voters pause. bill: john fetterman giving a disqualifying performance in tuesday night s debate. without that seat the party will have a harder time holding onto the chamber of congress. that now prompting some major damage control from the white house. the president has found him to be impressive, incredibly bright and talented person who is just as capable as always to carry out his office the duties of his office as he is lieutenant governor currently and great ability and heartfelt concern for the people of the commonwealth and that s what the president has observed himself. bill: peter doocy reports from the white house. analysis from matt gorman. bryan llenas from philly and that s where we begin on this thursday morning. good morning. as anxious democrats express concerns lieutenant governor fetterman s tough debate performance appearance was a mistake, the fetterman campaign is doing all it can to shift the focus back to the issue of abortion. fetterman s
since that does seem to be a premier issue. jacqui heinrich on what the latest polls are saying. she s at the white house. hi, jacqui. hi, neil. the first glass, today s gdp report looks good. considerable gain from the first and second quarters of negative growth. that 2.6% is driven in large part by government spending and increased exports. experts believe that those could drop off in the fourth quarter. also, another warning sign. if you look at all three quarters together, the growth is only .4%. which is extremely slow. more over, consumer spending is slowing down. that makes up almost 70% of the u.s. economy. so maybe not on the whole as good as it looks at first glass. the president thinks things look fine. great economic report today. things are looking good. despite that optimism that the job market is strong and a recession is not inevitable, voters are pessimistic. a u.s. a today poll shows 2/3s say the nation is already in a recession or depression. 10% say
not to. jesse: the guy that figures it out last. would you put that guy in charge? of course not. but we did. we put joe biden in charge of the country, and he continues to be the last one to know what s happening. joe did warn us he s not a mindreader, but all we re asking for, joe, just be a reader. read the newspaper. read the room. read the writing on the wall. should the american people prepare for a recession? no. look, they ve been saying this now every six months. every six months they look down, the next six months, they see what s going to happen. it hadn t happened yet. there is no there s no guarantee that they re going to i don t think there will be a recession. if it is, it will be a slight recession. jesse: i thought this was the greatest economy of all time. isn t that what they said? how did we go from build back better to a slight recession? the economy hasn t grown in a year. all year. and hunter s will have to hold more than 10 for the big guy.
fetterman s performance tuesday night was not only disqualifying but proof of a quote, cover-up to hide his quote unfitness for office. here is dr. oz last night on hannity. it is upsetting that there is an effort to hide his inability to defend his extreme positions. he raised $2 million yesterday after the debate from democratic donors who just want to support him becoming the 51st senator. while the white house has not said if president biden saw tuesday night s debate, some pennsylvania voters who did watch it are feeling concerned and confused. you have to feel bad for a man recovering from a stroke. he should be at home recovering and not running for united states senate. i don t think he is up to it. i think dr. oz won. but fetterman looked a little
battles, including senate race in pennsylvania and what to do about john fetterman after that debate. bryan llenas has more right now from philadelphia. bryan? neil, good afternoon. democrats are expressing concern that perhaps john fetterman participating in the debate on tuesday night was a mistake. but just moments ago, chuck schumer caught on a hot mic speaking to president biden expressed cause optimism. he says it looks like it didn t hurt us too much, the debate, he says. democrats are also eager to change the subject to abortion. last night fetterman addressed his struggles at the debate.