obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
american families are having trouble keeping up. also spending could go further up we have more also on why bill haggerty is fed up. welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto. potentially history repeating itself. let s begin with jackie on more. hello, that s right. many americans are asking that question. am i better off than i was four years ago? 35% say that they are not, that they are having a difficult time eating the demands of housing and food in health care, transportation, childcare, pretty much everything else, coming from the brandeis university study based on almost 100,000 households. the last government report told us that the overall inflation rate is 8.5%, dropping slightly from the previous month, concerned that inflation is going to remain at a high level for a longer time than previously expected, and that is why jerome powell indicated that he had to be more aggressive on interest rates when he spoke in jackson hole. it is true that the wages are rising, but
investigation. the president has been very clear. i laid out what his thoughts were back on january 7 in 2021 about how he saw the department of justice. i m going to leave it there. we re not going to comment from here from this white house. on a criminal investigation that is currently happening. fox on top of the fallout from the raid on mar-a-largo. the white house pressed on it. what we re learning about the judge that signed off on it and what was taken as a result of it. welcome. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have you covered with david spunt at the justice department on the search warrant that go it going and shannon bream on the pressure of the attorney general and the fbi director are facing. we begin with david. to you first. good afternoon. we were told that at the beginning of 2022, negotiations between top trump officials at mar-a-largo and the government over retrieving documents that may have been classified, we re told thos
much right at the moment. not necessarily feeling it right now, but in the future, i have big plans. if interest rates go up on the home mortgages, i could be a little screwed there. i m in the corporate world. it s concerning. with the prices going up, we cannot afford sometimes what i you know. so it s hard for me. have to pinch here and there. still living our life. neil: the white house learning what americans knew all along. we re indeed in a recession. the economy pulling back as prices refuse to let up. stocks ignored this and moved up what is really up? we re going to talk to senior economic adviser, gene sperling in just a moment. this is neil cavuto and your world. first to edward lawrence at the white house on how all of this is being digested there. edward? the president confident that we re not in a recession. we re hearing it from everyone in the administration. don t look at the gdp numbers. look at job growth. in fact, the jobs that the adminis
a i m aishah hasnie. alex alexandria hoff from washington. the chinese foreign ministry has imposed unspecified sanctions on speaker pelosi and her family. while in tokyo yesterday, the speaker says that china s action are part of an effort to isolate taiwan and she said her trip did not change to the statues quo. and calling the exercise in the taiwan straits a grave problem and several missiles landed in japan s exclusion zone. here is antony blinken. since china has launched a dozen ballistic missiles, we ve been hearing from partners and allies across the region who are increasingly concerned about the destabilizing actions. the white house believes that china is using speaker pelosi s visit as a reason to escalate tension. there s no reason for china to escalate the way they have. there s no reason. the policy has not changed. we re in line with the one china policy. the speaker had every right to take that trip. white house officials believe that senior level