jen o'malley dillon is now president biden's white house deputy chief of staff. and i want to know, from her, what is the plan this year? joining us now is jen o'malley dillon, campaign manager for joe biden in 2020, and current white house deputy chief of staff. jen, thank you so much for being here with us tonight. i know it is a complicated time for everybody who is looking out in the electoral landscape. i just want to start with how we navigated this just two years ago. what did you learn from doing those briefings for the american public in those fraught days after election day in 2020? >> thanks for having me, alex. you have already brought me back. it is hard to believe it has only been two years. and also, you know, it feels like just yesterday. but, i think what we learned then is what i have a lot of what you heard from president biden last night. which is, we have to communicate what is happening, and how it is gonna go across the country. so that people aren't tracking what is happening. democracy is fragile. knowledge and information is the power tha

white house deputy chief of staff jen o'malley dillon, thanks so much.e appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box," our friend andrew ross sorkin at the table. what do you make of this number, 7.7% inflation? >> it's much better than we thought. the expectation was 7.9%, coming off 8.2%. it's possible we're moving in the right direction. now, to get back to 2% is still a long ways away, but the stock market today likes this. it also is a backward-looking indicator. if you think about what's happened in the last two months, with wage inflation, job losses, what it means ultimately is that the expectation now is that the federal reserve is not going to have to continue to keep rates at this elevated pace. the question is how quickly do they come down. jay powell has said repeatedly he wants to keep his foot sort of on the gas. so he actually may make things a little harder at least for the next couple months. i don't think one month is going to be the pivot that changes everything. >> let's talk about the midterms. we started it yest

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