extraordinarily elevated due to putin s price hike. bret: they can say putin price hike as many times as they want but the bottom line is they are forecasting a big number tomorrow. above 8%. listen, the fed would not be looking to raise their base rate federal 50 bases point twice as much multiple times if inflation wasn t worse than what they re really saying. i don t get what they have done to make it better. they haven t done much to make it better. read jamie diamond s letter ceo of j.p. morgan all the spending coming out of washington and to the fact that we have problematic inflation. he also reappointed jerome powell who was late on the game with inflation. and you know, listen, i covered the markets. i often cover the doing market and politics and i grew up in this 170s. the party in power during inflation never fares well in
cdc guidelines. house speaker nancy pelosi wasn t at the dinner but tested upon and is now negative. speaker thanked well wishers for chocolates and chicken soup. still before testing positive speaker pelosi kissed biden on the cheek. hamstringing democrats try to present the optic that the democratic is improving but asking congress for more covid funding and selectively adhering to protocols tweeting a president of vice president harris not wearing a mask around president biden despite one of her top staffers testing positive. there were moments when she was not wearing a mask inside, including in a photo. but she was wearing it 9 # .9% of the time. i would note the president and the vice president have both tested negative in the last 24 hours. the white house contends pelosi s presidential peck on the cheek didn t count as close contact under the cdc s guidance of being around someone for 15 minutes in 24 hours. talked about 15 cumulative minutes as if this is radiation
and i want to say happy birthday. you look fantastic for 91, this is one of my highlights of my broadcasting career with you. thank you, sir. thank you. means a lot to me. charles: see you soon. the white house talking up its spending plans and consumers are feeling down about inflation. it s not spending that is adding to the misery. we re going to also bring your ice skates, folks. leave your phones at home, this is the message that u.s. athletes are getting worried about chinese spying. should we be going at all? we ll be right back.
across new jersey. so many empty shelves. it s a combination of the factors leading to that winter storms didn t make the deliveries better. we ve seen them slowed with a crammed supply chain story. here in sue leonard s, the team has adjusted. we re finding it difficult to get tropicana in our stores. so we have to pivot. so if we push our private label, we ll still have an orange juice but not the one that you see every day. when you can find those items on the shelf, they cost you more because of inflation. some are blaming them for price gouging. the grocers are keeping up with labor, delivery, gas, all of those things. americans say they re tired of
fingers. i think the biden administration has made to political mistakes. every time president biden speaks, he brags, he starts off bragging about something and most of the time he contradicts what s in the public. there is food on the shelves. the afghan was not much. we were okay with covid planning. come out of mia coppola and also blaming the other person. don t you think americans i m sorry, here at this point you think americans want solutions, solutions based and the party to come up with solutions they can embrace. absolutely. i think what they want is they just want biden s promises to actually be kept. he promised he would shut down the virus. he had to admit that is not going to happen. he promised inflation was not going to be a thing this time right now last year. it is still a thing. it is still affecting americans everyday. and the people will remember that in 2022. that is why you see this discontentment with the biden