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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tells CNN's Jake Tapper that former Clinton and Obama economic official Larry Summers is wrong on his warnings about rising inflation.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said the United States hasn't experienced the recent inflation levels in a "long time." "Many firms are experiencing a shortage of labor," Yellen said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning. "The COVID shock to the economy has caused disruptions that we'll be working through over the next year and of course Americans haven't seen inflation like we've experienced in a long time."  Host Jake Tapper noted how inflation is growing at its fastest pace in 30 years and asked whether spending more money on President Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda will be "pouring gas on the inflation fire," prompting Yellen to say the spending on the bipartisan infrastructure package and the massive social spending package would be spread out over the next decade. Tapper later asked Yellen when she expects the inflation rate to return to the 2% level, which...

Nancy Pelosi : "When what's-his-name was the president ..."

> Nancy Pelosi briefly forgot former President Trump’s name during a Sunday interview on CNN's State of the Union.  The interview was focused on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act when anchor Jake Tapper brought up President Biden's willingness to eliminate the filibuster in order to push the bill through Congress. "So, that is President Biden saying that he is willing to entertain the notion of getting rid of the filibuster for Voting Rights Act and maybe for other things as well. Do you agree with him on that one issue that, at the end of the day, having some sort of voting rights bill is more important than preserving the filibuster, at least for that one vote?" Tapper asked. "The most important vote right now in the Congress of the United States is the vote to respect the sanctity of the vote, the fundamental basis of our democracy. So, if there were one vote that the filibuster could enable to go forward, that would be the vote, and enable so much more, bec...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responds to criticism of how the Biden administration handled the surge in Haitian migrants at the border.

  CNN host Jake Tapper hit critics who spread "patently false" rumors about the mounted  Border Patrol  agents on the  southern border  on Sunday's "State of the Union," some of whom were members of the Biden administration. When a now infamous image of a Border Patrol agent mounted on a horse appearing to be corral migrants with a rope made the rounds on social media last week, critics were quick to accuse the agents of "whipping" Haitian migrants trying to enter the country illegally. More context for the photo revealed, however, that the reins were only used to control their horses. Still, leading Democrats and members of the media pushed ahead with the original story and the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the matter. To some, it sounded as though members of the Biden administration had already made up their minds about the agents. "I promise you those people will pay,"  President Biden  said. "They wil...

Fox News' Chris Wallace tries to blame Afghanistan DISASTER on TRUMP and Pompeo, while Jake Tapper(!) SWEATS Biden SecState

  I mean hey why blame the guy in charge? That’s not what fakes like Tom Nichols are doing, and it’s not what fake Chris Wallace is about either. Instead he tries to get Mike Pompeo to admit it’s all his and Trump’s fault. This, while over on CNN, Fake Tapper got something in his breakfast smoothie and decided to take Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Two secretaries of state. Two interviews. Two networks. And it’s FOX that gives Biden the free pass and CNN that says ‘what the hell, man?’ Which is a great question. What in the HELL? Wallace: "It looks like the Biden administration has just failed in its execution of its own plan," Pompeo told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. The Taliban, the Islamic extremist group that the U.S. had removed from power following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, due to their harboring of mastermind Usama bin Laden, has taken over large portions of Afghanistan, and Sunday morning was poised to take the capital city of ...

Eric Swalwell was just on with Jake Tapper and said his Judiciary committee held an emergency meeting over this today

In his interview with Rep. Eric Swalwell which heavily focused on the Stone case, Tapper asked if Democratic lawmakers are willing to impeach the president again. "Might you impeach him over this, over Roger Stone and his sentencing?" Tapper asked. "You know, we're not going to take our options off the table," Swalwell said. "We don't wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him, you know. We want to work with him on prescription drugs, background checks and infrastructure, but we're not just going to let him torch this democracy because he thinks he's been let off once and that we're not going to do something about it." What’s amazing to me isn’t so much that Democrats want to impeach Trump again. It’s how he characterizes the ‘controversy’: “…to infect [Trump’s] corruption into the DOJ, I think that is what’s so concerning to so many people who want independence among prosecutions.” “…the erosion of independence among ...