rewrite the dictionary. griff jenkins has more in washington, good morning. griff: good morning, americans are bracing for nows we are in recession with dropping gdp numbers. the president says he doesn t see that happening? president biden: we re not going to be in a recession in my view, the employment rate is still one of the lowest in history, the 3.6 area. my hope is we go from rapid growth to steady growths. we ll see some coming down, god willing, i don t think we ll see recession. griff: white house message focusing on how well the economy is doing because of how many jobs have been created. if you look at the economic indicators, the labor market, the average amount of jobs that have been created, about 400 per month, indicators do not show that we are in a recession or even a pre-recession. griff: she s not the only white house official challenging technical definition of a recession. i covered the economy for many years, i was told by everybody i spoke
maybe this will give him more time to be a mentor, i hope more time to write and be inspiration to young physicians and kids in high school. i hope this president would give dr. fauci presidential medal of freedom, but he s received presidential medal of freedom. todd: kevin corke, is that what kids need, fauci as a mentor? kevin: i m not a kid. dr. fauci clarifying he s not actually retiring, hes he s moving on to a mentoring role at the end of the year. president biden did thank his chief medical advisor on twitter. america is stronger, more resilient and healthier because of him? many republicans are calling for a federal investigation into fauci. dr. fauci, retirement or not, will be spending a lot of time in front of a congressional committee and committees if republicans take back control. we will ask him questions about gain of function research, why he didn t push back on china s lives. we ll have a lot of questions and will subpoena him and expect him to answ
g.o.p. still expected to take the house but a smaller margin the senate up for grabs. i have been wanting to do things outside of the government. the covid czar himself dr. anthony fauci moving up his retirement to this december. his legacy is presiding over the greatest debacle in public health history. action. judd strikes one tout right. forget that number 47 for aaron judd. and it s 2-0, yankees. oh, i want to dance with somebody i want to feel the heat of somebody it yeah, i want to dance with somebody will with somebody who lost me. steve: big dance today in a couple of states because they are having primaries. you are looking live at our nation s capitol, the seat of government. 71 degrees down there. high of 87. and as you can see clear as a bell. it s a beautiful day. we have selected that as the start-off picture for this tuesday, august 23rd, 2022, because katie pavlich is in the thousand. she is on the couch today. katie: i m here. steve: tha
president biden: no. todd: griff jenkins is in washington with the latest from the president s trip. griff. griff: good morning, carley and todd. joe biden s first trip to asia ends just moments from now. you are looking live at air force one, waiting to get wheels up from tokyo, just after 6 p.m. there. caps swing through south korea and japan intended to highlight a new economic pact. as you saw, the president leaves major questions looming over the u.s. policy toward taiwan, which the white house was forced to walk back in a statement and defense secretary austin tried to clean up yesterday. our one china policy has not changed. he reiterated that policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. griff: not the first time the white house has had to clarify for the president, drawing harsh criticism from china s leaders and earlier this morning in one of the president s last public events, biden was hammered with questions over whether he
put out another fire. forced to walk back military intervention. this is amateur hour at 1600 pennsylvania. inside out, foul. the baseball landed in a beer cup and he just the whole beer with the ball in the cup. georgia then it would all make sense. all eyes are on georgia, texas. minnesota. where else can we look? alabama. brian: arkansas. ainsley: texas. brian: not a lot. but i think a lot of people looking at georgia. ainsley: sarah huckabee sanders she will probably win. brian: that was it. we are out of that shot now. just the three of us for the rest of the three hours. have some commercials. ainsley: we will highlight all of the primaries for you today. it s another midterm primary day in america. brian: it s a big one. ainsley: voters getting set to hit the polls in five more states today. will: you heard us rattle off some georgia and texas spotlight taking center stage with big endorsement. brian: we also have a bush in this race.