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Everything is getting smaller except the price.

>> it is really what companies are doing as a head fake to consumers instead of making a price more expensive, which they are afraid to push consumers away, they're making the product smaller for the same price. cottonelle, soft tissue, 340 sheets, to 315 sheets. kleenex, 65 to 62, 18 ounces to 15 ounces and you buy the same stuff and pay the same amount, i guess it is not inflation. it is shrink flation. >> and when you're taking fritos out of my bag, that is a real problem. speaking of taking fritos out ofpy bag. what is this food delivery stuff. mika is concerned about the french fries abou...

What has he done to prevented the war? he should have seen that was going to happen. that it would affect gas prices. that it would affect the wheat production in europe. we know that ukraine is the breadbasket. he hasn't done anything, didn't do anything to prevent the war. he has done nothing to even bring about peace in this, you know, war, bring some sort of negotiation to end it and get the world -- we're going to see, frankly not just america that will be affected. we'll see potentially famine in places because of the wheat situation. lots of bad things happening. joe biden saying not my...

Living, right? where's the task force on inflation? where's the energy around that because that's what everyone is talking about when i sit down with them. jackie: kristin, are you worried that democrats are in some trouble on this issue? >> well, and i watched that whole interview, and i think tata she is just a really just valuable member of the democrat caucus and agree with everything that she said. any -- inflation hurts people. the very first question you asked the first panelist, yes, everybody's feeling it. and it's always politicized in the person and the people and the party in power...

Possible. >> five out of six people say they feel worse than when the president took office. that's not good for the president and his message is the economy is booming, this is temporary and there's nothing to see here and that's contradicting the truth of most americans sitting around the table saying, listen, i feel worse about the economy. i don't trust the stock market right now, i think we're in for big trouble, in for a correction and people don't feel secure in our place in the world. all across the board. the president continues to say look, i inherited the worst economy ever when he ...