streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in
let s talk to steve more about this. steve, the problem is inflation is at decades high. recession around the corner. it s a heck of a one-two punch. you better believe it. the good news is that the inflation rate has come down a little bit the last two or three months, charles. that s good news. we went from almost 9% inflation this past summer to now we re down to about 7.1%. as you just said, that is still the highest inflation rate we ve had in 35, 40 years. so americans are feeling the punch. their wages and salaries have only gone up by 5 or 6%. that s one of the reasons that you reported that credit card debt is going up. people are trying to maintain their standard of living but paychecks are not keeping pace. i m nervous. i think inflation will come down in 2023 from the high rates of 2022. but i also think that the economy shows real signs of slowing down. i pray we don t crash into a recession. but we sure could. charles: steve, that s what i m concerned about.
it was a long and frank s phone call with blinking, giving words of encouragement, telling him to keep the faith as well as they continue to work to bring them home. his brother, david, also spoke to cnn and says they viewed this as a very positive step. i think that the secretary of state is obviously sending a message and that message is for paul and for our family, the u.s. government is continuing to advocate for him and his release. it s a message for the kremlin, not the u.s. government has not let up and their foreign-policy person is willing to call a prisoner which is astounding. russia is not responded in a way to the proposal raised so far to bring them home. we will keep you posted. the culture war fights, they have landed in the library. a wyoming public library, firing its head librarian after removing certain books. the board alleges were sexually
desantis chose to launch his campaign not during a campaign rally, not on televised events, but on twitter.com. with elon musk. and why? maybe because musk and twitter are the best audience for the desantis brand crusade against woke. i view the wokeness as a form of cultural marxism. it goes back to this woke mind virus that infected the left and all these other institutions. we will never surrender to the woke mob, florida is where woke goes today. to say it is now officially at 2024 contender is knee-deep in this kind of impenetrable sphere of contemporary right-wing online culture war fights. fighting the woke mine virus aligns quite well with twitter. it s new owner, elon musk, has turned the platform into a right-wing forum, where you also rails against the woke mind virus, the same ideology embraced by desantis. florida governor as apparently trapped in this online cultural woke bubble, has chosen, for
and why? maybe because musk and twitter are the best audience for the desantis brand crusade against woke. i view the wokeness as a form of cultural marxism. it goes back to this woke mind virus that infected the left and all these other institutions. we will never surrender to the woke mob, florida is where woke goes today. to say it is now officially at 2024 contender is knee-deep in this kind of impenetrable sphere of contemporary right-wing online culture war fights. fighting the woke mine virus aligns quite well with twitter. it s new owner, elon musk, has turned the platform into a right-wing forum, where you also rails against the woke mind virus, the same ideology embraced by desantis. florida governor as apparently