raising interest rates five times this year to combat inflation. and even with this new report, economists say people should still be bracing for the possibility of a recession in tough times ahead. so let s get to the new report and what it means and what is it doesn t. matt egan is here. and what does this good news say about what is next? well, kate, not that much. this is a rearview mirror number. it is a snapshot in time. we know the economy got knocked down in the first half of the year, but it got back on its feet this summer. gdp rising 2.6%. that is solid. consumer spends slowed but it is still positive. i think that this should silence the argument that the u.s. economy is already in recession. right. gdp is positive, the jobs market keeps chugging along. new numbers show that initial jobless claims which is a proxy for layoffs, they remain low. at pre-covid levels. how you could have a recession if you don t have playoffs. this is so confusing. because the ec
victims of gun violence from every u.s. state and territory. my fellow americans, enough. enough. it s time for each of us to do our part. it s time to act. for the children we ve lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love. let s hear the call and the cry. let s meet the moment. let us finally do something. the president laid down a marker to expected opposition from republican lawmakers. don t tell me raising the age won t make a difference. enough. my god, the fact that the majority of the senate republicans don t want any of these proposals, even to be gate debated or come up with a vote i find unconscionable. let s talk about the specifics of what the president laid out last night. tom foreman is here with that. again, some very specific plans put forth, tom. yeah, a lot of bullet points we can talk about here. i don t mean to make a pun there. the first one to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. this was they want to reinstate the 199
cnn. coy i could tell you this. if dps as an institution failed the families, failed the school, or failed the community of uvalde, then absolutely, i need to go. but i could tell you this right now, dps is an institution. okay. right now is did not fail. plain and simple. reporter: and kate, of course he s talking about his remarks to us. when i had questioned him about inn october, we found him at a hearing some five hours from uvalde and we tracked him down and in that questioning i said would you resign if any of your officers were held responsible or culpable and he said he would. and we have several dps have come forward to have shown to have some kind of lack of action here and despite him saying that he would resign if any of that was to happen, he s now kind of
the last thing is the right for the salient right here, it s difficult for any military to defend that, it creates a long wide area for them to try to defend at. you re seeing the ukraine military has had to repeat across the don et cetera river to fight for another day. u.s. officials flat out told me, yes, russia is making gains in certain places, tactical gains but are not achieving their strategic goals? they tried to take kyiv, they thought they would have this done for now 100 days into it. now you re seeing all that focus is right here, so strategically russia wanted the whole country, they have now 20% in this area here so i believe now the ukraine military and governor has to figure out a way to inn october rate louisianaity this part of ukraine to the rest of this. this is where the fight will be and this is where it will stand. they will need air defense
i was disappointed he chose to take a step back. i think i understand his strategy. his strategy was to be presidential and to me by not taking the debate and responding only once to sort of the petty sniping of the president. steve: there a lot. romney seemed presidential. brian: no one was talking about a gaffe. dick morris makes a point. governor romney seemed far more presidential than the current president in the white house. steve: right now, we have headlines for you. extreme weather alert. hurk hurkk season not over yet even though we are inn october and a tropical storm sandy picking up strength down in the caribbean. she is expected to hit jamaica wednesday and bringging heavy rain and severe flooding