hill, wrong track, disaster, hard times on both sides of the aisles. ashley: that is how americans feel but alexandria hoff with a brand-new tweet from the president who is getting a lot of reaction this morning, hi, alex. the message from the white house is don t worry about those hard times in uncertainty about the bank account because a person is feeling positive. i don t make my word as biden i ve never been more optimistic about america s future than today. the president takes the online because those were not biden s 71% of plain old americans believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction. according to nbc news poll. 60% said their income is falling behind the cost of living. omar president and ceo bill simon. we have to get this inflation under control. another year of high single digit, low double-digit inflation and we are going to be in a world of hurt because inflation hurts 100% of the population. a recession might hurt 2%, 3% that have lost their job
the faulkner focus. all the white house talk, the prices for food, energy, getting a haircut, everything going up still consumer price index for february up 6% from last year, coming off that high of 9.1% last june. so this is really slow with housing prices sky high, the fed threatening to ep coo raising interest rates to cool down inflation. new word the fed is using today, maybe they ll do that. who is to blame for america s second largest bank collapse in history and the deep economic mess we re in right now? the old go-to, our democratic president is pointing a finger at former president trump. president biden: thanks to quick action of my administration, americans can confidence the banking system is safe. during the biden administration we put in place tough requirements on banks to make sure the crisis of 2008 would not happen again. the last administration rolled back some of the requirements. harris: republicans demanding accountability and raising concerns th
clearance to receive the document. lucas tomlinson has the latest. good morning. lucas: good morning, ashley and todd. u.s. officials say a leading theory is that the leaks came from a disgruntled contractor similar to snowden. the timeline, 53 documents posted online many between february 23rd and march 1, some date back to january. secret arms deal between egypt and russia and the docs come from cia and nsa, and e-mails about evidence dropping on south korea and israel and reveal ukraine will run out of air defense missiles by the end of may. here is john kirby. we are all working at this very, very hard and trying to get answers to find out where this breach occurred. i don t know and it would be foolish to determine how long that will take. lucas: in taiwan, china launched aircraft to carry out simulated attacks and beijing says piwant president has become a pawn of the u.s., saying tsai ing-wen sided with the united states, pushing taiwan to stormy seas. senator ma
by more than 20% in this past quarter compared to the same time last year. it is a big number but not totally unexpected because the company has been slashing prices of its top selling vehicles over the past year. top-selling vehicles over the past year- top-selling vehicles over the ast ear. :: , ,, past year. bringing in 20% less income is past year. bringing in 20% less income is well, past year. bringing in 20% less income is well, not past year. bringing in 20% less income is well, not good. - past year. bringing in 20% less j income is well, not good. what helps the electric car maker however is that it warned wall street this was coming. so it didn t come as a complete surprise, giving tessa cut prices on its top selling cars several times last year. in fact did it again this week. tesla is grappling with higher borrowing costs for consumers, slowing demand for their cars and so much more competition in the electric car market. the price cuts did the trick, th
payloads with final information on the capabilities. todd: alexandria hoff joins us with the latest, alex. todd, ashley, good morning. the payload where the evidence was found, the fbi official says that remains underwater. what has been recovered at this point the wiring and small electronics. the u.s. officials believe the u.s. surveillance within tan is the intercept and listen in on american conversations. according to the pentagon for we know the people s republic of china gives these balloons for surveillance. high-resolution imagery the fly altitude balloons with intelligence operations. senates briefing, jon tester pushed for answers from the biden administration. i want to know if we knew what the chinese were trying to collect with that balloon come up with that reconnaissance ballooned. senator, thank you for the question. what we can probably get into details and a classified setting. you can say yes or no. you don t have to get into specifics, do we kno