it s really infuriating. you know, officer edwards, when she testified about being called a traitor, she takes her job extremely seriously. like the majority of those police officers do, they take it serious. they take their oath serious. for somebody to be called a traitor because we stopped you from doing something illegal, like, it s infuriating. all it does is exposes hypocrisy about their talking points. it s propaganda. it s not even something they actually believe. yeah. officer dunn, i m sure you know this, but the majority of the americans know that in doing your job that day, along with the other office sofficers, youd the constitution, stood in the gap, and we are all freedom-loving americans, we are all forever in your debt. thank you so much for your service to america. thank you so much for your defense of the united states capitol. thank you so much for your
2020 election, the really driving force out there is the price of gas. americans are still spending a lot. everything is full. the holiday spots are all full. but they are very conscious of inflation, and they re blaming the administration for it. they re not looking at the fact that, actually, inflation in europe is pretty much commensurate with inflation here in the u.s. this is a global problem. it is to do with china shutting down. it is to do with the war on ukraine. it is not going to get better any time soon, partly because we ll have a food price hike when we get to the autumn when the ukrainians should be reaping their harvest and they re not doing that. there hasn t been a communications effort or an effective communications efforts from the administration. people are blaming this on joe biden. people i spoke to out west are saying this is joe biden s fault, and it is a very easy one for the republicans to jump on. i don t think you ll get the republicans come to the table an
until manchin, unprecipitously, walked away. should people making thousands have gotten the checks? the disadvantaged. politically, giving checks to everybody polled well. well, giving checks to everybody might have polled well, it also gave us inflation. that s why i think it was done. it s a lesson to the learned. when you do have a response to an economic downturn or crisis, you ought to focus on the truly needy. exactly. we agree on that. steve, this is why americans, though, were skeptical when crises come. is it going to be targeted? are they going to throw money in the breeze, which is what happened here? they threw money in the breeze, and we have inflation. by the way, we had a lot of well, let me talk about you. you had people mocking you.
after wave of news. it s really bad. but americans have stopped here. i found it interesting, i showed you a tweet i saw from kaitlin flanagan, who is pretty realist about an awful lot of things. writes for the atlantic. i think an extraordinary writer. after the first day of the hearing, she said, you know, finally, there are hearings that are every bit as compelling as the hearings my parents watched when they were watching the watergate hearings. one hearing after another, overpromising, underperforming, here are some compelling hearings that matter. donnie, i have to say, you know, i never saw it coming. i thought they were going to go through the motions. i thought we were going to be shocked and stunned and deeply saddened, as we should be shocked, stunned, and deeply saddened when people are trying to overthrow the government, but americans would yawn, get on with their summer, get kids out of school, not pay attention.
from day three of these fascinating public hearings. plus, markets rallied after the fed approved the biggest interest rate hike in 30 years yesterday. those gains may not hold with futures falling around 2% this morning. we are watching wall street. plus, the efforts to strike a deal on gun legislation. the issues holding things up. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. host of the podcast on brand with donnie deutsch, donnie deutsch. and president and ceo of the national urban league, former mayor of new york city, mark m moriales is with us. steve rattner is still with us, as well. good to have you all with us this morning. joe, these hearings, i m telling you, i was worried that americans were moving on and that they didn t care.