and a possible visit to taiwan. if u.s. fighter jets escort pelosi s plane in taiwan, it s an invasion. the tweet reads the pla has the right to forcibly dispel pelosi s plane and the u.s. fighter jets, including firing warning shots and making tactical movement of obstruction. in ineffective, shoot them down. peter doocy asked the white house about this latest rhetoric just moments ago. action it relates to the speaker s trolls, something that we re just not going to speak to right now. it s hypothetical. we re just not going to speak on her schedule. as i mentioned, we ll bring you the latest recession spin. jared bernstein and neil cavuto are here. let s begin with michael waltz, florida congressman. he s a former green beret commander. congressman, thanks for joining us. the threat about the u.s. jets, pelosi s plane. what do you make of that? well, you know, first of all, the response in the white house is apparently this is unnecessary rhetoric. this isn t unneces
officials around here think there are just too many jobs being added or created for us to be in a recession. very notably, after yesterday s gdp numbers came out and recession or not was all the talk here on the white house norths lawn, today the press secretary talked to reporters for an hour and never used the word recession. trace? trace: thanks, peter. white house economic advisinger jared bernstein joins me now. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it instead of, as peter was talking about trying to redefine recession, why not just acknowledge that most americans are having a hard time and commit to fixing it? yeah, when the president talks about inflation, he very much is speaking in that spirit. he talks about the current inflation as unacceptably high. he talks about that as his