radicals. you cannot intimidate the supreme court. hunter biden bragging about all the power he has over your president. [inaudible] joe biden has said that hunter biden is the smartest man he knows. offering free meals to veterans kids to help flight inflation. cool thing about this is a lot of things texas buy somebody s pizza on me. i don t need any credit. brian: we continue to bump in on charleston, south carolina, it s a wonderful town which i m recommending that people go. it s an hour and a half flight. steve: from here. ainsley: that s true. steve: if you live? japan it s 25 hours. brian: not everybody lives in new york? i had no idea. ainsley: isn t it great? brian: seemed to really embraced me. ainsley: they love you down be there that used to be the bridge and they knocked down and built a new beautiful bridge they have a bridge walk or they run every year. brian: people couldn t get across. ainsley: charleston, peninsula and t
that you know, when you look at his own federal reserve, the federal reserve of san francisco in march of this year said, you know what? in the last quarter of last year, half of the inflation rate, it was about 6%, 3 percent of it was because of all of the government spending, so, yesterday, finally, joe biden said something everybody can agree on. joe biden said i m changing people s lives. and people who support him say yeah for the better. but a lot of people on the other side say yeah, exactly not good, mr. president. brian: the fact is he is spending like a mad man spent $1.9 trillion. there was no offset to it. even the bipartisan infrastructure bill 256 billion to the deficit. he said he created 8 million jobs. people wecht back to work because they were told to stay home for the first time in over 100 years. they were asked to stay home. he talked about long lines for food. yes. because that was the situation during the pandemic. it wasn t the trump economy.
work. we still have not recovered from that. and on the bipartisan infrastructure plan which got its merit but also added to the deficit to the tune of $256 billion. don t keep saying you cut the deficit. it s only compared to the amount of money we put in because of the pandemic. just like you added eight million jobs. no. people are on the shelf because they were told to stay home. they got back into the work force. you can t take credit for that. steve: well, in addition to saying he s changing people s lives, he also said that inflation is worse elsewhere and that simply is not true. actually, the united states inflation rate is higher than the euro zone. remember last week, the number came out here in the united states, it was 8.16. in the euro zone, 8.1 %. until south korea it was 5.4. australia 5%, canada 6.8. while the president can say you re lucky to live here in the united states where inflation s not that bad compared to the rest of the world, look at
back better law signed into law. i think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now come back at this thing. so what the president called chunks i would hope would be a major bill going forward, it may be more limited, but it is still significant. congressman bowden, how do you feel about chunks versus one comprehensive bill? one big comprehensive bill that would pass the reconciliation process. it s mind-boggling to me, once again. the bipartisan framework passed. it adds $256 billion to the deficit. so it makes it worse. we had build back better paid for at about $2.4/2.5 trillion. it s been so-called back to 1.57
would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and appoint a special counsel to probe the 2020 election. we will note that trump ultimately did not sign it. this is just one of hundreds of white house documents now obtained by the committee from the national archives after the supreme court rejected trump s bid to shield them from investigators. president biden is hoping for a reset as he kicks off his second year in office. that includes reviving build back better. the president hoping to pass pieces of his massive social spending bill. some progressives are critical of that approach. one bug comprehensive bill that would pass the reconciliation process. it s mind boggling to me once again, the bipartisan infrastructure framework passed. it adds 256 billion to the deficit, so it makes it worse. and as covid hospitalizations are on the rise in several parts of the country, new reports from