the tension that s been there for a long time, really. it was underscored as well or heightened when former speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. this is a continuation of lawmakers going there and meetings in california as well. it s all connected, you know, and the war between russia and ukraine right now is completely connected. u.s. support in ukraine is meant to be a signal to china that you shouldn t do what russia is doing right now to this to taiwan. but it s complicated. and it s complicated because the u.s. also needs to have a good relationship with china. we are competitors, but there is a symbiotic there is a symbiotic peace to that relationship as well. bret: mollie? we keep hearing about all of this bipartisan agreement to do something here. but the agreement seems to be mostly just to talk about it or to do symbolic gestures. we are not seeing a lot of pressure on taiwan to increase how much it s pend spending on
let s stop the enthusiasm. get people to stop pend spending and calm down and this way the prices will come down, demand will diminish. you also combine that the theory goes with cutting spending. the president is doing the exact opposite. what is also going up is the average pay raise for people. but it s only going up half as fast as the inflation. so you might paycheck have a little more why isn t it going as far because it s only around 5%. ainsley: not enough to offset the inflation. you are paying so much in inflation. you would have to get, what, a 9% raise to cover the inflation. steve: just to be even with where you were last year. anyway, the white house, apparently, does not feel your pain, we know exactly what you are going through. it. brian: if the republicans are smart, they will just don t spin it. just talk about it. you talk about inflation. you talk about economic issues. not in grandiose terms. kind of like stuart varney does
rosendale, who was running for senate at the time, there was a recording madest at the fund raiser that a rosendale held in which he was asked if there s going to be outside spending in his race. he said i had a conversation with chris cox, who was the head lobbyist at the nra. he told me the nra is coming in with a spending the next month. lo and behold the next month the nra comes in with an what s called an independent expenditure.hr so you have a case where he knew what was going to be going on with the spend spending, so he onlydi admitted it, but bragged that he had been coordinating with the nra over it. in terms of his if that s borne out in court, what does that mean in terms of potential
0 race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election, they are the only two states that do, if they do it every four years, all the way back to the 1980, every year t the president has seen the governor loose his race bothe in virginia and in new jersey. that s the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose bothe those governorships. biden s democratic party did e lose the virginia governor s ir race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he has a t
that that movement can be organized again? i think that there are chances just because of the overreach that has gotten so egregious, and unfortunately republicans aren t doing anything to fight back. and i think one of the things that the tea party did that was significant was for the first time republicans and members of congress had more to fear from going along and going to washington and just hiking spending and rubber-stamping spend spending that they actually felt pressure to try to cut spending and to try to return to constitutional principles, and now you have republicans getting completely rolled by biden. and keep in mind, the scam keeps getting worse for weeks and months, republicans supporting this say that the bill would be fully funded for funded for. laura: we have to show the spread i want to show this, because it touches on what you