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the friday before juneteenth, clocked in as the most popular air travel day of 2022. and all of this as inflation hits a 40-year high. let s start with the travel troubles facing so many americans right now. in los angeles international airport, already today more than 770 flights cancelled. and still, there might be more this holiday weekend. why? yeah. it s because a lot of people are flying first of all. tsa saying they screened about 2.5 million people on friday. that s the highest number they ve seen since the sunday after thanksgiving. and then the problem is that the airlines just can t keep up. of course, part of the reason why so many are flying this weekend is because it s a lock summer weekend. a lot of people have off monday for juneteenth, and of course, it also coincides with father s day. and then these airlines just not keeping up for a number of reasons. one, being weather problems. delays and cancellations. there s also staff shortages and infrastruc ....
Odds or which day in which week is probably not helpful that i think everybody understands that if it tracks out to long but the political calendar can start working again. Sonata tomorrow is what youre saying. Moving on the problem is we are getting all of that to the competitors. Very good. We will read that in the National Journal leader. [laughter] just kidding. I want to talk a little bit about the James Burling experience with lighted up the gst is a little bit and we were talking backstage about the pollyanna view of what washington was like in the clinton years in the late 90s and republicans and democrats got along better and there were negotiations that led to the agreement whereas now it has been much more difficult. Maybe that is less so now that we dont have the debt ceiling fight and there seems to be more of a desire on the republican side to create a fiscal c ....
well, the white house said the president is doing fine. he s spending this father s day with his family. and as he was departing church last evening, a reporter shouted asking how he was doing. and you saw the president take a few hops up and down to try to show that he was agile and feeling okay after that fall he had on the bike yesterday. okay. all right. there he is. okay. a very athletic president biden. thank you so much. arlette signs in delaware. appreciate it. all right. let s talk again about the economy. joining me right now some economists to talk about the road ahead. betty stevenson, a professor of public policy at the university of michigan. she was also a member of president obama s council of economic advisers. and justin worfers a professor of economics at the yoofunivers of michigan. glad to see both of you. ....