[scattered applause] security is supposed to stop her at the door, who can say no to that smile? so is our friend from alaska, jamie lasalle. [scattered applause] sarah palin once said of jamie s career, i can t see it from my house or anybody else s. so what was one of the most repeated phrases in last few years to describe america? other than china s bitch? how about polarized? every expert in media crank says we are at each other s throats and maybe it s true if you re on a new york city subway, or worse, married to this. but for the most part, if you go to the gym, the supermarket, or the park, anywhere jamie sleeps, you ll see people getting along buried americans pretty much get by on the universal belief leave me alone unless i ask for help and i will do the same. if it s the same words kat says to her tapeworm. we know your secret. so why the perception that we hate each other? the belief comes from the top of a pile 50 feet high. press, which which is the least popul
nation is officially in a recession. something many experts have predicted was coming. john roberts in washington. happy monday to you. sandra: i heard booming thunder here in new york city as a storm rolls in. welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. it has now been four days since the president s positive covid test. his doctors say he s doing well and symptoms are almost completely gone. all of this as the white house and president biden s team prepares for another fight. an efforts to redefine what actually constitutes a recession. john: treasury secretary janet yellen says a second quarter of negative growth in the g.d.p. will not indicate recession but does admit the economy is slowing. josh is here on this, and more noise about biden s 2024 candidacy, that s coming up in moments. sandra: peter doocy at the white house, what do officials expect from this week? are we in a recession or not? peter: sounds like, sandra, they are
reported, get this, a stunning 52% drop in first quarter profits, that was just a day after shares in the nation s largest retailer walmart had their worst day in 35 years. what is going on here? they have their fingers on the pulse of the american consumer and they say inflation was the problem, their customers are sticking to the basics when they come in, leaving with fewer items in their shopping carts. those purchasing decisions being driven by sticker shock of course. basics are getting much more expensive, gas up 44% the last year, car, food and shelter also way up. americans are also making more money. wages rising in this tight labor market, but that is also feeding into worries about inflation because of wages. and because of rising prices, people don t feel secure so they are cutting back and that is shaking market confidence. right now stock index futures are leaning lower. asia closed mixed overnight. looks like except for china all down here. let s bring in krist
all three major industries are down double digits for the years. the mounting losses will deal a blow to your retirement funds and your pension fund and we could go lower, dana. dana: a bitter pill to swallow as the cost of living is skyrocketing. the average price of gas now $4.58 a gallon up more than $1.50 from a year ago. bill: making matters worse the cost of rent hitting a record high in april. landlords asking for more than 1900 a month on average. dana: demand for mortgages is plummetings with average rates at a high. the new york post calling it joe s train wreck. bill: aishah hosni with a lot to cover from the white house on the north lawn. good morning. america is waking up and breaking all sorts of records in all the wrong ways. as of this morning the white house coming up with no new solutions outside of what it has already done and tried. take a look. let s start with gas prices here. shot up another 2 cents overnight to a new record high of $4.58
cliffhanger in pennsylvania. the trump endorsed tv doctor, mehmet oz, is neck and neck with david mccormick. we ll break down the former president s election night wins and losses as he s now pressuring dr. oz to declare victory before the last votes are counted. and another chilling twist in the buffalo shooting massacre. we re now learning that the suspected gunman revealed his racist attack plans online some 30 minutes before the deadly rampage. and that s prompting a new state investigation. there s a lot to discuss when the mayor of buffalo joins us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, ukrainian forces are within miles of their enemy s backyard, after making significant new gains in the kharkiv region near the russian border. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the front line. every inch of respite from russian shelling here comes at grotesque cost. what