it s a real bump in the road. the building back better plan has no impact on the kind of inflation we are talking about right now. it doesn t make it better, it doesn t make it worse. what it does is it eases long-term inflationary pressure. do not sell allied to the american people, it is a lie to say these programs cost 1.75 trillion because it s a lie. the combination of historic ties in inflation and the true cost of this bill should require the democratic party to abandon build back better. mike: consumer prices surged at the fastest pace nearly four decades in november, let s take a look at the numbers year-over-year. up 6.8%, energy up 33.3%. gasoline up to 58.1%, and beef up nearly 21% two with that, let s bring in our panel, ben
lawmakers blocking efforts to fix flooding problems as the sea swallows parts of their districts. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we start with our money lead and an economic record the united states did not want to hit. data out today shows a key measure of inflation climbed to a 39-year high last month. simply purt, americans are payig a lot more for everyday goods than they were at this time last year. gasoline prices up 58.1%. energy costs 33.3% higher. and groceries an increase of 6.4%. president biden this afternoon saying he thinks we re at the peak of the crisis right now and that lower prices are on the way. but as cnn s phil mattingly reports, this new date creates a major roadblock for the rest of the president s economic agenda. every other aspect of the economy is racing ahead.
of the year of the famous ball drop in times square? is it a, 1907, b, 1917, or c, 1927? lose a point. get it wrong. 33.3 chance of getting it right. i have no idea what the answer is. so i m going to split the difference and go with 1917. mark: you re going to go with 1917, the first year the ball dropped in times square, roll the tape. to get the ball drop ready, it takes so much work and preparation. but this is such a story tradition in new york city. the ball has been dropping in times square since 1907. in mark: of.
number. [applause] unemployment among african-americans, asian-americans and hispanic-americans have all reached their lowest levels in the history of our country. [applause] over the last two years, the up employment rate unemployment rate among indian-americans dropped by nearly 33.3%. wages are rising, incomes are soaring and inequality is falling at the fastest rate in many, many years. in the past 12 months alone, the average worker has taken home $1,000 extra in rising wages and over $3,000 with tax cuts and all of the other things that we ve done. and for the first time in
middle and undecided? here are the two numbers that matter. he dropped two points in this poll on a conviction with manafort and a guilty plea with cohen, he only need two or more of those to be down in the 30s. number two, the big number they keep touting is 90% of republican support donald trump. when you do the math, that s only 33.3% of all the voters in the country. you cannot win an election with 33.3%. the place to go shopping as independent and 58% of them don t like him. eric: almost 60% disapprove disapprove. meka saw a lot of panels of people telling the elections are a game of addition, you simply cannot win even with where the republican party, all of those predictions were wrong. pennsylvania, they were voters who did not want to talk to pollsters and i would consider among them the independents, the trump democrats didn t want to talk to pollsters who supported the president, he won the election despite that.