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Level as the controversy continues. President biden met with his Economic Team at the white house today, the administration has not yet said much on the controversy only saying talk to the sec and the feds are monitoring the situation. Strong backlash by some lawmakers including alexandria ocasiocortez and republican ted cruz. Republican senator josh hawley talked about this on fox news earlier. What youve seen with this gamestop meltdown that wall street is having now is these folks at home hav...

recession? because that is not the technical definition. >> in terms of the technical definition, it is not a recession? a much broader spectrum of data points? >> that is not the actual data of said mike recession but actual retraction over a few months. >> i would reject to the idea of two quarters of negative gdp growth is a technical recession is wrong. >> carley: griff jenkins is live with the technical definition and much, much more, good morning. >> good morning carley and todd ...

Illegal immigrants got a ways at the border at this fiscal year. that is about 55,000 people per month. chad wolf is acting dhs secretary and joins me now. we are working with half a million caught a at the border so far this fiscal year and that number is a lowball estimate. the border patrol says it could be much higher than that. how big of a problem is this? and what is your biggest concern? >> this is a significant problem. this is the consequences when you dont have an effective border sec...

Budget office revealing the true cost of the socialist policy and here to break it down is founder and ceo of the research group chris jenkins. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. healthcare spending in the us, 17.9% of gdp. the cost of medicare for all would be $32.6 trillion according to a study by george mason university and the report seems to back up those numbers. >> $32 trillion is a lowball estimate. the house and senate this year added a new long-term care benefit and the urban ins...

Events still on the calendar. some of them have cited charlottesville or a sort of obliquely cited charlottesville but its key that charlottesville is -- its obvious that charlottesville was is key because all these cancellations have happened since trumps comments saying that some of those on the sort of white supremacist side of the march were, quite, fine people. >> very fine people, i think, was the direct quote, on both sides. how much of an impact do these cancellations, when all is said a...

Mexico pay for the wall. he said absolutely. hes been reluctant to say out loud as president because it was upsetting for the mexican leader. he did say it with the leader in the room. what do you think the impact is? >> it will be profound. this is not something that the mexican president can allow to go unanswered. here in the united states, of course, this is going to be wrapped up in a lot of mysterious budget mess of how its going to get down. remember in the campaign, when asked about it, ...

>> i call on congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation. and to do it now. >> but heres what it looks like when you run the numbers. slate magazine took a look at what a program to put armed guards in every school might cost. theres nearly a hundred thousand public schools and the average police officer makes about $55,000 a year. so a lowball estimate would be about 5.4 billion tlars a year. what can ...

Thousand public schools and the average police officer makes about $55,000 a year. so a lowball estimate would be about 5.4 billion a year. what can we really do to keep our children safe from guns? good question. joining me now expert, michael nutter of philadelphia and eugene robinson. mayor nutter, thank you so much for joining me. youre on the front line every time theres a homicide in philadelphia, you know all of the facts and figures. and you certainly know about the school district. lets...

In the private sector. that, they argue, is the type of reform that wouldnt cost a lot or require what gingrey refers to as a government takeover of health care. it could be done in the private sector. the other aspect is that republicans plan to go forward tonight, theyll begin and finalize the debate to repeal it tomorrow, but its not done either in the house or the senate. its true that the senate democratic majority leader isnt going to take up an appeal, but it is not the case theyre intere...

Ruptured well has been captured. it has been recovered through the containment cap, skimming operations and controlled burns. now, 25% has evaporated or dissolved and thats considered a lowball estimate, by the way. 24% has been dispersed, broken into smaller drop lets, either by natural means or the chemical solvents. that leaves 26% of all the oil that has poured from that leak. it has either washed up on shore or still remains at sea, either on the surface of that -- of the ocean or, of cours...