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
inflation picture wrong and so you can make the case that the american people, the hard working middle class are paying for those mistakes, peter. a whole lot more coming u a couple guests on that. peter: and she says people have a different idea what a recession is than we do. the same thing we heard last monday when gene sperling came into the briefing room and said it was going to be transitory inflation, but people didn t know what it was. sandra: they don t want to say we are going into recession to pay for their policy mistakes. update on the president s picture in a moment as well. john: he s out there on the truman balcony with major making some phone calls. that is part of the white house. the white house says biden will run in 2024, but more democrats are skeptical. his popularity is continuing to
nothing in the guidelines that say staff of any kind should be going into the residence of somebody that is a covid positive patient to set up a livestream like he needed to do his remarks, to take pictures or video of him maskless, so we will see how they try to square that at a briefing in about two hours. sandra: when you look down at your phone, update from the white house, they tweeted out a photo of the president outside maskless with his dog. take a look at that. that is just happening, it s a new tweet from the official presidential twitter account. so we ll have that for you shortly. one real quick thing. janet yellen saying it s necessary and appropriate, these steps that we are taking, to obviously tame inflation, rising interest rates, obviously to put a kabosh on the overheated economy. necessary and appropriate to correct the policy mistakes on the part of this white house. she admittingly got this
passed in fall, 5 trillion in spending. they would it would not coast going they needed to spend that money to lower inflation. whatever the biden administration does, will make the situation worse. they will continue to make policy mistakes, but they also not embrace the private sector. that is you know the big evil lumber, big evil meat, and oil, that also compounds inflation mistake they made, they can t release the spirits of all of these companies to it should have been all of the above in terms of producing more oil and natural gas here. early this year, when prices started to spike, they have been going up the entire time that joe biden was in office, but he won t do that he still worried about courting the green movement, stupidly.
imagine if build back better passed last fall, 5 trillion in spending, they said it would not cost anything, they needed to spend the money to lower inflation. the biden administration does, it will make the situation worse, they will continue to make policy mistakes, they will also not embraces the private sector that is the big evil meat, big evil lumber and oil, that compounded the inflation ary, mistake they made. they can tov release the spirits of the companies, it should have been all of the above, this year, when pricesn started to spike. they have been going up, that joe biden was in office, but he won t do that he is still worried about courting the green movement,