it s basically become a global message. if you want to come into the united states, and you want to do it illegally, just go there and come across the border because we told people don t come, but they re not listening, we said we re going to institute remain in mexico, but not really pushing back on that. the border is open. that s the subtle message being given. well, absolutely. that s the message being given and we hear a lot from the vice-president and others about the root causes of migration. if you look at the december numbers of illegal ap presentations only 30% of those they re picking up come from central america. it s great the vice-president is talking root causes of migration, only capturing 30% of the population coming across that border. another 30% are from countries outside of mexico and central america, it s a much bigger problem here that again, the biden administration refuses to acknowledge, refuses to make hard decisions. look, securing that border and doing wh
joins me on the phone. it s great to talk to you. it seems like some of these will have an impact on the midterms. when it comes to alvin bragg, he told new york what he was going to do and voted into office. i wonder how that happens sometimes. right, and it was sort of a conflicting message from voters in new york city because they already put a mayor in office, someone who won in a crowded democratic primary field with a tough on crime mental. crime message. it could be a problem for democrat because you could draw a straight line from the progressive implemented in the city to the rise in violence. it s almost a direct, you know, correlation, and so voters see that and they understand that liberal policies on public safety have contributed tremendously to the rise in crime and democrats don t seem
they want to go on with their freedom. and so, i really think that the supreme court could be reframed in favor of the republicans as they go into midterms if they do this right. that s an interesting point of view and you re right people want their freedoms back and move forward and they don t just don t that the administration is moving fast enough and almost like they re prolonging the pandemic possibly to suit layer political needs. president biden does have a long list of troubles and we ve been discussing them all morning and economy and inflation at a 30-year high and people s savings rates are starting to dip. and we knew there would be that, there was pent up demand and eventually people would have to pull back. we re talking about shrink-flation and having an inch of cereal left in the box is impacting people. when it comes to the power of the pocket book when people are at the polls, it s pretty
they know gas prices were high before this. so they haven t dialed this in you can t blame everything in the economy on putin. joey: what a revolutionary statement by david axlerod. you can t speak that much truth and stay in politics. charlie, a lot of this for me circles the drain of oil and gas. when we talk about inflation going beyond energy and putin. i remember them blaming the meat packers for the price of meat. but we have some examples of what they call i m losing the term, shah link-flati shrink-flation. you have got gatorade down by 4
they re extremely concerned about inflation. gas is up 46%. getting back on a plane will cost you more, up 24%. furniture is up 10% and grocery items like bacon up 8% and milk up 7. the companies are passing on prices to consumers, acknowledging that the spikes will only continue to rise. it also means more of shrink flation where companies charge the same amount for things that are not the same, think of cereal boxes that are smaller or shorter rolls of aluminum foil. jerome powell explains that a healthy inflation rate falls below 2%, noting that june s 5.4% increase is drastically higher than expected and there s simply no precedent for these numbers. this particular inflation is