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Has an interesting story because it opened during the pandemic at the height of the pandemic, i believe. what was it like going from covid-19 to record high inflation? >> well, at first it was interesting because we were interviewing and hiring our team during the height of the pandemic. meeting people in masts and try to get to the know them it was interesting. when we open we didn't know what the response would be like. it was amazing right out of the gate. so we open to a full house. the guests loved us to the point where we were voted best new restaurant in palm beach. so, we persevere thr...

Just go out to the country and say we have a plan but actually pass something that is more tang ill for the american people. >> mike, there are sort of three main things to tackle inflation that every expert in some form seems to talk about. two of them are in the hands of the elected government, one is in the hands of the federal reserve. raising interest rates, that's on the federal reserve. but the other two things that contain inflation are essentially more immigrants to work asap in order to stop wage growth or slow down wage growth, by the way, which is not something you want to tout, an...

Job-creating investments. if you want inflation to go down, let's help women get back to work, expand the labor pool. how do we do that? provide universal pre-k and child care. this is a negotiation and we'll do our job and stay at the table until it passes. >> a specific piece of it of course is the child tax credit. that's something the administration has argued is necessary for many families i, to fight inflation. it's ending for many americans around the country, concerns it might contribute to a resurgence of child care poverty, but you don't have manchin on this. effectively, as a practi...

Can, bringing in all the help that we can from all sorts of places in the hospital. >> and that includes, i guess, relying on some of your regular office employees to step in and help out. how has morale been among your staff. how are you holding up? >> well, it's difficult. i mean, as you know, the clinical people, the nurses, doctors, environmental service workers, everybody, they're all exhausted. so when crisis hit, we used everything we had available in our search plan. we opened up the labor pool and put in a request for people in every area to come in and help. and this is typical midwe...

Still have a large enough labor pool or do we need more? >> well, let me start by talking about some numbers in today's report. there are some technical changes that the bureau of labor statistics made precisely on the labor force. and what we found was that over the past year, so again not doing a monthly trend here, over the past year the labor force is up 0.8%. this labor force is actually growing more quickly than in any of the past five economic recoveries. it is growing at a solid clip. i think that gets missed in some of these discussions. but here's the thing and here's where your ques...