one of the most impressive mcenroe economic interventions in recent american history in the last hundred years. >> laura: perhaps mr. hay is not aware of the current oecd projection. it doesn't take the ph.d. in economics from stanford to know that under biden americans are poorer, our national debt has sky rocketed and china continues to threaten our position in the world. so no amount of spin, no amount of happy talk from their press at sheas at the other cables are going to make those inconvenient facts disappear. here to discuss, ari fleischer former white house press secretary and ben editor at large of the spectator, both are fox news contribute tours. ben, let's start on the china question. what's going on here? i mean, there couldn't really be more affronts to america that occurred over the past three or four months from the hacking to the spy balloon to the buzzing of our aircraft.