today joe biden will be taken his message on the road at a rally in new mexico this evening. and donald trump also returns to the campaign trail today holding a rally in iowa which, yes, has a senate race on the ballot but trump s trip may be about much more than that. let s start at the white house. m.j. lee is live at this hour. biden s speech last night, what are you hearing about it today? well the president kbbelieve we re at a generational inflation point. he said it is more than politicals and more than me and the election. back in 2020, and more than the election coming up next week. he said it is about future of our country. he began his remarks notably by talking about this violent attack against paul pelosi which authorities now say was politically motivated. and he condemned in the strongest language possible election deniers, candidates on
that s where they re seeing it. i think we ll see maybe republicans benefit from this inflation point but it is not because they have been pitching policies rather than they are the beneficiaries of a tough economic environment and a tough midterm year for democrats. that s a really good point. eva, i want to show you this. this is in mesa, arizona. armed men wearing masks, tactical gear, as they keep a watchful eye over a ballot drop box. maricopa county officials are calling the men, quote, uninformed vigilantes. those officials accuse them of disrupting the voting process and voters say they are feeling intimidated. eva, is this the part of a radical new playbook? it certainly seems like it, pam. it does in fact appear intimidating. you don t want to see that when you show up to vote. i will say the part that we re seeing voting rights groups play at least here on the ground in georgia is working overtime to educate their voters.
supply isn t high enough. and when that happens, prices rise. only way to solve it is more supply or less demand. you ve called some of these proposals from democrats against price gouging as a little bit, quote, gimmicky. and i wonder about your take for example on senator ron widen has said let s tax excess. first of all, i don t know what you determine how excess is. but i wonder if you actually think that that would make a meaningful difference or if that is missing the point here on the inflation point. look, at this point if you want to bring oil prices down, you need to increase oil supply. if you want to increase oil supply, you need to make it easier and more predictable for oil company, oil refiners, to build capacity in this country. don t think excess profits tax is the way to encourage, you
different responses. and we get back to the inflation point because it s a so seminal. people have recently told surveyors from the fellow federal reserve, that they judge their financial conditions as the most comfortable they have been in the history of that survey, that started in 2013. so people looking at their balance sheets argue that they are financially much more stable. and the fingerprints of the american rescue plan, of president biden s efforts, are all over that result. you ask people about the job market. they ll say the same thing. now, on inflation, mehdi, here is where the message that we need to get through to people. i think the president has been hammering on this, is that we are doing everything we can to help. as you see, with my age, i worked for many different white houses. i ve never been part of the white house who s trying to do more to help ease inflation i m jumping in, only because we are out of time, jarred. i have to ask you about inflation. it s a
whatever fees you want to use, on the economy. the media has too much going on the media coverage of the economy has not been great. but the fact that the economy is broadly doing very well, and yet the american public disagrees with that view is surely also the result of a major messaging failure hold on, let me finish the question. it s surely that result of a major messaging failure by the white house or the democrats and congress. yeah, i think that probably could way too much emphasis on messaging, versus what people see when they zhao drive down to work up twice a block, when they look up and see the price of gasoline. but at the same time, what i want to correct is that, if you get under the hood of some of these polls you are talking about, you actually find some different responses. and we get back to the inflation point because it s a seminal. people have recently told surveyors from the fellow reserve, that they judge their financial conditions as the