the federal government itself will have to do things in order to rein it in starting with let's cut out the additional spending. >> dana: do you think this issue that you laid out we can follow it, right? democrats are trying to find a shortcut way to try to not have voters blame them for their economic woes next november. do you think the republicans are sufficiently able at this point to be coherent enough and work as a group to drive the message? >> i'm not certain. people instinctively understand where inflation comes from. making the currency worth less. democrats have offered up some ideas. president biden says it's the concentration of companies. he pointed to the meat industry. very few big meat producing companies. a lot of people producing meat at farms and ranchs. the processors who do those the