transitory, meaning it will fix itself as soon as possible. bret: is a problem, mara you are over at the white house sometimes, and is it a problem when he gives these speeches, the president does, and then turns around and walks out as reporters are yelling at him? and there isn t this q&a that we usually see? well, this is a tough one because journalists always want the president to answer more questions. whether it s a political pardon? he has answered some, but we feel in the white house press corps he s not answering enough. is that a problem for the general public? a political problem for the president? i don t know. but there s no doubt that compared to some of his predecessors, he is less available, but he does talk on the way to the helicopter. he occasionally has answered questions after events like today. not this one. but very, very, very few formal interactions with the press. bret: meantime they are making this push, steve, for the infrastructure, trying to get
the inflation and a bag of groceries and they can also see the empty shelves, and so they re not going to you know, in the past they ve been told this is temporary, this isn t real. it doesn t look that way now. bret: yeah, mara, the transitory thing, a lot of people are saying this does not look transitory at all. well, it certainly is lasting longer than a lot of people in the it administration thought it would. does it go away next year? with simple he don t know. i can tell you it s pretty in artful to khaleda high-class problem and you know who wouldn t have called a high-class problem? joe biden himself. and anything that makes it harder for middle-class people to afford the stuff they need is a problem. not a high-class one. hob problem. and the problem for the bite in the administration is that everything in the economy is now on them, and that s why the president is moving trying to do something what the supply chains, backlogs, and hoping that inflation will be
the tweet in question was really a retweet, he points to this from jason furman. most of the economic problems we are facing, inflation, supply chains, et cetera, are high-class problems. we wouldn t have had them if the unappointed rate was still 10%, we would instead have had a much worse problem. well, if you look at the price jumps on common items here, gas up 42%, used cars up 24%, tvs 13, furniture 11, meats, poultry, fish, and eggs up 10% year-over-year 2021 and 2022. high-class or not. but spring our panel, bill mcgurn, columnist for the wall street journal, mara eliasson, national pollock radio, and steve hayes, editor of the dispatch. steve, what you think of this? well, look, i think it s one thing if you have a respected economist like jason furman tweeting this. i mean, he is widely respected among the republicans and democrats alike and i think he
we are just getting word from capitol hill that house speaker nancy pelosi has decided not to hold a formal impeachment inquiry boat right now at this time. the consensus is no vote to launch on informal impeachment probe, they will continue with the way they are doing it, many democratic members don t want to be seen as letting the white house dictate how a separate and equal branch of government conducts itself, maybe that is part of it. let s bring in our panel from ohio, byron york chief political correspondent with omar edgington the washington examiner and mar elias mara eliasson. she wants to make sure the vote happens when support is at its absolute peak. i think she would have the votes, the majority of the house
well, i think what we are seeing increasingly, this looks like it s going to be a three-person race. we have all of these candidates out there, they occasionally have their moments in the sun. they go up a bit but then they fall back down to earth. this is about joe biden, bernie, and elizabeth warren and one thing that s interesting too is that elizabeth moran does paul not so much, but otherwise she seems to be steadily creeping up and i guess the other question from these polls out there are do we really know yet how the democrats are going to turn out to make the shows a lot of enthusiasm but i think until the field clears it s just not for certain. bret: mara, i thought it was interesting on the production question, it s one thing to say who you prefer, it s another thing if you think the president will be reelected and that number is an interesting number. what s interesting about that if the democrats are really energized but they still think you will be reelected. if