3.6% is very healthy. a far cry from the nearly 15%. i do think some of this is semantics. we know people don t like this economy. look at this cnn poll. 64% of americans say the economy is already in a recession. that s because of the high cost of living. inflation adjusted wages are getting smaller. so whatever you want to call it, people are not happy with this economy. a lot of people are really uncomfortable. thank you so much. let me bring in jeremy diamond at the white house. the president just spoke. he s very optimistic about things. hopeful that work will get done on capitol hill. reporter: listen, the president s remarks this past hour were sensibly focused on this new reconciliation bill that was struck between senator schumer and joe manchin. at the end he pulled out a note card from his jacket pocket and started talking about those new gdp numbers. even though the president is expected to speak next hour on the economy specifically and on
for three olympic bobsled events in a single games. guys, i don t know about you, i used to watch cool runinings weekly. the egg in his jacket pocket. i love it. that movie stands the test of time. some of the movies in the 80s were quite bad. all right, guys, guess who is not the biggest fan of u2. it s a beautiful day yeah, that guy, bon owe. the lead singer reveals he s embarrassed by the band s name. also, he cringes at the sound of his own voice on the older songs when he hears them on the radio. that voice, by the way, helped u2 win 22 grammys. he s not giving any of the money back, i m sure. a little self-deprivation goes a long way. sure does. it s nice to see. all right. we love you, bon owe, and we like you, too. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans.
staffers to come to mar-a-lago. if he had that attitude, he wouldn t have taken these documents in the first place. very true. and we asked the trump press secretary, stephanie grisham, who s become quite a critic of her former boss about some of this yesterday. let s listen. i actually watched him ripping up documents like he would and he would throw some on the floor, and i did watch him one time rip some up and place inside his inside jacket pocket and remember thinking, i wonder why those went into the pocket and not on the floor? i mean, perhaps those are the ones that went upstairs to the toilet? i have no idea. i think the answer, though, is that he was paranoid. a very paranoid man. didn t trust many people. i don t think he trusted much of his staff. what do you think about that, michael? interesting. well, he s very much a paranoid fellow. he wrote in one of his books
ever back in our government at the highest level of the white house again. stephanie, what did you personally see him do in terms of documents and was it clear why? was it a nervous tick or because he wanted them out of circulation? i don t know the answer to that. to be honest with you, i always thought it was a nervous tick. it was he always tore everything up. i do really one flight we were headed to the middle east on one of our christmas surprise christmas troop visits. and i was sitting behind him watching him because there was nothing else to watch. and he was going through his boxes. you know, he was keeping some things in a folder, signing some things, tearing some things up and throwing it on the floor, which was completely normal. he did that in the white house, he did that in his residence. he tore up some pieces of paper. i saw him put some of the torn up pieces inside his jacket pocket. and i thought, huh, wonder why
of scoop of a time i actually watched him ripping up documents like he would and he would throw some of the floor and i did watch him rip some up and place them in his inside jacket pocket. i remember at the time thinking why i wonder why those went in the pocket and not on the floor. perhaps those are the ones that went upstairs to the toilet. i have no idea. i think the answer though is that he was paranoid. a very paranoid man. he didn t trust many people. i don t think he trusted match up much of his staff. while our last chief tried to keep everything in order, there was only so much you could do with donald trump and he was the president of the united states. no question. i mean, that was an explanation for many things over the course of his administration, but in regards to those documents recovered from mar-a-lago, as