Unattractive that mitch mcconnell has walked away from it. said it s not going to happen. but nevertheless, we re going to hear a lot more of this for the six months until the election unless inflation starts coming down. we ve got a big inflation report that the government s going to put out tomorrow. some economists think that inflation is peaking and about to go down. we will see tomorrow what the next sign is. we ll be watching, but i think we should all buckle up for the politics no matter what heading into the next several months. joining us now is stacy van exsmith, a business and economics correspondent, great to have you with us this morning. picking up where our colleague john harwood just left off. we know what things look like, right? we know who is going to be held responsible and who is being held responsible for the state of the economy, inflation, prices at this point, realistically what can be done at this point by the president or lawmakers to really bring prices