stole the election. >> it was defined it unanimously. >> if you read the jury charge, the find unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt that there was that they stole that there was election interference, but we're able to attend okay. there was an intent with an intense two i want to know how many people in the united states of america who voted for donald trump would not have voted for him had they found out that when he was extorted by stormy daniels, he entered into a non-disclosure agreement and paid her up. and the judge already said, during we will never know that, but they were certainly earned enough to have gone ahead. >> yes. and commit robbery. >> did judge the judge said, i don't want to put you in jail, mr. trump, you are the presumptive nominee of the
out -- [laughter] and ended up calling some big donors that were sort of the nikki haley type of donors who were still on the fence about donald trump. and and she called them and they said we're all in with trump, and she was distraught at hearing that and said that something about how now republicans, you know, are going to become, like, one-party rule and want to be dictators and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. pete: of course. rachel: but the point is, it is about people who were maybe a little bit reluctant, not sure about donald trump and also these small dollar donors, that's significant. pete: just like the mar a lag go raid -- mar-a-lago raid, the country had two separate reactions. my phone was blowing up with a lot of people that were not political. and a lot of people went to the web site, crashed the web site, it and ended up being over $50million in donations. disgust on one side and then on
because of some of the same details that juan merchan allowing in the courtroom starring president trump and stormy daniels so i do think that this will come back very quickly on appeal maybe not before the election. but this is not going to be a case that is upheld on appeal. >> juan merchan has been a biden donor, in fact, pointed out and judicial review folks took look at it said no, not a big deal. >> yeah. you know the rules of that for judge canon of ethics it is not a dollar or million of dollars that they're politically active it is just the fact they were politically active at all. so whether it is ten, 15, 25 dollars some nominal amount that is not the standard there's a reason why we don't want our judges to be politically active. to be out there having bias and taking a side. it's so that they can call balls and strikes evenly without bias.