a mild recession . earlier i spoke to james smith. so we talk about recessions and the gdp numbers. us economists, we often think of two quarters of negative growth has been what we might call a technical recession. but i think it s worth remembering that doesn t always feel like a recession to people. often when we see a recession, we associate that with maybe widespread job losses, people spending a lot less money, people, you know, trying to save more because they re uncertain about what s to come. we re not necessarily seeing all of that right now. and of course, the fall in gdp we saw in the third quarter was very small, 0.i. we might see another slight fall in the fourth quarter, but it s not comparable to, you know, some of the famous recessions we ve seen in the past, 2008, of course, the covid recession as well. so it s worth putting that in context. just to let people know what recession is, it s two sets of three months. we ve seen growth negative in terms of wha
karine jean-pierre said they would let their legal team and all the questions. that they didn t stop by didn t. he said he has no regrets with how he handled top-secret material claiming there is no there there to this kendall. the house judiciary committe and republican congressman jim jordan. great to have you here. the briefing as set to begin an moment now, why is the white house not answering more questions, why is karine jean-pierre so unprepared to have any transparency with the american people. nothing makes sense with thi rate i kind of go back to the fundamental question why were they looking into it in the first place? why did they send lawyers to search i think pointed out to date in the wall street journal that joe biden gets his players they get to search the documents , trump can t even have his present when the fbi is there. this double standard, the lack of transparency at think has been evident from the get-go when it comes to transparent, o december 2nd
custody. there s a picture there. right now the motive is unknown. it is unclear if the attacks were racially motivated. but we should know police are ramping up security in asian-american communities as a precaution. president biden has been briefed on the shootings, and at this hour he returns to the white house. we ll bring you any live comments. also today, concerns of another covid surge. cases are climbing in more than one dozen states. the cdc is sounding the alarm on two variants in california. we ll get to that in a moment. let s begin on this tragic shooting spree. our ryan young joins us this morning in atlanta. what do you know about the victims, eight total, six of them asian. what can you tell us? reporter: so far, very little information is coming out about the victims except, besides their races. of course, what we ve been told so far is at least six of the people killed are asian. of course, we re trying to move forward with parts of this investigation. w
mexico here, but they are working with people, u.s. citizens here that are here in the united states. you are training members of our police forces to actually deal with these cartel members, the vicious cartel members and many cases. how do you do it? you know, when i trained the law enforcement officers, first of all they need to know i don care what city they are in indian estates, they are here and they are dangerous. i teach them how to be safe whe they are investigating the mexican cartel. i teach them investigative techniques that i won t go into detail, but i d teach them investigative techniques to hel them identify mexican cartels i the community in then how to conduct investigations with them . as far as what needs to be done our federal government needs to send more help to the southwest border because that s where the come in from. it s an open border, it s not secure.