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hold the bill the cart has posters be aware debt hazard 1.7 trillion dollars add to national debt james freeman. james: kentucky has both ends of the republican spectrum, in terms of what priorities were obviously, mitch mitch mcconnell's priority is not spending restraint that is what is missing. we've talked about inflation, interest rates going up, the cost of the government is paying service its debt is on the rise. it consumed bigger than all entitlement programs, no recognition of that why does mitch mcconnell others in senate why did they not want to postpone zigdz in you a few weeks when republican house takes over? obviously, spending restraint is not a priority. but i think spending restraint may be forced on us, sooner than we want it could be painful, discouraging to see they don't get it, we have op-ed in the paper today about how if you read fine print from treasury department, the 30 trillion rough federal debt already enormous is more like 100 trillion if you add all promises long term of entitlement program, no the leadership just -- same old, same old. and it has to be frustra

. >> rich: let's bring in james freeman from the "wall street journal" and fox news contributor. you know, james, first semester is finished. you have grades here. let's get right to it. the president's report card thus far. d economy and inflation f, foreign policy b, healthcare, immigration both f. what do you think the biggest problem but the biggest success in the last two years? >> i guess you would say, i'm a tough grader. i have feel like a dean reviewing delta house. >> julie: you don't believe in equitable grading. >> tough but fair. the f on economy and inflation. inflation obviously. it is related to his economic agenda. i think these were big legislative wins for him getting the so-called rescue plan through in 21 and getting the inflation reduction act, so-called, in 22. not wins for americans. we've seen the inflation problem. we've seen this massive spending feeding demand but very little to encourage to supply for labor and goods. that's the inflation problem in a nutshell. it was also based on a fundamental falsehood he told when he came into office that the econo

i'm james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. james: we look at your money. of the dow dropping 365 points. despite the title 42 ruling it must remain in place now. cities at the southern border are feeling effects of concerns of crossings. madison alworth in denver how officials are being impacted by the crisis. madison? >> reporter: james are there 600 miles separating denver where i stand now and mexico. yet this city is facing a migrant crisis, one that the mayor says could turn into a humanitarian crisis very soon if more help is not given. so since the beginning of the month over 2600 migrants have made their way to denver. the city spent $3 million to deal with that sudden influx. when you take all of that together you're looking at around 160 migrants arriving each and every day. the city is at its breaking point. >> we expect by the end of this week we could see another 1000 people that will create a humanitarian crisis because we simply do not have the ability to care for them, to shelter them. we don't want a humanitari

i'm james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. mes: holiday travelers remain stranded. thousands of flights canceled as new year's approaches. lydia hu in new york with the latest on the travel disaster. lydia. >> reporter: good evening, james. southwest continued sweeping flight cancellations leaving thousands stranded in the wake after winter storm. president biden tweeting about the massive travel nightmare saying the administration is working to insure the airlines are held accountable. today more than 2500 flights were canceled. that is 63% of southwest scheduled flights that made up 87% of flights canceled into and out of the united states. many airlines were impacted by the winter storm but southwest particularly so. now the u.s. department of transportation is launching an investigation saying that the rate of canceled flights is unacceptable. adding criticism is the union that represents the airline's flight attendants. the union blaming what they call, quote, years of neglect in securing, and implementing technology. they

james. >> congressman, james freeman here at the wall street journal.usly this program has been on this story for a long time. you've been talking about this. now you are starting to see other media when they're allowed, when they have access to get interested in this. you're seeing kyrsten sinema in the senate saying this is a problem. democratic mayors. do you think possibly this is becoming a problem the white house can no longer ignore or do you think they just go right on and no progress, this congress? >> no, i think it's a problem they can't ignore. and look, there's 435 members of congress, everybody has a different style. my style has always been to try to find unity and how do you bring people together because anyone that see these photos goes this is wrong. i don't care if you're republican or of democrat. if you live along the border, you're living this hell so you certainly know it's wrong. i'll remind everyone, almost two years ago you now i hosted kevin mccarthy in el paso. what came out of that initial visit, the very beginning of the bi

james freeman, "wall street journal." this late from last night in atlanta. check it out. >> thank you from the bottom of my heart. it is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy. the people have spoken. >> i got a chance to go into your homes and got a chance that you invested in herschel walker and i thank you. and i thank you so much. >> bill: that was herschel walker last night, raphael warnock and this is your outcome in the georgia senate runoff. warnock did better last night than he did four weeks and a day ago winning by just shy of three points. back in the mid-term it was a lot closer, both under 50%. only.9 percentage points four weeks ago and herschel walker under performing what he did last night. quick check of balance of power in the u.s. senate. democrats up 1 to 51. republicans dropped back at 49. what does all this mean? it means kamala harris would not be required to break any tiebreaking votes in the senate and on some of this legislation that may be contested or perhaps a few democrats holding out, perhaps

for more let's bring in james freeman assistant editor of the "wall street journal."resident biden's disapproval was 61%. this is actually your job as commander-in-chief. this is actually the job. and they seem to -- they say we have a plan. we haven't seen one. they said it yesterday in el paso because they didn't have enough border patrol agents we were walking across the highway into the city. >> this is absolutely a core responsibility of the president. i think he has another great opportunity, if he wants to seize it. i know it's not popular to say let's do a photo op. i think it would mean a lot if it was sincere for him to go to the border, make a speech. don't take questions. stick to prepared text and say we'll enforce the law now. there are many tools he has if he wants to use them that existed before covid, right? you don't need a public health emergency in order to enforce the border. in order to let them go after human trafficking and drugs. you don't have to do it exactly as trump did it. i get the politics of it. but a strong, clear statement that we're

knapp and the wall street journal editorial editor james freeman, great to see everybody, thank you foreing here, they can have commentary about title 42 but what's the answer to remain in mexico? >> exactly. >> they don't want their christmas holidays disrupted, it's all about them. this is been a disaster in the making from the moment joe biden and company assume power in washington. i think part of the solution will come from the voices in major american cities like new york for example. i want to point out the mayor of new york city eric adams was asked about earlier this week on the same day karine jean-pierre biden secretary said the biden border is not open is not open which reminds me of kevin bacon character from animal house, all is well, all is well as his screaming in the middle of the chaotic parade. when asked this tuesday, eric adams said he laughed and noted 31000 illegal migrants were already in the city and the once flooding into el paso and other border towns are coming from somewhere, he did not finger the president of the united states but he said we need to do some

let's bring in our panel now, james freeman, and jackie deangelis.excited for you, james, good to have you here. let me start with you. what is your take-away, with the supplements combined you would be making not working more than the average income in this country in the year 2021. >> yeah, crazy, big disincentive to work and answers part of the mystery. we have seen businesses for a couple years now saying we can't find workers. more than 10 million unfilled positions in the united states and the normal economist answer is why aren't they raising wages to attract those people back to the workforce and that's part of it. they have been raising them. perhaps they could raise them more. someone will get, say, $20 an hour not working, they may not be interested in the $21 an hour job. a break down there. >> and showing up in the labor participation rate, the viewers can see that labor participation rate is dropping in the country, 62.1% in the latest employment data, november 2022, down more than a full point from march 2020. >> it's going in the wron

i am james freeman with elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. mes: we begin with a look at your money in stocks finishing the work, the worst year on wall street since the financial crisis since 2008. president biden set to return to the white house after vacation in the u.s. virgin islands already expected to face the prospect of a multiple investigation, incoming gop lighthouse with subpoena power looking to begin probes into the biden family but this administration is already standing up a roadblock for lawmakers, jacqui heinrich in christian st. croix with the latest. >> the incoming chair of the house oversight committee says the stall buys the white house a few months time before any court would enforce a subpoena president biden golson st. croix, the white house test oversight demands from republicans into the bunker claiming that no authority when they were in the minority. >> divided the administrations a signal loud and clear were you to do everything in our ability to prevent and block your oversight. >> the request pertain to question

. >> dana: charles payne and andy mccarthy and james freeman ahead. david spunt live at the justice department with more. >> instead of appearing before congress virtually he will be in a bahama courtroom this morning before getting ready to come to the united states. the indictment released by the southern district of new york within the last 20 minutes. eight-count indictment. the headlines here, four of those counts deal with wire fraud. then there is a con spur tee to commit commodity and security fraud and money landering and to violate campaign finance laws. bahama authorities announced the arrest last night. he has a multi-million dollar estate in the bahamas and has been hiding out since ftx collapsed. phillip davis, the prime minister there said the bahamas and the united states have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with ftx who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law. lee zeldin furious that bankman-fried was arrested not that he was arrested for those crimes but that his congressional testimo

decelerating and valuations are a little too high and the fed still isn't done with the job. >> james freemanreet journal. the fed is paying a lot of attention to the job market, still looks pretty strong by most measures. some people have said, well, the household survey doesn't show the growth that the establishment survey does. do you make anything of this? do you conclude that it's actually not such a great job market or still pretty strong which means probably still pretty strong economy? >> i think it's still a pretty strong job market. if you just look at the headline numbers, whether it's job openings, unemployment rate, jobs added and if you listen to fed chair powell speak last week, there was a rally on what was perceived as a doveish comments and doveish pivot but if you listen to his comments in the labor market, he talk about how there was still a huge imbalance in the labor market and a lot of work to be done and you saw on friday average hourly earnings came in above expectations. i don't think we're in a wage price spiral that's really problematic but if you have wage growth

james: i am james freeman and for elizabeth macdonald you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us, happy new year, thank you for watching, please come back next year which i guess is monday, sunday? >> from the fox studio in new york city, this is "maria bartiromo's wall street". >> welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was an helps position you for the week ahead. i'm cheryl casone a and for maria bartiromo, back on track southwest to resume th schedule this week and after a week of cancellations left thousands of passengers stranded throughout the country. fears calls for the airline and transportation secretary pete buttigieg to be held accountable congresswoman nancy mason on what needs to happen now. the worst year for market since the financial crisis of 2018. i'm asking investment strategist how to position your portfolio going into 2023 in a real estate reckoning what you need to know before you buy or sell a home in the year to come. but first southwest trying to resume a full flight schedule and dig out from the mess after canceling 1500

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello i am james freeman and for jerr gerry baker at the "wal street journal at large".rats going after elon musk's twitter over freedom of speech but is apple getting a free pass? killer robots added to the police force and one liberal city after years pushing to defund law enforcement. our democrats finally waking up to the crisis at the border, some progressives now warning against the ending of title 42. also a case of dÉjÀ vu and congress with a roomful of democratic leaders from liberal coastal states. what happened representing all americans. we'll take that up with our guest richard fowler and guy benson coming up that first are democrats waging a war on free speech at twitter. the new owner elon musk wants to allow more discourse on the social media platform he specifically determined not to repeat the company's disgraceful censorship of the new york post accurate reporting on biden family enrichment schemes during the 2020 election campaign. in 2022 president joe biden has been encouraging his employees in the executive branch to examine twitter for alleged nat

let's bring in james freeman now, james, great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> watching marketsseems like markets are happy to start off the week, but it's the wait and see moment to see what happens next with the federal reserve, what happens with inflation. are we going into recession and if we are, how deep of a recession. while that's happening, household wealth continues to drop, why. >> yeah, that is the pain of inflation and then i mean, the stocks have come up, obviously, a bit in october and november, but this was a rough year for investors. you have the fears about what inflation is going to do in a slowing economy, federal reserve raising rates, makes stocks generally less attractive relative to some other investments, but basically what ronald reagan called inflation, the thief of the middle class and really the thief of everyone. reduces the value of your money and assets. >> sandra: that is a remarkable drop. as far as the drop of household wealth in the country. people are losing 8.6% -- that has a huge effect on what we are seeing happen with the economy, and esp

shut downs, we could talk all day about this, thank you for joining us, thank you to you, i am james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald, you are watching "the evening edit" on fox business, that does it for us, have a good evening. kennedy: they there hump night, now is the time to fix our broken immigration polices, now that supreme court extended title 42. the border is an unmitigated disaster, number of illegal migrants this year crossing, shattering previous records, 600 thousand so-called got aways, border cities like el paso hit hard. with hundreds or thousands sleeping in streets, and as you know, in subfreezing temperatures, enter title 42, federal order allowing migrant to be turned away due to covid health emergency, white house has been trying to end it and republicans trying to keep it in place as a we to curb illegal bo border crossings, there was an interesting twist, conservative justice neil gorsuch sides with his liberal counter parts, writing in part: kennedy: in other words, congress needs to do their job and fix this, not the courts. he is right. texas democrat henry cuel

. >> thank you to you, i am james freeman in for elizabeth macdonald, you are watching "the evening edit" on fox business, that does it for us. thank you for watching. kennedy: hey tuesday. tramping on the holidays is never easy, but holy hot dogs this is next level shiffa, it started with heavy snow and freezing temperatures across most of the u.s. buffalo got destroyed. some places could still see another foot of snow. thousands of christmas flights got canceled. but yesterday it was mostly back to normal. warming up throughout much of the land, unless you are flying on southwest. 87% of flights canceled from today, 87%, southwest. people across u.s. stranded with little or more warning or solution. >> our next avaluable seats for we booking customers at-this-point is on the 31 and beyond. >> my phone is dead, i'm hungry and tired. >> it is hectic. all in all, very exhausting. >> what are we supposed to do? this is ridiculous. it lies. kennedy: no, every other airline they found a way to get people out. now lost luggage is piling high all over the place. this is scene in atlanta. but,

great show today everybody dagen mcdowell, james freeman, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody thanks forng us "varney" & company begins right now. stu take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. the votes have been counted and in georgia, democrat senator raphael warnock won. he beat donald trump's hand- picked candidate herschel lk

given how much we've already helped and the fight that ukraine is in, however, we can't be -- >> james freeman said it this way yesterday. we must be willing to cut everything, like, we did back in 2011 because at this moment, we are willing to cut nothing and we need to have a come to -- i don't want to invoke the lord's name in vain but we need to assess where we go in the future given the fact that we've added $5 trillion in new debt, new spending just in the last two years. and certainly the pandemic and the shutdown put us on a financial trajectory to doom in this nation where we just started throwing money out and now -- and i could go over and over again. and i mention the moratorium, student loan payments, there is no interest accrual on those loans, that's still ongoing where 34 months into that. we have the -- the additional premium enhancement on obamacare. that's still in place. that's essentially a new entitlement. so we are spending just so much more money than we were even a few years ago. we need to decide what we are going to spend and what we are not going to spend as much as

i'm james freeman in for elizabeth mcdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. mes: we begin with a look at your money. the good news, stocks ending sharply higher in the next to last trading session of 2022. also the white house announcing it will require travelers from china to test negative for covid-19 prior to arrival in the u.s. this as every 2300 southwest flights have been canceled today amid ongoing holiday travel nightmare. now the airline claims normal operations could be coming as soon as tomorrow. lydia hu has the latest in new york. lydia? >> reporter: good evening, james. southwest says it is planning to resume normal operations tomorrow after only operating 1/3 of its scheduled flights since tuesday while it worked to rebuild in the wake of a operational meltdown. the news comes own the heels of a video apology by the airline chief commercial officer, the second apology from the company. >> you know by now all the flexibility and planning we put in place to deal with the storm just wasn't enough so we extended flexibility for self-service travel c

maria: joining the conversation all morning long dagen mcdowell, james freeman and rob asterino. lloyd austin was against this. the defense secretary wanted the vaccine mandate in place. how many people have lost their jobs or resigned from the military because of the mandate, we don't know. dagen: shut down the osha and it should not be forced upon healthy young men and women in our military at a time when recruiting is exceptionally difficult for the military in particular the army. getting vaccinated protects you from serious illness. it doesn't prevent you from catching covid and it doesn't stop you from spreading it to other people. so that should be a personal choice, period, end of story. and now it will be for people who are in the military. maria: we will see where it goes. >> that was more of like an exclamation point. [laughter] >> you mentioned the military, how many people have lost their jobs as police officers, firefighters, teachers, throughout the entire country this mandate which thankfully is being stricken down by the courts as they have made their way through

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let's bring in andy mccarthy, fox news contributor and former federal prosecutor and james freeman, assistantnal." andy, let's start with you. the cooperation of caroline ellison and gary wang, how significant in this case against sam bankman-fried? >> well, it's highly significant for a couple of reasons. one, of course, the southern district of new york, my old stomping grounds, got both of these accomplices or alleged accomplices to plead guilty to the same conspiracy charges that s.b.f. is charged with. so that's always a problem for somebody at trial that, you know, people have pled guilty to the same thing that he's charged with. the other thing that is interesting about it is, you know, there's pretty interesting legal questions about whether the securities laws and the commodities laws apply to cryptocurrency. so i thought it was telling that the southern district forced the two accomplices or alleged accomplices to plead guilty to the securities fraud count and commodities fraud couldn't. they're trying to lake the ground work that the federal districts have the authority. >> he had

general apple and by extension google and the google app store they should be on top of this and james freemanrote about this several days ago this is an opportunity for apple and google to lead. investigate what is on this app they could easily remove it if the content is inappropriate for kids or restrict who was able to download it and quite frankly let's have the parents lead on this. that would limit the amount of individuals and kids in children and teenagers and limit the amount of data that china is collecting on america's. >> this is a national security threat we know this for sure and what we hear from the social media companies, twitter, elon musk there supposed to be the bad guys all we are hearing is twitter to get removed from the app store, not even a comment from apple in the national security issues around tiktok. >> that's where apple can lead their focus on the wrong company to your point, to national security risk. >> is about the benjamin's $74 billion apple derived from china in the last fiscal year. >> amazing, parents need to lead on this, as a parent and raising my han

dagen: to give james freeman credit, is it because he was a deputy general counsel, like he flew under the radar somehow? why was he working there? there's so many questions to be answer ad. start with jim baker's role at twitter. maria: such arrogance. we know what he did during the russia collusion lie. the hillary clinton campaign making up the story, the fbi not finding any evidence whatsoever and still pursuing these fisa warrants, so what does he do after getting pushed out of the fbi, he does the same thing at twitter. >> what does it say about twitter actually hiring him. obviously that was going to have to be exposed at some point in time but to d dagen's point it's surprising he flew under the radar in super stealth h mode fr a month and-a-half. when did elon take over? like jack dorsey said, roll it all out, let's see the files from everything from 2021 and this year, let's see it all so we can make our assessment and we can judge. maria: elon musk is slamming san francisco after the city's building department launched an investigation into reports he is converting officeses

great show today everybody dagen mcdowell, james freeman, we'll see you tomorrow, everybody thanks for joining us "varney" & company begins right now. stu take it away. stuart: good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. the votes have been counted and in georgia, democrat senator raphael warnock won. he beat donald trump's hand- picked candidate herschel walker by about two points. this means the democrats now have a 51-49 majority in the senate. there is another dramatic story unfolding this morning. elon musk has fired a top twitter lawyer james baker, accused him of suppressing information about the hunter biden scandal. it is a complex story but the gist is this. big tech big media, big government working together to cover up a major scandal right before an election. you've seen this so many times. shoplifting on a grand scale. its gotten so bad that the ceo of walmart says it could lead to store closures and price rises. blame liberal district attorneys and liberal laws which de criminalize theft. to the markets. oh, its been a tough week for stocks so far and we have more selli

now black men served on many privateers, somewhere freeman, one of those was james forton, shown here of philadelphia, at age 14, he signed over on his sign on to the pennsylvania privateer royal louis and the reason he signed, is because of two documents. when the declaration of independence came out on july 8th, 1770, 60 few days after it was officially signed, it was read aloud in philadelphia. and james hurd that reading any took hard in the words, the soaring rhetoric of the declaration of independence, about men being created a cool and thought perhaps that would would spread to all of the fellow black men and women who were in the colonies and most of whom are treated terrifically, in the practice of slavery. then, four years later, in 1780, pennsylvania became the first state to pass and abolition, and abolition of slavery law. it was only gradual abolition of slavery. if you are current enslaved person, you didn't get your freedom. your children were freed when they reach the age of 28. but those two documents help makes james decide that he wanted to throw and his law with h

james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation.judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. ♪ ♪ judy: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. after the storm. hard-hit areas of the united states dig their way out of the snow. and southwest airlines cancels more flights promises a return to normal. and a power shift. benjamin netanyahu once again becomes israel's prime minister after forming the folk -- the most far right government in that country's history. leaving congress. patrick lahey reflects on his nearly 50 years in the chamber and how things have changed. >> i look back and i have seen so much was good in the senate and that was los judy: remembering a legend,e examine the legacy of soccer grea

james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. judy: good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, one-on-one. cia director bill burns discusses the ongoing war in ukraine and the intelligence challenges posed by china. >> we have no higher priority at cia than, not just taiwan, but the longer term geopolitical challenge that xi's china poses. judy: then, investigating the insurrection. ahead of the january 6 committee's final report, the secret service under scrutiny for not doing more to prevent the capitol attack. and it's friday. david brooks and jonathan capeheart weigh in on contentious congressional budget negotiations and kevin mccarthy's fight to become house speaker. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation.udy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. j. warnock wins. a larger majority in the u.s. senate. the future of elections, the supreme court hears a case that could give state legislatures nearly unchecked power to change voting rules. russian invasion. we speak with the lithuanian prime minister about e war in ukraine and the west's response >> countries that are in possession of all sorts of weapons that would be useful for ukraine to defend its land and restore its territorial integrity should be sent to ukraine. judy: all that and

james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on "the newshour" tonight. a troubling trend, united states life expectancy falls to the lowest level since the mid-1990s due to deaths from covid 19 and drug overdoses. then. let's make a deal, congress irons out the details of, and amendments to, this year's massive spending bill in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown. and holiday retail, despite the pandemic and online shopping causing widespread small businesses to close down, some operations are finding ways to adapt. we are actually approaching hopefully some sort of equilibrium in the online versus brick and mortar equation.

james. man: bdo. accountas and advisors. narrator: funding was also provideby, the freeman foundation. and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. judy: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight. set free. american basketball star brittney griner is released from detention in russia in exchange for an arms dealer held in the united states. then voting on equality. to congress gives final passage to legislation that protects same-sex and interracial marriage. and fighting blackouts, ukraine's electrical workers risk their lives to restore power as russia targets the country's energy grid. >> to have a complete destruction of substations, of equipment, i've never seen anything like this before. judy: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected eds. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. amna: good evening and welcome. i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, a consequential case. the supreme court hears arguments over whether a christian web designer can refuse to serve same-sex couples based on her religious beliefs. then, energy crunch. the u.s., europe and other nations impose a price cap on russian oil the latest global effort to punish russia for its invasion of ukraine. and, a crucial runoff. the final push is underway to get georgia voters to the polls. but with aritical senate seat on the line, republicans struggle to rally support. >> asking us to vote for herschel walker, the candidate , is akin to perhaps playing russian roulette with american democracy. amna: all thaan

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jame man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation.judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ narrator: you're watching pbs. >> good evening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour, trump's taxes. a congressional committee makes six years of the former president's tax returns public. der scrutiny. the fda criticized for breaking protocol during its approval process r a new alzheimer's drug. >> it isnclear why the agency, knowing how controversial the drug was at the time, would choose to improve it for such a large number of people. >> it is friday. david brooks and jonathan k partway in on the biggest political headline of 2022. and what to expect in the new year. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. ♪

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