regards to immigration and as he's doing that actively from the white house. >> all right. less, to be fair here, the economy -- the picture is not all deem and gloom. we're looking being on track to grow 5.7% this year. average earnings up 3.5%. six million jobs between january and october. some of the numbers there. the sore spot, the rub in this, being inflation. liz, over to you. >> so i think a couple things. the economy is not in bad shape at all, in fact. and it shouldn't be. we've had unprecedented monetary stimulus and unbelievable amount of fiscal stimulus. the balance sheet of the central banks and europe and the united states are double what they were a year ago.