Market action. Blake burman doing sorting of his own at the white house. Edward lawrence with the fed in a few minutes from washington. Like, to you. Reporter we heard from the commission that oversees the president ial debate, next debate one would be virtual debate. President trump reacted instantly, no, no will not take any part in that whatsoever. Instead his campaign is saying they would like to see the debate happen on october 22nd. Which was supposed to be the last debate and one on october 29th. The Biden Campaign came out said theyre good with the 22nd. That was on the calendar to begin with but they do not believe President Trump can unilaterally dictate the debate schedule after that. That is where we stand. Here is how both candidates reacted today. President trump i dont want to do a virtual debate. A virtual debate is a joke. Im in great shape. Unlike joe i dont have the luxury staying in a basement all day long. I have to run the country. We dont know what the president
let s talk to steve more about this. steve, the problem is inflation is at decades high. recession around the corner. it s a heck of a one-two punch. you better believe it. the good news is that the inflation rate has come down a little bit the last two or three months, charles. that s good news. we went from almost 9% inflation this past summer to now we re down to about 7.1%. as you just said, that is still the highest inflation rate we ve had in 35, 40 years. so americans are feeling the punch. their wages and salaries have only gone up by 5 or 6%. that s one of the reasons that you reported that credit card debt is going up. people are trying to maintain their standard of living but paychecks are not keeping pace. i m nervous. i think inflation will come down in 2023 from the high rates of 2022. but i also think that the economy shows real signs of slowing down. i pray we don t crash into a recession. but we sure could. charles: steve, that s what i m concerned about.
biden is handling that number one issue of inflation. most important to them, he is failing by a mile. about the same say they approve of how he is handling record breaking gasoline prices. another top issue for them, he is failing by a mile. within days we could creep to an average $5 per gallon for regular unleaded. 25 cents more than they were paying last week. again focusing deeper now, the price of gas has more than doubled from when biden first took office. and remember, that s the national average. it is well above $6 in california. one station north of san francisco was charging $9.50 a gallon. the administration is delusional if it thinks people can live this way and not want democrats out of office. and while the white house blames putin s war against ukraine, republicans say look no farther than the president s own policies. biden doesn t care. he has no plans. has no idea how to deal with inflation. has no plan to deal with inflation. all he does is blame everyb
they also say it is not likely to improve for a couple of more months yet. the fda force evidence to shut down an abbott plant in michigan in february. the out of stock rate for most formula manufacturerers and brands nationwide is up to 70%. listen. [inaudible] white house press secretary dodged repeated questions over why the president was not briefed up much sooner. leadership in the administration they said you don t have that time frame. i just don t have the time frame to share. what i can say is the white house began working on this from the first day of the recall. from day one of the recall, which was back in february. the president said he did not understand how bad the issue was until april. perhaps the wasn t aware of the work going on in february. the president has multiple issues and crises at the moment. just this morning the white house is launching a website. it s white house./formula to show the american people what the white house is doing to stoc
of defamation, answer, yes. as against amber heard, we, the jury, award damages in the amount of $10 million. as against amber heard, we, the jury, award of punitive damages in the amount of $5 million, do you find that ms. hurd has proven all of the elements of defamation? answer, no. emily: ruling in favor of johnny depp on all three of his accounts, but awarded amber heard $2 million writing in part, the jury gave me my life back. i am truly humbled. while hurd wrote, i am even more disappointed with what this means for other women. this is a setback, takes us to a time when women who spoke up and spoke out kobe publicly shamed and humiliated. it sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously. jenna, i come to you first on this, amber hurd says she represents all women, does she? jenna: i think she represents the nuance that the is kind of circumstances present, and i think as we us approach splitting hairs, we have to think very specifically a