a credible transition taking place that god willing when it is over we will be stronger in the world will be stronger and less reliable on fossil fuels when this is over. this is going to be a hole. this is going to take some time. there is a recession in the united states that is inevitable? no. todd: you are watching fox & friends first on monday morning, i m todd piro. carley: and i m griff jenkins and for carley shimkus. someone who covers the white house, a lot of news being made overseas right now that sound bite and the president saying he does not believe the recession is inevitable and it something that is in stark contrast with almost all economists from both sides of the aisle right now. why? gas prices have never been this high most of the walking adult lives. we said inflation is a 40 year high. when the president took over, the inflation rate was just under 1.5%. now, it is over 8%. and these gas prices before we head into memorial day weekend absolute
but who allowed russia the way it did, the invasion of ukraine? it was president biden and arming ukraine when ukraine said, hey, we might be in for something here. could you give us a little help? they dearly dallied and now they have to come up with, the united states billions of dollars when many days into the war and i don t need to tell you we are covering it at length. so this and disingenuous for the white house to say we are in this problem now. this is a problem come i don t want to say caused but showed a lack of resolve peer they showed a lack of resolve on the war stage when it came to afghanistan. china sees that and they say, oh, my gosh, we can do something with taiwan and puts us in a situation to make a statement where we say, look we will defend taiwan if necessary. one more point with that and if you step back, todd if you remember before the election,
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during helsinki, president trump stood on the war stage next to president putin and essential said he believed putin s denials he didn t meddle in the election over his own u.s. intelligence community which said he undoubtedly did. here you have again the president smiling, seeming to make light after our producer asked if he was going to press putin on not meddling in this next election. president trump s response was to smile and to say, of course i will bring that issue up with him and then, of course, as you see him there turn to putin and say don t meddle in the election. what s also telling is that the readout we got from the white house of what these two leaders actually discussed, we know they discussed a range of issues. everything from iran to syria and ukraine. there was no mention of election meddling in the actual readout. which the president s critics will undoubtedly find to be stunning. you have chuck schumer, the top