what could be. in any form but they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you and i don t think that s going to happen. i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. bret: breaking tonight what could be a preview of the battle of the 2024 presidential nomination. former president trump and former vice president pence addressing separate conservative groups today here in washington. senior national correspondent rich edson is at one of them tonight. good evening, rich. former president trump and former vice president mike pence giving two very different speeches in washington today. the former president just wrapped here. he gave a speech, lasted about an hour, hour and a half or so. in doing so, he mentioned a number of typically trump topics when it came to safety, economy. other issues like the january 6th i economy, impeachment, and the 2020 election. i
may or may not match up with what you are feeling every day. we re about to get the biggest hard data dump of the summer. a multifaceted look at what the cold hard facts tell us about where the u.s. economy stands. you have these big hitters all announcing their earnings this week. it s going to be a big reflection of where we are, what we re buying out there. what we re not buying and participating in in this market. look at the reports coming out this week. it s a huge week for this summer. you have gdp, the cost of goods. perhaps the most important, consumer sentiment that we ll get at the end of this week. as you know, two quarters of gdp contraction. we ll get that second quarter gdp number. signalling a recession in the u.s. economy. the white house is changing its tune on the long-accepted benchmark. janet yellen is starting to hedge on what the definition of a recession is. with that, we bring in neil cavuto from your world. always good to have you with us. neil:
account? i think right now mike pence is the face of that other side. you mentioned nikki haley tim scott. cotton. there will be others. it will not be like 2016. bret: might not be like 2020, 2016 when we had tons of people on a debate stage. meantime the recession and what this looks like. is it a recession? here s the back and forth on that word. two negative quarters of g.d.p. growth is not the technical definition of recession. it s not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on. he may want to call it something else, but the american people are feeling the pain of that recession. bret: we re going to get the g.d.p. numbers on thursday, leslie. i mean, it s tough, this whole definition back and forth. i have seen in the past 72 hours economists not as pessimist and people like the ceo of citi corps saying it s
first six months. there has never been a recessionary period that has seen a fraction of that level of job growth. second, when you look at the first quarter and you look at what you and most viewers care about, private sector growth that measure of private demand was actually up 3%. not just a little, but 3%. that is very solid. third, you just had earnings reports from j.p. morgan, morgan stanley, citi group that survey all of their customers. you have the coo of citi group saying no sign of recession. you had j.p. morgan saying that in fact they re seeing consumer spending 10% more than last year, 30% more than martha: fair enough. that is consistent with a recessionary period. martha: we all hope that what the fed has done is going to lead us out of this and that if there s a recession, it will be very short and shallow. you know, we can go back and