but the fact it is not a big deal when trump walked slowly down a ramp, they said this guy s shot, he s in bad shape. we heard about the 25th amendment nonstop with administration, with the trump administration. this guy has made some egregious moves where you don t say i m laughing or i m mocking, you get concerned. i m watching that, i am concerned for the country. howard: let me jump many here. by the way, msnbc, completely ignored it. cnn, completely ignored it on the air, did run a couple of online articles. and i think, laura, what made this worse was when karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, said, well, this was just top of mind for him, and that s why he did it, as opposed to, hey, he forgot and apologized if that s what happened because n the possess secretary s explanation. the presst day behind the podium, and i think everybody has a tough guy
other border communities have experienced for years. reporter: border crossings have soared. a record 1.8 million apprehensions since october. roughly half of those migrants remaining in the u.s. abc s mireya villarreal in el paso, texas, a city in crisis. el paso is one of the border cities that is getting hit really hard right now. we just confirmed with the city that border patrol has about 1,300 encounters every day. a lot of those people end up right here in the streets, downtown area of el paso. you can see, a lot of people are starting to drop off food and drinks here, as well as clothing for migrants that are waiting to get on buses to then head north. reporter: we pressed the white house. do you feel that the situation at the border is under control? are you doing enough? we are fixing a broken system. it is not like turning the light switch on. it is going to take some time. we understand that we have work to do. reporter: the press secretary saying republicans aren
officials around here think there are just too many jobs being added or created for us to be in a recession. very notably, after yesterday s gdp numbers came out and recession or not was all the talk here on the white house norths lawn, today the press secretary talked to reporters for an hour and never used the word recession. trace? trace: thanks, peter. white house economic advisinger jared bernstein joins me now. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it instead of, as peter was talking about trying to redefine recession, why not just acknowledge that most americans are having a hard time and commit to fixing it? yeah, when the president talks about inflation, he very much is speaking in that spirit. he talks about the current inflation as unacceptably high. he talks about that as his
this, peter, as we re learning of the president, now testing positive for covid. thankfully, vaccinated and boosted multiple times, experiencing multiple symptoms. what else are you learning? you detailed what we re just hearing from the press secretary, karine jean-pierre. we just received that statement. i want to make sure you can hear me. live television. there grow. live television. obviously, we just hustled outside. there you can hear me clearly now. so the president did, as you know, test positive. we did just get that information from karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, within the last five minutes or so. president biden was scheduled today to be traveling to wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, for an event. clearly, he s not going to be able to make that trip as a function of this new test. we are reaching out, as we speak, to the first lady s office, as well, trying to get any better detail on whether, in fact, she may have tested
state. republican leaders are banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors. i urge all of you living in florida to join the fight or join us in california where we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate, and the freedom to love. tucker: a lot of people are moving from florida and california to california. it s hilarious. the left is for free speech it turns out. the whole point of this was to attack ron desantis, who democrats see as a major threat in the coming election. on wednesday, newsom again attacked ron desantis. watch this. teachers were under assault because god forbid teachers were homosexual. and somehow, people presupposed that they would be grooming our kids. that was the debate in the 1970s, the press secretary for the governor of one of our