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That his role on january six as president of the summit made him a member of the legislative branch. so he doesn't have to comply with the doj's demands. just to break this down. three months ago he was part of the executive branch and he didn't want to involve himself in an inquiry from the legislative branch. now he's a member of the legislative branch who doesn't want to comply with an inquiry from the executive branch. according to reporting from politico, pence is preparing to cite the speech or debate clause. how did all this happen? joining us now is congresswoman zoe lofgren of califor...

Insur insurrection is not accurate. >> joining us to help us fact check this claim is cnn reporter daniel dale. daniel, tell us. >> brianna, there are two questions here. number one was what happened on january 6th an insurrection, number two, was it armed? i think and a lot of experts thinks what transpired clearly meets the dictionary definition of the world and at least one state court has rule it was indeed an i sunsurrection. whether you call it an insurrection or something else, it sure was armed and sure was violent, more than senator johnson suggested in these comments and comments he'...

Up with a question on the economy. senator cornyn pointed out earlier today that if you are arguing about what the dictionary definition of a recession is, you are losing the game. likely this will be on everyone's minds at the polls. >> it is, but it is interesting whether inflation were recession, find it hard whether democrat or republican it can to find voters with massive voters that can actually define what they are and how it directly impacts them. although people know those words are bad, inflation, recession peer of the past few days and the last few hours, such as ceo citibank who ha...

White house, what do officials expect from this week? are we in a recession or not? >> peter: sounds like, sandra, they are expecting very bad numbers. economic officials here at the white house are already telling people not to pay attention to these g.d.p. figures. >> let's step back and look what happened. those numbers will reflect the period from april to june, so backward looking, those numbers are inherently backward looking and capture different elements of economic activity, including very volatile things like inventory. >> john: officials are now saying even though the dictionary def...

>> you heard him. wokeness. wokelash. some actually said wokesters. who says wokesters? the wokerati. the woke-illuminati? actually i just made that one up. >> this is a unique phenomenon. >> let me be clear. woke used to mean something. the phrase stay woke was one in a long line of slang that blacks invented to point to the idea that america as dangerous and we as black folks need to be careful and smart. do you know what woke is? how would you define woke? >> it's a great question in the sense that it's not even like a dictionary definition of things anymore, it's become subject to interpre...