put checks in to pockets. >> martha: that's why you have enormous demand. that's why we heard from pete buttigieg that what your seeing is all the respect of the booming biden economy. that is the argument that they make at the white house this afternoon and as we heard in the days before. they said it's a short term problem. this is a cargo ship making the trek from china to long beach, california has now spent more time looking at the coast of california than the pacific ocean on the entire trip of china. it's one of 100 ships that are stranded. we've never seen a backup like this in history. some of them are waiting weeks to get unloaded as americans wait for the things that are on -- in those cargo containers. in a moment, josh hawley has a big picture idea for how to solve this problem over the long-term so we don't find ourselves in this situation again. first william la jeunesse at the