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Analyst described what weve accomplished in 2021 as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. today america is the only leading economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger than before the pandemic. now i hear republicans say today that mike talking about the strong record shows i dont understand. i dont understand a lot of people are still suffering, they say. well, they are. or that im not focussed on inflation. malarkey. they want t...

Down more than predicted, dropping to 3 .9%. weve got a great team of experts lined up to try and make a little more sense of the data. any second now president biden expected to talk about those numbers. theres a live look there at the presidential podium in the white house. as soon as the president starts, we will take you there. meanwhile, were also keeping a close eye on this georgia courtroom. that is where the three men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery are set to learn their sentence tod...

Historical results. results for workinging americans. economists call this increased productive capacity of our economy. i call it building back better. thats what were going to keep doing. well keep building. i thank you all very much. ive got a chance to that you can to all of you on tuesday when i am down in georgia talking about voting rights but thank you. [ inaudible ] >> mr. president? should americans prepare to live with covid forever? mr. president, should americans prepare to live wit...

>> and there you have it. president biden addressing the december jobs report there. also, took sometime to take a bit of a victory lap on the supply chain fixes. we heard the president say that the grinch did not steal christmas. i believe i am out of time for this hour. oh, okay. i have josh letterman back with us from the white house. josh, president biden calling those accusations that he is not focused on inflation, he called it quote malarkey. mike memoli who keeps track of these, resident...

Basically in this country, and we know from that jolt report that quit report earlier this week youve got millions of people quitting their jobs because the labor market is so good. because there are higher wages, more perks, better benefits out there. so the economic data is good. the problem, the problem for this administration is that the american people dont necessarily feel it. because inflation is running so hot and everything costs more. so this administration is in a tough spot. think ab...

Unemployment. and other signs, of progress in the economy, slight increases in wages as well as consistent participation in the labor force. i think you also may hear president biden try to temper some of the disappointment by talking about how the last several months theyve been revising the numbers up because the omicron and covid issues have made it harder to get real-time data about the state of the economy. what im really interested to hear from president biden is whether he uses his remark...

Bring their workers back and reopen now because of the variant, thats been pushed back. that impacts the cafeteria in your office, the gym in your office and the answerlation businesses around that. that is going to put a slight drag on this economic recovery. but to say things are turning around and the fed is going to do something different and people need more support, were not seeing that yet. >> josh, while i have you, i want to ask you about the rest of president bidens day today. he and t...

Naturally goes down, he will take credit for it. is that the strategy? >> i think thats part of the strategy. they face the reality that they had about as many covid cases in a year where they had vaccines as trump did in an entire year where he did not have any vaccines. so they have not made any progress biden promised us in the campaign. i think they are enormously frustrated. but i think it goes deeper than that. you have to recognize biden resents the american people. he resents their indep...

Naturally goes down, he will take credit for it. is that the strategy? >> i think thats part of the strategy. they face the reality that they had about as many covid cases in a year where they had vaccines as trump did in an entire year where he did not have any vaccines. so they have not made any progress biden promised us in the campaign. i think they are enormously frustrated. but i think it goes deeper than that. you have to recognize biden resents the american people. he resents their indep...

Naturally goes down, he will take credit for it. is that the strategy? >> i think thats part of the strategy. they face the reality that they had about as many covid cases in a year where they had vaccines as trump did in an entire year where he did not have any vaccines. so they have not made any progress biden promised us in the campaign. i think they are enormously frustrated. but i think it goes deeper than that. you have to recognize biden resents the american people. he resents their indep...