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>> bill: i have questions for you. >> dana: yesterday president biden took a cheat sheet to a new level. he was holding cue cards showing names of the cabinet officials and a pre-submitted question from the reporter. >> bill: the question reads as follows. how are you squaring your domestic priorities by reshoring -- here now is the question from that reporter "l. a. times"? >> thank you, mr. president. your top economic priority has been to build up u.s. domestic manufacturing in competition with china. but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in china is hurting south ko...

>> julie: that is right, classmates explain kohberger as awkward and studio spirit he has a graduate student washington state university, just a 15 minute drive from the rental house where the people were stabbed to death. for more on this dan springer in moscow, idaho. good morning, dan. >> good morning, julie. we don't have the exact details what led the police to arrest bryan kohberger. that arrest affidavit, the public because affidavit they got signed by a judge to pick him up in pennsylvania has been sealed and will not be open until physically back in the state of idaho to fac...

China. without raising spending quite so much. we spend more than the chinese and russians together by many times. and we don't seem to have the capabilities we need. >> julie: one thing from last year will surely stick with us in 2023 stubborn and high inflation. we have been teetering on a recession for months. prices have come down slightly from the peak over the summer, but federal reserve chair powell said the u.s. is far off from stability and even slower inflation in 2023 will be hard for many households to stomach. how can americans prepare for another year of stretching dollars? >> we...

Quibble with whether the e-mail constituted intimidation. let's put that aside because i don't mean to attack woodward. i just asked about it. even the washington post is online now i don't know if it's for tomorrow or today pointing out giving obama pinocchios for saying the capitol hill janitors won't be able to work they are taking a pay cut. they are all working. they are not taking a pay cut. and i don't think americans believe that raising spending by only $2.4 trillion rather than $2.5 trillion over the next ten years is going to be devastating. it is just not an argument that can win. ...

We do need to spend more on certain things. the problem is not that part of the equation. the problem is that he's not coupling at the moment with discussion of the cuts, entitlements, other things that would need to be done. >> you cannot take the president of the united states talks about a scalpel. you cannot take a scalpel to the pentagon budget or social security or medicare. >> i agree. >> so, if he's only talking about scalpels, because listen, you've got to take a chain saw to the pentagon budget. to explosive growth and some of these entitlement programs and if you don't lead with tha...