ron klain says it's a high class problem. don lemon says it's fine. >> if i had the house on the water like don lemon has in long island, i would think it's fine, too. i can absorb this sort of pain when i'm making millions of dollars a year to have one of the lowest rated shows in cable news. ron klain, to say this is a rich people's problem, this is from a smart guy. i mean, the argument that rich people only buy gas for their cars -- i put gas in my 15-year-old car yet. it cost $50. used to cost 30 last year. maybe the people that are putting gas in their car, they drive to the store to buy meat, fish and dairy. food prices are up there. they get home and see the apartment that i have, i have another monthly increase that is coming. the financial pain is inescapable. to americans it's real. it's elitest, out of touch and will hurt this administration unless the president says, yeah, i know that was my chief of staff but they don't speak for us. we understand the pain of all americans. they haven't done that yet. let's see

you have ron klain that treated inflation is a high class problem. no, it's an average everyday low income and middle income problem particularly. so the white house is showing they're out of touch and have no solutions when they say that. trace, the picture that you showed, a suburb of new york city. that was for premium gasoline, full service. but almost $6 a gallon. i mean, this is what happens when the prices rise with no end in sight. we don't know how high these prices will go. everywhere for ordinary price of gasoline. it's on the march and moving up. >> trace: i feel your pain. outside the door, $5.39. it's been there for months and months. judy, the administration, there's reports that they're talking to some of the oil companies saying we need you to pump more oil. i'm not really of the mind -- do you think this administration has a lot of friends in the oil industry at this point in time? >> well, i doubt it. some of the higher energy prices for natural gas have to do with a policy of shutting down pipelines. the permitting processes is a

listen to this. >> why would ron klain word on tweetthat? would you agree, that's a little tone deaf. >> you think two tweets mean more. >> it's not the first time that ron klain's twitter has drawn criticism is that something the white house is addressing right now. >> are we addressing the chief of staff's twitter habits? it's not a top priority i would tell you at this point in time. dagen: joining me former white house chief of staff himself, mick mulvaney. not under this administration. mick, good to see you. but the retweet was -- i mean, it said that it's a high class problem, inflation. i kind of understand what jason furman was getting at. but ron klain has gotten in in a weird habit of retweeting not jason but some brett odiu -- pretty odiuos people. what is you ron klain's motivation to stay on twitter all the time? >> well, good morning, dagen, by the way, thanks for having he me. the question i asked myself when i saw that come out yesterday, where does he find the time? if you're doing the job of the chief of staff, you would b

white house chief of staff ron klain retweeted an incendiary message not once, but twice, three hours apart, saying in part most of the economic problems we are facing, inflation, supply chains, et cetera, are high class problems. with inflation and a 13 year high, some of the sharpest price increases last month included products average americans most often by, beef and pork, chicken, fish, eggs, regular unleaded gasoline, carports, laundry equipment, furniture, and clothing. >> why would ron klain tweak that, and would you agree that's a little bit tone-deaf to >> president biden: >> we are at this point because he made progress in the economy and what would be worse in our view is if the on appointment rate was at 10%, people were out of work. >> we didn't get a chance to ask the president's review, he gave her mark on vaccines. >> president biden: businesses and organizations are in plummeting requirements, are seeing their vaccination rates rise by an average of 20%. >> taking no questions. yesterday when he announced steps to remedy the supply chain issues, president biden also

a high-class problem is when ron klain shows up late for dinner and they run out of truffles. that is a high-class problem. and i'm sure ron is familiar with that experience. it is not a high-class problem if you can't pay your grocery bill and you are hungry, or you can't pay your heating bill and you are cold, or your kids christmas presents won't arrive until easter. those are working-class problems. they are causing suffering today. and to me, this underscores the point that president trump always made so well, which is that the elites aren't elite in the literal sense of the term, as in smart and intelligent and capable. this shows people who have privilege and to have power and who have position have no earthly clue what they are actually doing, and that is one of the reasons why the former president was so successful, because he kept his eye on the ball of working-class issues: wages, 401(k)s, jobs, trade, the things that actually affected regular, working families. now this administration, they are thinking about the $3.5 trillion deal, and how many plug in car install

there's different issues and different sectors and many of the ones you mentioned. >> ron klain back when he was a private citizen went after the trump white house for efforts to dismiss rising prices. klaine asked is vice president pence would do what then-secretary ross did and hold up a campbell's soup can and argue prices for basic food prices don't hurt the middle class. a lot of people out there might say why did ron klain think that rising prices was a concern under trump but not under biden? >> from sitting in a lot of meetings with ron klain day in, day out, he's obsessed with lowering costs. how we're approaching that is trying increase competition in the agricultural sector. working to get ports up and running which is an announcement we made earlier this week. working with labor unions, industry leaders to make sure that there's more of a movement of goods. this is our focus every day. there isn't the same issue in every sector. but every meeting i'm in, he's pressing for the economic team and others to do more and that's what the american people should know. >> you proba

is ron klain reading off to him the morning briefing and just telling him, you know, mr. president, you don't have to worry about these things, it's just these rich republicans who are complaining about the fact that it's more expensive for them to buy fish and shrimp and chicken and beef and the like. i mean, is that how out of touch they really are? because i don't get any indication that they are in any way ready to have think kind of solution for this. they are doubling down on their continued policies which are bankrupting our country and are going to continue to be paid for by our kids and grandkids. and they've given no indication that they have any kind of solution for this that is actually durable. the idea, for instance, the other day that they're going to keep the port of los angeles open 24 hours, well, that's all well and good, except you need people to -- kennedy: you need truckers to show up and deliver things -- >> exactly. kennedy: and they're not doing it. they're like, yeah, 24 hours? no one was working out at two in the morning except for really creepy

: why would ron klain treat that end do you agree that his tone-deaf? >> d do you think two tweets mes more? >> reporter: is not the first time his twitter has drawn some sharp criticism. >> are we addressing the chief of staff-footers habits? is not a top priority i would tell you at this point in time. >> sean: i found larry summers quote speaking to a virtual conference. he warned we are in more danger than we had been during my career of losing control of inflation in the u.s. we are going to have that gathering storm as i said, combination all of that coming to fruition -- it's a disaster and they don't have any compassion, they are hurting in the middle class america and they are hurting the poorest in america, the opposite of what they said they would do. i have a message for jen and ron and their cognitively impaired boss joe. americans know the gas prices are arising, we know the cost of everything is rising, watching and witnessing in real time supply chain problems because, we all know your policies are crushing poor families and crushing the

. >> white house chief of staff ron klain getting some flack because he endorsed a tweet from a harvard professor that said most of the economic problems we are facing, inflation, supply chan chains, et cetera, are high class problems. >> he's getting a lot of fire for this the issues we're seeing are grocery bills are up, rent is up, gas prices are up, those are things that affect every single person, every single day of their life. and that is something that when ron klain was tweeting this it raised a lot of eyebrows and people saying is that really the white house's position on this. ron klain is a very active chief of staff on twitter, more active than any other previous chief of staff and playbook is reporting this morning a former chief of staff to president bush and to president obama are both saying they're kind of surprised by how active he is on twitter given, of course, a chief of staff job is a very tough job. i do think the white house is downplaying this as being any kind of statement from the white house, any kind of official policy position, saying that's not really wha

biden's puppeteers deserve a lot of blame here, including ron klain. the same ron klain that just revealed of what he really thinks of the pain that are feeling from the high cost of living. he like add tweet calling the problems high class problems. what a moron. biden is just shuffled from one lame controlled event to another, always surrounded business his protected press cocoon. this bunch biden has running the country is not just asleep at the wheel, they're not even in the car. yesterday we discovered that mayor pete is on paternity leave. okay. no big deal. people take maternity leave. big deal. it's not like he has an important cabinet positions. he's only the secretary of transportation when we have historic delays in major ports in the united states. remember, his big solution though for addressing the jam-ups, apprenticeships. now, the public considers these people such inconsequential figures at this point, i don't anybody noticed he's been on baby leave since august. tells use about the sense of urgency affecting the american people, the w

joe biden's puppeteer said this is a high class problem, ron klain. senator schumer, you have control of the senate and the house and the white house. these are your problems that you created along with joe biden. now, make matters even worse, america's supply chain as we've been telling you is in tatteres. we have billions of products stuck at ports. some containers are not able to come on shore. passive backlogs in california and new york. bare shelves biden is trending all over twitter. americans posting pictures of stores that are pretty much empty, empty shelves. get this. a report from reuters, our comply chain is too snarled for biden's christmas fix. in other words, good luck getting the present that's your kids are begging for from santa. probably won't happen. but according to transportation secretary, the ever compassionate mayor pete that said to pink sleeped keystone xl pipe line workers, get another job. the mayor of south bend. if you didn't do your christmas shopping three months early, you're flat out of luck. explain that to a young

it makes me worry whatever the worst case scenario is, we might meet that. >> ron klain just needs to stop tweeting, right? i mean, isn't that what the democrats kept telling couldn't trump for -- donald trump for four years? the more you tweet, the more tone deaf you're going to be. yeah, that was a really dumb thing for him to retweet. charles: i've got 30 seconds and, you know, you do some amazing work, your firm on covid, the cases and the deaths and some of the projections. looks like it's coming down pretty good, and the thing is the media's not talking about it at all. and i think it's a the the kind of good news the people would like. what could it mean for the chi? >> i think it's time for the media to learn that people love to hear good news. it is great news. it is an a amazing story that we have survived the dell that wave with -- delta wave wave with as few deaths as we have. and, of course, the problem for the next couple months is now the cases and the deaths are rolling here and everywhere else in the world, now come the vaccine mandates. always fighting last war. well

and of course, these are high-class problems, according to biden's chief of staff ron klain. and according to "the washington post," we, you, the american people, you need to stop ranting about short-staffed stores and supply chain wall was, instead, we just need to lower our expectations. oh, really? meanwhile, one top biden advisor telling concerned americans to get over it. oh, you're not going to be able to get the jacket you want in 15 colors, but you'll at least be able to get a jacket. okay. that sounds like jimmy carter's defeatist, you better turn down your heat and put on a sweater speech. and worst of all, jen psaki mocking americans concerns over supply chain issues, calling it, oh, the tragedy of the treadmill that is delayed, or ron klain, high-class problems, or pete buttigieg, if you want christmas to be merry for your children and not have been disappointed by santa, you better buy now. take a look. >> it was clear in march of 2020, when covid hit, that supply chains throughout the world had been disrupted, even as the sort of work to fight back against covid

there is a "politico" piece out that talked about what went wrong and ron klain at the white house and the president and speaker. i'll read a little bit of it. as biden prepared for the high stakes meeting with house democrats on thursday, yourself, congresswoman pramila jayapal made a call with ron klain. what happened next is a dizzying fall of dominos. biden didn't ask house democrats to pass the bill leaving speaker pelosi to make the request and the speaker wanted to tee up using the president's lack of request for cover. can you comment as much as you can on who is putting pressure on your caucus to essentially abandon if they claim temporarily the human infrastructure bill that helped so many -- that would help so many black and brown communities and just give up and vote for the other bill. who is putting that pressure on the caucus? >> joy, great to see you. look, i won't comment on any discussions. there is a lot of pressure to pass the infrastructure bill from the white house and constituents and different interest that will benefit from the infrastructure bill. we're not co

and he came in and said i cannot believe ron klain just retweeted this is a high class problem. and the thing is, i think what the president misunderstands is that this is the only thing outside the pandemic that you could see in your lifetime that hits every single person. it's just how you handle it. how you handle the gas, how you handle trying to rent a car, buy a car. how you handle trying to buy some milk, the meat and can you buy milk without meat? i don't think so because i like to dunk. >> jesse: you dunk your meat in milk? >> yeah, it's a long story. >> jesse: is what are you crushing? >> this is why i don't do the cookie segments? crushing? no it would later become russian, no germany. >> yeah way the shelves are empty brian, shelves here in america. >> what i would like to add is this. he just e malaga mated everything they told him before the event. you're not going to get you 3.5 trillion it will cost nothing, it's going to be two trillion but doesn't matter it will be free. that steers everybody that says look what happens with inflation, this is not the time to s

jackie: white house chief of staff ron klain retweeting that our economic issues are high class problems. these are kitchen tables issues, kenny. they affect you and he. they don't affect if jeff bezos as much. >> that's exactly right, and i think it just shows how tone deaf that the administration is, right? that he would go out and although he didn't write it, he reiterated what was written. and it is completely tone deaf because it is the middle class and the lower class that's going to get hurt the most there rising oil prices and food prices you. can't go to the grocery store without spending $100 for half a dozen items. jackie: yeah. i look at the inflation crisis there a personal if standpoint but also from the numbers that we're getting. c, i was up more than -- cpi was up more than 5%, but producer prices up more than 6%. it's costing them more to make goods, so it's going to take a while to trickle down even more to us. >> right. it takes about two or three months to work its way through the system. but what was interesting yesterday is that the number was strong. it wasn't str

but now -- ron klain, but could it be the tiktok intern? the boy with longer fingernails than me and more hair products than you and more makeup contouring than matt gaetz? who is running this administration. jess mayor pete is in charge of transportation and everything that's gone wrong outside the country and inside. he took a very, very extremely long paternity leave. i guess he's been at home since august. when i had my twins, lauren, i took five days. when i had jesse junior i took 10 days. and i'm just a cable news tv host. i'm not in charge of massive amounts of shipping and trucking. this guy is at home and we didn't even know he was at home. even if i'm mayor pete's husband. i would be like, pete, why don't you get back to work. things aren't moving so smoothly. >> they think they can get general psaki to spin the narrative and they can build fake sets at the white house and everything is okay. barack obama said it all be he said never underestimate the joe biden a built to f things up. we know kamala harris is not doing anything e

you could look at ron klain and i you are an illegitimate president trying to destroy the country you inherited. he literally has dementia. it's brilliant as something that's been foisted on the public. if you wanted to pick a cutout, you would pick biden. judge jeanine: people are almost locked in in terms of doing anything because they know the option is kamala harris. even the ad she did, you can see with your eyes and face. come on. tucker: that's right. she is the living embodiment of what biden is which is a middle finger to the idea of democracy. she got elected to the senate in a state that doesn't have a functioning democracy. kamala harris was deeply unpopular among democrats in california. but they are reflexive voters so she got elected. she is still the most fully conscious person in the u.s. government. is that democracy? it's kind of real, it's not totally responsive to the public, but basically the public gets to choose its own leaders. the last five years has proved that's not true. if you elect somebody they don't like, they destroy him. judge jeanine: mike flynn is

ron klain calls these high-class problems. they want to lower our expectations we can get what we want. a top biden advisor is telling us we need to make sacrifice and we may not be able to get the jacket we want in 15 colors but we will get a jacket. jen psaki calls it the tragedy -- oh, your treadmill didn't arrive on time. instead of looking for solution the biden administration would rather lie and mock the real concerns of millions of americans. the people they hurt the most? middle-class americans and those americans that are poor and struggling already. they can't afford the high cost of everything going up and heat and cool their homes and fill their gas tanks. joe biden caused all of it. call could be prevented and stopped tomorrow. just go back to the trump policies that worked. take a look. >> do you believe that right now there is a crisis at the border? >> i think that the answer is no. >> as individuals come across the border and they are both assessed for whether they have any symptoms. if they have symptoms the

as white house chief of staff ron klain klainsplained >> it's twice as big, in real dollars, as the new deal was. >> stephen: suck it f.d.r. suck it through a long cigarette holder. ( laughter ) the plan features subsidies for child care and universal preschool for more than 6 million 3 and 4-year olds. ( cheers and applause ) to which parents everywhere replied, but what about 2 year olds who could pass for 3? please. i can't watch any more peppa pig. my toddler has adopted an english accent, and won't let me eat bacon. ( laughter ) the largest single item in the bill, and the most important thing in it, is that congress is finally taking a big swing at global warming. as joe biden explained: ( cheers and applause ) don't do that. don't do that. nothing else matters. as president biden explained -- >> this framework also makes the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis ever, ever happened. beyond any other advanced nation in the world, over a billion metric tons of emission reductions, at least ten times bigger on climate than any bill that has ever passed before a

ron klain said that. that doesn't seem like it's the case. what are we going to do? one thing that i thought was great though in that he explained the mechanics of getting a bill passed. he talked about how he doesn't have the votes to get the filibuster reform. there were three holdouts. we think it's joe manchin hand kyrsten sinema. kyrsten. >> kennedy: they're both kyrsten. >> jessica: so i thought that was interesting. but that answer won't satisfy the american people but i appreciate that he took the question because they were waiting. >> jesse: he took it from a stacked audience. those were hand picked people. three democrats -- >> jessica: they weren't always democrats. >> kennedy: two independents. very few republicans. >> jessica: two republicans. >> jesse: you know it and i know it. >> kennedy: and they were at the very end when nobody is watching anymore. the president had something interesting to say in terms of vaccines and freedom. watch this. >> should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines and if not, should they stay at hom

. >> martha: molly, here's ron klain saying no, the net cost is still zero because we raised more than enough revenue to pay for every investment without raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000, which is tough to figure out given all of this stuff a has been stripped out of here by senator sinema and senator manchin. >> they don't have a good idea how they're going to fund this massive spending bill. again, remember, it was not that long ago that spending $700 billion on tarp was met with such frustration by the american taxpayers that had to pay for it. democrats claimed that they have ideas for how to "pay for it" but the fact of the matter is a tax on unrealized capital gains or whatever hair-brained ideas that they have is not sufficient to deal with the massive expansion of the welfare state and to fund such enterprises, that comes down to the middle class that has been strained by decades of bad policy, having to foot the bill and carry the bloat and the weight of an unefficient massive federal government. >> martha: it's clear in the polling that people are concerned a

klain others who have an agenda extension of a fundamental transformation of america and they have a useful vessel and in the media, who else is in charge? alexander cortez let me tell you why driving the agenda. the white house knows they have to listen to her you know who else listens to her chuck schumer didn't want a primary race in new york so now the ultimate partisan which he said so only person who is not in charge is joe biden and when he does throw down and make decision, it is a decision leak afghanistan. which we know he was the one that effectively said it will be august 31st no matter what. and we saw how that turned out so they can't turn actual decisions over to the man. instead they tell him to read talking points in a fake that ultimate aspect of this is new fake white house they've set up in a shed on the white house complex where we can play president while reading off a tell prompter it could be in the white house where all presidents are and station on a stage and tell prompter he can't talk otherwise because he's lotion. dan: best point you made is when he's fo

staff ron klain for supporting the idea that shipping issues and inflation are high class problems. >> democrats are living in a fantasy world. they deny reality. the reality is, is high inflation primarily affects retirees and the working poor or any poor person. the risk -- people can handle inflation. they'll figure out the right places to put their money, their assets will inflate with the rest of inflation. people on fixed income are incredibly hurt by inflation. these are their policies. they want to drive up the price of fossil fuel and energy so apparently we use less of it. again, energy prices affect the price of every good and commodity. so again, this is exactly what they want. they want open borders. they want deficit spending. they want to increase debt. they want to make americans more he dependent on government. >> senator johnson says the problem with the tax and spend problems is eventually you run out of other people's money. isn't that the truth. carley: today, parents and teachers are expected to stage a mass walkout over california's school vaccine mandate. tod

>> i think the advice came from ron klain and jake sullivan and susan wise and wendy sherman and antony blinken, that they were saying let's get out of there, let's take this victory lap. joe biden, you're the guy that edged this. maria: okay. >> that's where i think it's coming from. maria: senator, met me move on to china in. what we know is china has sent 20 more aircraft toward taiwan one day after the largest ever incursion. the ccp sending more aircraft into taiwan's air defense over the weekend, bullying taiwan. and also there is a report from axios that america's security agencies under president biden are opposing the blacklisting of a pinoff firm of -- spin-off firm of the chinese communist party linked to huawei. we also have an article from axios that says our government agencies are buying drones, drone technology from china. now, you've got to explain this one to me. why would we be buying drones from china when, in fact, there is a surveillance program already underway? what -- can you tell us if the u.s. is buying drones from china? >> from what we have heard, and we've

president biden's white house chief of staff ron klain said, in his words, twice as big in real dollars as the new deal was. but without paid family leave, without two years free community college, without vision and dental care expanded to medicare, is this plan truly, truly a transformational as they say? >> well, i think it's transformational. i think we should focus on what's in the deal. we have two additional years of early childhood education that's universal. we have investments in child care that will limit the cost of child care for most of america's families to no more than 7% of their income. investments in home health care for the elderly and disabled. support that will reduce health care costs. and, of course, very, very important investments to address climate change, which is an existential threat. and remember, president biden is ten months into his term. he's fully committed to working to achieve paid leave for the american people and to add vision and dental care to medicare. and he has time to pursue these additional programs which are also important. >> he's certain

president biden's chief of staff ron klain said in this words this is twice as big in real dollars as the new deal was. but without paid family leave, without two years free community college, without rvision and dental care, is this plan truly, truly a transformational as they say? >> well, i think it is transformational. i think we should focus on what is in -- what is in the deal. we have two additional years of early childhood education that is universal. we have investments in childcare that will limit the cost of childcare for most of america's families to no more than 7% of their income. investments in home health care for the elderly and disabled support that will reduce health care costs and, of course, very, very important investments to address climate change which is an existential threat. and remember president biden is ten months into his term. he's fully committed to working to achieve paid leave for the american people and to add vision and dental care to medicare. and he has time to pursue these additional programs which are also important. >> you say, madam secretary

and yet here was chief of staff ron klain revealing a tone-deafness when he redefeated an economist saying supply chain problems are, quote, high-class problems to have. of course, covid still not under control, notwithstanding president biden is correct in mandating vaccination. and finally with 17 republican votes in the senate biden still can't claim credit for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill because he has not yet resolved differences between his party's most progressive and moderate members. frankly, he has not projected strength on any of these issues. no wonder when in this national climate terry mcauliffe is struggling. and if history repeats itself, democrats will lose control of the house and maybe the senate too. yes, undeterred, donald trump might steal the 2024 election. then again, he might just win it. quite simply for joe biden and democrats it's no longer enough to just be an alternative to donald trump which leads me to this week's survey question @smerconish.com. which should worry democrats more, that trump will run and steal it, or win it outright? in their current

ron klain, joe biden's chief of staff at the white house, promptly endorsed that tweet. and that is delusion. or maybe it is intentional. you pretend your failures are victories and some people will doubtless believe you. that seems to work in afghanistan, maybe it will work here. that could be there thinking. but it won't work here because domestic policy is not the same as -- people notice when you cannot buy presents for your children or keep your house warm in january. these are not symbolic problems, these are measurable declines in your family's standard of living, and they have consequences. if economic decline continues and it seems likely to continue, you will see a profound political reset in this country. and here is why. the only reason americans have put up with the endless woke garbage the left turns out by the gallon is because they can afford to put up with at. for generations, this has been a very rich country, and affluence covers a multitude of sin. people will tolerate a lot of things they disagree with, as long as gas is cheap and amazon deliveries k

klain frequently talks to pramila jayapal to keep them in the loop so you see a close dynamic between the progressive wing. >> they didn't bring along majorities in the house or senate. they lost senate races across the country. so that is the issue here. so it's a huge complication. >> yeah, we got two seconds. >> i think i do think the mandate thing, they've talked about this. i'm always reminded when carl rove saying to george w. bush when he won, he said govern like you won by 50 million votes. i mean, i think that they made a decision. they didn't have a big mandate but had to govern that way. the thing is they postponed everything up until now and it's come together and now they have, you know, trying to juggle ten different plates at once and it's not working. >> no pressure. >> no pressure at all. >>> up next, a u.s. debt default unimagin unimaginable, right? it's time to start imagening. >> announcer: "inside politics sunday" brought to you by adt, real protection. >>> president biden has a portrait of fda hanging in the oval office and wants to enact the biggest economic tra

klain tweeting something. they've been off-kilter in terms of not only addressing the issue, but in terms of their tone and dismissing with the american public is talking about. >> laura: gas prices are a daily tax on every american, and hitting the low income and middle income americans hardest, and their answer to that is saying it's -- this big spending bill is going to help and lower your expectations, drive less, have expectations where you don't have to buy as much at christmas. i just think after the last year and a half of the pandemic, people don't want to hear "don't go to football games, they're dangerous and don't buy as much for christmas." that's a bummer for most people, just a total bummer. >> yeah, it is sort of -- managing the decline, as people like to say, and biden didn't do himself any favors in his town hall when he was asked about gas prices, said there's not a lot i can do about it and really it's up to saudi arabia. that's not what americans want to hear, especially when we were energ

ron klain, agreeing with the former chair of president obama's economic advisors, who said, most of the economic props we're facing, inflation, supply chains, et cetera are high class problems. that retweet and comment from klain is getting backlash from republican lawmakers. north carolina congressman ted budd says is not a high class problem. inflation is a tax on working americans and those on fixed incomes. as you know you're on social security, when you're on retirement, no matter how much the retirement is, you're paying more for everything every day, that is definitely a big impact on your wallet. charles: hillary, thank you so much. i have someone shaking their head next to me. >> 5.9, thanks for the raise. social security recipient, you know what i mean? charles: do you know how much you get? are you even aware how much you're getting from social security? when all the checks coming in from all the -- >> i am aware. nice number. my wife and me. it's a lovely number. charles: inflation obviously is a problem a major problem. >> yes. charles: particularly on the food side. the th