nation is officially in a recession. something many experts have predicted was coming. john roberts in washington. happy monday to you. sandra: i heard booming thunder here in new york city as a storm rolls in. welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. it has now been four days since the president s positive covid test. his doctors say he s doing well and symptoms are almost completely gone. all of this as the white house and president biden s team prepares for another fight. an efforts to redefine what actually constitutes a recession. john: treasury secretary janet yellen says a second quarter of negative growth in the g.d.p. will not indicate recession but does admit the economy is slowing. josh is here on this, and more noise about biden s 2024 candidacy, that s coming up in moments. sandra: peter doocy at the white house, what do officials expect from this week? are we in a recession or not? peter: sounds like, sandra, they are
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like klobuchar and alexandria ocasio-cortez was on the list. sandra: she ll be 35 in time of the election. eligible to run for president and following with the younger, progressive elements of the party. 95% of which don t want joe biden to run again. sandra: good to have him here, and we ll be joined coming up to look into the white house trying to redefine a recession. historically it has been two straight quarters of negative g.d.p. growth, so, or contraction i should say in the g.d.p., why they are trying to redefine that, possibly it s going to look bad if they have to say it was necessary to drive this country into recession to correct the policy mistakes of this administration. so many admittedly getting it wrong, inflation, right, john, calling it transitory and not doing what it would take to tame that inflation. and our kids are paying for
voters excuse plea, american workers and then treat your own workers poorly. i think we ve seen other candidates, i would have to disagree with alex a little bit, i think in 2008 a lot of people hit john mccain with his temperment and saying he did not have the right temperment to be president. i think that actually hurt him. did it decide things? is it a terminal issue? i would agree with alex that i don t think it s terminal. but i do think it s going to hurt her because you can t claim that you are for american workers and a lot of american workers work in offices, kind of like klobuchar s and if she s treating her workers that poorly i think that will resonate with some voters. eating with a comb, i m not sure how you do that personally. i m trying to figure that out, actually. eric: alex, you take the comb out of your pocket, maybe you just like start using it like a fork. apparently there was no fork. i will say, jason mentioned
harris, what do you think about the latest entrance and where are we? i think it s so interesting how senator klobuchar has to work so hard to distance herself from her roots in this race. the midwest roots are the thing that can differentiate her. she has to go on television and say nope, i m just like everyone else. running as hard to the left as fast as i can. good luck. bill: how was the debut? any time you have a nice midwestern slow-filled roll-out like klobuchar did. one of the things an asset for her is the fact that she is from minnesota. she has been perceived as someone who is more moderate that can work with the other side. primaries being what they are having to compete with the base and the crowded progressive lane continuing to fill up she is in a tough spot. believing in progress does not necessarily make you a progressive. so i thought that was kind of funny.