about this process in the year to come. more contentious. uncomfortable in a congress where it is so much division among the republican ranks to say nothing of overall. and it is going to be a lot of bashing going on and we re heading into a debt ceiling crisis or deadline, at least. may or june, june or july. the fed would love to see that resolved. the economy doesn t need any more head winds than what it has right now. inflation is a big problem. they ll try to deal with that. they have a plan to deal with that. progress however is slow and that s frustraing to people, like watching me try to get to my goal weight. can t measure it in years, though. we ll see. you re doing pretty well. douglas holtz eakin, thank you. thank you for being with us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow us online on facebook and twitter. chris jansing will be here right after these messages. s jansing t after these messages reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your
surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons, neurosurgeons didn t get a lot of sleep last night. sorry. so many people that just came in. reporter: again, the pain reverberating here through the msu community, including the doctors who were treating the wounded coming into the hospital. all that in mind, let s switch to anthony mcrae. police say his motive appears to be a mystery. he is not a student. he is 43 years old. he is not a staff member. they say they frankly don t know or at least are not prepared to say what they believe his motive was for picking this campus on this day. a new detail that s creating shock across the country is that police have confirmed there was
villain. i understand elections. but be the president for once. this is what i did, this is disappointing me, this is what s worrying me. the big picture, when i look around, meet with european leaders, we re doing better than pretty much everyone, except inflation with japan. jeanine: okay. all right. jesse? jesse: the economy is about feel. the economy doesn t feel good because wages are down. last year s stock market was down year to year. we re not making money as of last year. and if you add the gas prices and nasty inflation, and the fact they had to jack up mortgage rates, you can t afford to buy a house, it s like renter nation. there is good stuff. he had a good gdp number. he had stronger gdp numbers last year. there s consumer spending. job numbers are strong, but
just i m not calling it curiosity the search, but that that was meant to sort of lead to a follow-up apprehension, right? absolutely. what we found in this case, neil, is law enforcement did the an extraordinarily good job of keeping everything close to their vest, and they put together this case very well. we also know that kohberger, who had pennsylvania tags, went and got right after these murders tags of washington state. so there was a lot that was going on behind the scene that we did not know about and quite naturally the public doesn t always know everything that law enforcement is doing. but in this instance, law enforcement appeared to have been moving at a slow pace, and the public and the families were with very frustrated because they wanted somebody brought to justice. and now we have bryan kohberger
republican party itself within the house, so how is that political backdrop for you and business right now? well, first of all, the economy doesn t look good. i understand that up employment is down unemployment is down, but we have so many people out of the work force that it s causing havoc. you know, job creators network, which i created, had put out a report, they did the a survey and over 60% of small businesseo remember, neil, 70% of the businesses out there the are small businesses. these are pizza places, laundromat, barbershops, all of these people are really struggling. they can t find people to work, and many of hem feel they re not going to survive. so it s a serious matter, and we still have inflation looking us in the face.