netflix documentary leading up to this. and he really talked about the impact this was having on his family. he has a wife, he has two small children, and when he first found out that he d been selected for this flight, he didn t say, yes, i m going. he immediately went to his wife and said, you know, can i go? is it okay to go? and she had no idea that he had even entered this sweepstakes or raffle in an attempt to get this golden ticket to go to space. and she talked so much about how scared she was, how she knew that this was an important mission and she was happy for her husband, but that she would not be able to breathe a sigh of relief until he was back down on planet earth. so now that he has landed or splashed down, i want to know from her, was the anxiety, the nerves, was it all worth it? pam? was it all worth it as we watch this moment, right? as the capsule is inching slowly
starts today. we ll see president biden give remarks on jobs in washington, d.c. before he heads to louisiana to survey hurricane damage. and the jobs report comes out in about three hours. we ll wait to see what the president has to say. and kevin mccarthy is among the lawmakers whose phone records need to be spreefshed at the request of the select committee. this week mccarthy issued a not so veiled threat to telecom companies warning that complying with the commit s request for phone records would be breaking the law. he didn t say what law that might be. lelg experts say that threat borders on obstruction of justice. record floods across the northeast, dozens are dead and rescue efforts are ongoing. is it enough to be a wake-up call for the climate crisis?
can your internet do that? ron desantis has been derelict in doing anything to fight the pandemic from prioritizing popup clinics over vaccinations to declaring open war on educators. he made it harder for some floridians to survive financially. rejecting federal aid left and right. covid has raged across the sunshine state this summer. desantis touted a return to business as usual. he joined the republican governor prematurely cutting off federal enhanced unemployment assistance, claiming it was deterring people from getting back to work in a pandemic that savaged florida s service and tourism industry. to what jobs? he didn t say. the cruel blocking of jobless aid to struggling floridians came just as the delta variant began pummeling the state.
honored his commitment but he failed in honoring to do it in the right way. it wasn t, again, that he did it. it was how he did it how could he not have been prepared? people wanted to hear more details and just didn t give it to them. steve: that s right. he didn t say what went wrong and how he was going to fix it. here he is on how on what is happening in afghanistan tough to watch. the scenes we are seeing in afghanistan are gut wrenching, particularly for our veterans. our diplomats, humanitarian workers, those that have lost loved ones in afghanistan. and for americans who have fought and served in the country. serve our country in afghanistan. this is deeply, deeply personal. it is for me as well. steve: and republicans felt that s one of the highest grades they have ever given him. that s right. you can see there democrats gave him a about. plus. independents and republicans both gave him a c. we are all watching this in
of afghan refugees. and our military bases here in the united states i know cori bush and aoc have been asking for us to take in those refuse we dids. steve: that s right. joe biden said yesterday from the east room of the white house, the withdrawal has been messy. what he didn t say was what went wrong and how it s going to get fixed. because, obviously, everything went wrong and we don t know exactly how it s going to get fixed. because everything has played out as joe said it would not. he said there would be no choppers leaving the embassy. there were choppers leaving the embassy. of the tall ban won t overrun the country tri and own the whole country. wrong again. brian: why did we leave the embassy. wife couldn t we protect our own embassy with sensitive documents that would have allowed us to process people. russia is still there china is still there. i mean, sweden left. there is a lot of country still there. you can t protect one building? ainsley: we are sending in another 1