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now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. i think you ll see it change sooner than quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can t stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector, in the u.s. and other places around the world. it wasn t so much it wasn t the people were wrong with the facts that they had. it s that things happened after that that affected the outcome. so we had not just delta, but omicron. we had gas prices at $3.31 january 17 when putin first started doing military ex
turns out to be a strategy that works. gene sperling, thanks very much. serious times and a lot of pressures on everybody. we appreciate your time and glad our audio didn t break up this time. thanks for coming back. with that let s bring in mitch mcconnell, senate minority leader. good to have you with us today. off the top here, and thank you for being here, what is your reaction to what mr. sperling had to say about the white house approach to all of this? gene had a really tough job trying to defend the indefensible. one clear reason we re suffering from 40-year high inflation, the 2. 1.9 trillion so-called rescue package passed last year in march without a single republican vote, which bill clinton s secretary of the treasury, larry summers said would create record inflation.
got in. our camera got in but audio didn t which is why you couldn t hear the two of them talk and when the american press started as tradition holds shouting questions at the two leaders, russian security got involved and started pushing everybody out of the room even grabbing onto the clothing of some of the americans as they tried to clear them out. we should point out dana knows all about this because she has been in many of those. it is a grand tradition for the wranglers as they are called to say thank you, press, get out, time to get out. the united states secret service never puts a hand on the american press unless they were present some sort of threat. for the russian security forces to grab the american press and try to shove them out of the room is going beyond the line. but i will say these things are always crazy. it was crazy when we went to the bilateral meetings and press conference in helsinki and nuts when president trump met with kim jong-un at the
what you just played was perfectly accurate and in context. and i think did the story absolute justice. but what happened when the frenzy was building i didn t watch. i read that main washington post article and listened to the sound and was astounded when the audio didn t match the first sentence in that article. from a journalism standpoint that s a liberty that i don t think we would have been able to see ten years ago. trump said he liked people who weren t captured later on in a press conference right after, which some call damage control. it was a contention press conference. he said he has respect for those who were captured and likes those who weren t captured. did that make sense to you? if it wasn t a if he doesn t i mean if he truly