trickling in a few states and we still don t know the balance of power for the next few years in washington. still the president seems unfazed by this. [chanting let s go joe] president biden upbeat this afternoon during a midterm election celebration with volunteers in washington. tuesday was a good day for america. a good day democracy. a strong night for democrats. we had an election yesterday. during a post election news conference on wednesday, the president pledged to work with republicans but in the same sentence insisted he has no plans to change his game plan. the president will fly to egypt for a climate conference and then on to cambodia to meet with southeastern asian nations. he will finish in bali, indonesia where he will meet with counterparts g-20 as election results continue to trickle in stateside. he feels he is going on out on this trip with a wind to his
back. he won t meet with vladimir putin. the russian president is not expected to be there. but biden will meet with his chinese counterpart president xi jinping on monday for the first time since taking office. president biden insists he will directly confront xi about persistent chinese threats to taiwan. i m going to have that conversation with him. but it s unclear if another conversation will take place. will president biden ask president xi about the origins of covid-19? the president has always been clear of getting to the bottom of covid. i m just not going to get ahead of that conversation. when the president lands back on american soil next week, he will once again face inflation, which rose at a slower pace than expected in october. according to new numbers from the bureau of labor statistics. inflation was up 7.7% from a year ago. economists expected an 8% increase. the bottom line is what happens next month? we have seen a slowing in the past and we have seen t
desanctimonious. governor with great public relations to didn t have a close up his state but did unlike other republican governors his overall numbers for republican were just average, middle of the pack, including covid and who has the advantage of sunshine where people from badly run states from up north would go no matter hot governor was like i did. i goes on mara for a long, long time. he is pflum maxed by desantis. he doesn t quite know what to do about him. he sees the coalescing of the establishment around desantis. defuture i m sure. bret: have those front pages and also today with the trumpy dumpy following off the wall. he will have to do better n. than that screed if is he going to take on desantis. desantis has the advantage. he doesn t sound like he is going to announce for president any time soon. for some reason trump seems hell bent on making his announcement
he faced unusual attacks from the republican party on wednesday after a string of midterm losses by candidates he had hand picked and supported. a display of weakness as he prepared to announce a third presidential campaign as soon as next week. republicans have followed donald trump off the side of a cliff. david urban a long time trump adviser with ties to pennsylvania said. i mean, it is growing. you clearly have made your feelings clear, mark. about all of this analyze it from a republican party point of view. and analyze it from a race still not finished. just for perspective i say this out of sadness and not anger. i spilled more ink in the the washington post defending donald trump s policies as president than any human being alive. i m not a never trumper. i did a lot to defend him when he was president. the guy you just quoted david urban was a key adviser to trump in his transition. he is getting criticized not by the never trump world. is he getting criticized by people
and of course the most response from beijing and house speaker nancy peloton mike pelosi with the government island to be a part of the territory and shiny, the president saying public opinion cannot be violated playing with fire will set yourself on fire. the u.s. side i hope can see this clearly. the if president biden pressed president xi on the origins of covid-19. did president biden ask president xi anything about getting to the bottom of the origins of covid? the two presidents to discuss the whole security and transparency is key part of that. this has come up many times. i am saying the two presidents did discuss health security. that did come up. last year the intel committee said the possibility the virus leaked from a lab in wuhan, china, was plausible. earlier we spoke with officer