these are cherished beliefs, and it works provided that if you have that belief you don t then riser to power over it laws and legislation and have those laws and legislation force others into that same belief system. so, the pluralistic feature of this country, i think is something that can and should be cherished. so, how does science distinguish slip in a political truth. you know what that is? it s what becomes true simply because it got repeated so many times our brain has this failure mode well, we think it s a success mode where you hear something so many times. your brain says, must be true. but the scientific truth is what you establish to be true through experiment, observations, repeated and when that is done, it is true whether or not you believe in it. if you re going to base laws on
during republican presidencies, which i find quite fascinating. jon, do you know why? and are there any presidents, past presidents, she had special relationships with? i suspect that s a coincidence. i don t think there was a partisan element to her majesty s state visits. there was that wonderful visit during george herbert walker bush s administration where they forgot to put, president bush was about 6 2 , her majesty is not and forgot to put a riser behind the podium and so at the white house, she, her hat gave the speech. and then she brilliantly turned it around, worth finding the picture. brilliant he turned it around addressing congress and said, i hope you can see me. so i don t think there s a partisan element there. i think you know, i think we should take half a step back. it was 82 years ago she gave her
joining me is lindsay riser in new jersey, tom costello watching the fed and ron insana. tom, everyone is confused by this economy because on the one hand you have employment so low but you have got the record high inflation. as a result consumer confidence is down. so if you can give us the 35,000-foot view of what the fed is looking at right now and what its considerations are. ron insana is my mentor. whatever i say i learned him from years ago. wait until you hear what i say, right? right. the bottom line is that we are in an environment of 40-year high inflation. right? 9.1% in june. everything is more expensive. food up 10.5%. new cars up 11.4%.
an incredible contrast to the u.s. to look at the rates of homicide gun-related deaths per 100,000 people. shinzo abe, this death of him, shakes the world not just because of how much of a political figure he was at home even after he stepped down as the longest serving prime minister but also because of the ties that he cultivated abroad. he had famously cozy relationships with trump, he was a smooth political operator, was able to sustain connections, relationships with him, with frequent phone calls, playing golf with him at a time when other global leaders could not deal with this mercurial president. he fostered that relationship to cope with a riser japan. also strengthened ties with the quad alliance, he also will be remembered for trying to bolster japan s military, that is also why he was divisive. he wanted to revise japan s pacifist constitution, he wanted to restore japan s economic military prowess, he wanted to
how catastrophic things could have been. it s interesting. i mean, was i m not sure if we know this, but was vice president pence aware in that moment, at that time, just how close the mob was from 40 feet away from him and his family? no. my understanding from sources is that he knew it was close but not that close. he was spirited to the hide away before those rioters got to the basically the riser in between the two floors and confronted officer goodman, who brilliantly, as you know, in this video led those rioters away from the senate floor and ultimately away from where pence and his family and his detail were in hiding. then he was taken to the basement because his detail leader said, okay, we re done. we re out of here. pence had turned him down, anderson, two times. and on the third time to evacuate, his detail leader said, we have to get out of this floor.