it. bill melugin in los angeles today. thanks. democrats have something to run on. president biden: i know we do. what s the republican platform going to run on? what are they running on? what are they for? they want to put social security on the chopping block every five years and the other leader comes along and says no every year it should be up for grabs, medicare, medicaid. these are not negotiable items in terms of whether you will continue them or not. dana: president biden last night claiming republicans have nothing to run on. the polls show otherwise. voters say they care deeply about rising inflation, not to mention rampant crime hitting communities coast to coast. we have the co- host of the ruthless podcast. this is common, presidents will say the other side doesn t have a plan. kamala harris said that the night before last when she said the republicans have no ideas or solutions on immigration.
this point has a heavy emphasize on the economy, immigration and crime in large part out of reaction to what joe biden and the democrats have done. bill: the easy answer on that however was two weeks ago house republicans came out with a four-point plan on what they call their commitment to america and mirrors what knut gingrich did 28 years ago. that follow up didn t happen. bernie sanders says abortion is a fine argument but you need to take on republicans on the economy. just give this a listen. what the supreme court did is totally outrageous but what we have got to do is take the attack to republicans on the economy. all that i m saying is when the american people in poll after poll think that the economy, think that inflation are the two major issues, you cannot ignore those issues. bill: what i would ask the president is what s the democratic plan to address the economic woes of today?
you just said a slight recession is possible. president biden: it is possible. look, it is possible. i don t anticipate it. what i do think, look, we talk about the impact on families. the families have reason to be concerned about energy prices, they have reason to be concerned about a whole range of issues. but the international monetary fund director of research says the u.s. economy will stall next year. in a new report they say that inflation will cause a global recession. you can see what happened to inflation under this president. president biden. so i had this simple question, listen. so i m wondering if the president bears any responsibility with his policies with a stalling economy. we have to step back and look at what the president walked into here. when you think about we ve been here for 20 months. when he walked in small businesses were closing down. schools were not open.
president biden: when house and senate get back there will be consequences for what they ve done with russia. i won t get into what i consider and have in mind but there will be consequences. so he won t talk about the consequences but democrats on the hill, they are happy to talk about the kinds of punishment they want to see. senate foreign relation chairman wants to block all future u.s. weapons sales to saudi arabia. meanwhile, support on the hill is building for that bill that would allow the u.s. to sue opec plus member countries in federal court and some members want to go as far as pull u.s. troops and equipment out of saudi arabia and the uae. that s a relationship-destroying move. some say the administration really needs to look in the mirror here and recalibrate its own policies. gas prices as we know were
why did this all happen is because of the global challenges that many countries, countries across the globe have been facing. it s a long answer for no. the president not saying he is taking any responsibility for his policies and there is no pivot from this white house on any of those policies, bill. bill: another rating we should see again tomorrow. leading our coverage from the white house. dana: president biden putting saudi arabia on notice. he says it s time for the u.s. to rethink its relationship with the desert kingdom following their plan to reduce oil output by 2 million barrels a day. good morning, dana. the administration admits that these talks about recalibrating the relationship with saudi arabia, that s not new. but talks about retaliating against the kingdom, those are new. although the president is staying tight lipped how he is planning to do that.