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And the same question with the way he's dealing with republicans in congress to the way he's dealing with them in the states. he has heated up on desantis. the question is whether he will look for any policy levers to try to move them away from these positions that they're in. banning masks even while cases are surging in their states. as we talked about, one quarter of all k-12 students in the country, many of which cannot receive the vaccine at this point, will be attending school in states where republican governors have banned the districts from requiring masks. will biden put any deeds be...

Factory closes you have to go where the jobs are. you're showing that's not necessary. do you think this could go beyond, is this a demonstration of what can be done and how would you like to see this spread to other places? >> it is, i call it a ripple in a pond. there's no reason we need 200,000 tech jobs outsourced to places like china or brazil. we could be doing that in the heartland. the reality is emma most people don't want to move. they love the community, their concern their churches are dwindling, their kids are having to leave, what we need to do is allow them to preserve their way...

Factory closes you have to go where the jobs are. you're showing that's not necessary. do you think this could go beyond, is this a demonstration of what can be done and how would you like to see this spread to other places? >> it is, i call it a ripple in a pond. there's no reason we need 200,000 tech jobs outsourced to places like china or brazil. we could be doing that in the heartland. the reality is emma most people don't want to move. they love the community, their concern their churches are dwindling, their kids are having to leave, what we need to do is allow them to preserve their way...

Person in the united states, it would be the president and his unpredictable tweets. which would you pick? >> this is not complicated at all. this is president trump's fault. the fed, poor fed, they're trying to follow this guy around. he's gone from here to there and everywhere else and created all this uncertainty and the fed is trying to calibrate monetary policy, interest rates, to offset the bad policy he's putting in place. so it has nothing to do with the fed. this has everything to do with the very poor trade policy that the president is pursuing. >> mark zandi, appreciate your insight...

Recession, there's nothing the president of the united states can do about that. you saw the bad numbers out of china, bad numbers out of the uk in recent days. but what policy levers are available to the president of the united states? >> that's a great question. usually the stimulus is more spending and tax cuts. the white house has already done that so that's not in their playbook anymore. the big fear for the white house, mark just talked about business investment pulling back. as soon as consumer spending pulls back, then you've got a real fiasco because that's the thing that's been dragg...