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Definitions to britain like you do a good job. >> hannity: i couldn't of said better my self. texas senator ted cruz. all right so they don't want to admit the obvious that this is a recession another playing word games. we've more than doubled in one of more than doubled the number of irs agents that will mean more harassment for the american people. and look at that we see these massive increases on the middle class in this country they're paying the bulk of these new taxes i was trying to understand why joe manchin not only is going along with it but then lying about it when he talks about ...

Economic data -- people think we have numbers on what's happening in the economy. what we have is estimates compiled by diligent intelligence civil servants working with partial data and right now a lot of the numbers are not consistent with each other. you know, you've got gdp shrinking, but 2 million jobs added so far this year. it's what you expect. we're recovering from a pandemic. you would expect things to look weird. >> you called this a record di v di ver i can't answer in these data points. >> the coverage has tended -- it leads, but this time economic data, the negatives get all the ...

The real problem is the economy is sending so many mixed signals right now. we've talked about some of them already, right? you have potentially output gdp shrinking, maybe two quarters in a row. we'll find out later this week. on the other hand, employ years are still hiring tons and tons of people. on the one hand, you have consumers saying this economy is really lousy, that they're unhappy, that inflation is painful. on the other hand, they're still spending like crazy. so it is very hard to, you know, sort through all of that noise and figure out how much trouble the economy is in and whic...

Atlanta branch of the federal reserve, the economists there have said we're in a recession, which is defined as two consecutive quarters of gdp shrinking. i think it's very likely. the white house has to make clear that they did what they were supposed to do. they were supposed to make sure that households didn't fall off a cliff economically. they were supposed to see to it there was an economic reopening that was robust and that's what happened. americans were and are out there spending. that's exactly what we wanted. that's why we had the vaccination campaign. on the other hand, not -- the ...

We're growing, but growing slowly. he's got to try to build on that. >> picking up on that right there, it is a rather mixed bag when you look at the answer to the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago? let's go through some of the accomplishments. median income, federal debt, americans on food stamps, all down. worsened. staying on par, unemployment, same as four years ago. the dow nearly doubled. the iraq war is over. if you look at it, all things considered, are we better off? >> no question economically we're better off as a country than when we took office, because...