well, if we look at our two most closely watched measures of consumer sentiment, consumer confidence, they both rose big time in december. one was up 10%, the other a whopping 14%. now, that s one month. that s not yet a trend. it certainly is suggestive that the measures this president is taking to help provide support release to families like the one he grew up in are working and people are starting to feel it. i forgot to mention he was a guest this morning, too. but here s our actual guest, jared wingrove. he s not wrong. the biden administration has been on a victory lap, saying economic analysts were wrong. but voters aren t feeling it. poll after poll, voters are anxious, and they re not giving biden credit for the economy. two-parter to you. does the white house feel they can turn that sentiment around,
that reaching more americans? well, if we look at our two most closely watched measures of consumer sentiment, consumer confidence, they both rose big time in december. one was up 10%, the other a whopping 14%. now, that s one month, that s not yet a trend, but it is certainly suggestive that the measures that this president is taking to help provide support relief to families like the one he grew up in are working and that people are starting to feel it. joining us now, white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre. great to have you on. happy new year, mika. thank you for having me. jumping off this interview with jared and the overall strategy on the economy, i m just curious, is there more good news to come on the economy? i just think there are some who say it is perilous to label an economy, like bidenomics with the president s name, because this is something that could be
basically than any president. carter was facing 6.0%. joe talks about reagan s election. 3.8% inflation. higher than this president s. he had 8.3% unemployment. he was obviously re-elected in 1984 in a landslide. this remains the big disconnect for the political scientists and other pundits to try to untangle, which is why, with the economy so good, is biden doing so poorly, at least by these public opinion polls? big frustration for the biden white house. voters say the economy is the number one issue for them. they always do. yet, even with this data, the president is unpopular. steve rattner, thanks fascinating stuff. steve s full analysis of all the charts in the new york times this morning. thank you. coming up next, a potential impeachment battle, immigration reform, the threat of a government shutdown, and we ll go live to capitol hill to preview the big fights facing
that will be top of mind for all of the house and the senate negotiators as well. think susan collins, patty murray, they are the ones waiting for numbers on what the government funding top line numbers will look like from speaker johnson s office. and they haven t gotten those numbers as of now. let s talk about the possible impeachment of president biden. republicans have yet to prove any wrongdoing. there s no there there, at least not yet but they moved forward with the inquiry. tell us what the time line is whether they re going to forge forward with this impeachment? right before they left for the christmas holiday they voted to move forward with an impeachment inquiry they said it s not impoopeaching biden but actually looking into the biden family, what those connections are. but really what we re going to see these next couple of weeks is those interviews, the
approach the west coast as we get into the later parts of the the week. i know there s some hints of snow coming next weekend. i know we re many, many days away. i ll get to that tomorrow. we ll revisit later in the week. still ahead on way too early, we ll take a look at the biggest fights that face congress early in this new year from funding the federal government to possibly impeaching president biden. congressional reporter for politico, daniela diaz, joins us next to break it all down. that s just ahead on way too early. down. that s just ahead on way too early. you can build new bone with evenity®. ask your doctor if you can do more than just slowing down bone loss with evenity®. want stronger bones? then build new bone; evenity® can help in just 12 months. evenity® is proven to reduce spine fracture risk by 73%. evenity® can increase risk of heart attack, stroke,