get rough, but the white house won t paint that bleak picture tonight. instead, the president is making a bet that many democrats before him have made. go high when they go low. think unity. a traditional victory lap touting his administrative wins over a tough two years. emphasizing that democrats and republicans can get things done together. it s what the country wants, a senior white house official told me. so where does he go from here? what bipartisan deal with the white house working on next and what will the white house do with the investigations and allegations that house republicans are throwing at him? we re going to ask the president s senior adviser that question in a moment. we ll also get the realistic outlook from capitol hill and what house republicans are willing to make a deal on. so joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly o donnell. nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and washington post senior national political c
at the highest levels of inflation in 40 years and prices are soaring, especially at the gas pump which just set another record high this morning at $4.40 a gallon. the markets already reacting. yesterday the dow tumbled for the fourth straight day as investors began to sour on the u.s. economic outlook. some on wall street warning of a recession because of inflation possibly as soon as next year, mika. that s one reason why president biden addressed it in a major white house speech, calling inflation his top domestic priority and trying to shift blame for rising prices by attacking republicans and what he calls their ultra maga agenda. he also blasted their policy ideas as extreme and said they would make inflation worse, not better. really ask yourself how well are we going to sleep at night knowing that every five years maga republicans, if they re still republicans as i said, this is not your father s republican party. if we re going to have to vote on whether you w
the infrastructure vote passed 14 months ago. we have 20,000 projects coming out of the ground. it takes time for things to physically manifest themselves. the lowering of prescription drugs just went into effect. it takes time. as a matter of fact, the country as you know has been in tremendous trauma for the last six years. that s what i was going to ask. brian pointed out the anxiety of the past two years is this hangover and the expectation is they re not going to see america and suddenly feel optimistic. they re going to try to push them there tonight. the voting booth has not shown these negative poll numbers play out negatively for the president who s had two big wins in 2020 and 2021. let s think about this in a sober, thoughtful way. looking back, first of all, it takes time for things to sink in. if you re a mama at home and worried about whether your son s going to come home like tyre nichols mom is, you re not going to focus on the bridges.
politics like a democrat. does that change your mind? [laughter] works argue a rino? consume no more a rhino record than he has. final such election day they re both campaigning in their own way, mooney on foot. what s one thing i can say all my doorknocking of never been bit big rocks even going house to house to mckinley s hometown. have had enough of your opponent regrets anything in particular about him? know he does things i don t really care about. voted for the 1.2 trillion biden? that is what really got me the most regards mckinley has a different strategy. i m not going to play politician with a brickwork he s focusing on the job he has done and what he has delivered for west virginia. and even it was infrastructure vote is getting blowback he does not regret it one bit. the condition of our infrastructure west virginia is not rhetoric this is related to
politics like a democrat. does that change your mind? [laughter] works argue a rino? consume no more a rhino record than he has. final such election day they re both campaigning in their own way, mooney on foot. what s one thing i can say all my doorknocking of never been bit big rocks even going house to house to mckinley s hometown. have had enough of your opponent regrets anything in particular about him? know he does things i don t really care about. voted for the 1.2 trillion biden? that is what really got me the most regards mckinley has a different strategy. i m not going to play politician with a brickwork he s focusing on the job he has done and what he has delivered for west virginia. and even it was infrastructure vote is getting blowback he does not regret it one bit. the condition of our infrastructure west virginia is not rhetoric this is related to