harris: the heavy weight of a crashing presidency in the polls. president biden reportedly agitated and suddenly starting to care about what americans are saying about him. well, who could ignore voters signaling that bidenomics is a bust? and they are not better off under this president. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. a new fox survey shows the economy by far is the most important issue to voters. it usually is. and the word of the day for voters right now is pain. pain over stubbornly high prices under a president who tells them it is not happening. the average american is not benefiting economically, people are sad about how things are happening at our federal government? i do most of the shopping in my home. the prices were through the roof. when i sat down and looked at what they are telling me inflation was 6%, 8%, 10%, i roughly say for me it was 30, 35% easy. growing food and gas prices. again especially new york city has been a chall
[bombing] it was obvious that we ll be back in war. hamas is not for peace. they do not want to co-exist. they want to be, for us to be eliminated. sorry, it s not gonna happen, ever. john: black smoke and explosions filling the skies over gaza as israel resumes the war against hamas. john roberts in washington. so begins a friday afternoon. sandra: good to be with you. sandra smith in new york. after a week-long truce which saw more than 100 hostages released, talks to extend that ceasefire collapsed after israel said hamas launched more rockets toward southern israel and failed to release all of the women and children that were part of the agreement. john: idf appearing to move the offensive to the southern part of the gaza strip, they claim many of the terrorist group senior leaders are alive and hiding in tunnels. strategy is facing opposition from the biden administration. sandra: we have complete coverage for you now. former national security councilmember mic
market there were some construction jobs earlier in maybe last year, probably because of hurricane sandy rebuilding. now you re seeing help from construction because of housing and health care. 32,000 jobs in health care. we ve seen that again and again and again. there are two economies in america. one of them is health. the health care economy and the other economy is the one the rest of us live in. the ugly. 133,000 people dropped out of the labor market. they couldn t, there wasn t a place for them. they simply stopped looking. you look at the labor force participation rate this is something that s a number that s still so troubling. 63.5%, the lowest since july 2012. to get worse than that, you go the to go back to september of 1981. you want to see the number getting bigger as more people come back in and feel like the economy getting better and there s a place for them in the economy. let me bring in a chief economist for mesereau financial. christine laid out the things we kn
dropping completely out of the work force this past month, i guess, a lot of of us are just not quite seeing it all stack up that we re doing better. gas is twice as high as it was four years ago, food prices up 15%. more americans have lost their home to foreclosure, we actually have the lowest number of people in the job force in september of 1981. dick morris, i think, had the best comment about the brilliant job president clinton did. it was pa fantastic speech i ll give him credit for that. he assessed it this way, it was like maybe a defense attorney giving the closing arguments, very passionately, for his client when he knew he was guilty. but that s just dick s thought and i think he might be be right. [applause]. so, another big moment this week, texas mayor julian castro in the key he note address. it s a choice between the country where the middle class