oregon. dan. reporter: yeah. hey, rich. as you know, very few democrats have chosen to campaign with president biden this year, but when he asked if he could come out to oregon and help with the run for governor, tina said come on out. biden s three-state western spring began in colorado where he appeared with senator michael bennett who looks to be pretty safe there. he attended fundraisers in california and now he finishes up in portland. he gives a speech on lowering cost for american families. cotech is locked in a three-person race, and it s been locked up for months. betsy thompson, most believe is taking more support from the democrat than from the republican. she attacks cotech relentlessly over the dual crises of homelessness and crime. in a statement she said, quote, i hope biden comes more often so that portland will clean up more of the trash and tendencies that tina s created between the airport and downtown portland. kotek has been pretty much in lockstep with
with quantitative easing all this year. so my view is that there s been a pause that looks very much like what we saw mt. 80s, and there finally are some reasons to think that it can t continue. real income is down disposable income about the 2%, real consumption is up about 2%. where does the money come from? consumer credit s up 50%. and with 15% increase in consumer credit, you re just not going to be able to do that next year especially with interest rates going up. paul and i guess there s still a fair amount of money in consumer projects left over from the pandemic stimulus payments, child tax credits and so on. sooner or later, i suppose, i mean, are consumers spending that down quickly as well, and is that keeping things afloat? it kept stuff afloat over the first half of the year, but i think that s just about exhausted which is why consumer credit is going up. but there s another factor. you know, you and i gosh,
that he worked for bernie sanders, he s as liberal as bernie sanders. he wants to release half the population in our penitentiaries in pennsylvania onto the streets. he s the worst candidate ever on crime in the entire country, and those that s what we should be talking about. i think we should put the health issues aside and talk about what his policies are, which are much, much worse than the health situation. rich: kevin, going nationwide here there was a point where it looked like a red wave, and in the summer democrats started to make some gains around roe v. wade, now it seems to be going back here. how do democrats get that momentum back, and have hay lost it as. they lost it as this sort of push that we saw mt. summer has petered out over last but weeks? yeah, rich, it s a really good question. obviously, in the wake of the dobbs decision you saw that enthusiasm shift a little bit especially with new registrants among young women that were blowing the numbers out of the
you ve heard of all the president s men. but what about all the president s heads? meet the press producer who took a trip to a monument graveyard that s trying to give new life to some presidential head honchos. for americans, hour heads of state are hard to top. larger than life men become larger than most things monuments. and people flock to them. two million saw mt. rushmore last year. the national mall gets 25 million. this one s not a head scratchers. if there was a place with all the presidents, people would flock to it, right? well, there was, and they didn t. you re looking at the remnants of what used to be called president s park, a tourist attraction in virginia that shut its doors after facing tough economic head winds. that s where howard hankins comes in. he was hired to destroy the busts when the park went under. but he fell in love and kept