kind of stuff goes away. the white house says they deny a recession is coming. listen to this exclusive video that we just got in from fox digital. watch in. have you checked gas prices lately? have you checked interest rates? we re in a recession. prices are going up, employment pay is not going up as fast. know that a lot of us will be able to enjoy. we ll have to work to be able to pay bills to live, to eat. i think we re in a recession. interest rates have gone up, up, up. the economy seems to be slowing down. the price of cars is unreal. if you can get one. martha: that s pretty good. these folks have it straight. we ll talk to glenn youngkin, the governor of virginia where the interviews were done. he s coming up. white house correspondent edward
and in the done column. i think the big opportunity going forward is then to change the focus of virginia in to making sure that we re consistently low taxed, low regulation, high growth with great schools. i m surprised by this discussion because i was a nonentity two years ago. yes, we turned virginia red but i think people are interested in what we re doing because we delivered on what we promised. that s what we re going to continue to do. the future will be what it s going to be. martha: thanks, governor. next time i want to talk about your lab schools and how they re going. education was a big part of that win. i hope you come back and talk about that next time. thanks, sir. good to see you. thank you, martha, for having me and i look forward to talking about education. it s the future of our nation. martha: thanks, governor. governor glenn youngkin from virginia. we ll be right back. with best western rewards you get rewarded
billion spending bill today, martha. they can t stop spending. martha: yeah. elizabeth warren said we have not spend enough. we need to spend more. she s not happy with powell either. steve moore, thanks. a great piece today. thanks, martha. martha: big stories ahead this hour including former president s return to washington d.c. he has not been back since the inauguration. we have an exclusive with the virginia governor, glenn youngkin and congressman mike gallagher joins us. he says that president biden is backing down to china by telling nancy pelosi not to go to taiwan. is this heating up. your reference that my going there is problematic. i think what the president is saying maybe the military was afraid our plane would get shot down. i don t know exactly.
3,000, $4,000 of their hard earned money is being stolen by the thief of inflation. there needs to be a total overhaul of energy approaches. we have to recognize if we don t start manufacturing in virginia and america as well, we ll continue to have shortages. and then labor participation. in virginia, we have about 300,000 open jobs and we still don t have the same number of virginiians working today as before the pandemic. we ve had 94,000 virginiians come back in to the work force since i took office. but we ve got to continue to drive work force participation to get this economy moving and to protect against a downturn. martha: let me ask you about what s going on in the national level. we talked about the economy.
veteran s care center where veterans can get the kinds of support that they need in virginia. yesterday we had walmart join the virginia values veterans, v 3 program, supporting veterans and their transition from active duty to the next chapter of their life. earlier this year, we were so pleased to welcome boeing and boeing provided a big, big donation into a center to help veterans transition in to that next chapter and support their families. we re delivering on our promise to make virginia the best place for veterans. martha: i think it is an important cause. we know that these are folks that we need to extend a hand to to that transition to jobs that they re better qualified in many ways with their military experience to serve and to work in companies across this country. we hope everybody will always consider veterans at the top of the list when it comes time to hiring. so many people are looking to hire people. it s a great place for them to go. with regard to jobs and the