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the july 4 rushford senior correspondent steve harrigan is alive at jackson airport in the lancet with the length of the holiday travel surge. how is it looking, steve? >> and griff, from this vantage point record numbers were there during a very good job of dealing with so far as you can see behind me the alliance about a 10 minute wait from 20 minutes earlier this morning. 17.7 million americans we find this week on the fourth of july here in atlanta the busiest estate -- date has be...

speak to their state transportation departments, governors to get a list of infrastructure priorities. congressional democrats want to cram more in there than just bridges, roads and trains. the budget chairman told the hill the next reconciliation bill will likely combine infrastructure, healthcare and more as some colleagues are pushing to pass other priorities like immigration reform through reconciliation. that is the procedural tool that democrats used to pass the covid bill witho...

Alicia: officials in los angeles and reporting a 10% spike in homelessness despite their spending efforts to manage the crisis. christina coleman is live in l.a. with the latest on this ongoing problem, hi christina. >> hi alicia. its not hard to see the raging homelessness crisis here in southern california. especially in los angeles with this lots of people living in tents along the streets you have trash spilling out into the r road. we have lots of people living in parked rvs all in business...

Because of growth, will be able to grow their way out of some of the issues they are talking about. but neither here nor there, the president says the budget director needs to work with each agency to cut the fat. >> harris: then you have to factor in all of the crises weve had, ive been told these numbers dont include all of the hurricanes and all of the money weve spent on the fires. those numbers are going to get bigger. >> thats right. the deficit will go up. its believed because of these ma...

Teachers, extension of government workers, really. youre saying that is not really where the problem it. >> look, we really dont have good numbers on this. for example, here on career firefighters, before the economic problems started it was 317,000 career firefighters. in 2010 the last year for which we have number theres 335,000. but more important there are these three initials. moe. the administration has insisted on maintenance of effort. if the state or local government wants to get money ...

Causing an explosion, for example, that could cause a tremendous loss of life. and bring commerce in our country to a halt. jenna: its a very scary scenario to think about and it is one that we keep in our mind were also in a time where people are really afraid about the economy and what were doing with our spending efforts. and im curious your thoughts on that. as we talk about beefing up security there is usually a cost involved as well. so, are you proposing that we spend more money here? how...

Years after its passage. as of yesterday, $415 billion of that has been spent, that is to say more than half this money has yet to be spent, in fact more money will be spent between 2011 and 2019 than they spent last year when we tied to stimulate the economy. when you stimulate the economy youre supposed to give it a jolt and this put this spending into all kind of government programs and spending efforts. it wasnt designed to be stimulative. the second issue is its been so pitful in its result...

Will. but that one-two punch took him out. >> bret: charles, is the healthcare law going to be an albatross for democrats come november? >> absolutely. in particular, in districts like this one, which are conservative, which went mccain and bush in previous years. look, democrats are explaining it away saying its anti-incumbency and pointing to what happened in utah where senator bennett lost his seat to a challenger on his right. but its not as if its the fly i flyi flying attacking the center ...

Will. but that one-two punch took him out. >> bret: charles, is the healthcare law going to be an albatross for democrats come november? >> absolutely. in particular, in districts like this one, which are conservative, which went mccain and bush in previous years. look, democrats are explaining it away saying its anti-incumbency and pointing to what happened in utah where senator bennett lost his seat to a challenger on his right. but its not as if its the fly i flyi flying attacking the center ...