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Look, we ve got demand that s off the charts. the retail federation is predicting an all-time record high in terms of sales. we ve got supply which is in some cases up but not up enough to keep up with that demand and then the biggest thing of all, of course, you have the pandemic. the pandemic is poking holes in supply no matter how good any company or any administration is. we re going to keep working on things like the port issue, smoothing out anything else that is within our control, but the only way we can put disruptions behind us is to put the pandemic in the rear view mirror, which is why the president has been leading decisively to do just that. i want to ask before i let you go about a flight attendant for american airlines who was hospitalized this week with a broken bone, several of them in her face, after a passenger assaulted her mid flight. so far this year the faa is investigating more than 900 incidents of violent or unruly passengers, and that s up from ....
Pandemic. the pandemic is poking holes in supply no matter how good any company or any administration is, we re going to keep working on things like the port issue, smoothing out anything else that is within our control but the only way we can put disruptions behind us is to put the pandemic in the rear view mirror, why the president has been leading decisively to do just that. i want to ask before i let you go about a flight attendant for american airlines who was hospitalized this week with a broken bone, several of them in her face after a passenger assaulted her mid flight. so far this year the faa is investigating more than 900 incidents of violent or unruly passengers, and that s up from 150 two years ago. should there be a federal no ply list for people who behave like this on u.s. flights? i think that should be on the table. look, it is completely unacceptable to mistreat, abuse or even disrespect flight crews. these flight attendants have been on the front lines of the ....
Saying there s no active proposal on the table to use the national guard. no. it was still during the town hall, while he was speaking and the white house reached out to say actually we re not pursuing this idea. it s up to states and governors whether or not they deploy the national guard, but this is something that when they had that big meeting on the supply chain at the white house with a lot of these port operators that they pushed for the president to do this, because they said that it would help, because they said it s not just a port issue. it s not just getting the ports and getting the items off the boats. the president was revealing last night saying how long it s going to last. saying it s not going to be over any time soon. i do think it s revealing that the white house is saying we re not looking into that but the president sounded very confident that it s not something on the table. the long-term trajectory is correct, both economically and critical for the democrats ....
Democrats to hold it hostage until they get the reconciliation bill. so he has a gun to his own head. martha: it s fascinating that the transportation secretary pete buttigieg didn t say that when he was asked sunday, yes, let s just pass the infrastructure bill and then we can wrap our arms around this port issue and go back for the other human part later. he wouldn t say that when pressed. he wouldn t say that. that is his greatest interest right now in his job and being able to get out of the mess they re in in california. thanks, guys. great to see you both. thank you, mark and art. so just received breaking news on the taliban takeover of afghanistan. we ll bring that to you with general keith kellogg and former national security adviser robert o brien. and the biden doj vowing to investigate school board threats as potential instances of threats of domestic terrorism. that is playing front and center ....