hobbes. state of the union starts right now. ? prices surge. more bad news on inflation just weeks from election day. folks are still struggling. we can t kid ourselves about that. how long will prices stay high? and will voters trust the president to fix it? white house economic adviser cecilia rouse is next. midterm match-ups, as voters start to cast their ballots, we ll look at two key contests. arizona governor s race with republican kari lake and democratic katie hobbs. i m proud of the work we did in 2020. as biden makes a swing out west i love being in colorado. we ll talk to that state s democratic senator michael bennet and his republican opponent joe o dea. president biden debates how to punish one global power and keep another from deadly escalation. the threats and the u.s. response with national security adviser jake sullivan. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wondering what the country will look like i
cut for american workers getting less for their money. gas prices continue to climb. federal reserve expected to continue the rate hike. what is the administration going to do to get inflation under control. gerad bernstein. good to have you on. i wish we had better news. i m certain you wish this was better news. but at the heart of this is the core inflation number. and when it comes to core inflation, that does not include energy or food but yet that number is the highest we ve seen since 1982. sir, is it time for this white house and the biden administration to pivot on its economic policies? no, i think what we have is the white house, the federal reserve, we are acutely aware of the pressures that this causes on american families and budgets. the president started out this morning by talking about how americans are squeezed by the cost of living and they didn t need this report to remind them of it but it is certainly in the report. i asked you that question and you
normal world, she would be the lead guest for the first half hour of the show. it s a very big deal having the un ambassador here, but we also have a ron kaine we may have heard of, white house chief of staff. and the man of the hour, the day, the week and possibly some weeks to come, geoffrey berman is going to lead us off. murders, right nays in. guest is one of those. nights it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possib
, right next guest. is one of those nights. it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possible. just when you think you can t be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the u.s. attorney general the southern district of new york was starting and then geoffrey berman come back, you can t fire me was even more stunning, and ultimately jeffrey berman s in that hour you described it just kind of indescribably important. wh
times higher than when president biden took office. bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly o grady has the latest on the possible rail strike and edward lawrence reporting on the inflation news from the white house. the inflation year-over-year 8.3% ticks down a little bit. the federal reserve would like to see the number around 2%. the federal reserve is going to be focused on the core inflation. inflation without food and energy prices. that number went up for the first time in five months and rose substantially to 6.3%. that will spook the federal reserve. the biden administration will tout the overall