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responses that require an immediate clarification from jen psaki and a walkback the next day from the president himself. here s what he said in the news conference. one thing, if it s a minor incursion and we enup having a fight about what to do and not do, etc., my guess is he will move in. he has to do something. howard: a good time to call in a veteran of press conferences, ari fleischer, form former bush white house press secretary and fox news contributor. ari fleischer, welcome. thank you. howard: presidents misspeak all the a time, but the press really made president biden s ukraine comment the story from the moment the news conference ended. what made it so urgent rain so newsworthy? welk i think what happened well, i think what happened was the reaction to it was instant and so critical that the press realized it was an obvious, bad mistake. i mean, how d, it was such a bad mistake when he said minor incursion would be different, even a reporter followed up
spoke earlier to ari fleischer former bush white house press secretary and fox news contributor from new york. ari fleischer, welcome. thank you, howard. howie: one thing that reporters love to cover as you know is the legislative sausage making but an area that has gotten extraordinarily little media scrutiny president biden proposing to spend $6 trillion on a vast a ray of programs and no one in the press seems to care about the exploding deficit and debt. why do they not care about that. they not only care, reporters tell people that don t worry about the debt and deficits because interest rates are low. i have seen many reporters tell people on cnn the deficit don t matter any longer. both parties walked away from a commitment to deficit reduction. howie: precisely. picking up that reflection, not banging them over it but the other thing, howard, that they re doing, many in the press
the party should be proud that i gave republicans a run for their money on g.o.p. turf and added they should not agonize but instead organize the left ahead of of the midterms. martha. martha: thank you very much. joining me now, dana perino, former bush white house press secretary and cohost of the five. good to see you out on the set here. wow. they went after nancy pelosi really hard. it was swift. if you think about, she lost the majority in 2010, doesn t get it back in 2012, doesn t get it back in 2016, now, they are going into 2018, and a year, i think this is a wave election for democrats, it is increasingly out of reach for them unless major things happen, obviously, there are contingencies. i think that republicans could be in a position to increase the number of seats they have in the senate, in particular, if you look at where the races are happening, missouri. claire mccaskill is up for reelection, she s a big hillary clinton supporter.
for the gop in a wall street journal editorial this morning while relaying a message to mr. trump saying former bush white house press secretary arry fliesher is the president of fleisher communications. let me get down to news about the carrier plant. donald trump took credit for something he really didn t need to take credit for. ford was never closing the plant and moving it to mexico. they were closing an assembly line and moving it down and replacing it. now he is saying he is doing this with carrier. for 40 years, we have been losing manufacturing jobs in this country. badgering two companies during the campaign and claiming you have stopped them from doing something is not solving the underlying problem.