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and the other people yesterday who received the medal of freedom from president biden and a very emotional and touching ceremony and for loser of the week elon musk and very possibly the shareholders of twitter after he said tonight that he was pulling out of his deal to buy that social media company. mike: all right, leslie, your turn. i m going to go loser first. marjorie taylor greene for once again being insensitive to victims and victims families when when she is alluding to the highland park shooting as being a false flag. and winners, well i m going to say my state and the governor of my state gavin newsom is going to make insulin affordable to those who need it. mike: all right, ben, bring us home. boris johnson is my loser for the week. really a disappointment in terms of his tenure as prime minister, though it is rather ridiculous as mccullough told us to see the british people go through a moralistic fit now and then. my winner for the week is exreal flo rida and th
the s&p 500 fell 3, nasdaq added 14. for the week the dow gained three quarters of a percent. the s&p 500 was up nearly 2%. nasdaq added 4.5%. former white house counsel to president trump pat cipollone was on capitol hill today with for a closed door interview january 6th capitol riot committee. cipollone was on the west wing the day of the attack and key meetings days after the election. members were expected to ask the attorney what he witnessed in the final days of the trump administration when the former president and his allies allegedly tried to overturn the election. the army says roughly 40,000 national guardsmen and 22,000 reservists refusing to get vaccinated against covid-19 will be barred from their duties effectively cutting their pay and benefits. secretary of defense lloyd austin warned members of such consequences back in november. fox news could not immediately reach the army for comment. the biden administration is admitting that texas border
party, people like seeing gas prices come down as they have been for days now. people like seeing unemployment low and staying steady and people like seeing job creation and jobs report better than it s been. i m hoping that s going to transcend to higher approval rating for the president. all the american people see is doom and gloom in the headlines especially when it comes to the words inflation or recession that still scares them. we are not out of the scary waters yet. this is definitely good news. i say that as a pessimist. mike: ben, solid jobs number but inflation is pretty brutal, your thoughts? i think there is very little hope for the democratic coalition to change the narrative as people look at the situation around the country. there is much more reason to be pessimistic in this moment than there is to be optimistic about the direction of the economy and i don t think that you are going to see any of that change in time to further democratic hopes in november. mike:
house correspondent for reuters. since you are on the north lawn, jeff, let s start with you. the state of the american economy four months ahead of midterm election day? well, mike, the labor market is strong and that s certainly something that they emphasized today from the white house and from the administration. but as the president said in the clip that you played that doesn t mean they don t think there is work to do. as we have discussed before, inflation is obviously very high and americans are feeling that. but, the advantage, i guess, of the labor market being strong if there is a recession, it could mean that it would be a mild one. on the other hand, it could also will likely mean that the fed will have a pretty hefty rate hike coming up. so, there are pros and cons to that. but as at least they see some glimmers of hope here today. mike: leslie, you are outside the beltway what s the feels in terms of the american economy on the west coast? well, not just on the we