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president, not george w. bush, his father. i'm christine romans, this is "early start." just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. >> i'm 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went -- >> jim, tha...

Tech layoff thing we're seeing. let talk about people's spending patterns. i think there are a lot of americans who won't cry champagne tears for rich people, but what are we seeing in terms of how spending patterns are changing along the income strata? >> so for example during the 2008 and 2009 recession, you really would not have -- you wouldn't want to own any stocks, but especially any that was sort of entry level luxury or let's say own stock in eatery that catered to the well to do. something like cheesecake factory. but when we came out of it, those things actually did better. so all th...