back-to-back works. how in the hell did you do that? pretty good, man. i m kind of looking for back-to-back myself. dana: there was a little more on 2024. ron desantis the governor of florida talked to piers gorman. call me whatever you want. but also call me a winner. that s what we ve been able to do in florida. you are running this en? i didn t say that. i think i could. if you look at florida. who would be harder to beat, biden or donald trump? i don t know. those are different. dana: you had the post cover ron hits don. maybe you will see more of this? what do you think? initial question from piers morgan is could you beat biden? he said i don t know and asked him about the nicknames. he said he couldn t spell ron dedesanctimonious. that s a good thing he is taking
situation again where this administration has drawn a red line and the chinese communist party has crossed it willy-nilly. they said if lethal assistance was provided there would be real cost to china. they ve done nothing in the face that we can see a deal between xi and putin that will put the people of ukraine at risk, europe and the united states as well. dana: politico has a piece today that says biden administration lack of information on spy flight. what the biden administration isn t telling congress about spy balance saying the delay on release of information raises questions about the extent to which the u.s. fully understands what intelligence foreign governments may be collecting without washington s knowledge. you were also at the c.i.a. not just the state department. is it possible there are things that are just kept secret for our own national security purposes or are they trying to hide something because they don t know? dana, it s certainly possible
tomorrow 6:00 a.m. eastern time. thanks for answering the call. we need that to close our show. if you run from the tv, run to the radio. our first guest steven a. smith this morning. see how it goes. so long from new york. here now america s newsroom. stay within yourself. dana: on the outside looking in, america on the sidelines as russia and china wrap up a three-day sum et setting their sights on a new world order. good morning, john. john: i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the summit putting biden s foreign policy to the test. lawmakers get a chance to ask antony blinken about it in less than an hour scheduled to appear before two senate committees today. dana: the alliance is seen as a threat to the global order.
look at what china is doing, 7.1%. the u.s. defense budget is roughly almost four times that of china. last time i checked it goes a long way when you build aircraft carriers. china doesn t have to reach a consensus on anything. president xi just says it will happen and it happens. the budget is an important part of a larger problem. let me just cut to the chase for what it s worth. if i were president, what i do today is pick up the phone and call chairman powell and say look, i m not trying to tell you what to do i just want you to hold off for a few days. the second call i would make would be to congressional leadership, republican and democrat and get everybody at the white house and if i were president i would tell mr. powell look, i wish you would
but look, john, the fed is fixing something that the white house created. if you look over the years at the pandemic the government handed out 1.3 trillion in three rounds of stimulus checks, beefed up unemployment and childcare credits. none of that was accounted for when other government benefits were also being handed out. 6 million more americans are receiving food stamps now than before covid and 20 million more people on medicaid. all of this as the unemployment rate hovers near historic lows. it is a painful dichotomy when people aren t sure if their bank deposits are safe or get a loan. people that can afford it the least that might be paying the biggest price. the biden administration hasn t done them a service because now those particularly at the lower income levels will pay a very high price when we get the unemployment that will