unsuccessful and ukraine successful but they don't have confidence in the president to fulfill it. he slow walked military equipment. >> harris: an official tells me ukraine and russia will not still be at a stalemate for every. >> emily: every dollar biden sends comes with a hamstring, because of escalation. >> kayleigh: mike johnson said we need border security and things that would fix the border. that is not here. >> harris: kellyanne, thank you for being with us today. "america reports" now. >> john: harris, thank you so much, a live look at the white house, any moment now president biden will address the nation after the senate passed the $95 billion foreign aid supplement. >> sandra: aid to israel, ukraine and taiwan but mike johnson said the house will not take up the legislation. we are going to monitor that podium and will bring you to the president's remarks as soon as he begins speaking.

>> john: start with this, unrelenting border crisis, a nationwide problem. ripple effects felt in washington, democrat-run sanctuary cities across the country at our northern border and if today is any indication, at the ballot box in new york. hello, john roberts in washington. how is the weather, sandra? >> sandra: the snow is still coming down here, that's for sure, an update on that situation as well. sandra smith in new york. it's a special election day here in the big apple and the unrelenting migrant surge could stop their chances of flipping the seat formerly held by george santos. >> john: pilip hammering souzzi on the issue. >> sandra: our political panel is standing by to reported rifts in the white house. >> john: aishah hasnie on a push to impeach mayorkas.

>> sandra: and bryan with the snow behind you, bryan, a familiar sight to most of us who came in today. what impact will this nor'easter have on turnout there? >> well, hey, sandra, look, it's certainly not going to help voter turnout. the snow has stopped briefly at least, it's supposed to stop about 2:00. so far, about eight inches of snow have fallen on long island, and both candidates now concerned about that voter turnout are offering rides to voters to make their way to a polling location just like this one. we are going to walk inside of here. now in terms of voter turnout, to say it's been slow here is an understatement. there have been a total of five voters who have cast their ballot at this location in the last seven hours. the polls opened at 6:00 a.m., that's jack, the site coordinator, but told us they had a lot of people show up for early voting, including voters who said they expected the weather to be rough today.

democrat tom souzzi made a campaign stop, he has campaigned as a moderate and says he's feeling confident, given that more democrats than republicans typically participate in early voting. >> nice and bipartisan, the way i like things. numbers came out ahead for us in the early voting, that's good for us. >> republicans feel good about early voting, too, but last night they rallied for pilip, including elise stefanik. a win by her could underscore the border crisis is a winning issue for republicans in november. she attacked souzzi for voting for biden policies while in congress. >> his time is over. he created this mess, the border crisis. he opened the border and as a result we are facing a border crisis which we have to take

care of as soon as possible. >> now, pilip says she would vote to impeach department of homeland security secretary mayorkas, both candidates have dist distanced themselves from trump and biden, pilips refused to say whether or not she voted for trump in 2020, until recently, she said she did. >> sandra: a lot to watch for. thank you. >> john: migrant teen accused of shooting a new york city tourist during a botched shoplifting in times square just made his appearance in manhattan criminal court. the 15-year-old is being charged as an adult. a migrant from venezuela who came to the city less than six months ago and living in a shelter. mike lawler coming up with reaction to that. >> sandra: and tonight the house will hold its second vote on

impeaching homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, last week's vote failed by a razor thin margin. aishah, why do republicans think the result will be any different this time? >> hey, good afternoon to you, sandra. steve scalise, we are expecting the majority leader to return to the hill in the next hour and he could be the critical vote for house republicans to hit that magic number of 216. but again, there are a variety of factors where this could all fall apart and that includes the weather as you heard in bryan's reporting and the special election. the weather could impact, disrupt travel for folks heading back to the hill. i was just talking with someone out of texas who had not left his home state yet to come back and vote on this impeachment. we are still expecting tonight three republican no votes, including congressman mike gallagher, who just announced he is not seeking re-election. the other factor again that

special election happening in new york today, definitely creating an urgency. the open seat left by disgraced congressman george santos. republicans need to get this impeachment done before the race is called, if the seat flips to democrat they have a number problem. >> the storm blowing to the northeast, make sure everybody comes into town so we have the 216 votes needed to get that done. this is important. alejandra mayorkas needs to be held accountable. he deserves to be the second cabinet secretary impeached because he has been endangering the american people while flagrantly violating his oath to defend the people of the united states. >> tom emmer just told us he thinks they have the votes, they have thought that previously but we'll find out later tonight in the 6 or 7:00 hour. >> sandra: aishah, thank you. john. >> john: bring in our panel, david avella, and richard, a lot

of infighting or has been in the administration over immigration. take a look at this front page of the famous "new york post," meltdown, at each other's throats, aides throw rivals under the bus. axios is saying rice referred to him as a blank a, and called him an idiot, rice passed mayorkas a note that read don't save him, according to two people familiar with the meeting, and also saying in a meeting aboard air force one, biden blew up at his staff over immigration and the border. not all is well in the kingdom. >> listen, i think we can agree there is a problem on the southern border and the president a couple weeks ago while campaigning in south carolina said that. he said there's a problem on the border and he wants to fix it. i think you will see in the next couple of weeks the white house take executive action to fix the

border. what the president really wants to do, president wants to instill in federal law actual solutions to the border, not just an executive order overturned by the next president, not something that could be cast away as talking points, but actual federal laws that says we are going to secure the border, we are going to hire more immigration judges and going to fix this problem, and let's be very clear, we have not updated the immigration policy since 1984, i believe is the right year and here is the problem with that. in calling for that, right, in this whole debacle we see happening on capitol hill, republicans say we want border security, in the house when a bill comes to the floor they say we are not going to vote for it and that indeed creates a problem. >> john: ironic he says biden does not want to do anything to be overturned by a successor president, that's what he did that got us into this mess. >> you are exactly right, john. and what we are seeing here is the preview of all the tell-all books that every cabinet ultimately writes about one another, susan rice's comments,

and she has the history even in the obama administration of being critical of her colleagues. cause disarray for democrats, that's in the battle for the u.s. senate. arizona makes the obvious sense. you think of montana where john tester has to win re-election, we have 10,000 folks illegally coming across the northern border for 18 consecutive months, and look at ohio, sherrod brown is up for re-election and last year, 77% of ohio voters passed an initiative that said illegals cannot vote in local elections. as we continue it to go further, immigration continues to creep up as a priority and it is a real problem for democrats. >> john: another big talker is the article that came out in the "wall street journal" about vice president kamala harris being ready to serve if joe biden were somehow to falter. this call for number four. former biden administration official said, anonymously, to

axios, about vice president harris, a former biden administration senior official told axios she's been at best ineffective and at worst, sporadically engaged, not seeing it's her responsibility. it's an opportunity for her and she did not fill the breach. what's going on here, richard? >> look, i love these stories. they point to the fact in our constitution the office of vice presidents is defined -- it doesn't have a real definition outside of presiding over the senate. >> john: not worth a warm bucket of something. >> and to be clear, this vice president in particular has cast more tie breaking votes than any vice president in american history. comes to the part of the constitution of her job, done it better than any vice president has done. beyond that, i think what you see happening here is we have a dysfunction on one side of pennsylvania avenue which is capitol hill, when it comes to the major issues affecting the american people. what we see in the special election in new york, every voter is saying we care about the immigration problem, we really should fix it and what

you see the trump campaign doing, let's hold this to november. and the split frame you see the biden campaign and senator, the senators on democrats and republicans saying let's fix this problem now. we have a bill to do it right now and sadly, it seems as though some are standing in the way of that. >> vice president 4.0 showing she's competent to do the job, and here is the reality. if joe biden wasn't now being questioned about his ability to do the job, they wouldn't be setting up the vice president to say well, she can do the job if he can't do the job and let's keep in mind, it was in 2021 this president put this vice president in charge of border policy. and now we have a border that's in complete chaos. >> john: yeah, worked out well. david, richard, good to see you. got a lot more ahead, not just in this program, with joe biden coming up, but in our colleague

neil cavuto's program as well. >> sandra: i'll be sitting in for neil today, and brian kemp fresh off a border announcement set to make at 3:30 eastern time, following his visit to the southern border with governor greg abbott of texas. so we'll see what he has to say at 3:30, he'll be joining us live shortly after that on "your world." john. any moment now, president biden will address the nation after the senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill. take you to the white house as soon as that begins. >> john: and big selloff today on wall street after a key inflation report came in hotter than expected. how bad is it for main street? money man charles payne up next. >> the democrats in the best interest of their party and our country, they need to find a new nominee. >> is she going to be around for the next 30 days? i mean -- she needs to take several seats.

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>> john: coming up in the next little while here, it was supposed to happen a minute ago, president biden with remarks on the passing of that foreign aid supplemental last night, $95 billion in total, $60 billion for ukraine, 14 billion for israel, 9 billion for gaza. no money for the border there which is one of the reasons why mike johnson in the house is saying that it's likely dead on arrival there. we'll see what the president has to say about that coming up some time in the next few minutes. sandra. >> sandra: ok. thank you, john.

well, it's not looking so good for bidenomics today as a new inflation report comes in higher than expected. prices still up more than 3% compared to a year ago. and now joining us, charles payne of the host of "making money" on fox business. charles, thanks for jumping on with us. alert to the big board, we are watching the dow, and it's a steep selloff today. having its worst day of 2024, in fact almost the worst day in a year because to go back to a selloff this big, you have to go to march of 2023, charles. so, what is causing this level of worry? >> charlie: i want to note the russell 2000, more small cap, domestic-oriented companies are getting far worse than the dow. here is the problem. wall street has baked in the notion that jay powell was done, you know, hiking rates, they were done with the notion that

rates would stay higher for longer and would start getting interest rate cuts. wall street assumed there would be seven, so what's frustrating, i have to tell you, it's frustrating a where wall street and the white house on the same page. it seems like the total disconnect. today's report, the day cpi report, consumer price index was mostly a report on main street prices. they are not coming down, they are still extraordinarily painful. and you know, they gather these data, these data points in certain ways. just speak to the average person. the spike we saw in the food prices, not a surprise to the average person. the spike we saw in rents, not a surprise to the average person. the spike we saw today in auto insurance, not a surprise to the average person. and these are main street issues. forget about all the other things, these are things that crush people, crush families, crush economics and the dreams,

and a small sampling of the pain in main street america. >> sandra: we are about to hear from the president in a few minutes, we don't know if he will take questions and answers but karine jean-pierre tried to defend the report this morning. she said this. >> inflation is down two-thirds from its peak, core inflation the lowest since may 21, prices fell over the last year gas, milk and eggs, and rental inflation has slowed but takes a while to show up in cpi. so look, what we say. we look at the trend, see how the economy is moving, and we don't focus on a one-month data. >> sandra: ok, so these -- this is the reality of the situation, and you know, when we look at those polls and people just are like they are just not buying it, that they are supposed to feel great, overall prices are still up 18%. you have energy prices up 32%. electricity, you are paying 30%

more under this presidency, food prices up 21%. shelter up 20%. i mean there, is a huge housing crisis happening with rents and shelter prices still high, charles. you look at rent prices up 6%. this is a year over year basis, all shelter prices up 6%. the white house is cherry picking some economic data to say things are getting a lot better and they point to wages, charles, which is fine, wages are starting to go up, but in an inflationary environment, if you have wages going up, the wall street reports this morning are saying that's just going to cause more inflation. >> exactly. it is a double-edged sword. and i do want to point out, though, you hear about wages which have been rebounding here recently, but the other side of that, sandra, a dramatic slowdown in the amount of time people are working. so, net -- net average weekly pay has gone down, so we have to point that out, so your take home pay, even though your

salary may have increased, your time at the job, you might have gotten 40 hours a year ago, now getting 35 hours. so, this is a dramatic thing. you cannot keep up with these prices. so, just because the pace of inflation slows does not mean prices are coming down. they try to conflate that, american public knows better. when the federal reserve was hiking rates the notion was it was going to be painful. in august 2022, powell said it's going to be painful, has b to painful. you had $3 trillion flood into the economy without any accountability. marching orders were to spend it. inflation we had not seen in 40 years. most people never thought we would have to deal with inflation to the degree we had to deal with it and it does not go away by pushing more money into the economy. >> sandra: amen, we have to deal with the environment we are in. i will -- ok, i will just ask

you what is your advice to those who say it's already tough as far as expenses are concerned, those necessary costs, those day-to-day living costs. you've got this hit to the stock market, while it is still up record highs, so i don't know, charles, what do you say to somebody nervous in this environment right now about what's coming next? >> charlie: you got to stay invested in the stock market no matter what, that's number one. but you do have to make certain sacrifices. you know, one of the big stories out there is doom spending since last year, particularly among young folks. millennial and gen z have 0 faith in the future so spend everything announcement marking out the credit cards now. believe it or not, great times ahead but this is the time we have to tighten our belts. your only fans account is not essential, uber account is not essential, grubhub is not essential, make your own food and tough it out a bit. >> sandra: always great to have

you on the program. thank you for joining us. good to see you. all right. >> the way that the president's demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. >> john: the biden administration taking aim at its own department of justice despite promising america they would keep it independent. we will ask kerri urbahn why the president and his advisers keep flauting their own rules. >> sandra: plus a powerful nor'easter still pummelling the north coast. live from the roads of massachusetts up next. (♪) (♪) (♪)

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katie is live on the road near plymouth, massachusetts. katie, how bad are the conditions there? is it slippery on the roads? >> well, sandra, it is getting slippery at times. my heart was beating out of my chest a little bit because as soon as i get off some of these main -- a plow truck just came through here on the route, to get rid of some of the snow that's been piling up but it's not the case once you get off. and it's actually taking us a bit more time to get from boston down to the cape because of just traffic being backed up with how risky and slippery the roads are. we know where we are headed in plymouth, massachusetts, we are expecting to see really more of a wind-driven snow. winds are already gusting as fast as 60 miles per hour on the cape. so we are going to be looking out for outages, coastal flooding is also possible with high tide this afternoon, and pennsylvania and new jersey are currently in the lead for snow totals. they have over a foot there, but

parts of new england are catching up. we have places like hartford, connecticut with almost a foot. roads are slippery in connecticut, too. in newtown, a semi truck slid out after hitting a guardrail there. part of the story with the storm, it's been a lot of the forecast models changed within 24 hours of the snow starting, so places like boston, which was once predicted to get up to a foot of snow, snow is not even sticking there. so, that's why we have been making our way out to the cape, but what's interesting is about that, while some people may be overprepared for the storm, others might be caught off guard. >> mild, other than those cold days we have had. but i have long underwear on, i've got this waterproof jacket on, waterproof boots. i'm all set for everything. >> here is a look back at what these roads are looking like, as soon as you get off the highway you can see a bit more of a

slushy consistency. this is wet, heavy snow, and as far as outages go we have most outages in pennsylvania, more than 140,000 without power. >> sandra: i love the nature by which you are delivering the report. if the audience can stay with us, part of the story, you are having a bit of trouble transmitting. but the roads are slick and there's a lot of obstructions because the snow is so wet and heavy. a lot of tree branches are coming down all over the northeast. but i love the amazon truck ahead of you, the deliveries, they keep on coming, katie. >> we are in new england after all, aren't we. >> sandra: no, you are giving us a good look. new york city looks very similar to that, i would say. connecticut, west chester

county, it's doable, folks stay off the road because they can work from home now and that changes the story when we get the storms. >> hot topic to the people we have been talking to, in boston, a snow emergency, kids have a snow day but some people were wondering, oh, no, did they call the snow day too soon, but one of those things where the snow bands can really move so quickly and within 24 hours of a storm is something i haven't experienced in a long time for us trying to navigate where the snow is has been a bit of a challenge. >> sandra: good to keep people off the roads as precaution for a day at least, we can do it. katie, thank you so much for the report. john, how is it up in your neck of the woods? >> john: down in our neck of the woods. >> sandra: katie in massachusetts and you in d.c. >> john: this is what it looks

like now, a glimpse of your future. 4, 5 hours ago it was snowing here, none of it stuck but now sunny and in the mid 40s. so, good weather headed your way. >> sandra: well, it's still coming down here and supposed to for another couple hours. we'll see, we'll see. >> john: have fun going home. now this. >> it's not my justice department, it's the people's justice department. the persons or people i pick to run the department are people who have the independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted, who doesn't. >> john: president biden promised to restore independence to his justice department and not influenced by politics, but biden attacked the special counsel investigating him, robert hur and commented on pending doj investigations involving his leading political rival. bring in kerri kupec urbahn. so, what happened to his pledge? >> yeah, i don't know. i do remember, though, when i

was at the department of justice and former president trump would comment on doj matters, there would be media outrage. my phone would blow up inevitably, this is violating norms, is he telling the attorney general what to do and i don't remember if you remember this, john, one point so intense, the media pressure and the outcry, rather, about what trump was taking about doj that bill barr, the attorney general did an interview saying he's making it very difficult to do my job. merrick garland has not said that. however i think he may be thinking that. so, if he were going to do an interview he has a number of things he could complain about because joe biden has violated doj norms in the amount of times he has commented on ongoing investigations. >> john: jack goldsmith wrote president biden pledged to respect and restore the norm but has not done so, to the contrary, often violated it, more so than any other president, save, of course, the

incomparable donald trump and biden and his aides to the perceived politization of the justice department. >> number of examples. joe biden commented i think in a cbs interview that trump's handling of classified documents, totally irresponsible, and putting aside his situation right now. >> john: including a document as a senator he was not supposed to have at all. >> that's right. but his doj and fbi were investigating trump when he was making comments on the investigation. as an attorney general, this is your boss, these are signals, messages. another one, he was urging his department of justice to prosecute january 6th committee subpoena holdouts. he did say later it was inappropriate. and one of the most notable examples biden has commented on an open investigation and prosecution with respect to his own son. how many times has he said my son has done nothing wrong, never made money from china, and both of those are false.

not just false but are misleading. it's his government agency investigating and prosecuting his son and he is saying things that are not true with respect to the investigations. and said trump supported an insurrection, his department of justice declined to bring the charge against trump and media leaks, complaining to his inner circle that they have not been prosecuting trump quickly enough, that had he done that, the election would be a different story. just some examples but certainly violating norms. >> john: i think it's interesting he's taken a baseball bat to robert hur, and by association, merrick garland because garland reviewed the report, he signed off of it, on it, and he appointed hur. >> putting the attorney general in a difficult position. >> john: a big hearing on thursday, fani willis and nathan wade hearing, and the justice said about potentially

disqualifying fani willis. >> i think it's possible the facts alleged by the defendant could result in disqualification. a hearing must occur. >> john: she could be in real difficulty here. >> one of the key things he said just yesterday, i think it's clear disqualification can occur if evidence is produced demonstrating an actual conflict, or, and this is the key, the appearance of one and most people agree at a minimum they have some big appearance problems right now. >> john: kerri, always great to get your take on things. thank so much, appreciate it. now this. >> it's not approved for use on government devices, and that remains the case today. it does have to do with concerns about the preservation of data. >> sandra: so think about that. the white house banned tiktok on government devices over security concerns, so why is president biden openly campaigning now on that platform?

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two people were killed, the truck driver walked away with minor injuries. faa is investigating. >> the palestinian people have also suffered unimaginable pain and loss. too many, too many of the over 27,000 palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children. >> sandra: as we await president biden's remarks on the senate foreign aid bill, he is talking about the final hamas control in gaza, without a plan to problem secretary civilians there. jack keane, chairman of the institute for war, always a pleasure. thanks for joining us today. what did you make of the president's warning, warning israel to protect the civilians in gaza and his messageing. >> i think israel is very much

aware of the challenge they are facing here. this is likely the most consequential part of the campaign so far. and the reality is simply this, that most of the people in gaza are now in the vicinity of a town, rafah, which was meant for a few hundred thousand and there are better parts of a million plus living in any available space where they can sandwich a tent or makeshift shelter so, to conduct a military operation in and among those people certainly would have disastrous results. i think what the israelis are thinking about doing, this is just kind of leaking out, is setting up in the southwest corner of gaza, which is uninhabited, except for some of the gazans temporarily right now, to set up a tent city and get the population to move away from rafah city proper itself so

they can conduct operations to clear the city and also clear the tunnels that are obviously underneath the city as they have been in every other major city. to conduct an air campaign of any consequence with all of these people still there would also have unbelievably catastrophic results. and there's a humanitarian crisis taking place unfolding there to try to keep up with the needs of the people in terms of food, water, and hygienic needs, every single day in and of itself. if there was no war going on, would be a crisis just by itself. so yeah, this is very formidable and to think that many, if not most of the principal leaders of hamas are still alive, about a third of the fighters are still effective, and there's 100 plus hostages that are still in hamas's hands.

so despite the months of the war that's taken place, despite clearing of a significant amount of the gaza strip, the israelis still have a significant challenge in front of them, sandra. >> sandra: yeah, and to reiterate what we have heard from this white house through john kirby, he was asked if israel would face any consequences for how it goes about its next military campaign. he said that he was not going to get into hypotheticals but he's made it clear the united states is working to influence how israel conducts this war. he said this this morning, general keane, on the u.s. involvement in the idf plan for rafah. listen. >> i want to make it clear here. this is a sovereign nation. they plan their military operations and they conduct their military operations and they make the choices. there is not -- it's not like we give them a homework assignment and they have to then turn in their plan to us for grading.

we would expect for any plan going into rafah would properly account for the now more than a million civilians seeking refugee down there. >> sandra: general, what is that relationship like? i mean -- you know, to what degree are we involved in those immediate decisions and long-term planning for israel on the ground there? >> that's a great question, sandra. i think the relationship is one word, tense. and yes, we certainly have our thoughts about these operations and we have had them right from the beginning. i pushed back on our minders, so to speak, and let the israelis conduct operations as they see fit based on the intelligence that they have, and don't get into the tactical desires here on how to conduct an operation. certainly expressing to the israelis our concern about the civilian population and taking every measure possible to do

that is something that's appropriate, but it's also -- it's also something that the israelis are guided by. i mean, we have watched the israelis tell the people in northern gaza to evacuate and head south and here is the route to take and move in that direction and there will be some humanitarian assistance for you. then when they moved into the central and southern part of gaza where khan younis was the principal city there they took a different approach and told the people, drew up a map and numbered it and told them to move from one number to another to avoid air bombing and also ground operations. at the same time, clearly flagging to hamas you know where the next operation was gonna be. so i mean, the israelis are not cavalier about this. i mean, we go back to the basic problem from the beginning. i don't have a frame of reference for war being conducted on the ground with this level of intensity and in

the air with a civilian population in residence to this magnitude. normally when the sound of the guns get close to a city or a town, the people do what. they flee. they get out of there unless they are infirmed or some other option or just bullheaded and want to ride it out. but that has not been able to happen here because the gazans are prisoner of hamas. they want the casualties. and we cannot forget the underlying cause of these casualties are hamas themselves. and i know when we see these horrific videos our heart goes out to the people who are suffering there, but we have to go back to the why are they suffering and pin the rose where it needs to be pinned. >> sandra: it's tough, super tough, no easy answers. appreciate your time and analysis on this. thank you very much. >> great talking to you, sandra.

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>> sandra: all right, fox news alert, seven minutes from the top of the hour. two hours left in the trading day, and it's not a good one. almost 600 point drop on the dow, this would be the worst trading day for the u.s. stock market of 2024, the dow, that is, having the worst day so far this year. and actually you would have to go back to march of last year to see a drop this significant in the dow jones industrial average. there is concern, obviously, over what happens next with interest rates. will the fed cut eventually or not. some new inflation data would indicate that perhaps they will not be cutting so soon, which led markets to record territories. so 600 point drop from the recent record high on the dow. we are watching this for you. >> john: still way ahead from where it was a short while ago. west virginia, medical team, pioneering an advancement for

treating alzheimer's disease. jonathan, how does it work? >> it is a nonsurgical path through the blood-brain barrier. the body can block 90% of medications from reaching the brain so this meant you had to take a higher dose of medication for a longer period of time and then you endured more side effects. researchers at west virginia university believe they have found a high-tech solution. the patient enters an mri scanner wearing a helmet that looks something like a science fiction movie, the helmet focuses ultrasound waves on a targeted area of the brain where those waves agitate microscopic bubbles that have been injected into the blood stream. as the bubbles vibrate and expand, they cause a temporary opening in the blood-brain barrier, allowing medication into the surrounding brain tissue where it reduces alzheimer's related plaques. >> it's a promising result but

only a few patient, we need to replicate it more and do more studies because people with alzheimer's need hope and we need to being a celebrate the pace of discovery in this regard. >> next month they plan to begin a similar study using additional alzheimer's medication, but he also believes that this ultrasound method could be used to treat other brain conditions, including cancerous tumor, parkinson's disease and even some of the most severe cases of drug addiction. john. >> john: exciting stuff. john, thanks. sandra. >> sandra: so we are keeping our eye on the white house where president biden is set to speak eventually, originally scheduled for 1:15, running a bit late, but the speech is expected to be on foreign aid and the foreign aid bill that passed the senate. but that looks dead on arrival in the house, so we are going to bring you to the president's remarks as soon as he begins. the pool has been called into the room. >> john: and nikki haley keeping busy on the campaign trail,

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