will start killing microphones around here. ashley parker, we move swiftly over to you and to the white house. call it the economy dichotomy or inflation disam big lags, but here its is. the economy has a story to tell about economic indicators. that is no help to the people whose christmas presents who are on containerized shipping off the port of long beach or the people who had the misfortune of stopping at an exxon tonight needing an atm to pay to fill their suvs with gas. what is a white house to do? >> that's exactly right, and that is the essential irony they're grappling with. if you look at a lot of these economic indicators, the growth, the recent job numbers, they're quite good. they're better than the administration expected when they took office. but they're dealing with a real problem with inflation and supply chain problems, and those