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The train. this just seems like a logistical nightmare especially when you have this type of backup this 40, 50, 60 ships sitting like a parking lot out in the pacific. >> yeah, eric, yes, those are all ideas, but we have a major infrastructure problem in this country. the engineers' report gave us, like, a d over the last few years on how well the u.s. infrastructure's working, whether it's ports or trains or next generation g, s or national -- gps or national electric grid. we've been having these issues for a while. we've had a need for a national infrastructure bank. we know why we have th...

Has women leaving the workforce or is there something else? >> well, care is a huge part of it, both the childcare and care for elders and those with disabilities, the fact that we don't have paid leave but we are still in a pandemic where people are getting ill, that's another significant part of it. but it also is that women have long been dominated in the jobs that pay the least wages and the jobs that were the least fragile, and the jobs that required you to show up in person. and that story together, the fact that women are the majority of retail workers, the vast majority of health care ...

Coming oust of the pandemic nobody had any idea what the shape of the demand was going to look like. people started to spend when they came out of the pandemic and we were not ready for this extraordinary spending surge. that was the first problem. second, whenever you have global sourcing, many countries weren't set up to supply us critical items. third is we didn't have the labor to fulfill the demand. to fulfill the supply chains to meet the demand. i will add an fourth one. we have an infrastructure problem. traffic and roads have gotten out of control. everything is under construction. tr...

Obviously we were impacted by the storm, not like the northeast, we did not have the flooding of the northeast, but the power went out in new orleans and we had to make a very fast decision to evacuate the campus. and the students just stepped up to the plate. we ferried 40, 50 buses off to houston. from houston, they were able to fly home, really, on very quick notice. their only complaint i got from them is many of them didn't want to leave louisiana because they wanted to help support the state and making up after the storm. >> that is amazing to hear. we're looking at pictures of them as t...

Linking this infrastructure bill to another quite separate measure related to his american families plan, his social infrastructure, which involves getting extra paid leave for americans, extra money for child care, and the president is now saying that he won't sign one without the other, and there are still negotiations on both sides, so perhaps it is premature to claim victory. i think what the president can celebrate is the fact that he has got this far and that he has managed to bring republicans and democrats together to debate — and clearly, there have been compromises on both sides â€...