president biden: yes. you are? president biden: that s a commitment we made. it s a commitment we made. here is the situation. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. but the idea that it could be taken by force, just taken by force is just not appropriate. dana: jacqui heinrich is reporting live. those comments stole the show away from the economic message the president wanted to deliver and the white house is constantly finding themselves in this position and the president saying this on asian soil makes it different this time, jacqui. no kidding. very significant, dana. the white house is claiming that the president did not announce a policy shift but everything that we witnessed shows that it was. it was a clear break from strategic ambiguity for years has supported helping taiwan defend itself but september very vague about whether the u.s. military would come to its aid if china attacked. the question
the value of this corrupt is the meeting cannot be overstated. this theme cooked up by these men could very well be what got trump elected. tonight, rachel maddow recaps the arguments with lawrence o donnell, jen psaki, andrew weissmann, lisa rubin, and katie phang who were all inside the courthouse. and nicolle wallace, chris hayes, joy reid, ari melber, and stephanie ruhle is special coverage of trump on trial begins. , now. thank you for joining us tonight. we know you have every option in the world for where to follow the news of this remarkable moment in american history. it makes us all the more glad you are with us. i am rachel maddow and i am here with the great chris hayes and nicole wallace. the one and only lawrence o donnell who was in the courtroom today in the closing arguments in the hush money, former president donald trump, lawrence will join us in a moment. he is still down at the courthouse it will join us as soon as he can get to a camera which w
Certainty and predictability. Thats the best way to make business decisions. Having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty Corporate America is looking for. Those are some of the broader impacts. Whats the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own Press Secretary who has to go out and defend a policy shes not sure is etched in stone . Obviously shes in an impossible situation. I think what it does inside the white house, its corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. Because people know that the Decision Making process is precarious at best, that theres never a final decision thats made and theres an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. It means theres no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are halfbaked at best. This has
down. the inflation we saw is baked in the cake. if you go to the grocery store or get your gas fill-up or you buy an airline ticket or buy meat. all those things are up 15 1/2% and it will continue as we continue to have this inflation. now, wages over that same time period for middle class families are up roughly 12%. the math isn t difficult. 15% increase in inflation, 12% in wages. people are falling behind. they are feeling this. this is a middle class squeeze on americans now. harris: talk about a squeeze. retirement is becoming more difficult and really out of reach. one in five people say they do not believe they will ever be able to retire. 36% of those, 55 and older say they will be able to retire at the time that they are expected. only 36% of people.
do you think that school choice might be something that can help here? you are one of our proud high school alumni and never forget that. one of the things we look at. a simple correlation of time on task and learning. so we re working on after school math tutoring. like the rest of the country colorado math scores dropped. we want to help fund through the state across the state charter and public schools and every school after school math tutoring. great examples of choice and innovation in our state. 15 1/2% go to charter schools. there are good ones and charter schools that don t perform as well. but the fact is that we have these choices empower parents the make the best decision for their child. dana: you want to possibly eliminate the colorado state income tax. quick word on that. we saw two reductions voter