special correspondent jeff greenfield joined us for some historical perspective jeff, we've heard about inflation now in the popular press today, and then we also start to think of, well, what can a president do, what should a president do? what have presidents done to fight inflation and what kind of success if they had? >> they've tried a lot of different things. john kennedy went to war with the steel industry when they raised prices because he feared that would generate higher inflation, even though inflation wasn't that high. lyndon johnson liked to browbeat business and labor to urge them, "keep your wages and prices down." nixon, a free market conservative, imposed national wage and price controls in 1971 as inflation was raging, but it's like stopping a leak with a rag-- when you pull the rag out, the leak continues. and gerald ford in 1974 decided on a p.r. campaign to "whip inflation now," complete with win buttons. but no, the opec oil embargo kept going and inflation kept moving. so, those different tactics didn't really do much at all. >> sreenivasan: jeff, it wasn't a pres

special correspondent jeff greenfield joins us now for a look at one of the enduring myths about currenthe myth of “the wall.” annal l>> this very close race t virginia has in recent years become a reliably blue state. biden won it by ten points last year. virginia hasn't sent a republican into the senate since 2002, they chrome both houses of the state legislature. but if you look at history you might find when past may not be pro log, neighbor not in virginia and maybe nowhere else. when virginia voted >> when virginia voted for dwight eisenhower in 1952, it marked the beginning of an almost unbroken run of republican victories. for 36 years, only lyndon johnson's 1964 landslide broke the string; even southerners jimmy carter and bill clinton couldn't win there. but over time, a steady migration of college-educated white-collar voters moved into northern virginia, changing the demographics of the state. when barack obama comfortably won the state in 2008, it marked the beginning of an unbroken run of democratic wins. the “red wall” had crumbled. that's just one of a host of examples wh

results make it harder or easier to pass all or part of the biden agenda and do you agree with the jeff greenfieldocrats could misplay this and go to the nice people living in the holler and say that we are putting modems on poles thanks to the bill. you are going to get rural wi-fi service and then get beaten on trans bathrooms and crt. >> i am skeptical the culture war is quite as successful as republicans like to think. they lost board of education fights around the country. republican governor lost on trans bathrooms in north carolina a couple of years ago. youngkin talked something about that but covered over by his folksy manner and business background. people in virginia were more unhappy about the public schools not being well run and open quickly enough. that was what maybe resonated. i am not so scared of the culture wars. the democrats should do a better job of hitting back. but on the first question, which was an important one, i am not sure what they would do. but joe biden needs to lead the party and country. you know she was candid in the first segment. but at the end of the day, it