share of the adult population which is as broad of a metric as you can get, it fell continuously from 2,000 down to where it is now. it was at 64 1/2% when clinton led off office. it s been a bad period and there s no sign of it reramping. if you look at gdp, real gdp vis-a-vis trends, it s at the lowest level since 1947. we re about 4, $4.5 trillion below that trend. those are the two broadest measures that i can think of. i m sure in iowa one corn producer is producing more than last time but in the broad sense, this is the single worst recovery in u.s. history. there s no sugar coating it or anything that will make this president look like a good president for the economy. it just didn t happen. charles payne said something interesting at the outset of the show. the idea that we may not be firing on all cylinders but we re the tallest mijdgets in a
april 17, 1964. weren t these the cars that blew up on impact? that was later. different car? yeah. that was the pinto. take us to the first car. we brought several different cars out here. so this is actually car that was built right about 50 years ago, in may, 1964. they called it a 64 1/2 mustang. this was the car that changed everything. why 64 1/2? they only built half a year that first year. cause 65 was the first full production year. and they flew out of dealerships. it was incredible. it was a whole new model for ford, a compact car, long hood, short lid. but they didn t have a lot of power. it wasn t until this next year that they this ask 1966? 66. this was the carol shelby, brought in to help turn the mustang into a real sports car.
blast. they estimate the sled goes as fast as 30 miles an hour. olympic lugers can go 90. that s how they got their start, right? here s one for the record books. we just learned today that a latvian illusionist spent 64 1/2 hours in a six-foot square ice cube. latviaen reportedly staggered out and was taken to the hospital. if true that would break american illusionist s david blaine s record of 63 hours. we are waiting to hear from president obama. there is joe biden, of course. as we mentioned, this is ash wednesday. he s wearing the ashes on his forehead. vice president biden is a drought catholic. but the vice president continued his remarks about the economic stimulus that the obama administration signed a year ago. the president has now been introduced, as can see, the