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he spins around has lohrei doesn't deny the pass, and inside of zacha is nick wall, and scored in jersey, had a chance for back-to-back games. he couldn't get close enough to the post beyond the right shoulder of swayman. >> see how good vegas has been in third periods. face-off to the right of ilya samsonov. poitras wins it back against howden. and samsonov makes the stop on nikita zadorov. national calendar looks different. tomorrow, nhl network, 1:00, lightning and canadiens, and then it's about the four nations face-off, starts wednesday on tnt and max, and thursday on espn, and, ray, you'll be a part of it. >> ray: yes, we will. we'll take off on thursday. the u.s. and the fins, and the fins will grind in that tournament. they do it every international tournament. they're always a little bit of the underdog, and they always are a pain to play against. >> mike: bruce cassidy said the other day, it's going to be a little weird coaching against some of his guys. he'll be a part of the team canada coaching staff. moving in, through the slot, had that one wrap away from nikita zadorov. >

nick timiraos. he is the chief economics correspondent for the wall street journal. it's nice to see you again. >> thanks for having me, scott. >> so i guess we'll get some clues in the morning with cpi, which you say is especially important this time around. why? >> well. >> remember, we're lapping. >> those. >> very high prints of one year ago. and in the last two years we've come into the year thinking, all right, inflation is looking better. it had declined at the end of 22. it was declining a lot at the end of 23. and then forecasters and the fed were sort of hit by these rude firm inflation prints at the beginning of the year. so i think the question now is, is there something going on where we are in the business cycle, the high inflation we've had that is leading to larger turn of the year resets? or are we through all of that? >> well, the other problem is, of course, is he continues to say, is they don't really know what the impact of the tariffs is going to be no more than anybody else does. so that just muddies the water a bit in terms of their road ahead

that's what one fed watcher, nick timiraos of the wall street journal, says he's going to join us momentarilythat. we'll also have the latest on the musk altman battle royal, where all of that is heading. new twists and turns there. it does t

professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan, and nick timiraos, chief economics correspondent at the wallllion dollar triage. all right. nick besser was out there defending this doge team highly professionals. but let's talk about this because one of them already resigned today in a scandal. >> that's right. stephanie. and i think if we step back. >> here. >> you. >> know, the question. >> i ask is, why did officials. >> from the. >> trump treasury. >> or from doge need. >> to get access. >> to this payment system? these are really the. >> pipes of. >> government payments. why did they. >> need. >> to. >> have access? and i. talked to. you know. officials who worked at the treasury and democratic and republican. >> administrations, and. >> they said, well, you could. >> get in there if. you wanted. >> to do sort. >> of a. >> complicated forensic financial. >> accounting audit to see. where money. >> is going. >> i mean, budgets. >> can tell. >> you this. >> too. but i guess if you really wanted to do it. >> from the bottoms. >> up, you could do that. >> the other. >> reason would be to st

. >> joining me now, wall street journal chief economics reporter reporter nick timiraos, msnbc political analyst and former republican congressman from florida, carlos curbelo, here in studio with me, nbc news senior business correspondent christine romans. welcome to all. so, christine, what exactly does this report tell us and what might it mean for our wallets? >> it means this last mile of the inflation fight is bumpy. and you've got inflation back here at 3%. that's not the 2% target the fed would like to see. it kind of handcuffs the federal reserve to lower interest rates anytime soon. and it means we're paying more for things like auto insurance, airfares, fuel oil. i mean look at the progress, chris, from the 9% inflation. right. so we've made a lot of progress. but look, the very far right of that chart shows inflation ticking up again. so still still hotter than the fed would like to see and families would like to see. >> so how are the markets taking it. >> so wobbling in the stock market. and look what's happening in the markets is they're trying to figure out when if the fe

president trump knows better than nick and the new treasury secretary scott bessent put it in very sharp focus with an interview with larry. roll that tape. >> as i've said, wall street where you and i came from has had it great. wall street can continue to do just fine and now under this administration, it's main street's turn. david: that i think will hit americans on the target. they know that's true and if they're able to prove it to middle class americans and main street america that now there's more opportunity and more money in our pocks, that's going to guarantee successful midterm election; right? >> that's right. by doing the tax cuts very important and getting the cuts made permanent and continue to cut taxes and even further, deregulate. this will increase the supply side of the economy, which will combat inflation. one of the most important things scott bessent said in that interview with larry, they're not pushing for a rate cut from the fed right now. that was misreported and a lot of people saying oh, trump is demanding a rate cut. that's untrue. trump said he wasn't demanding a rate cut and besent said they're not -- bessent said they're not a

mean i love him dearly but i'd rather live alone so nick says, hey, what are you doing for thanksgiving? i said i don't know. sutton stare at the wall crying. you know, he says i can't come to thanksgiving in my house so i had thanksgiving at his house and they held things for me and all kinds of stuff. a few weeks later a guy comes in, he starts at 630 in the morning 645 and comes this guy bare mace the hoodie. >> the whole thing comes over one customer with a backpack which was all he's got in the world and guy grabs it and there's a perfect shot of it. there was a camera. it went viral. >> six minutes of him coming around the the bar there grabbed a card as the guy rushed out, slammed the card into the guy wham door on him. vadim all over back and forth across and took a whole bunch of bear spray and then got him down and got him in a headlock with his legs and held him until the cops got there and he just was not recognized and everybody came to the cops. i recognized the guy. i mean say something i want to a couple people you know nothing at all. so i saying nick grant, i thank you for being a hero it evening i just wanted to t