I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, and this is the Brightbart News Daily podcast.

On today's show, we opened with a discussion of the outrageously bad inflation numbers that came out yesterday.

That did not stop the White House gas-lighting machine from hosting a literal party proclaiming the success of the Inflation Reduction Act. his cap on this one. Next, we discussed Democrat Congressman Tim Ryan's suggestion that we need to

kill and confront a movement of extremist Republicans. You can guess which ones he's talking about.

This is the latest in a line of violence statements made by Democrats recently, which goes

along with the actual incidences of violence from actual Democrats. We list a few of those.

We also touch on a few other items in the opening, such as

the passing of Ken Starr and yet more Biden administration wokeness. Our guest today is

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican from Iowa. She tees off on the wily and appropriate White House

inflation party, and then she touches a couple of other big things she's working on, especially

her call to audit the IRS and her demand that the Department of Energy

and the EPA lead by example and set their thermostats to a comfortable 78 degrees.

All that in the show. act. And it was. Yesterday, a surreal moment where Joe Bryden had a celebration for the Inflation Reduction Act,

and it was scheduled specifically for yesterday because we were getting inflation data to see how inflation was going.

It was anticipated that inflation was going to decrease overall for the first time, I think since 2020, I think that's the last time

we actually saw inflation go down. And it was still more inflation, which means we maintain

our pace for data. I guess it was July briefly. Briefly was not the worst inflation in 40 years, but now consumer

prices are on the rise again overall. And it depends on, you know, how you track it and what

you focus on. And this is a big debate on which things should be lumped in with inflation.

But overall, inflation went up despite the anticipation that we would get

inflation going down. And we thought inflation would go down because the numbers were

going to include gas and gasoline, we know, has dropped quite a bit because it was at a historic peak and due to

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