as you know, last tuesday, the annual inflation rate came in as 8.3%. the stock market skydived. people are shocked by their grocery bills. inflation is up hardly at all. you re not arguing 8.3 is not good news? no. but it was 8.2 before. you re making sound like, oh, my god, all of a sudden it went to 8.3%. it s the highest inflation in over 40 years. i got that. biden has used the pandemic as the legal reasoning behind why request he could cost up to $20,000 worth of student loan debt, but seems like he completely undercut his own argument. mr. president, first detroit auto show in three years. yeah. is the pandemic over? the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid. we re still doing a lot of work on it. the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one is wearing masks. everyone seems to be in pretty good shape. i think it s changing. this is a perfect example of it. those remarks were apparently not scripted, catching several of his top heal
defend taiwan with u.s. troops if china invades. setting off another episode of confusion over american policy and prompting a condemnation from beijing. there were also comments about inflation and his own political future. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. this was president biden s first sitdown interview with a u.s. reporter in more than seven months. and in it we learned white house officials have been holding out on us because it s unclear when or if they planned to tell us the pandemic is a thing of the past. which way are we going? this way. pete: president biden back in the u.s. after the queen s funeral and the country has changed a lot since he left. the pandemic is over. it wasn t just four days ago. we are dealing with at global challenge of a once that generation pandemic. and it isn t for administration officials who claim they have legal grounds to canc