with the 9% inflation. ainsley: why aren t people working? don t they need the money? steve: you would think so. brian: it seems as though they have since the pandemic, people have not come back to work. i don t go to a restaurant without having for how much trouble are you having with labor. things got marginally better when kids got back from high school and college. for the most part kids don t feel like they have to work. some people feel as though they don t have to rush back to work because they have gotten some pandemic money along the way. a couple of things. i couldn t believe over 60% of the country live paycheck to paycheck. now if you live paycheck to paycheck. $2 a gallon matters. going tout eat is not going to happen. going to go to a different place. so it all ripples down. the one thing the administration points to and they are right. unemployment is at 3.4%. with the interest rates keep going up, if people keep adjusting their lifestyle, that jobs number is g
problem after all? they called you and some of your reporting out when they commented on the hunter biden laptop prior to the election. saying this, quote: we don t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories and we don t want to waste the listener s and reader s time that are just pure distraction. yes, hard corps emails that could have been verified with a phone call that disinformation team said that s disinformation. that s a joke. they have absolutely nothing to recommend them as disinformation gurus. they should stay out of the business. they are just propagandist. they are one of the worst in the media. brian: absolutely. miranda devine, thanks so much. thanks, brian. brian: as i said earlier i think the biden family named your book because it s certainly the laptop from hell is certainly putting them through hell. soon they have to being a knowledge it thanks so much, miranda. meanwhile, i like to check in with meteorologist janice dean. she has promis
these officers made. baltimore second in the country homicide per capita. mocking news outlets for covering the crisis. no one can account for the whereabouts of future states attorney marilyn mosby. welcome to the magic mile new hampshire speedway underway. smoke, a big crash. the checkered flag, christopher belle wins. brian: sunrise. what is going on. ainsley: what a big city. brian: airport? ainsley: today 72. brian: a dry 72. ainsley: oh, wait, is it raining there now?
get accomplished? the advance team knew ahead of time that he was not actually going to get them to pump more out because at the end the saudis said we don t have more to pump. what he was able to do for five days change the subject. changed the subject away from his job performance and inflation which is eating us all alive. ainsley: we were watching him fist pump the saudi crowned prince. steve: never thought about that. ainsley: hat in hand begging for more oil. brian: couple of things. i think by any president of the united states has to have a relationship with saudi arabia. in that area they are the sunni the king of the sunni muslims. no doubt about it. what they say goes. they got the money. they got the oil. and if we want to bring the price of oil down, that should have been one of the things on the agenda. he has waited a year and a half to go there. clean-up is unheard of for an american president.
knew it. that s i m not excusing uvalde and the police but my goodness you have got to be able to protect people. have you got to stop that next kid from blowing up. you have got step in. steve: you know what s very telling as you look at what happened in uvalde. on the 24th of may. and then you look at what happened last night in indiana, where a guy with a gun in a mall food court starts shooting, there is a guy nearby with a gun, and he took care of him. ainsley: he had it legally. steve: he had it legally. you know, and then it could have been stopped so much sooner. ainsley: what s heart breaking when you watch the video of uvalde and you know there are children in there and hearing the gun go off at like 45 minutes in. an hour in. and the gun is still going off. and they are not storming in and you know that children are dying and those lives could have been spared if they just rushed into that room in the very beginning. brian: in fact, one person i saw interviewed y