THE DAILY NEWS

thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

1945

"Joe Biden’s Classified Documents Drama Just Got Real"


Story by Tyler O' Neil

1 FEBRUARY 2023

The U.S. Department of Justice is searching President Joe Biden‘s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday amid the news that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president to President Barack Obama, according to a statement from the president’s personal attorney.

“Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware,” Bob Bauer, the president’s attorney, said in a statement Wednesday.

“Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate,” Bauer added.

“The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate."

"We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search.”

Biden’s attorneys found classified documents at the former vice president’s office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and at the president’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware.

Classified documents dating from Biden’s time in the U.S. Senate have also been discovered.

Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland whom former President Donald Trump appointed, to investigate the document retention.

It remains unclear where Biden kept the documents later discovered at the Penn Biden Center.

Biden left office on Jan. 20, 2017, and the center did not open until early 2018.

The FBI searched the Penn Biden Center last November.

Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, told CBS News that personal attorneys for Biden found the documents Nov. 2, six days before the midterm elections.

The classified documents reportedly appeared in a box with other unclassified papers.

Sauber said that the White House counsel’s office notified the National Archives of the documents on the same day lawyers discovered them, and the National Archives took possession of the documents Nov. 3.

“Today’s announcement that the FBI is searching Biden’s beach home highlights the urgent need for Biden and his administration to be forthcoming with the American people and members of Congress about the factual circumstances surrounding his retention of classified documents,” Zack Smith, legal fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.

(The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)

“So far, we don’t know what was contained within those documents, why he retained them, or who had access to them,” Smith added.

“The administration has even refused to provide most of this basic information to members of Congress in a classified setting."

"The American people deserve better.”

Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal (where this first appeared) and the author of "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 080678b339
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

FOX NEWS

"Kamala Harris mocked for 'patronizing' space launch description: 'Like a 5-year old wrote this'"


Story by Lindsay Kornick

1 FEBRUARY 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris created what many considered another awkward and uncomfortable public moment when speaking about space travel Tuesday.

Harris took part in a Congressional Space Medal of Honor ceremony to honor former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken.

On behalf of President Biden, Harris commended the men for their experience, particularly their mission aboard the first astronaut-manned capsule in almost a decade, which she enthusiastically described.


"Which brings me to May 30th, 2020."

"Bob and Doug returned to the Kennedy Space Center."

"They suited up."

"They waved to their families, and they rode an elevator up nearly 20 stories."

"They strapped in to their seats and waited as the tanks beneath, filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel."

"And then they launched."

"Yeah, they did," Harris said with a laugh.

This description of Hurley and Behnken’s mission by Harris was roasted on Twitter for sounding "patronizing," as if she were discussing it with children.

"Who is she speaking to?"

"I have to assume it's a group of 3-year-old closed head injury sufferers, right?" Townhall.com columnist Derek Hunter tweeted.

Townhall.com’s account also joked, "Only Kamala Harris can make a description of an astronaut's launch seem patronizing."

"Kamala Harris on astronauts: ‘They strapped in to their seats and waited as the tanks beneath them filled with tens of thousands of gallons of fuel."

"And then they launched!"

"Yeah, they did!’"

"It's like a 5-year old wrote this," Ted Cruz communications advisor Steve Guest said.

"How is ‘they launched’ a laugh line?!" RumbleUp CEO Thomas Peters asked.

Former Michigan state representative Tim Kelly quipped, "Too bad she wasn’t part of the payload."

Harris faced a similar backlash for a 2021 NASA video for kids where she was mocked for an awkward interaction with school children.

"You’re gonna literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes!" Harris exclaimed.

"With your own eyes!"

"I’m telling you, it is gonna be unbelievable."

This latest video followed a recent report from the Washington Post that revealed some Democrats have begun questioning her "basic political skills."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 080678b339
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

FOX NEWS

"Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or 'warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die'"


Story by Hanna Panreck

1 FEBRUARY 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that electric vehicles need to be "quickly mainstreamed" because lower-income Americans would benefit from them the most.

"There is now an estimate that says it’s literally — and this is not inflation, it’s four times the cost because of the number of folks that are going to benefit from it, and they’re taking advantage of it, the good news is they’re taking advantage of it."

"The bad news is the math is going to be a lot more expensive, which raises the question of actually whether the incentives needed to be as high as they are," CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin said.

Buttigieg replied that there had to be incentives that encouraged U.S.-based manufacturers to produce electric vehicles so that the electric revolution is "made in America."

He also said it was important that it happens quickly so that the U.S. "can meet our climate goals."

"Like any early technology, the early adopters of electric vehicles were people with a lot of means, a lot of resources."

"But this is something that needs to get quickly mainstreamed, especially when you consider that the Americans who stand the most to benefit from having an EV are lower income Americans paying a higher share of their family budget on gas prices," he added.

Sorkin followed up about the overall trend towards electric vehicles in the U.S. and asked if the administration was going to look back in four years and believe that the incentives were too large given that people were already moving towards electric vehicles.

"So like if we didn’t care whether the EV revolution was going to be led by China, if we didn’t care whether or not U.S. manufacturers with high labor standards were going to be at the cutting edge, then I guess we could have not bothered with the incentives and see how that played out, if we didn’t care about the pace of it, right?"

"And if we said, look, these will happen sooner or later, if these climate wins come a few years later and that warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die because of that, that’s why we have policy interventions," Buttigieg said.

President Biden touted electric vehicle tax credits in a Twitter post on Monday that included a photo of him posing in a GMC Hummer EV.

A GMC Hummer EV costs anywhere between $87,000 and $110,000 and does not qualify for the tax credit because SUVs and trucks must not exceed a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $80,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

"On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified," Biden tweeted on Monday.

"And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle."

The Biden administration recently awarded $1.2 billion in grant funding to different transportation-related projects across the U.S.


The administration based their grant funding decisions in part on the environmental and equity goals of the project.

The law funding these projects, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, requires officials to consider whether the project benefits a "historically disadvantaged community or population."

The law also requires officials to consider the project's construction and equipment needed and whether it would demonstrate "reductions in greenhouse gas emissions."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete- ... 080678b339
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

FOX NEWS

"New York Times columnist argues Joe Biden 'can be seen as the savior of the free world'"


Opinion by Joe Silverstein

1 FEBRUARY 2023

The New York Times published a column by Bret Stephens on Tuesday that made the case that President Joe Biden has the potential "to be seen as the savior of the free world" in fifty years if he is able to thwart Russia's invasion of Ukraine and confront other global challenges successfully.

In the article, titled "How Will Joe Biden be remembered in 50 years?," Stephens praised the Biden administration's decision to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and ignored concerns that such military support could lead to escalation in the conflict with Russia.

"A half-century from now, Joe Biden’s presidency will be remembered, as most presidencies are, with a short summary sentence," Stephens wrote.

"It will read: ‘He defeated Donald Trump, and ____________,’ he continued, leaving a blank to indicate that the forty-sixth President's legacy has yet to be written.

Stephens conceded that the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure legislation will not actually reduce greenhouse gases.

"It won’t be the infrastructure bill, the rate of inflation or the Inflation Reduction Act — which, so long as China, India, South Africa and other countries continue building huge coal-fired plants, probably won’t lead to a major reduction in global greenhouse-gas emissions," he wrote.

"It won’t be Hunter’s emails."

"Nor will it be whether he served one term or two," Stephens continued.

"What will matter in 2073 is whether he reversed the global tide of democratic retreat that began long before his presidency but reached new lows with the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine," he predicted.

Stephens warned that if Biden fails, "much darker days will lie ahead".

The New York Times columnist praised Biden's military aid to Ukraine and advocated for the war-torn nation to join NATO.

"On the positive side, there is last week’s announcement of 31 M-1 Abrams tanks for Ukraine, unlocking German Leopard 2 tanks to be sent as well."

"The decision brings Ukraine a significant step closer to eventual NATO membership, to which it has more than earned the right," Stephens wrote.

Stephens also praised the Biden administration's support of Israel and what he described as its "visibly tougher posture" toward Tehran.

Stephens also praised Biden's "repeated public statements that the U.S. will defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack" but ignored that the White House walked back such promises after Biden made them.

Stephens questioned why the White House did not send 124 tanks to Ukraine instead of 31.

"Thirty-one tanks for Ukraine are better than none, even if they won’t arrive on the battlefield for months."

"So why not announce 62 tanks, or 124, which would bring Kyiv much closer to the 300 it says it needs to win?" he asked.

"In 50 years, they’ll know."

"Biden’s sentence could be, ‘He defeated Trump, and then he defeated Putin, Khamenei and Xi.’"

"Or it will be, ‘He defeated Trump, but then he came up slightly but fatally short.’"

"Time will tell," Stephens concluded.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 080678b339
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

THE DAILY MAIL

"White House dodges question on whether it knew about Hunter Biden's aggressive new legal strategy"


Story by Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.com

2 FEBRUARY 2023

The White House on Thursday refused to say whether the president's team knew in advance about Hunter Biden's aggressive new legal strategy – which included having his lawyer fire off letters to the Justice Department and Delaware AG seeking probes.

One Wednesday, Hunter Biden's attorneys fired off letters seeking investigations and retractions related to Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, which a Delaware computer shop owner says he provided to Rudy Giuliani.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn't say whether people at the White House knew in advance about the new strategy, which comes amid GOP probes of Biden family members.

'As far as that piece, I would refer you to the White House counsel office.'

'And again, don't have anything to add.'

'This is something for his personal representatives to speak to,' she said when asked about it by DailyMail.com.

Jean-Pierre, who on Wednesday and the past has repeatedly stressed efforts to avoid commenting on the Justice Department and investigations, was asked whether the lawyer letters from the president's son constituted pressure on investigators.

'I'm going to be pretty consistent, as I have been from this podium when it relates to that.'

'That particular question that you you're asking me we have been for the last two years.'

'And I will say to you that that is something for Hunter Biden's personal representative, their representative to speak to just not going to speak to it from here.'

'I just knew about before it happened,' she said.

She referred the question to the White House counsel's office and said she doesn't 'have anything to add.'

'And as it relates to the agencies, as you were asking me, look, this is a president and I said this before that believes in the independence of the Department of Justice, or any any enforcement investigations, and he's been very clear about that.'

'He believes that it should not be politicized as he had said for the past,' she said.

Her comments came as former chief White House ethics watchdog Richard Painter called for a 'firewall' between the White House and Hunter Biden's growing team of lawyers.

Painter said Hunter Biden is a 'private citizen, so he's going to disclose whatever he has to disclose,' but told Fox News the first son is 'probably going to get away with not disclosing any of it.'

'Just like with these paintings he's selling and he should be disclosing who's buying the artwork, but he's not,' Painter added.

'And it will probably follow the same approach to the legal defense fund.'

Her comments came after former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani responded to Hunter's new legal strategy of seeking to get probes and retractions of information linked to Hunter's infamous laptop – and accused a top lawyer heading the effort of 'unethical' conduct.

Giuliani, who had his own law license suspended in New York following his efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results, called it an effort to gin up an 'illegal' investigation.

He spoke a day after it was revealed that new Hunter Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell sought government probes of efforts to circulate emails and images from Hunter's laptop, which Hunter Biden reportedly abandoned at a Wilmington computer repair shop.

'This is a completely – I don't know how to describe it.'

'It's unethical on the part of the lawyers, because it's frivolous,' Giuliani during a night-time podcast from West Palm Beach.

'The complaint that we should be investigated is an attempt to get yet one more illegal investigation started by a Democrat inclined public officials,' he fumed, with a reference to the Democratic-driven first impeachment effort over Trump's effort to get a Biden probe.

'The complaint that we should be investigated is an attempt to get yet one more illegal investigation started by a Democrat inclined public officials,' he said.

Giuliani also tweeted an image of the 2019 repair order that shop owner Mac Isaac has said a person resembling Hunter Biden signed when dropping off broken machines.

It states that it shall be considered 'abandoned property' 90 days after service is completed.

After keeping distance from the laptop saga since it was first revealed weeks before the 2020 elections, Hunter's legal team, which is taking a more aggressive posture, does not appear satisfied with that fine print.

It is going after the repair shop owner as well as Giuliani, his lawyer Robert Costello, and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who received or helped distribute the material.

Letters to the Justice Department as well as the Delaware Attorney General.

Lowell wrote the AG that there is 'considerable reason to believe [they] violated various Delaware laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden's personal computer data.

'These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden's most personal information, wrote Lowell.

The barrage of letters also included a letter to Fox News demanding a retraction for on-air statements about Hunter Biden – and claiming a failure to do so would reveal 'actual malice' – code for grounds for a libel suit.

Referencing the letter to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings, Giuliani said: 'Unless the AG burns it immediately and refers the lawyers for ethical discipline, then he's [stet] just a play thing of the Biden's,' he said.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Lowell for a response.

A three member panel in Washington, DC also found Giuliani violated rules for lawyers as part of his 2020 election overturn effort, although the matter is not resolved.

'This sure looks like a tailor-made RICO case and that's why they're trying to cover this up,' said Ted Goodman, political and communications advisor to Giuliani.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 72df1807bf
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"Hunter Biden's DOJ laptop investigation demand may pose issue for president: Watchdogs"


Story by Gabe Kaminsky

2 FEBRUARY 2023

EXCLUSIVE — Hunter Biden has opened his father, President Joe Biden, up to a possible conflict of interest by demanding the Justice Department investigate people who he alleges disseminated the contents on his infamous abandoned laptop, according to government watchdog groups.

The younger Biden's legal team called on the DOJ on Wednesday to investigate numerous parties, including ex-Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Stephen Bannon, for possibly breaking federal and Delaware laws by "accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating" Hunter's "personal computer data."

This demand could pose a clear conflict of interest, given it was issued to his father's administration, watchdogs told the Washington Examiner.

"He's basically asking his dad to use the U.S. government to attack the people who have been critical of him," said Tom Jones, director of the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative group.

Jones added that if one of former President Donald Trump's children asked his administration's DOJ to investigate certain people, Democrats would claim that it could not be "objective."


Hunter's investigative requests were detailed in letters that his legal team sent Wednesday to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen, who Joe Biden nominated in May 2021 for his role.

The legal team also wrote to the Internal Revenue Service and lawyers for Fox News and Tucker Carlson.

Jennings is linked to the Biden family in various ways and, thus, could have to recuse herself from any cases involving Hunter Biden, according to Jones.

Prosecutors are not supposed to consider “partisan or other improper political or personal considerations or hostility or personal animus towards a potential subject," according to the American Bar Association.

Jennings endorsed Joe Biden for president in April 2019, writing a lengthy Facebook post detailing how she has "known Joe, Jill, and the Biden family for most of my life."

The attorney general was also a state prosecutor in Delaware under Attorney General Beau Biden, Joe Biden's deceased son.

In addition to Giuliani and Bannon, the Biden legal team wants the DOJ to investigate ex-computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, who, in late 2019, kept the laptop and hard drive after attempting for months to contact the younger Biden to pick them up.

Mac Isaac then contacted the FBI after reviewing the laptop's contents, including emails related to Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings and videos of him smoking crack cocaine.

Hunter Biden's letters about the laptop mark the first time he appears to have acknowledged that it belongs to him, despite his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, telling CBS News that the letters "do not confirm Mac Isaac's or others' versions of a so-called laptop."

Multiple outlets have long confirmed the authenticity of its contents.

The Washington Examiner in May 2022 commissioned ex-Secret Service agent Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, who found the laptop files were indisputably authentic and without file manipulation or hacking.

Protect the Public's Trust, another watchdog, thinks that Hunter Biden's attempt to "sic officials" working for his father on people who "wronged him" creates the appearance of a conflict of interest for the president.

"That it is difficult for people to remain objective when it comes to those close to them should go without saying and is precisely why conflicts-of-interest laws are in place," Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public's Trust, told the Washington Examiner.

"While acting at the behest of the president’s son may not be a strict violation of any ethics statutes, it would be hard to convince the average member of the American public of that."

While the federal government retrieved Hunter Biden's laptop from the Delaware repair shop in December 2019, Mac Isaac provided a copy of the laptop to Giuliani's personal attorney, Robert Costello.

The laptop then was circulated to a variety of news outlets, including the New York Post, which published an October 2020 story citing emails showing how Hunter Biden introduced his father to a Ukrainian energy firm executive under one year before Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian government officials to fire a prosecutor investigating the firm.

"With the ongoing conversation about the weaponization of the FBI and the nation’s law enforcement to target political opponents, not to mention the sordid history of the concerted suppression of the Hunter laptop, this development is not positive for ethics and integrity in government," said Pete McGinnis, a spokesman for the Functional Government Initiative.

"Yet here we are with the president’s son, yet again, seeking to avoid his mounting legal problems by calling for DOJ to step in front of the bus," he told the Washington Examiner.

Hunter Biden's investigative demand to the DOJ comes as he faces a long-running federal investigation thought to be primarily centered on possible tax and foreign lobbying violations, as well as an allegedly false statement he made in connection to a gun purchase.


David Weiss, the Delaware prosecutor handling the investigation into Hunter Biden, is reportedly closing in on charging him over late tax filings in 2016 and 2017, as well as allegedly fraudulent business expense deductions.

The initiation of the investigation coincided with the revelation that banks flagged Hunter Biden's financial activities as "suspicious" due to their alleged involvement with China and other countries.

Republicans have demanded that the Treasury Department hand over the suspicious activity reports, which House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) says tally up to roughly 150.

A lawyer for Hunter Biden did not reply to a request for comment, and the DOJ declined the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 72df1807bf
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

FOX NEWS

"Biden mocked for bizarre boast that 'more than half the women' on his team 'are women:' 'Is he a biologist?'"


Story by Lindsay Kornick

2 FEBRUARY 2023

President Biden made what many saw as a bizarre boast of his administration by claiming that "more than half the women" in his administration "are women."

Biden marked the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act Thursday with Vice President Kamala Harris as well as former President Bill Clinton at the White House.

During the event, Biden praised the legislation for helping women in the workforce while also bragging about female representation on his own cabinet.

"But here’s what matters, more than half women in my cabinet, more than half the people, more than half the women in my administration are women," Biden said in a now viral video.

Several Twitter users mocked the clip as both a ridiculous statement as well as a commentary on the administration’s transgender agenda.


"I completely agree with the President here."

"More than half the women in his administration are women."

"He’s apparently not sure about the rest of the women in his administration," Townhall.com columnist Philip Holloway wrote.


American Commitment president Phil Kerpen joked, "I can only think of a couple who aren't."

Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher agreed, "The funny thing here is there are several 'women' in his administration who are certainly not women."

"How does Biden know they're women?"

"Is he a biologist?" Senate Conservatives executive director Mary Vought asked.

"Seriously."

"Not a joke," Substack writer Jim Treacher echoed common phrases used by Biden while sharing the video.

"Given what Dems now believe about ‘women’ .... this might actually be statistically accurate ...." Chip Roy strategic advisor Nate Madden tweeted.

Many users also pointed out that the Biden administration has hired multiple transgender members including Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine and non-binary Energy Department's (DOE) deputy assistant secretary Sam Brinton.

Brinton came under fire in December after a police report revealed that the Biden administration official was charged for allegedly stealing luggage at airports.

Exactly what defines a "woman" was also spotlighted in March when Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson insisted that she couldn’t provide the definition of a woman when asked.

"Can I provide a definition?"

"No, I can’t," Brown-Jackson said.

"Not in this context, I'm not a biologist."

Biden continued to call for the U.S. to do more when pushing for equality for women in the workforce.

"Well, 30 years ago, we ranked number six, number six among advanced economies that share women in the workforce."

"Know where we rank today?"

"Nineteenth."

"Nineteenth."

"This is the United States of America for God’s sake."

"Women are 50% of our population, slightly more than 51%, more than 50% of our population."

"We can’t reach our full economic potential leaving half the workforce behind," Biden said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 72df1807bf
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

FOX NEWS

"White House paints rosy picture while Biden problems mount: 'It's not looking good'"


Story by Ashley Carnahan

2 FEBRUARY 2023

President Biden's approval rating remains underwater as he inches closer to announcing his 2024 re-election campaign.

But don't tell that to White House officials and some Democrats who paint a rosy picture of Biden's presidency.


Biden's approval/disapproval rating is at 43%-53% respectively, according to an average of the most recent national polls compiled by RealClearPolitics.

A FOX News poll found a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with how things are going in the country.

Some critics say upcoming GOP House investigations will only drag down the numbers further down.

Fox News' Jesse Watters argued on "The Five" Thursday Biden is in deeper trouble than anybody realizes.

"These investigations are going to be nasty."

You got House Republicans, you have a special counsel, you have Hunter blowing up, and it's not looking good, Watters said.

"Also, the far left is on the march."

"You have Liz Warren taking shots at Kamala Harris."

"And then Bernie's got a book out and he's going on tour."

"That means he might run for president."

"The economy, they say, is going into a light recession."

"And Vladimir Putin is about to throw a half a million soldiers at Ukraine during the spring fighting season," Watters continued.

"And then the guy [Biden] skipped his physical and covered it up."

"And lastly, his legislative agenda is grinding to a dead stop in Congress."

"I'm not seeing great stuff on the horizon."

Co-host Dana Perino marveled at how the White House is able to paint such a rosy picture in public despite major setbacks like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, high inflation and rising gas prices over the summer and into the fall.

She argued outgoing White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain had a lot to do with the messaging coming from the administration.

"Look, give him his due he won in the tug of war of President Biden wanting to be very empathetic and Klain wanting to tell everybody that everything is great, everything is fine," Perino said. "And you know what?"

"'Afghanistan was the biggest airlift in history.'"

"'And you will like this economy.'"

"'You will love it.'"

"'It's going to be great.'"

"And you find out that the train that they're talking about stops at the inflation station and it's a runaway situation."

The former White House press secretary added Republicans need to start considering how Democrats are framing the economic agenda ahead of 2024.

"Democrats are trying to say that any economic woe that you have right now goes back to the 2017 Trump tax cuts."

"It's nonsense."

"But that's what they're saying."

"They're forgetting the spending of COVID under both presidents."

"They're forgetting the Inflation Reduction Act, even though that was the Inflation Promotion Act and also the Environmental Inflation Act," Perino explained.

"I do think, though, that this change in the chief of staff, you could see a messaging change as well because now you have all these investigations like he's talking about and you have a situation with a Republican House."

"So I don't think you're going to hear all happy talk except for on Tuesday when the president gives the State of the Union."

Biden is expected to be the Democratic nominee and announce his re-election campaign sometime after his State of the Union address.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 72df1807bf
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

RIGZONE

"Oil Posts Second Weekly Loss as Stockpiles Swell"


by Bloomberg | Julia Fanzeres and Immanual John Milton

Friday, February 03, 2023

Oil tumbled to the lowest levels since early January as long-term headwinds overwhelmed the positive sentiment from a strong US jobs report.

Brent crude, the global benchmark, dropped below $80 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate slid to less than $74 a barrel.

Futures for both grades climbed earlier in the session as record-low US unemployment figures spurred optimism that demand would hold up.

But those gains evaporated as concerns about swelling US stockpiles and weaker-than-expected China demand dominated the trading narrative.

“The commodity fundamentals aren’t really improving or tightening up a lot,” said Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities.

“There’s a view out there that global supplies are certainly withstanding the Russian sanctions."

"And of course we continue to worry about headwinds from China.”

Weekly data on market positioning published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will be delayed after a cyberattack on ION Trading UK meant some clearing members were unable to provide accurate data.

Prices:

WTI for March delivery fell $2.49 to settle at $73.39 a barrel in New York.

The price earlier slid to $73.13, the lowest since Jan. 5.

Brent for April settlement slid $2.23 to settle at $79.94 a barrel.

Futures earlier dropped as low as $79.72, the lowest since Jan. 11.

https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/oil_p ... 0-article/
thelivyjr
Site Admin
Posts: 73424
Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:40 p

Re: THE DAILY NEWS

Post by thelivyjr »

CNBC

"Treasury yields leap after much hotter jobs report than expected"


Sarah Min @_SARAHMIN Sophie Kiderlin @SKIDERLIN

PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 3 2023

U.S. Treasury yields rose Friday after jobs data came in much better than expected.

The 10-year Treasury yield was up more than 12 basis points at 3.526%.

The 2-year Treasury was up roughly 20 basis points to 4.299%.

Yields and prices move in opposite directions and one basis point equals 0.01%.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 517,000 for January, notably above the 187,000 additions estimated by Dow Jones.

The unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, lower than the 3.6% expected by Dow Jones.

The data underscored the stickiness of the labor market.

The Fed has been trying to cool the economy through monetary policy measures, including interest rate hikes.

At the conclusion of its latest meeting on Wednesday, the central bank increased rates by 25 basis points, but also said it was starting to see a slight slowdown of inflation.

— CNBC’s Alex Harring contributed to this report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/us-trea ... -data.html
Post Reply