will: it was me. glad it was memorable. pete: jackie did a nice job. you did so-so. it s amazing how much more expensive it is, and everyone feels it. will: if the economy s really good, they just don t know who to give credit. to watch. what specifically would you do this year to turn that around and make americans feel better about how the economy s doing? if you noticed, they re feeling much better about how the economy s doing. what we haven t done is letting them know exactly who got it changed. that s the part. that s what s happening. if you look at the consumer confidence measures, they re way up across the board. everybody s doing better, ask and they believe it. they know it. and they re just beginning to sink in. will: taking crept. that s the credit. that s the problem here. rachel: has the most infuriating answer. imagine being a family who s struggling to make ends meet right now, who goes to the grocery store. the only people who can afford to buy groceries are ang
a chem soleimani, we didn t hear from iran for a good year or two after that, but now we re hearing from them every day. rachel: you know, kt, this is happening in a vacuum. we just have we just reported on the election in taiwan, the pro-sovereignty for taiwan party won, that caught won. but i m looking at china, and i m going, if i m china, i want to do something before the next election if i m going to make a move in taiwan or any other place. is that something that concerns you? yeah. you know, it does not happen in a vacuum. starting with afghanistan, we ve seen time after time the regional powers whether it s iran, whether it s russia, china, they re all trying to expand. they re all taking advantage of the united states weakness. so if you re the leader of china and your goal is to take taiwan one way or another, you re looking at the united states, well, distracted by the election, distracted by whatever s going on in the middle east, distracted by
here, neil. the actual air temperatures for monday. minus 4 in fort dodge. minus 4 in sioux city, you get the idea. it s cold and windy on top of that. that s are the highs. low temperatures into the minus teens and the minus 35, minus 45, you ve got to be really careful if you re going out to caucus. you can do it, but make the plans if anything goes wrong you re protected. neil: good advice. reich reichmuth on that. and bill melugin is in west des moines, iowa now. hey, bill. hey, neil, good morning to you. it s about 2 degrees right now, but the feels-like is negative 19. it s bad once the wind starts to kick up. as a result of the weather, donald trump canceled three out of four campaign events this weekend so far. ron desantis has canceled one so far. we ll keep everyone posted if more comes out of that. as you look at this video of weather conditions here in the
will: working on his tree? rachel: which, of course, would compromise the strength of the tree. and he would get up there and yell at the tree and try try to get that the pete: why didn t he get a bb gun or a rachel: that s another story, they re endangered species. will: oh, really? you can t take out a woodpecker? rachel: he tried to scare it with a [inaudible conversations] [laughter] rachel: he didn t hit it, but he did scare it away with a bb gun. pete: you can just be honest now. he shot an endangered species, but it was many years ago, way past the statute of limitations, it s all fine. we re glad you re here. la. [laughter] rachel: you better stop right now. pete: but i m right. rachel: all right. anyway, a we ve that s what i thought about. will: we all have our things. pete: glad your car s all right. some fan any new ev you got? will: no, thank you.
international airports, now back here in grand rapids, we re expecting to get more snow, two to three inches, but tomorrow, that lake effect snow sets in, four to seven more inches expected, and we ll see if i get out of here, and a lot of flight troubles happening across the country. me and you, neil. i hear you, my friend. you re in the middle of all of that, i think i got the better part of the deal so far this year. and max, great seeing you, max gordon on that, rick reichmuth, the reason i like to talk to him about this, he s very good explaining the effects of the temperatures in all seriousness, it s a big deal when you get into the minus territory, especially at these levels. isn t it, rick? we talk about cold weather and they say i can handle the cold, a lot of people haven t experienced temperatures like what will be experienced in hawaii in the next couple of days and iowans have, but a lot of people from outside of the state have been descending on the state and aren t