here are some of the key conversations you might have missed. oklahoma is calling out republicans who are openly criticizing the bipartisan bill on the border without even reading it. not only the leaders, fellow republicans, but you have people on all of the networks that you would expect, all of the pro trump networks, lying through their teeth. you ve got these clowns that bounce around and do whatever trump tells them to do. this is the worst deal ever. this will ruin america. haven t even read the bill. again, republicans in the states, toughest security brought bill ever. when you have people like the senator who has been right wing as long as you can track him, saying that this is the toughest bill we can get, and then everyone flips because donald trump says, no, i want an issue. mind you, and issue to run against joe biden. forget about the issue. forget about what it s causing the country, i need this for political reasons, it shows you why this is confirmatio
rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i
to vice president pence, mark short, greg jacob, they were both asked during their grand jury testimony about the fake elector scheme and the roles of trump lawyers rudy giuliani and john eastman. this morning in additions, the new york times and washington post are reporting justice department investigators back in april received phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. all of this as the attorney general himself, merrick garland, is speaking out in a new interview responding to criticism that the justice department isn t moving fast enough. let s begin with cnn s evan perez. he s been standing by. what more are you learning about the justice department s investigation here? how broad and far they re looking? reporter: well, in this interview with nbc yesterday, the attorney general, merrick garland, made clear that this is a very broad investigation. this is what he described it as, an investigatio
is in a recession and how worried the country should be about entering a recession in light of this. the new york times put it this way today to paraphrase an old political adage, if you re explaining how recession calls are made, you re losing. do you see that, jared? no. i don t think so. i think we ve gotten into a technical discussion about what constitutes a recession. i think bringing the facts that the table is something that we as economic advisers have to do. i think what s more to the point is there ware a lot of people wo call it what you will. what they want to know is how far is their paycheck going. in that regard, look, there is absolutely some tough news regarding how high inflation s been, but there s also positive news that we should not overlook. i mean, the price at the pump is now $4.30 a gallon. that s down 70 cents off of its peak. so i was going to ask you about that, jared.
pain. when you re quality of life is eroding, you feel the pain. we can take our recession calls from publicly-traded ceos, we can take our recession calls from, you know, john and mary smith on main street. or we can take our recession cues from small and medium business owners. i think i would rather go with the latter two groups. i think they re at ground zero. they understand what is happening. they feel the pain. when i m talking to people, consumers on main street, they know their quality of life has eroded. when i m talking to small and medium business owners, look at the data. it s terrible. we saw a negative 61 for the outlook for future conditions. that is the lowest number ever. that data goes back to the 1970s as well. so conditions are not looking good. martha: when we talk to people at the white house, they re saying it s not a given