president biden may not be joking giving the other disaster he has created here at home. a whopping 85% of the country says america is on the wrong track. and that includes 78% of democrats. apparently president biden is irritated by elect of party enthusiasm when it comes to a potential second term for him. the new york times reporting that the president is irked a by democrats, going to take yes for an answer on 2024. that times adding the president and his top aides have been stunned by the question about his plans, irritated at what they say is a lack of respect from their party and the press. but despite all the odds, kamala harris is trying to instilled confidence in that sinking ship. vice president harris: joe biden is running for reelection and i will be his ticket. full stop. jeanine: as the democrats panic over their prospects, the media things hillary clinton will be the one to build him out. cnn has begun to push for two-time prudential loser to make an
statement claiming that two consecutive quarters of falling gdp are not the official definition of a recession. sounds like they are expecting those reports to show two straight quarters of falling gdp. but with inflation surging to a new 40-year high just last month, some call the administration s talking points out of touch and they re out of time to turn this boat around if they don t start focusing on the right things. a comment from treasury secretary janet yellen. this is not in the economy that s in recession. we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that s necessary and appropriate. a recession is a broad-based contraction that affects many sectors of the economy. we just don t have that. martha: oh, remember when she was apologizeing for saying transitory. larry summers knows the truth. i think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we ve been in this kind of situation before, recession has essentially always followed when infla
set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but under pressure to take part in talks with the unions it says it won t. train operating companies have to settle this. i don t think there is any need for the strikes at all and i appeal directly to people working for the railways, you are being led down a cul de sac by the union leadership telling you there is no pay rise when there is, trying to create some kind of class war when there is none to be had. we want people to be paid more, we want to sensible reforms and modernisation of our railways so we can run it for the passengers. the government says it has spent billions propping up the railways in the pandemic and it now wants to see them modernised. the union which was part of the cost
the weekday. laura: okay, that makes sense. as long as we are on your dvr, i m totally cool with what you have. sean: i can prove it to you. i ll take a picture. laura: my kids are coming to check on that, thank you, sean. great show as always. all right, i m laura ingraham and the ingraham angle from washington tonight. thanks for being here. skipping to 2024, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now frantically trying to shake off his lame duck status, joe biden s busy rallying support in the senate. headline in the hill tells the story, democratic senator say biden is not too old for a second term. senators are trying to sound enthusiastic about the soon to be octogenarian. greg kuhn said i look forward to working hard for joe biden in 2024. come on. bob casey predicted he is to be the nominee and he s going to be strong. but they know what we know, come on. there is no momentum out there. at the risk of political rigor mortis holds over biden, attentions already t
policies on capitol hill this week. telling lawmakers the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan contributed only modestly to higher prices even as she acknowledged inflation levels are unacceptably high. 8% inflation is an unacceptable inflation rate in the united states and it is president biden s number one objected to get that out. paul: let s bring in cabot former chairman of the council of economic advisers at the white house and distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution. welcome kevin. so peak inflation. everyone has said it has picked it has picked looks like it is peaking or that peaking keeps going to higher peaks. what is everybody missing in the markets? everybody really isn t everybody. if you look at google searches for inflation then my friend joe sullivan did a really interesting piece where he correlated google search for inflation with the inflation rate. right now americans are searching at the rate they would do if inflation were 9% which is