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Does the white house have a good feel of the day-to-day pinch millions of americans are feeling right now? because it is one thing to look at the data, look at the numbers from your perch in washington and actually understand the struggle --. >> absolutely. >> -- tomorrow are going through right now. >> it is a great question, pamela. look, i'm an economist. i deal in data and spread sheets. joe biden, for him he grew up in a family where these were kitchen table issues. okay. if the price of gas went up a nickel they talked about it. i have worked for the president for a long time. i was his ...

What they can get from senator manchin and pass his deal to lower drug prices and health care subsidies. here to talk about all this is economic adviser to president biden, jared bernstein. thank you for coming in. let's talk about that inflation report. your former colleague in the obama administration, jason furman, called it brutal, adding, there is absolutely nothing good in it. larry summers says, no one can -- nobody, rather, can suppose that inflation is under control. in his statement, president biden dismissed it as out of date. if you don't think 9.1% is the inflation rate the last m...

>> meghan the other things that biden could be doing, i talked about executive orders. i talked about marijuana decriminalization. talked about student cancellation, some of the stuff on federal land, with abortion providers. of course, there are things that they could be pushing through congress. the argument always is. what is the point? we do not have the weight. it's in the point, give us the vote in november, so we can do xyz? among xyz, something you and i deeply care about, democrats are slowly coming around to, is expanding the court? >> exactly. amanda is right. our democracy is a kit...

Here to talk about all this is economic adviser to president biden, jared bernstein. thank you for coming in. let's talk about that inflation report. your former colleague in the obama administration jason furman calls it brutal, nothing good in it. nobody can suppose that inflation is under control. and in his statement, president biden dismissed it as out of date. if you don't think 9.1% is the inflation rate for the last month, what is it? >> well, first of all, let's be clear. the president himself said repeatedly after that report came out that inflation is una unacceptably high. remember...

I think unfortunately, the supreme court is more and more besieged to be just the function of raw politics and raw power. that's a sad thing. >> there is a new piece in the new york times magazine about the decline of moderate democrats, quote, unquote suggesting the democratic party is too beholden to the left. it basically makes the argument that when the democrats are moderate, pushing -- kitchen table issues, they win and when they're talking about minority rights or trends issues or racial justice and policing reform, they lose. what's your response to that argument? >> i think that is co...