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everyone. thank so much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is tuesday, april 30, your top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. today the final trading day of april and focus is on the fed. futures pulling back, fractional losses ahead of day one of the federal reserve's two day policy meeting today. investors are anticipateing jay powell's remarks on inflation and the economy to set the tone for rate cuts down the line. more earnings on the way this morning as well. dow components coca-cola, 3m and mcdonald's out ahead of amazon after the close tonight, apple is out on thu thursday. everything you need to know coming up. european markets are mixed. we have gains in london with the ft 100 up 32, cac quarante and dax negative. in asia markets finished mostly higher. bbest performer was japan,one d.

president trump's trial continues this morning. he is planning on campaign events in wisconsin and michigan as the white house tries to play down trump beating biden or neck in neck some states. joining us this morning, mark tepper, joe pinion and fox business' cheryl casone. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ out of my dreams. ♪ get into my car. ♪ get out of my dreams. ♪ get in the back seat, baby. ♪ get into my car. maria: and it is time for the hot topic of the hour. a new harvard poll finds former president trump is the frontrunner in a race between president biden and robert f ken kennedy junior. biden keeps p touting the biden administration's so called

economic success. heres' what they said on a podcast yesterday. >> i think the countries is in much better shape and we're talking about it. we have the best economy in the world. >> the economy grew under bill, it grew under joe, it grew under me. and the reason it grows is when everybody's got a stake, when everybody's making money, american economic history shows whatever prosperity is broadly based and all ofs us ran campaigns with this basic premise, that if you get everybody a fair shot, everybody does better. maria: but everybody's not doing better. meanwhile, a new cbs news poll finds voters in swing states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, say they would be financially better off with trump as president but the white house is dodging any questions when et it comes to the economy, blaming everybody and everything except president biden's policies. >> can't speak to that

specifically but what i will say more broadly is we understand what americans have gone through, the american rescue plan was incredibly important in turning the economy around, dealing with the supply chains, and we also understand that prices are still too high. we're talking about a president who understands what it feels like to sit around a your kitchen table and have to make difficult decisions. this is why he's trying to build an economy from the bottom up, middle out. he's been very clear about this. this is a sympathetic president. maria: sympathetic president, cheryl casone. your reaction? knows what it feels like when steak is up 40% year over year or eggs are up 20% year over year or when the cost of just about everything is up more so than your wages. >> it's the economy, stupid. but i'm going to quote mark penn here who is the co-ydirector of the harvard poll which shows that president trump is leading president biden in the matchup.

he says america thinks trump did a better j job as president and they're willing to vote him back into office an biden has a hill to climb and it shows men are supporting president trump while women are supporting president biden. it's something to consider as we move forward. maria: what they don't get into in that podcast is inflation and the reason that we have had such high inflation, it's the excessive spending. the white house is beefing up its economic up council led by lael brainard and promoting two economic aides to help with advising on the economy. will it help as we watch the economy he slow down all the way up from 4.9% in the third quarter of last year to now 1.6% in the first quarter of this year. >> well, i don't believe it's going to help. you look at the polls. polls are not an exact science. when polls start spitting out the same numbers month after month after month and trending

in the wrong way it is time to believe them. they want to start preaching to the american people on main street about macroeconomics, all of a sudden the democratic party suddenly believes that trickle down economics is something that actually works and meanwhile they want to ignore to your point the inflation that has ravaged most american families. the credit card debt, over $1 trillion, personal credit card debt over 20 % average intt rate. they're patting themselves object on the back for a job well done. when in reality, most of the gains are a direct result of astronomical levels of government spending when you bake in inflation and all the things water talking about. maria: mark, how do you see it? >> on that point, i mean, president obama said that the economy has grown under biden, under obama, under bill clinton. well, no kidding. the economy grows underneath pretty much every single president because recessions typically don't last four years or eight years especially when

we're talking about the excessive fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus but look, bidenomics is a bust. it's not working. it's extremely bad. and the american people know it. i mean, inflation's reaccelerating, the economic growth is slowing, people are working multiple jobs to put food on the table the, they're maxing 0:out credit cards and anyone who is past third grade math knows it's easy to grow the economy by $300 billion when you create 800 p billion dollars of new money with which to do so. maria: cheryl. >> well, look, when it comes to the inflation story it's getting worse, not better, for joe biden and the white house, that's why they're leaning on lael brainard for example to try to turn the economic messaging around plus putting vice president harris, switching her if from the stump p speech about women's rights and abortion, now she's talking about the economy and of course as you see, the heavy hitters like president biden and former president clinton coming out to defend joe biden's economic

policies. maria: we're just getting started this morning. quick break and then protests at columbia university growing this morning. we've got breaking news, dangerous students are taking over a campus building. hamilton hall. right now, the breaking news is happening as we speak. how the school's losing its grip on controlling this disarray. we're on it coming up. then nick timiraos is here, out with a new piece on the fed, we'll talk about ahead of the fed's two day meeting and how it's affecting markets. don't miss it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ i am titanium. ♪ shoot me down

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maria: welcome back. take a look at futures this morning on this the final trading day of april, the dow industrials down 7, nasdaq down 2 # and s&p lower by 7 and-a-half. interest rates meanwhile look like this ahead of the federal reserve's two day policy mating which kicks off today, if yield on 10 year is up 1.3 basis points, investors are anticipating jay powell to remark on inflation, the economy which will set the tone for potential rate cuts down the line, whether it's this year remains a debate. joining me is the wall street journal chief economics core correspondent, author of trillion dollar triage. nick timiraos. thanks for being here this morning. >> thanks for having me. maria: what are you expecting from jay powell today given we've seen three months of inflation staying elevated and worries that rate cuts may be off the table? >> yeah, that's right, maria.

i think the big question at the press conference tomorrow will be how powell frames the inflation outlook. if you think back to the last meeting in march, the january inflation number had been hot. february hadn't been great. it hadn't been quite as bad as january. we didn't have the march number yet and at the time he said this is a bump on the road. we expected there to be bumps. the question is, is this a bump or something more? the march number wasn't terrible. it wasn't good either. i think the question for the fed is, is this still a bump on the road or is it something more and that's what we're going to find out i think from the chair. one outlook is we're still kind of on the bumpy path down. the other outcome is inflation is settling closer to 3% than 2% using the fed's preferred target and that wouldn't -- that would not be ideal here for the fed. maria: yeah. i spoke with james grant, jim grant, the founder of the

interest rate observer and this was back in march, nick, and he was really among the few out there when everybody was expecting rate cuts, to throw the idea out there that, look, the fed may do nothing, the fed might have to raise interest rates. here's jim grant with me in march. i want to get your reaction. watch this. you're not connecting a cut in rates any time soon. >> no. well, they might decide that three-ish is fine. maria: 3% inflation. >> yes. the concern over inflation. and to focus on financial stability as they would define it. but however, i think there's also a chance this year that the fed raises, if they are confronted with an accelerating rate of inflation. they feel they have no choice. and who is to say that 3.2% thing couldn't go up. we have an $80 oil price, no longer 70. maria: i think that was stunning when he said that in march. your new piece this morning in the journal is titled the fed to signal it has the stomach to keep rates high for longer,

saying that firmer price pressures could leave longer term rates to rice. tell us about that. giving us your reaction to jim grant. >> well, yeah, i mean what jimd in march sounds a lot more plausible after the march inflation numbers came out. and so the buzz word that you hear from these fed officials when they talk, sometimes they will say that they think policy is in a good place or that it's well positioned and what they mean when they say that isn't so much that everything's going to work out perfectly. it means that if things don't work out according to b plan, if inflation is stronger than expected or if the economy's weaker than they expect, it means they think they have a pretty easy plan of response so right now if inflation continues to run closer to 3% than to 2% which is where it's been for the last few months, it's been running closer to 3%, they'll

simply take out the interest rate cuts expected this year or early next year. what that will do is it will raise interest rates across the treasury curve. that will tighten financial conditions. it's really the same effect you would get from an interest rate increase so i don't see a lot of appetite right now from most fed officials to raise interest rates. i think what it would take, maria, to put actual interest rate increases back on the table like jim said, it would take some combination of inflation going higher, some nasty supply shock, oil prices going much higher. you need to see evidence of wages reaccelerating. that would cause some alarm at the fed or inflation expectations rising. on those last two, wages reaccelerating, we're not seeing that yet but there will be a cost index report at 8:30 this morning so that will be an important sign of whether wages continue to cool in line with what we've been seeing. maria: yeah. so you write in your first graph

of this piece, you an ancient chinese proverbs that councils do nothing and everything will be done could sum up the federal reserve's latest approach to interest rate policy. does that mean you're expecting nothing at the meeting but perhaps the commentary becomes that much more important, what will jay powell say? >> yeah, in terms of policy action i don't expect anything on interest rates at this meeting. there could be some changes on the balance sheet. but when it comes to the policy statement, i don't expect a lot of changes and so that really -- they're not changing the interest rates, not changing the policy same, that puts all the attention on the press conference, how will powell explain the interest rate outlook and do they continue to talk about interest rate cuts. he'll be asked i'm sure where the bar is to raise interest rates again and that could be a tricky question. you don't want to take anything

off the table if you're a central banker right now. you've seen how this economy can surprise. but he doesn't want to put are interest rate increases front and center here because of what i said about how they think policy is in a good place so that could be a little bit of an interesting moment. maria: yeah. and let me ask you about the macro story yourself, nick. inflation is still elevated. oil is one of the big issues there. with oil prices where it is. you have to believe that inflation stays elevated. what are you watching specifically when you look at this macro story that the fed is watching because remember when you look at the gdp, we've gone from 4.9% in the third quarter of 2023 to 1.6% in the first quarter of this year as oil is elevated at $82.80 a barrel and obviously lots of other things are elevated in price within that cpi index. >> well, the big story really on the economy has just been resilience.

everybody's been expecting a slowdown and predicting a slowdown, six months from now we'll be in a recession and every six months economists push out their forecast of a recession. you're right that headline gdp growth has slowed from around 5% to just below 2% but if you look at real final sales to private domestic purchasers, that takes out inventories, trade, government spending. it's been for the last three quarters at 3.3%, 3.0%, and now 3.1%. i mean, that is just -- there is momentum in this economy, the fed has said that's not a problem. they're no longer trying to slow down the economy. so long as wages are coming down. so if it's not growth, what do you care about? it's inflation. so right now i'm looking at the inflation numbers, do we continue to get these 0.3 monthly increases that translate to 3% or higher inflation or do we get the 0.2s which is what you're going to need to see for the interest rate conversation to get taken sears seriously ag.

i think they've put that on pause perhaps indefinitely until they see better numbers on inflation. maria: thanks so much for joining me this morning. >> thank you, maria. maria: nick timiraos, wall street journal this morning. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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>> now for than ever it is critical the federal government's definition of anti-semitism is clear and uniform. >> this bill basically puts us on a path towards saying that any disagreements with t netanyahu's government during this conflict is anti-semetic. >> it doesn't do anything to stop the rise of anti-semitism. >> prominent scholars of anti-seemanti-seemantianti-semie definition. maria: that's the house rules committee debating the anti-semitism awareness act before voting to advance the bill. the house could vote on it by the end of the week. if it passes the bill would require the department of education to consider the

international holocaust remembrance as l alliance's worg definition of anti-semitism when enforcing anti-seem nic anti-se. overnight, protesters smashed windows and were seen flying a palestinian flag. they're occupying the building right now. joining us now, congressman dan meuser. thanks very much for being here this morning. your reaction to what's taking place at columbia right now. >> great to be with you, maria. yes, certainly woke up this morning, seeing many two bit vandals as well as middle eastern ratte radicals that aret of the group as well as those paid for, bought and o owned by the george soros groups. what we're seeing a is a high level of destruction. they want to be called

anarchists. but they're simply criminals engaged in destruction. there's a difference between creating change through destruction and change through production. this liberalism, the practice of you appeasement is about tearing down, not about building up. it's disgraceful. we need the nypd to move in ucla canceled its graduation. not a allowing those of the jewish faith that they determined by looking at someone. i mean, the worst of racism is taking place at the columbia campus and others and not a lot is being done about it. maria: well, what should be done at the white house in terms of stopping this anarchy? >> maria, it's awful. okay. joe biden is not making -- the white house is not sending messages of whos is wrong here and who is right. the idea apparently from them is

the votes in michigan are more important than condemning the violence on these campuses and that's a fact. we know that's what's going on here. and so the messaging is bad. the policy is outrageous. the weak level of support. and maria, it goes right to the whole practice of y appeasement from this administration, this social experiment that they're involved in, that the victims are the criminals. as we see who the criminals are up front and personal here. so the white house is derelict in its duty as is the house. right? the democrats. i mean, let's face it. this bill last night came out of rules, democrats voted against i it. okay. condemning anti-semetic commentary and actions on campuses and they're saying that it's not enough. it was a complete utter dodge on

a very important bill to send a message and put some teeth into defunding federal funding being withdrawn from these schools. maria: unbelievable. well, look, i want to get your take on elsewhere. president trump is back on the campaign trail tomorrow, he'll be in whi wisconsin and michigas his trial resumes today in new york. a new poll has former president trump leading president biden in pennsylvania. they say they remember the economy is in good shape under president trump. that's way up compared to the summer of 2020. the poll also finds 47% of the state voters believe trump's policies will help them financially, only 21% will say that about biden's policy, congressman. i know you've been working a lot on the vote in pennsylvania. what can you tell us in terms of what you've seen in terms of

voter feelings today. >> sure. it's kind of remarkable t that e biden even has 35, 36% favorability in pennsylvania. his policies are complete, utter disaster. we have fentanyl deaths coming straight out of the border. we're now a border state. we've got illegals coming in. we've got crime. we've got inflation. we've got an assault on pennsylvania energy. that's a big reason why pennsylvania is turning towards president trump. the other is just president trump himself. he's been out in pennsylvania several times. i spoke at a rally not too long ago where there was literally 42,000 to 45,000 people attendance, the enthusiasm for donald trump is enormous because they know what his record is as a president. okay. it's a strong national security. it's a growing economy. and it's drain the swamp. a big opposite of this

administration that is doing nothing but growing the size of the government of. so it's biden buyer remorse, it's enthusiasm for trump and we have great candidates on our ticket. state-wide. so we're -- i'm very confident pennsylvania is going to be trump country if you will this november. we've got to keep working at it. maria: yeah. people are also unnerved by the lawlessness in this country. we see what's going on today at columbia university. we see this president forgiving all this student loan debt even though the supreme court said it's unconstitutional and then you've got rights for squatters, people going into your house, deciding that its their house. i know you've introduced a bill to combat squatting by illegal immigrants. tell me more about that. >> well, i appreciate you bringing it up. i think these rioters at columbia university are guilty of squatting. they're taking over private property in an unlawful manner. this bill is called the shield act. it's for safeguarding homes from

illegal entry, living and dwelling. and what it does is those that are illegal immigrants if they break the laws by trespassing on an individual's rightful owner's property and that's proven, they'll be deported so it's a strong bill that we're getting a lot of republican support, not so much democrat support. maria: all right, we'll be watching all of that. thanks for being here this morning. >> appreciate it, maria. thanks very much. maria: congressman dan meuser joining us this morning on capitol hill. we'll be right back. (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪)

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details now. >> that's right, maria. they did have a double beat, 239 on earning per share, 8 billionn revenue. the big news, cutting the dividend on the heels of spinning off the healthcare division. they increased the dividend for six decades. they're losing their status which means that a lot of fund managers and mark tepper mentioned this in the commercial break because we were looking at the numbers together, that means a lot of funds will have to sell 3m stock. this is a stock that's negative, down about 1% right now. also they have confirmed that bill brown is going to take over as ceo may 1st, mike roman will become the executive chair. 3m, dow component. we're waiting on the other two. big names today, coca-cola and mcmcdonald's. you have spoken about this, pro palestinian protesters at columbia taking over of an academic building overnight, the same building where students protested the vietnam war in

1968. watch. >> [chanting] >> protesters getting inside the hamilton building, reports say they shattered windows and barricaded themselves inside the hall. they're there right now, this coming hours after columbia officials declared they would start to suspend students who continue to rally after the school's 2:00 p.m. deadline yesterday to disburse. protesters at the university vowing to keep their encampment on campus until school officials divest from companies associated with israel. complete forgiveness for protesting. all right. four law enforcement officers are dead, four injured after a shootout in charlotte, north carolina. the u.s. marshal's task force you a attempted to serve a warrant for a convicted felon.

the person began shooting. he was killed in the shootout. police believe there may have an additional two shooters. eight total law enforcement officers were shot during this incident. then there is this, paramount global ceo bob backish is stepping down from his role. he will be replaced with three executives in what the company is calling the office of the ceo. the announcement happening at merger talks continue between paramount and sky dance media. cbs president george cheeks, chris mccarthy and brian robins will all share that job. taking a look at paramount global. it was down yesterday, getting hit again this morning. and those are some of your headlines. we'll see you back in a little bit for some more earnings. maria: cheryl, thanks very much. secretary of state antony blinken is in jordan today, he's having meetings with the country's foreign minister and the king of jordan to discuss a

potential israel hamas cease fire deal which the administration would like to see happen. yesterday, he was in saudi arabia meeting with saudi crown prince mohammad bin sal man, bi. >> hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of israel and in this moment the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a cease fire is hamas. they have to decide and they have to decide quickly. i'm hopeful that they will make the right decision. maria: the latest cease fire proposal would see reportedly 33 hostages freed from hamas in exchange for a 40 day pause in fighting and israel releasing potentially thousands of palestinian prisoners. joining me is fox news strategic analyst, chairman for the institute for the study of war,

general jack keane. great to see you. thanks for being here this morning. >> delighted to be here, maria. maria: we haven't heard any words from hamas in terms of the hostages and whether or not they would agree to a release but does that sound equal to you in terms of hostage release versus the united states allowing all of those prisoners, palestinian prisoners to be let out as well? >> well, i mean, these peace talks have been deadlocked for many, many weeks. israel has had on the table so our viewers understand a six week cease fire, release 40 hostages in return for hundreds of palestinians out of prison and hamas has -- ever since the increase of criticism by the biden administration began and also increased widespread international condemnation, hamas has hard hardened its

positions. they've had a complete withdrawal of troops from gaza, in other words, stop the war, permanent cease fire and then begin negotiations for hostage release and obviously israeli government has not accepted that. what's on the table now is any egyptian led proposal that israel has agreed to, somewhere in between 20 to 33 hostages, the number has been reduced from 40 because hamas does not believe there are 40 hostages that still remain alive which is obviously very tragic to get a grip on that, given that there's supposed to be 100 that still remain alive. and you're absolutely right. not hundreds of palestinians would be released from prison but supposedly thousands. we haven't seen the details on that. the gazans would be permitted to return to homes in northern gaza and remaining troops that are in that area particularly along the

netzarium um bseter -- there'a lot of concessionses here that t israel is willing to make to get remaining hostages out of there. hamas is in egypt, israelis are going to egypt. it will probably take another such he'll days to sort this out, whether hamas is going to deal with the reality of what's on the table here. but certainly the pressure is on to get these hostages home because obviously what is happening to them every day that they remain as hostages in captivity here, their life is clearly at risk. maria: so terrible. it's incredibly sad. but this plan of a cease fire includes releasing 40 hostages and wh we don't even know the fl extent of the hostages that

they're even a alive, all of them. in exchange for thousands of palestinians to be released by israel and in the middle of all of this, as israel is fighting for its owner survival, the state department he's actually threatening to make moves against israel. the u.s. state department claimed it found five units of thes israel defense forces responsible for what they're calling gross violations of human rights. all of these incidents i'm referring to happened before october 7th attack on israel, nothing happening in gaza. the state department says four units have been reme remediate. they are looking at cutting off military training equipment and other aid. here you have the state department actually threatening the israeli defense forces in the myof their own sur -- middle of their own survival. your reaction? >> well, war crimes happen in

war. even on behalf of democratic states and that is true for the united states and it's true for israel. what's different about the united states and israel as compared to russia, as compared to hamas and other terrorist organizations is that we address those war crimes. we have a judicial system. and we put those cases before a jury to determine if there is actually guilt here. in four out of five of these cases, israel has taken care of it and a i guess there's a dispute over the fifth one. i think this is rail's business, not -- is israel's business, not the united states' business. it has a lot to do with israel meddling in details of how to fight a war as well. i wish we would stay out of their business and let them function and remind ourselves that iran has surrounded israel with all of its proxies in a ring of fire to put the very

existence of israel at risk. certainly that is led by hezbollah and also obviously the direct attack by hamas on the ground. and a it's pretty outrageous not to keep reminding ourselves of what is at stake here as we wire brush israel publy, undermine capabilities to have realistic negotiations with hamas and as i indicated at the beginning, that is very clear that hamas' position has hardened very significantly because of this public condemnation. i think, listen, there's nothing wrong -- if we have evidence that israel doesn't have, certainly pro 1r50 vied it to ta -- provide it to them and let them deal with those realities. don't address this publicly. let israel work the situation. that's the best answer here. maria: instead, it's coming up with these moves as the president says he has so-called

ironclad support for israel. they want to put penalties in place for israel in the my dole the fight for their lives. house speaker mike johnson is calling on president biden to stop it, to block the international criminal court's reported plan to issue arrest warrants for top israeli officials including prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> yeah. i mean, this is pretty outrageous. the it's a political organization, we're not a member of the icc, nor is israel a member of it but they recognize palestine even though it's not a state so in their mi minds thats why they think they can do something like this. israel is not going to take seriously, certainly not going to comply with anything. i think it's just another weakening of the icc itself as it reacheses out and points a finger at israel after the obvobvious outrageous behavior f

support and the support for hamas politically, militarily, financially and morally support that iran has provided to hamas and hezbollah. i mean, that is where the genocide is being committed. that is where the horror is being committed. israel has an impossible situation as we discussed interest the beginning as these people are being held inside of gaza and israel is trying to fight a war against an enemy that is threatening its existence and at the same time try to move the civilians out of harm's way as a much as possible and the you truth is, it's impossible to move them all out of harm's way despite incredible efforts to do so. maria: it's reverberating around the world as we see protesters taking over an academic building, hamilton hall at columbia university this morning, general.

>> yeah, well, obviously universities have lost the tooth restore order here -- lost the ability to restore order here. it's an academic institution. it's primary responsibility is to its students, its faculty and the continuing function of the university. if somebody is interfering with that, you can do -- you can protest and still have a voice and not interfere with the function. if the you're interfering with the functioning you should be suspendednd a possibly expelled if you continue to resist that should be what's taking place and bring the police in to restore order. maria: thanks very much, general. good to see you this morning. we so appreciate you. general jack keane joining us on this upp set. thank you, sir. >> thank you, maria. maria: we'll be right back.

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their place and that message can sometimes have some appeal. maria: former clinton advisor james carville posted an angry rant against trump supporters as you new poll shows young voters are leaning away from president biden. >> young people, if you don't get involved right now in this election, they're going to be involved in your life for the rest of your fricking life. that's okay. you [bleep] little 26-year-old. you don't think they're involved in the issues i care about. maria: he is angry. >> he's angry. james carville i've got to say, he does have a good sense of humor but he's making the same mistake that many democrats have made before. you know, are we going to go ahead and use the word deplorables again? i hope not. he didn't in that particular rant you just showed but what's interesting about these younger

voters that he's talking about is they're leaving joe biden because of joe biden policies, many of the younger progressives are angry about the israel gaza war, and we're seeing that play out on college campuses. those are young voters. we're also seeing in his own ranks joe biden losing the support of the aocs and ilhan omar and rashida tlaib of the world. it's not that young voters are stupid. it's that they disagree with the policies under this white house and it's not just the progressive policies but it's also the economic policies, many of them can't get good paying jobs right now and they're suffering under a rough economy and they're all still living at a home with their parents, half of them. maria: i mean, mark, you know, obama is talking about however -- the economy grows under every president but it's about everybody winning here. he misses the point of inflation. he misses the point of all of

the $7 trillion in spending on joe biden's watch, democrat plans and i have the list. i go through it all the time, inflation reduction act, fiscal responsibility act, forgiveness of student act, chip act, green energy tax credit, all a of that led to inflation and it hasn't come down all the way. we're still talking about inflation up 19% on joe biden's watch. >> not only has it not come down, but it's actually reaccelerating right now so all the things they continue to do whether it's forgiving student loans or printing more money, it's hurting middle american, hurting lower income people, that's who they pretend they're out there trying to help. back to the podcast thing, as i was listening to what president obamas was saying, what did he sarks men are men and women know their place, like had has trump ever said that? i'm pretty sure it's the left that's actually trying to dilute women's rights, that wants to allow biological men women's

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