rodriguez. services will be ongoing in the coming days. the mayor is calling for robb elementary school to be demolished. i don t think anybody s plans are to tear that building down. it needs to be torn down. i never expect a child to walk in those doors ever again. that building needs to be gone, taken away and gone. a teacher from the school is speaking out about the horrifying moments bullets shattered her classroom. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off, felt like an eternity. i had one student lay og top of me and a bunch of other students here by me. i just remember praying, please god, please god, keep us safe. carley: that teacher is being hailed a hero for getting her students to hit the ground seconds before the bullets flew into her classroom. all 15 of her studentss survived the attack. texas governor greg abbott taking a moment to remember the students and teachers in the face of tragedy. what happened in uvalde was a horrific act o
not much to add there. carley: i m sure you have something to add here, there is new york times guest essay by zachary carrabell, he talks about russia versus china and says the u.s. has a choice to make issue adding intensifying fixation on china potential to disrupt the world order shrinks cooperation with beijing and distracts from the real threat in the world, which he says is russia. he suggests biden administration should work with china instead of compete with china, which sounds nice, except i don t think china is on board with that message. joe: carley, make no mistake, china is our number one adversary, the only peep they ll live otherwise have been living on krypton for three years and didn t see what this country went through and experienced in regard to covid, our personal
there are jobs at the top and a lot at the bottom. eight of the ten fastest growing category of jobs tend to be low paying. you re still as zachary says in a rather sluggish recovery. this recovery has taken longer than any of the past three and it s going to be 15 months more before we reach pre-crisis job creation. glenn, bernanke addressed this issue of stripping government out of this. for the first time i thought was pretty clear that the federal government s cut backs, the sequester, have been bad for the economy. he said if not for this, if government spending were what sort of it should be, there might be a percent or maybe a percent and a half more growth. so he s saying we re growing at 2%. we could be growing at 3.5%. strikes me as a pretty tough critique of the republican party, which has been insistent on all these cuts. well, it is a tough critique and i think it s a fair one from chairman bernanke. we have a fiscal policy that s
could be another false start. the one place that does seem to be growing steadily is the united states of america. why? i ve got a very smart panel who will tell me if that s true, and if not, explain everything. glenn hubbard was mitt romney s chief economic adviser. he is the dean of the business school at columbia and the author of balance the economics of great powers from ancient rome to modern america. rona fruha is cnn s global economic analyst. ed luce and zachary carrabell writes the edgy optimist column for reuters and the atlantic. all right, zach, tell me, is this a story of kind of american resilience and bounce-back? first of all, it s a story of an economy that is essentially muddling through. in a world that four years ago thought that it was going to implode, muddling through and having the space to think about future problems is not a bad