when he came in. unemployment is at 6.4%. people were hurting. hundreds of thousands of small businesses in your state and all across america, they had closed. today we re in a much better place, although people are still hurting. we ve got more to do. 10 million jobs created since i took office. unemployment rate is 3.5%. the lowest it s been in 50 years. joining our conversation as we cross into the top of a new hour. the author of the run away best seller, jonathan lemire, and the host of on brand with donny deutsch podcast, former chief of staff for the dccc, adrienne elrod, and former white house press secretary jen psaki, an msnbc host, eugene robinson with joe, mika and me as well. jen, i ll start with you, listening to the president there
trump s big lie. and who testified before the january 6th committee. he s headed for defeat. bowers is convinced he s headed for defeat. and this past weekend, he told nbc s vaughn hillyard why. the party has thrown me out, basically. the state party issue the county party. and now my district party. if you do not win on tuesday, why would you have not won? probably because i stood up. and when they ask me to tell the truth, i told the truth. i wasn t the, i didn t go looking for a fight. but the fact that i would break ranks and somehow find, find what the president, the former president did, was unacceptable. but that s like a broke some sort of taboo. and i did break a taboo. and it s kind of a cultic thing, you know, that you have to be in with the cult. let s bring in the host of the podcast, on brand with
weekend meaningfully and there is an expectation we could see a transaction very, very soon. of course, this will raise all sorts of question about the role frankly of free speech, billionaires and influence and, yes, whether former president trump returns to the twitter platform. so i imagine if and when this deal gets announced, that is the next leg of this conversation. all right. also with us, host of the podcast on brand with donnie deutsche. first before we go into on brand, your thoughts on elon musk. simple equation, i don t know, to me when the richest guy in the world taking over the most important social media platform, that is just not a winning formula to me. and it reminds me of dr. evil and gold finger would take over the media. and my tummy meter said there is something not great about this. and if someone could tell them not to re tweet old tweets
pandemic. the commerce department reports the nation s gross domestic product, which is the sum of all goods and services, expanded 5.7% overall in 2021. it is the strongest calendar year growth since 1984. it was aided by a better than expected fourth quarter where gdp grew at 6.9%, far outpacing economists predictions in the face of the surging omicron variant. some analysts however are now warning the economy could be in for a slow down this year due to inflation and ongoing pandemic. joining us, host of the podcast on brand donny deutsch and also kurt berdella. donny, i will start with you, piggy backing off the james carville interview we were talking about earlier into the messaging piece about what democrats could be saying about the first year when you have gdp numbers, unemployment numbers,
ended, george w. bush s decision points, almost 500 pages. but for trump, captions are all he wanted to write. and decision to keep his brand at forefront is very, well, on brand. how much money is this picture book of insults allegedly making the former president? well there, was print run of 200,000. people in publishing confirmed that. $75 for unsigned, $230 for signed, 100 bucks a book times 200,000, millions of dollars. something he can put his name on. done it for steaks, wine, bath robes and perfume. pictures are public domain, didn t have to pay for them, belong to the government archive. endeavor that quickly happened, he s pocketing a lot of cash from it. terrific report.