despite china s threats. and a pivotal week for president biden s agenda as democrats aim for senate passage of climate and health care legislation, mindful that the midterms are now just 99 days away. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the flood disasters in eastern kentucky right now. the death toll as of now, 35. with hundreds, hundreds of people still missing. evan santoro is on the scene for us. the governor who will join us live in just a few moments, said this is the deadliest and most devastating flood disaster he s seen in his life. reporter: i ll tell you, wolf, we took a tour of some of these damaged areas with the governor over the weekend. and the emotion was so obvious on his face. it is clear when anyone sees the devastation, it is just it is it overcomes you. people in this area of kentucky, there is a mountainous region and people are used to
the s&p 500 losing 17 #, the nasdaq fell 633. all of this was sparked by new numbers indicating inflation is not going anywhere but up. any time soon it appears. food prices, other essentials, skyrocketing in the latest cpi report. consumer colonel not far behind. and the president, who is boasting about having inflation under control is facing criticism tonight. we will talk with democratic senator joe manchin in just a moment but, first, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. either the white house expected far better numbers or the person who planned this party had an unfortunate scheduling oversight. gathering democratic lawmakers on a sweltering south lawn on the same day a new inflation reading came in hotter than expected. while the stock market plummeted, james taylor played a song about death on the white house south lawn you can sing this song when i m gone. the day
$10,000. senator rick scott says if dems want solutions here is one. stop wasting taxpayer dollars and start holding institutions accountable for student outcomes. former trump senior counselor kellyanne conway with this. it also is a complete farce that they already passed something misnamed as the inflation reduction act and turn around and going to make inflation worse. we are making things more expensive because they continue to spend money that we don t have on things that we don t need. let s dig into the real cost of this bail-out. according to a budget model a one-time cancellation of $10,000 per borrower would cost $300 billion. but if the white house it wipes out $50,000 per borrower that price tag jumps to $980 billion. sometimes the numbers get so big it is hard to keep track and hard to really get a grasp of just how massive this sort of pay out is. it is massive. the bit by bit number is $10,000 for each person with student loan debt outstanding that mak
official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov
i don t know i don t want to say the election is over. the january 6th committee on how president trump did not quell violence at the capitol. president trump did not fail to act in the 187 minutes in telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. even as secret service agents scramble to get vice president pence out of danger. if we re moving, we need to move now. and testimony that mr. trump took care to stay on the side of the mob. the president did not want to include any sort of mention of peace in that tweet. i ll talk to committee member luria about where the investigation goes next. also the economy. we re taking our own steps that we believe will be supportive in the short-term to get inflation down. i ll interview janet yellen on inflation, economic pessimism and whether we should expect a recession. joining me are yamiche alcindor, moderator of washington week. jake herman, maria kumar and stephen hayes. welcome to sunday. it s meet the pre