potential interest rate cut to help lower costs for consumers. a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt in new york in for andrea mitchell who is on assignment. in his second speech in as many days marking the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion. president biden drew parallels between the threats faced by democracies during world war ii to those being faced by american interests and ideals today. believe in something bigger than ourselves. that s what every soldier and marine decided. they stood against hitler s aggression. does anyone doubt that they would want america to stand up against putin s aggression here in europe today? the president s speech echoed reagan s iconic address at the same location 40 years ago when he famously honored the boys, the american solders who gave it all for democracy, in one of the most d-day operations, 225 u.s. army rangers scaled normandy s 100-foot perpendicular cliffs under heavy fire to destroy nazi guns threatening ship
yeah. inflation is coming down. but there s this issue of the cumulative inflation over the last couple years. yes, wages have gone up faster than prices. but they haven t gone up that much faster than prices. wage growth has been a little bit disappointing when you look at real wages. a lot of it also is just a generalized discontent with something that is not about the economy. i don t know quite what it is. people do actually feel good about their own financial situations. they are also spending money. when it comes to voting with their wallet, they are voting their confidence in their economy. when they answer polls, they answer them differently. then you have non-wealthy americans who remain frustrated with the economy. i want to get your reaction to this cnbc headline. we are putting it up. the u.s. added 600,000 new millionaires last year. that s far outpacing the rest of the world, according to a new
I was just getting, looking at go ahead, douglas. i mean, look. first off, and growth in the first quarter of 2021, 6.5% and that s a factor, look it up. this economy was growing rebustly. the private sector had this, no need for the government to step in, they did and no good with it. learn that lesson. when you go to recover from a big recession like that, you are going to get a lot of jobs. not as many jobs this year, there are not as many job openings to fill. the real problems are on the inflation side, on the supply chain, disguised, people cannot go to work because of the virus. deal with the virus. sandra: i ll give you last word here, austin, cnbc headline, a million like this, 4.6 million more job openings than unemployed workers in december. this is still a real problem getting people to go to work. number of available jobs has topped 10 million for seven straight months now. before the pandemic began in
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Little bit. and right now he knows he has cnn in a pickle. steve schmidt, vladimir putin, oddly, or maybe not, changed some of the laws in his own country about tightening the reins. they don t have a free press there, but on tightening the reins around foreign press. here s the cnbc headline. vladimir putin signs a bill, letting russia classify international journalists as foreign agents. can you just address sort of the parallels between what i think donald trump sees and covets in terms of putin s relationship with the media? look, general hayden had this exactly right. we have to talk about all three things together. the assault on truth. we must have truth to have accountability in a democracy. the first amendment, the spirit of it in this country, which guarantees protection for a free and independent press. and the free of the press internationally, where typically american presidents would never allow foreign autocrats to say we won t take questions from the