[cheers and applause] he spends so much of his time as president on vacation, we might as well make it permanent. harris: the man we have yet to see on the campaign trail, joe biden, is out front in the democrat primary. it has been more than a month since the re-election announcement. is president biden going to hold a campaign event ever? so i will say this to you, peter, as you know, we follow the rule of law here. you can t say if he will be campaigning for re-election. i am not going to comment from here. another story harris: it wouldn t be a wednesday if she didn t mention the hatch act although she does talk politics as times. the woke stuff comes up. the former president still has a sizeable lead over the governor from florida. but six points smaller than earlier this month. this washington examiner piece sums it up. the pre-game is over between the two. desantis taking the opportunity to throw a jab at trump. he used to say how great florida was.
conflicts and the border was relatively secure for the most part. harris: yes to all of that. maybe with an exclamation point on a couple of them. unemployment wasn t just manageable. it was the lowest in more than 50 years for the black community in particular. the border wasn t just manageable. the former president stemmed the tide to figure out who is coming in legitimately on asylum and so on and so forth. a lot of things. that inflation 1.4. democrats say inflation is coming down. and unemployment is low. there is a distinction that has to be made and republicans haven t honed in on the message. unemployment is low but wages are not any better. an individual may have found a job but the question must be asked should the average american person you have that job, but are you now able to
people. so i m thankful for the leadership harris: we ve been watching on the hill and you see what s going on there. it has gotten really incendiary with the rhetoric, hakeem jeffries saying the republicans are determined to take down the country. that wasn t the worst of what he said. i want to bring in house speaker kevin mccarthy, republican of california in focus now. this has turned out to be quite a show. first of all, your response to hakeem jeffries throwing fuel on an already burning fire. i understand they are upset about the bill that we were able to get. today we ll make history. this will be the largest cut ever voted on in american history through congress. 2.1 trillion. it doesn t solve our problems but it is the first step in the right direction. remember, when we went to negotiate, more than 100 days ago, february 1st i sat down with the president and he said he would never negotiate and 97
the bottom has dropped out of the labor market. we ve got more wealth for wealth holders, bad economy and less work for workers than any time in memory. chris: tucker: what s so frustrated reading living in washington is being bombarded with fake statistics, the un-employment rate looks like an antique in text devised for some earlier in increasingly distant war. the economic equivalent of a musket inventory or a cavalry account, why is it a false statistic? it s misleading, the pieces in it are fine but they re telling you the wrong thing. back in the days where we had a dickensian world where guys could have a job or had to be looking for one, unemployment wasn t a bad way of looking at things. there s a third way now which is neither working nor looking for work and that s been the fastest growing demographic group of working age men for 50 years. there are now three times as many guys in prime working age
distortion of reality, that unemployment wasn t that important, that the country was getting better, that the kind of garbage you got from goolsbee earlier, pretending that obama hasn t increased spending by 20%. goolsbee uses the disingenuous comment that the spending this year versus last year, gdp maybe lower, he s trying to pat himself on the back with that and the media aids and abets that. you know, they never vetted this president in 2007 and 8. i mean, i don t know how any republican could be friends with bill ayers and only get one question, only one in the course of an entire year and a half campaign and they ever a follow-up for the lie that he told in relation to that question. i don t know how he never got called out on, he said the cut the deficit in half. gave us 6 trillion in debt. basic simple questions, they don t want to do their job. how does democracy function now?