he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
sadly caved to the radical leftc of this party. and now, sadly, the people of west virginia, they will pay o the price for him caving literally through higher taxesr and higher inflation and a much longer recession that needed a lower quality of life, all in the name of green renewable . ergy we re going to expose h the shameful hard left turn from the west virginiaa senator . by the way, tonight we have an interesting question. why is mayor muriel bowser, washington, d.c. finally now asking for the national guardrdn and their assistance? we ll give you that answer coming up. all right. but first tonight, our topgh ,story of the day. i wish it was not true, butst after two straight quarters ofh, negative growth, we w are officially in a recession in 2020. this is the very definition of recession. lookdeniti, that according to cc and cnbc and the l.a. times and the new york times and nancy pelosime and prettyst much every notable economist and pretty much everyone else on ea
now, since the 1970s, as you know, since the nixon kissingerd days, we ve had a policy of one china. there s the chinese government in beijing and taiwan is part of china now, what we ve said is we have strategic ambiguity. we ve we ve hinted very strongly that if china were to try to take taiwan by force, the united states would intervene. but now i don t knowat what our policy is . and that s what the you know, the problem is that that leadsnf to confusion and confusion leads to peril. now, you know, the the tenorrk and tone of the remarks, i don t know. i don t likes, l c communistom t i don t trust communist china. c i thinkhi china is our strategic rival, our principal strategic rival, not russia, but china. but picking this fight over a nancy pelosi trip that i don t even tri is real. i m not sure that that s the wisest thing to do. john , kellyanne, i d love your take on this. you know donald trump as well as i do. he d never would have put up with that threat on that calll.
on and respond. he will never come on . w he s too busy. what s he doing? weoo don t know. but we just got this picture and we think it s actually erict wah. well, we don t know who he s talking to thing we don t knowus ,buty. he s clearly busy. s so w maybe that s why he s not accepting our offer to come on . but if he can break awayti and spend the time, he s always welcome on this show. ht we hope you have the best night with the ones you love. and now to sean hannity. all right, tucker. noww as yourself this question, if you are swalwell and you hadu a fang fang story inn your background, would you go on the tucker carlson show w i would just i wouldn t ask any hard questions, but i mean, some get some details. some details. i m just saying i ve got to be okay. softball interview, i m sure. all right. thank you, tucker.r. welcome , hannity. and today, bideny. cowering in fear, hiding behind a giant no card after getting threatened by china s dictator during ann embarrassing, humili