we do not have enough money. 361 filling the economy is officially in a recession as they continue struggling with something else that is beyond doubt, inflation. democrats saying this is exactly why we need more spending but would that make potentially even worse? we are on top of it all in the rescue and recovery still going on in kentucky. the death toll they re climbing to 25 after this devastating flash flood s. where going to the very latest in the state s governor, andy beshear. welcome everyone i am at cavuto. to you. it has been a turbulent week at this far, among the growing concerns on the state of the economy. recession and doubting instills the case as with the ministration is saying. and inflation, no one doubting that is alive and well. we are on top of both in how the administration is responding to be go to david s pond with the latest. hi neil good morning. president here at the white house. if you use the word recession here on these grounds officials h
we re learning that person is matthew pottinger. and he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then-president trump s national security council. but he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn t have the courage to do what should have been done. i i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that s where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. a reminder of what that tweet said, quote, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, unquote. when trump was out of sight from the public during the riot, of course, he had time to slam his on vp on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature anywhere across this country, let alone at the capitol. and for all the hours and hours and hours of vid
look at that, there s a whole lot of crazy right there. election deniers. insurrectionists. weirdos, freaks, you have it all. the republican candidates in arizona, all of them extreme, all of them insurrectionists, all of them people who actually don t believe in american democracy. they believe in their form of government, where, well, you only recognize elections where your side wins. and this is what folks on the far right have been working on for quite some time. what this says about trumpism and the future of the republican party. also, a russian court sentences wnba star brittney griner to nine years in prison. we will have reaction from president biden and the latest on efforts to get her home. and monkeypox now declared a national public health emergency. we ll speak with a top health adviser about this later this morning. willie, we have a lot to talk about. we also have some polls out of ohio. it seems that butter is down by 10 or 11 points, according to h
may or may not match up with what you are feeling every day. we re about to get the biggest hard data dump of the summer. a multifaceted look at what the cold hard facts tell us about where the u.s. economy stands. you have these big hitters all announcing their earnings this week. it s going to be a big reflection of where we are, what we re buying out there. what we re not buying and participating in in this market. look at the reports coming out this week. it s a huge week for this summer. you have gdp, the cost of goods. perhaps the most important, consumer sentiment that we ll get at the end of this week. as you know, two quarters of gdp contraction. we ll get that second quarter gdp number. signalling a recession in the u.s. economy. the white house is changing its tune on the long-accepted benchmark. janet yellen is starting to hedge on what the definition of a recession is. with that, we bring in neil cavuto from your world. always good to have you with us. neil:
there are new record high inflation numbers. check these out. grocery prices, jumping 12%. gas soaring 49%. more than double from when he took office. there are more terrible numbers for the president. this time his poll numbers. remember the ones he says he does not check but he gets weekly polling updates? this is what he sounds. only 33% of americans approve of the job the president is doing in a new quinnipiac poll. that is a type of his record low. the president continues to blame bad media coverage and putin s more as all of these stumbles add up. even democrats are getting fed up with the president s inadequacies in office. one liberal strategist is not holding back, telling the hill this, really simple, be the bleeping president. i understand it is tough. but there are things you can do to control of the public perception and they have not done any of that. and the media is noticing. watch this. record high gas prices. 8.6. a new cycle high usurping. that was th