just got his bag. every once in a while big cry go up through the island of miss fit bags with someone saying they have got their stuff and they are on their way home. it s still a mess. you still have people who are stranded and can t get home. you have flight staff that can t penetrate this antiquated communication system to let the airlines know that they are available to fly people home. you have got a lot of really tired people and they are just stuck. our luggage is missing. it s mia. we ended up completely canceling southwest entirely. we are hoping we will get a refund. 2,885 domestic flights were canceled. 86% of them were southwest. 2,509. the southwest pilots union, as well as the flight attendants union say the melt down was very predictable because southwest executives did not invest in and modernize the logistics and communication technology. the ceo of southwest offered an apology. the tools we use to recover from this disruption serve us well 99%. time
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
run a country but a 66-year-old can t fly an airplane? buttigieg wants all the older experienced pilots to retire so can he diversify the workforce. he said quote any time you have some americans who have been excluded from opportunity it s important to make sure there is an inclusive future. he leads us to legal with the shortages while he waits for the students at the compton flight school to graduate. buttigieg doesn t care about your problems he flies private on your dime. if you have to sleep at the airport and mills the holidays with your family, that s not his problem. monica crowley is a former assistant secretary of treasury. monica, so great to have you. why should the transportation secretary care what color our pilots are? well, he shouldn t, of course. but this entire mess surrounding our nation s infrastructure and transportation services, rachel, this is what you get when you choose a cabinet based on identity politics. rather than on actual
buttigieg doesn t understand the difference. real issues that affect real people. marriage is a real issue that affects real people and it s a federal issue not just a state issue. that s the issue at stake and he s ignoring it. the three the three congress republican congress people from south florida where marco lives, where i live, mario diaz-balart, all voted in favor of codifying marriage equality. 47 republicans did. yep. including those from south florida. and it s not just about gay marriage and we shouldn t say that, it s also about interracial marriage and inter ethnic marriage, international you know, marriage between a different nationality. thank you so much. it s wonderful to have all of you here this morning. during that cnn interview that you saw with jake tapper liz cheney also revealed the committee may subpoena or is at least thinking about subpoenaing the wife of supreme court
i am surprised some people were surprised when i pointed to the fact that if the highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and puerto rican kids to a beach or that would ve been in new york was designed to go for it to pass by, it obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices. tucker: racist bridges. we wanted to hear more from pete buttigieg. he is the transportation secretary. he is breastfeeding stay semigood and join us. he wanted to know what his record on infrastructure was as mayor of south bend. it turns out buttigieg doesn t have a very good track record. the keystone traffic initiative. he reportedly led to the death of an 11-year-old boy. the initiative deactivated in