that prompted the white house to go into a spin overdrive like this. you would be amazed if they would declare this period to be a recession, even if two quarters of negative growth. we have a strong labor market and we are creating one of those jobs that is not a recession. i think probably. there is so much out of our control to read what inflation is being a global problem. brian: in fact, the gas prices coming down in the summer is extraordinarily rare. that is not something we see very often pure they follow every single day since started. that is progress but not enough and we need to keep working on this. we begin with gillian turner reporting live from the white house, good morning. good morning to you julie and bill. we did not see him at all over the weekend and we will not see him in person before wednesday. his position wrote in the letter, this just in and we will hear direct from the white house the covid coordinator this afternoon and we will get some
bay militarily. well, there are a couple of things the administration has done that s very good. they took what trump was doing and strengthening the allies and partners, particularity the quad alliance, japan, australia, united states and india and strengthed that and had meetings associated with that. exercise and working together has taken place as a result and also strengthened the relationship with other allies and partners in the region and much of his visit out there is just literally about that. he will meet with all the chiefs of the military in that entire region in sydney, australia later this week. that s a good thing. what we haven t done rapidly enough in my mind is actually strengthen the position of taiwan and also in the region. when it pertains to u.s. capability. and what the concern is here is that president xi, who will be enshrined in the fall of this year for a third term likely
magnitude. 19 murders in the weekend. they wear out and they see the worst of people and it brings out the worst in them. it s unfortunate but it s an indication of that kind of moral exhaustion between the border patrol now that can t be tolerated. members of congress must be treated with respect. you can t insult the dead body of a migrant father dying trying to get his young child across the rio grande. i sympathize with the border patrol. the southern border needs to be strengthed. but where is our desency. martha: i agree. if 3 people are doing this, they need to be fired. they should not be allowed to be
prosperity and values and strengthed by the solidarity of our alliances. he brings up russia and china talking about how these are two countries that want to pull the puppet strings. the united states, our role as leader of the free world is to stop that from happening. are we not doing that? well, the russia thing in particular was a reference to syria where the president s critics are saying that by withdrawing from syria the united states is leaving syria to russia and the iranians. but in general russia and china are our two biggest adversaries in the world. we re not at war with them but we are kind of bumping up against them in all sorts of places in the world. secretary mattis s belief is that the united states should do more to push back than president trump is inclined to do. president trump s belief is i
crimea and moving into the eastern part of ukraine is very calculated on their part because they want to dominate and control that part of the region. i don t believe for a minute that they want the take over all of ukraine because then they would absorb the economic problems. what they do want, jon, they don t want the ukrainians to move to the west. they don t want their economic ties to be strengthed with the european union and for a fact they clearly do not want ukraine to become a part of nato. that s what all of this pressure has been about is to stop that from happening. and i think what this administration is attempting to do is take on russia and counter them right there because we re providing lethal aid to them in the past and they re about to make a decision to provide more lethal aid to the regime and so they know they have our back and bring our allies from europe into the picture, which we are.