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Know, the president obviously was a featured guest very often, and, you know, a lot of people have really championed governor desantis because of the way he has operated florida and from, you know, past reporting weve bun. the president has taken notice. hes also not very happy that desantis, unlike other republicans, hasnt said whether or not he would run in 2024 against trump. so thats all factoring in here. >> gutless. still pretty interesting to hear that. seems like the former president res...

He had the expertise, he listened to the science, he was an experienced government hand and knew how to do this. and now we have since seen the vice president, vice president harris has conceded the administration was surprised by the delta variant, and they were surprised by the omicron variant and cases are skyrocketing. the seven-day average of cases of the virus has gone up 100% since last week. so, this is extremely important politically. i mean, put aside the public health matter, but this...

We are dealing with the energy price increases, and the release of strategic reserves helped in that regard. and fourth, and this is really important, is that one of the key factors is the really big bump in the price of used cars which relates to the semico semiconductors, and a constraint, and bill that passed by 68 votes in the senate, and what get passed by 68 votes? it is the chips act, and it is something that congress needs to get to as quickly as possible according to the president, and ...

Better prepared? >> no, i would not say that we got it wrong in the following sense that it is really important to get under the hood of the monthly inflation reports. if you are looking at the change from november to december, the inflation is up half a percent which is considerably down from october and november when it was up .8 and .9 respectively, and one reason that the inflation was higher is because the energy fell after growing 6% in october and november, and they actually fell in decem...

President clearly is willing to put a lot of political capital on the line. it is a fight that he and his aides believe is worth fighting and the president yesterday making very clear that he supports gutting the filibuster as it relates specifically to voting rights legislation and making changes there. here is the president yesterday. >> i believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. debate them, vote, let the majority prevail. and ...

There. i have one more question about the speech yesterday, because you were there. you were listening to the president, and when he raised those questions jeremy just talked about saying, you know, posing this question to lawmakers, do you want to be on the side of dr. king or on the side of george wallace? do you think that was aimed at republicans who have blocked the voting right legislation so far or aimed at the democrats who have not supported changing the rules? >> aimed at everyone stan...

Future but we do need to get to the point, john, where we can live with covid as we do with other respiratory illness such as influenza. >> john: respiratory virus, the subject of the c.d.c., also have to fix their communications operation. the president was asked a little more than an hour ago if covid is here to stay, here is what he said. >> no, i dont think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing w...

Eradicate it, the biden administration is saying the same thing. >> as i said before, im not going to shut down the economy. im going to shut down the virus. ill shut down the virus, not the economy. im not going to shut down the country but im going to shut down the virus. im going to shut down the virus and build the economy. today we are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus. >> john: thats what he was saying back then, but now because of six advisors to the presi...

President is calling out republicans, but is he any closer to getting all 50 democrats on board? he did mention hes been talking to a lot of them, just behind closed doors. >> reporter: well, these efforts have been ongoing for several months now, bianna, but so far there is no indication like jeremy said that manchin or sinema changed their minds about gutting the filibuster. this is all going to happen in two steps. we expect the majority leader chuck schumer will make an announcement at some ...

>> tomi: thanks for having me, issue so close to my heart and home state and family so i appreciate you taking the time. i know consumers are starting to realize the issue more and more each and every single day, impacting them, impacting us all, we need to get to the bottom of it. >> sandra: its really something, i dont know that a lot of people knew that about you and when you grew up near, you know, near farms and near these ranches, its very personal. what are you hearing? when they hear pre...