on this tuesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us today. a bipartisan senate working group led by democrat chris murphy of connecticut and republican john cornyn of texas will hold a remote meeting today in hopes of reaching a basic framework for gun reform. senator cornyn said yesterday that many gun issues should be discussed at the state level and said background checks, mental health, and red flag laws are things that congress can address. after spending nearly four hours with uvalde families on sunday, the president returned to the white house yesterday, and expressed optimism that quote rational republicans will make a move this time. he decried, easy access to high caliber weapons, while also discussing the limitations of his own power. s own power. one week after the deadly shooting in texas, funeral services are under way, for the victims. on a hot memorial day, american flags flew at half-staff in uvalde yesterday. not only for fallen soldie
when trump was still president. your dollar went a whole lot further under trump. you could fill up your gas tank for less than two bucks a gallon and the stock market was doing so well we all looked like geniuses. the 401(k)s, they are up 90%. 95%. [cheers] i always tell the story people come up to me they say i want to thank you my wife thinks i m a total loser, sir. she thinks i m the worst person with money, financials. she thinks i m just horrible and the last three years i m up 94%, sir. she thinks i m a total genius when it comes to finances. jesse: well in biden s america, we re now all fools. no longer geniuses. because i hate to say it the good old days are over. our economy has officially reached bear market territory today. the s&p fell 20%. that s officially now collapsing. now, on top of that, the nasdaq is off about 20 percent this year and the dow is about 5,000 points down. since january. that s the longest losing streak since the height of the great de
while incomes go down the stock market is plunging that means that retirement funds are getting destroyed, the cost of everything that you buy in every store you go to is continuing to spike. make no mistake economic devastation is here with no end in sight sadly. gas prices guess what? we had another record high today. diesel too another record high and they soon may be a diesel fuel shortage. utilities in this country there up a whopping 22%. fuel oil is up a whopping 80%. used cars are anywhere between 22, 40%. the rep over 13% and by the way when you finally buy one the msrp sticker shock is above msrp is gonna be about massive. looking for a plane ticket? that s up 33%. meat is 14%, ex 22%, milk is 14%. according to economists still need to folk over over 5,000, $200 more per household this year because of joe biden inflation and over $2,000 by the way every american that drives a car they will pay an extra $2,000 on gas prices alone. already as i said two-thirds of amer
out of growing season. so we can t control that. we can typically produce about 60% of the double crop, but the other still always risk involved that i m by myself. couple things i wanted to be able to talk about here. what we had just walked through back there. yep? laura: yep. part meaningless small talk. there you go. please, sit down. one of the things i want to put to rest, everybody looks at me and says, have you ever been on a farm? and i remind them what nobody knows. i come from the state of delaware, single largest industry in delaware and the delmarva of delaware virginia peninsula that goes down is agriculture. laura: thank you rand mcnally. and more talk of spending money that we don t have. earlier this year the u.s. department of agriculture announced it would invest $250 million to boost verity fertilizer production. and i turned to tom and said double that and make it 500 million. it s so desperately needed. laura: why stop there? what s desperate
Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along