through a period of high inflation like this one. it s painful. paychecks are not going as far. if you adjust wages for inflation, they re getting smaller. the president is right to call out the fact that this report does not capture the fact that gasoline prices have started to cool off. the national average is 4.63 a gallon. down 40 cents from the record high. two things to remember here, one, it s not like prices at the pump are cheap. no one is doing a victory dance about $4.60 gas, and ftho, this is not just about prices at the pump. it s about food. housing prices. there were record price spikes last month from beer, to cleaning products, men s suits as well. this is an economy wide problem, and unfortunately it s getting worse. how come you didn t mention me for hair cucuts. yeah, why not? no reason. there was no reason. okay. does this raise the risk. it does. the federal reserve is going to be under more pressure to step up the war on inflation. step in l
military, i would be concerned. caitlyn dawson was talking about the fact that anything with trump s name on it around the world becomes a target. if i m in the military, i don t want that to be my child s mission, to defend the name of trump, the person of the state. that isn t what we are as americans. elise jordan, you get the last word in this round. wow, heavy and dark. i really wonder, though, how long he can continue to keep having days like today where he had the carrier moment. was it a one-of? can he keep pulling it off? i kept thinking they were setting these sky-high expectations and that was the mistake of the night. now after the train wreck second half of the speech, i m not even sure. joy reid, ana marie cox, elise jordan, thank you for joining us. coming up, former labor secretary robert reach will go through the art of the deal. i thought i married an italian.
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he said he would release his own for the last three years on the very day kennedy turned over his taxes for public scrutiny. so, that was the gig, right? i will release my tax returns but only when my opponent releases his. mitt romney lost to ted kennedy in the senate race. mr. romney s opponent, the senator, never released his tax returns, and so neither did mitt romney. but when he ran for office the next time, in 2002, when he ran for massachusetts governor, his opponent in the race did release her tax returns. in fact, all of the democrats vying to run against him released their tax returns even before they had picked their democratic nominee. robert reach and shannon o brien, they all released multiple years of their tax returns. and remember, in 94, mr. romney said if my opponent releases tax returns, i will, too, that very day. but in 2002, when his opponent released tax returns, mr. romney wouldn t do it. he wouldn t release his. what changed?