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Inflation maybe slashed by two or three points if thats possible. >> so brian, are wages any closer to matching inflation? >> yeah, well, right now wages are not keeping up with inflation, and again, as roben was talking about, this is the number the federal reserve is looking at in this report. may, 4.3%. thats how much more people were getting paid in terms of average hourly earnings compared to may of last year. thats a bit of a slowdown from the 4.4% pace we saw in the month of april. when y...

All really good things, especially when you have a democrat president . bu t were thirty two trillion dollars in debt and i thinookd were going to double that debt. pr in the next 10 years crisis, whether its three years, eight years, debt 10 years is g to come. its going to be on ourwill be doorstep and thatll be cataclysmic for all of the american people. and so people so, listen, i don that i would have voted forth this. >> i dont think i would have.i would havewhat does this mean fr kevin mc...

Economically to convert all of that into military power. they want to be able to win a war against the united states. they have made it very clear with us they are preparing for conflict. xi jinping the chinese communist party leader tells us on a regular basis that china is preparing to fight and win wars. fight the bloody battles of their era. they have sent 1727 aircraft into taiwans air defense identification zone last year. it was 960 the year before that they have built the worlds largest ...

Get unaddicted to the kind of drama that republicans -- because their only purpose, the people who are making the most drama ahead of this that were risking our whole faith and credit were never going to vote for the bill, as i think we have all talked about it. they just wanted the drama and just wanted the pretend leverage. it seems to me theyre unserious, but if they have the power to do this every couple years, to go back to the point that was being made by stephanie, if they can do it every...

Classrooms, in our colleges and they are also masquerading as tourists. we have found out what their real mission is even the ones that come here if their families remain in china, the government has leverage over them to do some espionage work even if they come off like people who love america. we also found out that they tried to infiltrate into alaskan military bases. look at how vulnerable alaska is. notice how close it is to russia and how close it is to china usually a russia problem now b...

Yes, what could be meaningful cuts for the programs, but overall, this entire process, the ends and the means, were so disproportionately out of whack. that we are taking the domestic and global economy on 15% of the federal budget, not enough to materially change the long-term index. from bidens point of view, avoiding disaster seems a very acceptable outcome. >> alex, theres a chicken little factor here, in every two to three years, congress has had this kind of political meltdown over raising...

>> you know, its actually splitting hairs. its inside baseball why the dot employment rate maybe went up 0.2 or down 0.2 in terms of the denominator and numerator and whos dropping out and whos being counted. certainly, definitely, ir refutably the leverage is with workers right now, they can hold restaurants over a barrel, they can keep planes from flying. this is such a roar back with service sector workers. we saw a great headline in "the wall street journal" this week that never has it been ...

Recordings. so, just because were learning about it now does not mean its brand-new. but there is one thread that makes me think maybe were not as close to an indictment as we might think. and that is the april subpoenas that jack smith and team got for the trump organization related to business dealings with a foreign government. and thats in this mar-a-lago case. if that reporting is accurate, that could provide evidence of a motive for donald trump to retain certain documents. for example, if...

Leverage had we stood our ground. >> ainsley: you are saying you will not vote for it, if it doesnt pass, well run out of money and cash and janet yellen is saying it will be on the 5th. what makes americans upset is that you wait until the last minute, next one would go until january of 2025, you need to start negotiating summer before so you can be on the same page and have enough time to get your ducks in a row. republicans and democrats have to do something neither side wants to do because w...

Senators are trying to pass the house version of the debt ceiling deal ahead of a projected default monday. so lets find out where things stand right now. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is always on it on capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> shannon, good evening. there was a deal for the debt ceiling package itself; however, they must secure another deal for the senate to pass the bill. >> the senate is a unique institution. any individual senator can stop the train. any indivi...