saying, i'm german, and seeing it in a way that she clearly intends to be threatening. what could she possibly be referring to in german being threatening to people? >> i mean, i don't know. as someone who has some german background in my own family, usually you don't try to plant the red to breed the nature of the german people if you don't have to. >> yeah, it is one of those indicators of just how wild it is in the alito home when it comes to what is happening with their flags, which clearly, justice alito knew all about, as your interview proved conclusively. >> wild is one word for it, lawrence. >> thanks, alex. the stock market closed at an all-time high once again today, proving once again today that republican businessmen don't know what is good for them . and yes, i'm using the antiquated term, businessmen, deliberately, because the thinking of the people i am referring to is antiquated. the last time it made any sense at all for recut -- republican businessmen to boat republican was back when they all really were men, no women allowed. in the 1920s, back when the stock market crashed in 1929 under republican president herbert hoover, and then the country sank into the deepest depression it has ever suffered. there was not a single republican politician who had any idea what to do about that. then came democratic president franklin delano roosevelt elected in 1932 in the depths of the depression, and that democratic president created the policies that saved the american economy. if your business survive the depression, it was because of the policies of the democratic president franklin delano roosevelt. those policies help your business survive the depression. franklin delano roosevelt held the banking system together by himself in the first days of his presidency, when the entire american banking system was on the verge of collapse, the whole thing. what did republican businessmen do? they opposed president roosevelt. they have never known what is good for them, and what is good for them as a democratic presidency that knows how to get things done to help their businesses keep running. the economy does better under democratic presidents. that is a simple fact of american economic history, and there are many businessmen and women who understand that and vote accordingly. they vote in their own self- interest for democratic presidents, but republican businessmen remained the dominant voice in american media , and it is a voice that is almost always wrong, and so there are noisy republican businessmen who are now voicing their support for donald trump without ever thanking joe biden for helping them get richer than they have ever been during the biden presidency. those people never thanked president obama for getting the economy back on track after the financial crisis of 2008 when wall street investment banks collapsed. those wall street investment banks collapsed in the final year of an eight-year republican presidency. those wall street bankers got fabulously wealthy beyond their wildest dreams during the eight years of bill clinton and then some of them lost everything under the republican presidency of george w bush and many of them still enthusiastically boat republican because they are untouchable. we do not send our best to wall street. we send our greediest and many of them are too ignorant to understand how competent democratic presidents enrich the economy and always make the rich people who vote against them richer. not all of them. not all of the people in business are too dense to understand that. democratic presidential candidates get plenty of contributions and support from investment bankers and business owners and business executives who actually understand how the economy works, and the government's essential position in the economy -- infrastructure spending is one of the simplest demonstrations of this. white house cartoonishly scheduled and rescheduled infrastructure week for four years and never passed a single bill providing a single improvement in american infrastructure, not one brick. donald trump built nothing. joe biden passed an infrastructure bill and signed it into law, and he did it with bipartisan support from the senate. many of the republicans who voted against that bill in the house and the senate now step forward to take credit for the infrastructure improvements that bill is delivering and republican congressional districts and states. infrastructure improvements are usually planned carefully for years before the first day of work on a project begins. but this year, we saw a case of emergency infrastructure work like we have never seen before when 112,383 metric tons of a container ship crashed into the francis scott key bridge across baltimore harbor, and instantly closed all shipping in and out of baltimore. that was not a problem for baltimore businesses. that was a problem for the world. grain harvested in the great plains is shipped to countries around the world through the port of baltimore. that means there were businesses large and small in places like iowa, nebraska, kansas that would be hurt by the closing of the port of baltimore, the first stage of the story. it was tragic for the six men who lost their lives working on the bridge when it collapsed in the middle of the night. 35-year-old alejandra hernandez and 24-year-old carlos hernandez from mexico. 26-year-old castille cabrera and 35-year-old jose lopez from guatemala. 38-year-old mainer suazo from honduras, 49-year-old miguel luna from el salvador. the second stage of the story had to immediately be the reopening of the port of baltimore, and then the third stage, the reopening of the bridge. reopening the port meant clearing the bridge debris so that a clear, unobstructed channel could be established through the port that is 700 feet wide and 50 foot deep to accommodate those huge container ships that use the port. until that port was open, every ship on the oceans of the world headed for the port of baltimore to deliver imports to the united states had to be rerouted or wait, and that would add costs to the exports and the imports involved which means it without inflation in the same way that the broken supply chain during the covid pandemic created inflation around the world and every ship that was in the port of baltimore ready to leave that night and deliver america's exports around the world was then stuck, could not move, stack. none of those ships could leave until that channel was reopened, none of them. that meant that every business that had goods on those ships for export around the world was losing money every day. every american business that was shipping experts on those ships lost money every day that those ships could not move. the only thing that was going to be able to get those ships out of the port of baltimore was competent government in action and the american economy and american businesses are lucky that everyone involved at every level of government that needed to coordinate on this emergency infrastructure project is a democrat. democratic president joe biden, democratic governor westmore, democratic mayor of baltimore brendan scott. anything less than full emergency speed in response to this infrastructure emergency could have meant that it would take a year or years just to reopen the shipping channel in the port of baltimore. 11 weeks. 11 weeks led by joe biden. the emergency infrastructure project in the port of baltimore took 11 weeks of this week, the port reopened. >> i've been waiting to say this every day for the last 11 weeks. marilyn, the port mchenry channel is fully clear and the port of baltimore is reopened for business. this would not have happened without our extraordinary partners in the biden-harris administration. i remember the first phone call that i got from the white house was around 3:30 that morning. they have been in lockstep with us every single step of the way. they helped us to stand up to small business administrations, recovery centers and baltimore to help individuals and businesses affected by the collapse. they delivered $16 million in emergency funding just days after the bridge fell. president biden himself took the time to come to baltimore and to meet with us about the path forward. maryland is deeply grateful for the leadership of president biden and the leadership of vice president harris. >> that was governor westmore at the port of baltimore today. there's another version of the story that could've happened. president biden goes to baltimore, promises to do everything he can to reopen the port as fast as possible and then he fails, then the resources cannot be coordinated with the highly skilled workers needed immediately to do the work of dismantling the bridge and dredging the channel. the workers and equipment ready to do this kind of specialty job are not just sitting around waiting for emergency phone calls. failure was more likely than success in this mission, in this timetable. just ask donald trump, who did not build or rebuild anything during his presidency. if joe biden failed it reopening the port of baltimore, republicans would be campaigning against him in november, saying he failed to do that, and donald trump of course would be promising to reopen the port of baltimore on his first day in the white house again and trump voters would of course believe that nonsense because they have proved they will believe anything. that is not the way it happened. joe biden delivered on his promise and when he did, he made it look easy and no republican businessman is going to say thanks, joe. this is what winning and good government looks like and most voters will never realize. nest -- most voters in the country will never realize how important joe biden's governing skills, including his emergency governing skills, are in solving a problem like this that no president before him has ever had to face. joe biden cannot turn to anyone in the white house and say, how did lyndon johnson handle this? how did ronald reagan handle this? joe biden had to use all of his experience in government and his understanding of the region and the port's importance to the american economy to quickly figure out how to handle this. >> president biden made clear from that first day in those early hours the federal government would do everything that we could to support the city, the county, the state to get the port of baltimore back open and to get that bridge rebuilt and what followed was an embrace of the people of baltimore by the whole administration and really by the whole country to get this port back open and less than 100 days. >> being a republican businessman means you never have to say thank you to the democrats to save your business. leading off our discussion tonight is governor westmore of maryland. he's also a member of the advisory board for the biden- harris re-election campaign. governor, thank you for joining us tonight. it is such an impressive feat. anyone who knows anything about marine salvage operations and how difficult they are to execute, getting this done in this amount of time, opening up that channel is close to america. >> thanks so much and i remember admiral fagan, who runs the coast guard, when i saw her on day three you know, she said this is the most complex maritime operation she had been a part of but i tell you, lawrence, i remember that first morning when i first spoke to the people of my state and i knew that my job was to provide a measure of calm and also a measure of comfort and certainty to the people of my state but i have to tell you, when i got that phone call the first phone call i got from the white house at 3:30 in the morning, when i had a chance to speak with the president the president said to me we are going to be with you every step of the way, the same thing i was trying to offer to the same people of my state, he offered to me and every single step of this journey to be able to bring closure and comfort to the families of those six marylanders we lost that morning, to be able to make sure that all of the workers in the first responders who were directly impacted -- you know, we have thousands of people who lost their jobs instantaneously when that ship crashed into the bridge. to make sure they knew they were going to be seen and supported, to make sure we would stop at nothing to get that federal channel reopen, when people told us that it could take up to a year just to get the federal channel reopened because we work together we were able to show that instead of taking 11 months we got it done in 11 weeks. all of that happened because we were working in partnership with the biden administration and so i am so thankful that we had a chance to have an administration who focused on competence and who focused on compassion and who focused on keeping their promises because this is an illustration. this was a case study about how to respond and with speed and with heart to be able to get big things done and show government can be getting big things done when we move together and but that is because we have the right partner we needed in the moment in president biden and his entire team. >> you know, americans used to fully understand that our seacoast ports are important. seacoast ports are not local operations, that they are feeders of the entire country and exporters for the entire country. just the image of those containers behind you in that shot today, the materials we see in those containers, those are not for the people of baltimore. that is not stuff that was made by the people of baltimore that is being shipped out here. that is the whole country that is using this port. talk about the national importance of getting this channel on this port reopen this fast. >> every time you order something on amazon people have to remember what you think that's getting delivered to? when people are ordering new cars would you think that's coming in from? when you have people with agricultural equipment, the port of baltimore is the largest port in the country for agricultural equipment. for the restaurant tour who is getting spices and sugars, where do you think the spices and sugars are coming in? the port of baltimore services two thirds of this country, billions of dollars of economics flow throughout the port of baltimore and so when you look at a closure of a part of baltimore, when you look at the fact that we had a ship that was the size of three football fields that was blocking the patapsco river and closing down that part of baltimore, that had significant supply-chain challenges and significant economic challenges, so the ability to work with speed to be able to get that port reopen, it was about the very human impact of the workers, the thousands of workers who were directly impacted but was also about the fact that this was a core artery for american economic vitality and american economic growth so when you have something like the port of baltimore that is the largest port in this country for new cars, heavy trucks, agricultural equipment, for: the collection of different items and now seeing that port reopen, this was an incredibly celebratory moment for not just the workers who were impacted, but also a celebratory moment for american economy because it shows our measure of dynamism and also how fast and how important that rebound was to make sure everybody in our country can be supported. >> we both know that if this had happened at the port of los angeles, something like this, president biden would've worked just as hard to get it fixed, but he doesn't have the kind of personal familiarity with that port that he has with the port of baltimore. this is a guy who passed through the port of baltimore to and from work every day in the united states senate when he was commuting to delaware to washington, and so there must've been an advantage in speaking to the president about a place that he knows as well as he does. >> it was also great, he also has family history. he told me his father and grandfather you know, the call baltimore home. he even says baltimore the right way, so it was great working with someone who knows and who sees us but you know, i tell you there is something else special about baltimore, that for far too long, baltimore has been a community that has been historically neglected, that when you think about things like redlining and how lines were made up to create racial segregation, its birthplace was baltimore. when you look at communities that often times of been chronically neglected, the fact that the children of baltimore have double the asthma rate of anywhere else inside the state of maryland if you look at the measurements of economic inequality that have existed within the city of baltimore think that is something the president takes personally so when we came in his administration we made a commitment this was going to be an administration that was going to center and focus on supporting baltimore and when you're looking at the growth we've now seen in baltimore, baltimore now has the eighth fastest growing economy in this country since our administration has come on board. we've been able to work together in partnership to ensure that the homicide rates in baltimore are falling faster than any other major american city in this country with the exception of one. right now if we can keep pace with where we are in terms of homicides in violent crimes the last time the homicide rate was so low in baltimore, i was not born yet, so the momentum that we are seeing in the city of baltimore, it is real but it is also because we are working in partnership and working in partnership with the biden administration who has been so centered on making sure that baltimore and the people of baltimore are not forgotten inside this moment. >> thank you very much for joining us on 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