government. he makes a very, very good point here. but i don t think that he will ever be able to pull this important issue apart from the partisan undercurrents in this hearing, which is that he is challenging the sitting democratic president, democrats are determined to destroy that challenge. dana: yes, they are. bill: this will go on for a few hours but won t resume for 30 minutes and we ll be on stand by until it does. good to get your input today. dana: other news now. president biden pushing his economic agenda heading to philadelphia today to promote bidenomics. why his message is meeting resistance in that city. bill: we talked about this 30 minutes ago. the wife of the suspect in the gilgo beach murders filing for divorce, live update on the investigation as the police widen the search to collect more evidence. i want you to know something.
everything else has gone up, too. it equals out with inflation. food is up, inflation. hard to make ends meet sometimes. bill: a sample of some voices in philadelphia. the reason it s so important, bidenomics. coming into a campaign year and he has to sell people on the pocketbook issues and the fact that his policies are taking us in the right direction. of course, bill, i can tell you one thing that joe biden is absolutely not going to do while he is in philadelphia, which is wander around the streets of philadelphia because philadelphia is going the route that san francisco and so many other democrat cities have gone with homelessness and drug use and just the urban blight that we ve seen across the country, mostly in blue states and blue cities. the other part of bidenomics, as if joe biden could even explain what bidenomics is, is that this is an administration that did something no too long ago called
like they have the wind at their backs thanks to a series of positive headlines. people s paychecks grew faster than inflation, odds of a recession have fallen. inflation has gone down for 12 state months. yet americans are just not giving biden credit for it. they re not as optimistic. a new poll finds just 30% of americans feel the u.s. economy is doing better than the rest of the world since the pandemic. americans are also split on biden s handling of jobs and unemployment. just 43% approve of his handling of transportation and energy infrastructure and even lower 34% approve of his handling of inflation. the white house insists biden just needs to keep explaining bidenomics. so look, the polls don t tell the whole story. they don t tell the full story and we understand that. the data shows the combination of unemployment and inflation is at near historic lows. that s what we have seen. consumer confidence is
economic conditions in this country today? only fair or poor. that s the vast majority of people. so if he just keeps saying bidenomics and only goes to philadelphia, that s the closest city to washington, d.c. where he can get a good media market, he won t be able to change that perception and so the republican primary is underway. do you think they are doing a good enough job trying to make that contrast on the economy rather than just talking about culture issues? that s a great question, dana. i think the republicans mostly right now are focusing on culture. mostly focusing on border, ukraine, trump, desantis or anyone. not a tremendous amount about the economy. i suspect as we roll closer to january when the first primary happenings, people can t believe we re seven months away from the first primary that they will start focusing on economics.
i suspect as bidenomics, whatever that happens to be as it rolls out and people see it s not increasing any amount of money in their wallet, it is probably crushing small businesses and everything else, that will be an opportunity for republicans. but it really hasn t been much of an issue if you pay attention to what s on twitter and the little back and forth mostly between desantis and trump it hasn t been about the economy so far. bill: dave, thank you. dana: great to see you. dana reads sports. dana: i don t know if you were up but australia took down ireland in the woman s world cup. they made their debut in a record crowd of 76,000 fans, losing 1-0 to the tournament co-host. the other co-host new zealand beat norway 1-0. team usa takes the pitch tomorrow night. that game will be against vietnam. we re underway.