administration has failed to meet that need. they haven't stepped up to the plate to save these farms from foreclosure. >> todd: it shows the number of black farmers has gone from 1 million to 45,000 peer that sees the black farmers in danger of distinction of something is not done. john boyd, the next hour "fox & friends first" begins now. ♪ ♪ we begin with a fox news alert, jury deliberations to begin in a trail of russian national who takes charges in the john durham investigation. you are watching "fox & friends first" on a monday. i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus, trust from the fbi has been threatened before revelation the bureau was offered taxpayer dollars behind the steele dossier. steve feldman says they need an overhaul. >> it is our duty of patriotic duty, not just to criticize the

fbi but to demand changes. christopher wray was to clean up after james comey but astonishingly, he has made things worse. millions are fighting and americans and are now frightened of the fbi peer that is unsustainable and the democratic republic. christopher wray must be fire merrick garland impeached in the fbi replaced. we need a new organization that all americans can trust. >> todd: brooke singman has more what we can expect today. >> good morning guys that standing charges against igor danchenko after closing statements just hours from now. it comes as a federal judge dismisses one of the five charges against igor danchenko with false statements to the fbi. igor danchenko told the fbi he never talked to charles dorn junior apr executive who contributed information to the debunk still dossier. the legal team arguing since he

never literally spoke to him but emailed back and forth, the statement was true. the trial also uncovering revelations of the alleged payments to informants. a group of agents met with christopher steele in the season early october 2016 about the dossier which salacious allegations about donald trump. and members of his 2016 campaign. during questioning the fbi, the offer was $1 million to cooperate the dossiers allegations against president trump but christopher steele could not do so. they also paid danchenko $200,000 to serve as a confidential source from 2017 to 82020. meanwhile, carter page who served as a cia operational contact and fbi informant claims he was never paid by the bureau. he told me, "i risked my life countless times for this country around the world and was never paid 1 penny by the cia, fbi or

any u.s. intelligence agencies that are loyally served for many years." he was a target of a fisa warrant and the debunk for that fisa application in all its renewals. the g.o.p. congressman james comer said it looks worse for the fbi. listen. speak with affected american people have lost confidence in the fbi. it has been politicized six years now and it's going the wrong direction every day, another report comes out that is more damaging to the fbi. >> >> danchenko has pleaded not guilty to all charges. >> carley: brooke singman live for us and we will follow that an earlier we spoke to jonathan gilliam who said americans should pay attention to these aspects of the case. watch as. >> to these accusations, did they benefit any transparency? can you track this behavior back to any specific person or groups of people? and is there a positive or negative outcome for the things that he did, danchenko himself

or any people involved? and constantly and consistently it puts us back to the dnc, to biden, to clinton and anything not trump pushed on the left. it also puts us back to the doj and fbi. >> carley: danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by special counsel john durham. >> todd: biden could be on the hot seat of his party loses majority midterms. they ohio congressman and senate candidate tim ryan pushing for someone new, "i've been very clear. i would like to see a generational change. may be fox news poll, 54% of voters would elect someone else into office if 2024 presidential election was held today." only 33% said they would reelect biden. biden number sticking up 46% for

the job he's doing this month compared to 43% approval rating he received last month. i would add a caveat and let's see if those numbers change in light of the disaster of last week when it came to the inflation numbers, and of course, the stock market tanking. overall take, tombs know how detrimental biden is to electoral process. aside from t tim ryan they will avoid him like the plague and midterms. at that point depending with that they have won or lost, hey, i lost because of joe biden and i want joe biden out. quickly, a bench in this article that the stories based off of, you have transferred tory secretary pete buttigieg who can't keep flights from being canceled and you have a governor in illinois jimmy pritzker, his state, a max exodus because crime. in bernie sanders was actually older than president biden. there is your bench.

>> carley: you meant pete buttigieg, cnn poll talked about democrats running in midterm elections or looking to pete buttigieg more and more frequently to campaign for them. why? there is no one else. the article said pete buttigieg only political experience before failed presidential bid was serg as mayor of south bend, indiana, who has become the most requested surrogates on the campaign trail for democratic candidates in the midterm. he is getting more requests and kamala harris. the reason is people say if he is a democrat, but is not biden or harris. so that is what they have going on right now. it's been with the republicans come i am looking at my chops looking at that bench. >> carley: we shall see, more to come. you might not yet heard about this but you should know fox news fox news exclusively obtaining dhs memo with plans to recruit volunteer force to help address bidens border crisis. their jobs will include cleaning

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>> carley: we are back with a border exclusive. the department of homeland security is trying to recruit defense department officials to pull them to the border to clean up after migrants in the holding centers. >> todd: ashley strohmier joins us with the exclusive report. >> department officials and what we sent to the soil learn order like picking up the trash, swee. dhs says they don't have to have an experience. just willingness to serve. and also cover the cost for them to leave their military jobs to go to the southern border for prescription rents and personal property management. this is leading some people to question if this is really the best use for taxpayer dollars. a policy change by the biden administration could mean a stop to migrants in new york city by bus from el paso. there's been about 2100 venezuelans to cross the border each day in august of this year, 25,000 cross. compare that to the last time

last year, 6,000. the policy said asylum-seekers will be sent to mexico if they cross to the u.s. illegally. right now only a handful of venezuelans sent back to mexico and the reason is -- secretary mayorkas is blaming republicans for migrants at the border. the political cried that the border is open is music to the smugglers years because i take that rhetoric and they market it. however, this is what the former acting dhs secretary chad wolff had to say. >> there is very little border security going on. the borders are open, and we are allowing folks to comment. that is why you are seeing this increased number of individuals coming across. now the administration is in a conundrum. they know they have to solve a crisis they started. the biden administration at the start of the day have to solve the problem. >> some intense scrutiny following email he knew the

reports of migrants by border patrol were false, but he push the narrative a few hours later anyway. back to you guys. >> carley: ashley strohmier live for us, thank you very much, ashley, love you, appreciate it. fox news contributor david webb. dod officials to leave their military job by managing the personal property of migrants to real prep, clean prescription medicine runs for migrants, supply distribution. how was this possible? >> well, first of all, let's start with a lie, the lights at the border is secure. ashley just talked about venezuelans more coming across the southern border. more coming because columbia has a problem. they can't take them in. that is one of the countries turning them away. go a little bit further and this is important on the timeline. the first request sent april 12th of this year by deputy secretary john to dhs. there was a problem at the border. the digital signature on this

document is october 7th. it is because now there is a problem they can no longer contain. they couldn't contain it to begin with. they never had an intent to contain it and now all of a sudden they have to pretend they were doing something. this points out the get involved player. the falsehood what is going on. he is a liar and there's no other way to put it in the border is not secure and on top of that, taxpayer dollars going to pay for main services with dod officials. people should be protecting our country. are the ones being asked to go basically play may. >> carley: that is the key there. >> todd: to your point, complete admission by this administration their policies have failed. but looking ahead, dave if you read this list of texts, dhs's recruiting to staff a hotel. what is the next way this administration is going to roll out the red carpet for people who are crossing our border

illegally? they are not supposed to be here. what they are doing is illegal. and treating $1,000 a night hotel guests. >> they are underperforming hotels and in staten island if you saw staten island and others a week ago. but now you need staff and you have to feed people, you have to clean the hotels and take care of them. i guess they can violate federal law and hire illegal aliens. that is against federal law. they can't do that because that is too obvious. >> carley: we are talking dod officials being taken off the military jobs, the drugs to protect this nation to be sent to the southern border to essentially do made work rather than shut the border down and keep everybody safe. that way, also mayorkas said recently how he's blaming republicans say again, they keep saying the border is wide open, which is "to smugglers.

so it is really republicans fault. >> you know that phrase words have meaning? in this case, the action went well ahead of the words. they have not secure the border. they have not continued to build physical barriers. they have not let the policy go forward, cbp officers go out and actually pick people up. the cutaways, the millions, within the last year or so, we've had total encounters 4.5 million encounters however they have worked out at the southern border. 4.5 million with 25,000 agents. do the math, people, they are lying to you. >> todd: in the meantime david webb, fox poll shows half of americans believe the u.s. is moving away from capitalism and total socialism. 60% of people say that is a bad thing. how concerned are you about the other 40% who don't think socialism is that bad? >> the problem is 40% keeps

getting old and i think it is actually less when you look at who and what they want to appear group and i don't know what it is the percentage of that group that really believe in this march toward socialism. that concerns me more. polling aside, we have a problem with people who have gotten too comfortable given what was once called government cheese, government handouts to minorities. to keep people in the projects. if you want this country to keep going forward and become a nationwide project, keep support in that. what happens when government runs out of money a.k.a. taxpayers who no longer work and earn to fuel the economy so those tax dollars, by the way, collected and record amount now can be applied to the things that they were supposed to? tax policy matters here. >> carley: one of those hands else student loan bailouts and the white house rolling out the first applications this week. just a couple. >> it will be $1 trillion in a

time soon. don't you carry that around, todd. >> todd: the only one that we want is lamar checks and finally giving us the game, david webb, go giants! carley: david, thank you for joining us. this traumatic body cam video shows the moment a cop killer is taken out by a wanted bristol, connecticut, police officer and it's after the suspect murdered two of his colleagues. [shots fired] >> carley: we will show you more video and bring in new details about the ambush attack. >> todd: plus, lee zeldin now within single digits of petty ky hochul. and why she thinks he will be the next governor. she is next. ♪ ♪

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>> carley: good morning, everyone. let's look at the cold front to evade much of the country this week. we have temperatures across the upper midwest 20s and 30s and wind chills below that. it feels like 12 in fargo and here it comes, my friend 33 in chicago. that front is going to bring the potential for a very cold air arriving from canada, and it will spread across the gulf coast, the southeast mississippi river valley. here are some of the temperatures. widespread freezing temperatures overnight from chicago down to jackson, mississippi, over to atlanta, georgia. let's track it monday through tuesday. you can see those temperatures in the 20s and 30s and dipping as far south as the lower mississippi river valley. little rock 33 degrees, 32 nashville, freeze advisor as far south as tennessee and mississippi river valley. showers and thunderstorms for tartar like parts of texas through mexico and spending

across the, this will bring measurable snow to some of these regions come i know the northeast getting a hit of rangr out with a low pressure that will hang out across the great lakes and bring some snow to the interior sections of the northeast as well as the mountains to rain for the mid-atlantic. >> todd: okay, that is the forecast but looking back to this weekend... >> spectacular. >> todd: unbelievable. gorgeous like perfect fall. >> carley: did you take any pictures? >> todd: i did but the little ones. i will show you later. i will come by your office. >> carley: janet, thank you. >> happy monday. >> todd: in the meantime, chilling body cam video capturing a moment a wanted person kills a man who murdered two other officers. watch. [shots fired]

>> one town. >> todd: the suspect firing 80 rounds before being killed a single shot from wounded officer. the investigator said he went to the scene with alex emc who lost their lives in the shooting by a bogus 911 call here at the funeral for those fallen officers set for friday. right now. >> carley: god bless them but turning out to this, the race for new york governor is considered a toss-up, kathy hochul leading lee zeldin by 5% in the real clear politics average of polls, lee zeldin said crime is the reason for

that and he plans to declare a state wide if elected. >> there is a viable on the ground that there needs balance restored to albany. people want to save the state and save new york city. they are tired of having to wake up every morning and read all of the headlines of rising crime in their own neighborhood. >> carley: claudia tenney, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> at one point governor kathy hochul of 20 points and now really closing the gap. how did this happen and can you pull it off? >> everything that lee zeldin, my colleague and congress that is absolutely correct. i'm going door to door on the ground and people are really concerned about crime, inflation and obviously the price of gas but crime is rising to the top here at store owners are concerned we have so much and not just new york city but upstate new york where we have the same policies.

they affect everyone. and even rural areas this morning or suffering. we see a crisis like i've never seen in my lifetime. i've never seen more crime showing up on my security camera and things that we have to protect ourselves. this is really affecting storefronts and store owners and they've had their right to keep and bear arms taken away by kathy hochul and historic win in the supreme court where we restored conceal and carry rights. this is all created by the democrats, especially one party in albany as lee zeldin points out. remember this we had a pretty good system of government two years ago at least where we had the republicans and the senate. the democrats have passed "defund the police" movement and a horrible time trying to retain police officers and recruit that we are down dramatically. and lee zeldin is pushing up in the polls because people don't feel safe. >> carley: congressman i want

to put up numbers. in new york city, there has been a 43% increase in transit related crimes and 35% increase in robberies in 15% increase in felony assaults in the last 12 months. so if lee zeldin is elected to be the next governor, how does he clean up the crime because the legislature is still liberal? >> you know what is amazing on the cake and use the budget process because new york actually has a very powerful governor. the governor can leverage a lot at this. we have kathy hochul with $1 billion used in tax monies leveraging unconstitutional sledge month going around the state campaigning with it. lee zeldin will do this legally make sure the community is safe. it is remarkable the former lieutenant governor bob duffy who served under kumo is doing something about reforming the criminal justice system giving e tools back to the police so they can enforce the laws. and i've been going door to door

and the scariest thing that said to me by a young woman running her business and entrepreneur, she said what scares me more than anything, what happens if kathy hochul wins again? i will not be able to keep my business. i will not be safe and i don't have the right to keep and bear arms or the right to protect myself. i will have to leave this state. that is how serious this issue is. lee zeldin has a chance and michael henry attorney general who is leading letitia james in the polls right now. new yorkers must get out and vote. lee zeldin, michael henry, it is critical at this point. >> carley: representative tenney, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> carley: behind the scenes for a number of political scandals, but now the longtime hillary clinton aid might be front and center for her own campaign. we will tell you about the hint that was just dropped. >> todd: plus dr. fauci once again refusing to take

responsibility for the disastrous covid school closures. >> they always come back and save dr. fauci was responsible for closing schools. i had nothing to do... let's get down to the facts! >> todd: we will get down to the facts with joe concha when he joins us next. ♪ ♪

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ron desantis again. "the washington post" accusing the public leader of a natural disaster. >> todd: some are angry after these restrictions and counties hit hardest by hurricane t the n end also happened to lean republican. >> carley: joe concha author of "come on, man" would he make of this criticism? >> curley, ron desantis is seen by many in the democratic party has the biggest threat to their power. by far on a national level, especially if donald trump does not run for the nomination on the republican side. and poll after poll shows ron desantis beating charlie crist a former republican quite easily despite overwhelmingly negative and dishonest press about the sitting governor. i'm still seeing so-called news reports, for example desantis rights in education bill. that is what the bill is called, don't say bill. you don't see it mentioned in that bill.

so that is the thing here. ron desantis will be attacked at any moment at any time particularly by national media in florida because again, he is seen as somebody if he runs can be somebody who can impede the next president of the united states. spoon also, joe i was under the impression left love mail-in voting whenever you can get up but apparently not -- >> good point. >> todd: dr. fauci deflecting school closures while admitting to the negative effects for children. take a listen. >> we should realize and have realized that there will be deleterious, collateral consequences. they always come back and say fauci was responsible for closing schools. i had nothing to do. let's get down to the effects. >> todd: but joe, that is not what the tape says and the tate don't lie. watch this for march 2020. >> so clearly in certain

circumstances particularly in areas where the community spread, the school should be closed. >> todd: joe, has he or will he ever take responsibility for what he cost them it? >> that is not what narcissist do. and dr. fauci is the ultimate narcissist. this is somebody who's done for too many interviews and never turns down the request. it seems because he loves the sound of his own voice. in the beginning i was the first person to praise him over and over again then after a while you saw this pattern of showing up on television and showing his feelings on things instead of the data, the facts and now he is seen take so other folks unfortunately, the cdc, nih as political and pushing a political agenda. i didn't see him speaking up soon enough, particularly when my kids were massed in kindergarten when we clearly

seen it made no difference whether massed or not. and they should have been in schools far sooner and we see the effects of keeping kids out of school too long when it was seen clearly that was the case. they should have been back in. dr. fauci needs to go and stopping on television so much because again this is somebody who is more of a political pond than anybody else. >> carley: and education is a major issue leading to the midterms. everybody remembers which group was trying to shut schools down and which ones try to keep them open. we have to leave it there. >> see you tomorrow, thank you. >> carley: the cofounder with more on oregon democrats after investing millions into republican and independent gubernatorial candidates. criticizing democrat teen up company tech and lots of drugs, and the session with a person's

snorting cocaine and which of these is illegal in oregon at the answer was the plastic straw. according to real clear politics bowling average, she is leading the race with 37% of the vote but republican candidate christine drazen just behind at 34%. it is a tight one. and turn into this a designer is suing to defend her religious freedom and now she's taking her case all the way up to the supreme court. >> todd: she joins us how she feels like her beliefs are being compromised. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> carley: listen to the story, thousands of stories granted is for criminals despite never being charged with any wrongdoing. it all started with an army investigation into a program that paid bonuses to soldiers who recruited others to join the national guard but the program was played played by accusations of fraud and mismanagement and those investigative but never charged say they have a misleading flag on their criminal record. we spoke to one service member last hour.

>> 24 months of not knowing what would happen to my career because i was subjected to a promotional board. i thought and thought and emotionally and mentally with my family, i could not continue to do it and i had to separate from the military. from active duty. >> carley: over 100,000 individuals flagged by the army's investigation, 150 charged with crimes. black farmers with. biden administration say he broke his promise with not delivering $4 billion in aid promised. the president of the national black farmers association joined us earlier but this message. >> i will have to say this too, every congressional and senatorial candidate that is running for office right now, if they need reach out to us and see how they can help us and for everyone watching this show, we

are open to candidates to see how they can help us because right now farmers are struggling. >> carley: after almost 18 months, they have not received a dime and new plan is and the works and they will only receive half of the initial payment, todd. >> todd: a graphic artist with freedom religious liberty taking her case to the court. challenging state law to create websites that conflict with religious beliefs. that artist lorie smith returning to senior counsel, belief or dork joining us now. lori, how validated do you feel about the supreme court that took up your case? >> i'm certainly excited. i'm a designer, and i want to design for weddings, but colorado is censoring my speech. i'm grateful the united states supreme court is going to hear my case and hopefully protect the right to speak freely for all americans. >> todd: and freedom of

religion. how important is your fight to make sure we don't lose the freedom of religion? the right to speak as we choose in our nation? >> well, i've always enjoyed working with everyone. i do that through my business. i have worked with people all walks of life implant to identify lgbtq tea. i asked the store to weigh in on it and whether we can live and work freely with our beliefs whether same as mine or perhaps different but to do so without the government unfairly punishing some of us. >> todd: kellie as you argue the highest court in the land, is the law in this area on your side to strike down this colorado law? >> absolutely but very clear the government can't force anyone. this is something they don't leave. free speech is for everyone. so it would not just benefit lorie but the lgbtq tea designer and all of us.

and in came to came to met pattern and practice of censorship towards lorie and other ire of this and we are hopeful that the supreme court will rectify this and that it believes belongs to all of us. >> this antidiscrimination act could cost up to $500 for each violation. lorie, doesn't seem like the left wants to control speech forcing you to say what they want you to say or preventing you from saying what you want to say? it seems like it's always a one-way street when it comes to the left and it's got to stop. what say you, lorie? >> i say free speech is for everyone. and protects someone that doesn't hold the same views as me but speeches were they in protecting so i'm grateful for this opportunity. i look forward to the supreme court weighing in and supporting all americans. >> todd: we await more arguments in this case. the supreme court doesn't take up a lot of cases.

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>> todd: a former long time hillary clinton staffer huma abedin says she is not ruling out a run. >> have you considered -- you're a young lady, running for office there in the future? >> , i'm in that stage of my life never say never. i was married for a long time for dynamic politician and i worked for another politician. i loved supporting them. i have always been ambivalent about me being out in public myself. >> remember, that politician ex-husband she is praising is this disgraced new york congressman and convicted sex offender anthony weiner. the fbi's 2016 investigation into wiener sensitive emails from abedin related to the clinton email scandal which led

to the infamous hillary probe. >> turning now to this a whopping 71% of american families say they are cutting back on basic necessities, thanks to president biden's bad policies. even though experts predict a rough road ahead, the president thinks the economy is, quote: strong as hell. >> carley: alexandria hoff is live with more. >> americans suffering lightly consider windows necessity. the biden say shelling out people can reduce their costs eventually. >> a lot of americans are curious when the so-called inflation reduction act will really start to bring down inflation. >> so, the many parts of the bill will start to take effect next year, for example, there are tax credits for energy to help people weatherwise their homes. so we are focused on helping to make that transition to clean energy in a way that brings down energy costs for families. >> well, that's not going to cut it if employers are forced to

cut jobs. according to a "wall street journal" survey of economists the probability of a recession in the next 12 months is now 36%. that's up from 49% in july. and it's hurting democratic talking points. >> look, it's possible but not inevitable. and we are doing everything we can to strengthen the foundations of the american economy. >> retail sales, payroll employment, consumer spending, industrial production all of those have not been flashing red. all of those are not in recessionary territory. >> well, unlike a majority of americans, president biden is feeling good about the state of the economy. >> i'm not concerned about the [inaudible] i'm concerned about the rest of the world. does that make sense? yes, our economy is strong as hell internally. inflation is worldwide. >> yeah, so that was a confusing earn because this weekend global met in washington and expressed

concern that the dollar's strength is actually what is driving up worldwide inflation. carley, todd? >> todd: alexandria, thank you, bring in ted budd a member of the house financial services committee and senatorial candidate there in the great state of carolina. it check out the cover this morning average 401(k) 0 retirement account down 21% under biden economics. let's get into the specifics. since president biden took office, monthly savings have collapsed falling 83%. the average 401(k) plan had over $135,000 at the start of this year. today, those assets have shrunk on average to $101,000. in other words, the average 401(k) plan down about $34,000 more than 25% in less than one year. yet, the president is sitting there eating ice cream saying our economy is strong as hell.

of all the times joe biden has appeared out of touch is this the worst example of all? >> it's bad and it's only going to get worse. last year he showed how out of touchy was 2021 in the spring with the measure rescue plan pumped trillions of dollars in our economy and didn't rescue america. led to the inflation we are seeing right now. the inflation reduction act is fueling more inflation. when, really we need to get back to american energy. a lot of that is what is driving our costs up. and people are having to divert things away from savings and then we are seeing savings collapse. so he is making things worse and not things better. everything i want to do make things better for us in north carolina and you are country. he is out of touch. my opponent is out of touch. the democrats' ideology doesn't allow them to solve this problem. >> carley: congressman, you mentioned energy and also opec production cuts. and the allegation that the president asked saudi arabia to delay those production cuts until after the midterm elections and then went on tv and said because they didn't he

threatened consequences. now, there is a lot of republicans who say is that true exact same quid pro quo that led to former president trump's first impeachment. essentially asking a foreign country to intervene in an election. how do you feel about that and should anything be done about these allegations made against the president? >> absolutely. he needs to be investigated for this. but, let's go back to american weakness. it really started in afghanistan about 14 month ago where we tragically lost 13 marines. it snagged to the reps of the world, russia that they could invade ukraine. disrupting supplies. instability in the rest of the world and europe. it saber reality in south china sea and signaled to korea. and certainly that biden is not strong and can be taken advantage of. going to venezuela a sworn enemy

and saying we need more energy. it's american weakness and all what joe biden has projected. the democrats can't solve this issue. we need good leadership. we need a change in washington, d.c. we have got to get republicans elected, including me right here in north carolina. >> todd: senate majority could come down to your rice according to real clear politics. you are up by a point and a half. congressman, why do you think you will pull it out in the end and become senator budd? >> look. americans are focused on three things. they are focused on inflation. they are focused on crime. and focused on immigration. they want to say parents want to take back control. i think of a secretary who commutes about an hour into work. about six months away from retirement. not only is she seeing her 401(k) collapse. she is wondering if she can afford gas in her car to get to her job, to get to her retirement. that incapsulates so many stories i'm hearing in all 100 counties. they realize how out of touch.

i hope folks go to ted budd.com and look up things that me and many other republicans are supporting around our country it get our country back on the right track because they know right now that america is on the wrong track under sherri beazley and joe biden. >> carley: your race is certainly one to watch. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> carley: with that "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> i'm not concerned. >> 71% of american families say they are cutting back on basic necessities thanks to president biden's bad policies. >> inflation is a top issue for midterm voters. >> very tough time for the incumbent and the author of this inflation problem. >> body cam video capturing the moment a wounded bristol police officer shoots and kills the man who murdered dustin demon at a and hamsly. >> honoring fallen sergeant demon at a'sname on it. today we