vaccinated. i got to the point where i think being indoors with other people whose vaccine status i m not sure of in a place with relatively poor ventilation is not safe enough and i m comfortable dining outside but i live in san francisco, not new york and so i understand that s not really feasible right now. so i am more careful and the good news is this thing is probably only going to last for a couple months. in south africa, they saw a huge spike and it s beginning to come down so we may be in hunker down mode for a couple months and after that, it may burn through itself fairly quickly and it s okay to go back to normal. we have to be more careful for the next month or two. is that the same advice for holiday parties? a big holiday party with people whose vaccine status you re not 100% sure of and when i say 100% sure, they got fully vaccinated and a booster, i would be careful. if it s a big holiday party and you want to go in, i would be wearing a holiday mask. i ve seen a
major port. as you talk to officials there, do they have contingency plans? talking about when they might reopen the port or now in hunker down mode and assess in the morning. reporter: how would you like that? out on a cruise . i wouldn t like that at all. reporter: not at all. i would not want to be on the cruise ship. port of galveston did close down, leaving three, four ships with 20,000 people on them out at sea. they were trying to find other ports they could possibly get to, up the coast towards louisiana or waiting to see if it was better for them to stay in place. wait this thing out. not an ideal situation, obviously, if you are out there on a cruise for a vacation. you do not want to be out there. but obviously those officials are going to be playing it safe. doing what they think is best and that is not coming to the port of galveston. leland: right, if they get into the port of galveston out of port of galveston with all the flooding we re expecting. blessing, texas, th
back to the upswing. they re paying attention. of course, you know, i ve got my phone in hand and i would gladly take such an update. but right now, members are telling me they have not been given any guidance on what happens on the floor. the debate is unfolding. we know the speaker is back here. i think we re in a bit of a hunker down mode where they ll share with leadership the results of that white house consideration and make some decisions. so, i think we re probably in a window that could be very newsy. this hallway is crowded. we re here standing by for any updates. kelly o donnell making a great point. if you say something lawmakers do not agree with, their reps get on the phone with you pretty quickly. our nbc news count stands at 34 republicans who will say no to this house gop health care bill. that is as of right now. obviously, that could change at any moment. joe walsh, you have spent a ton of time there in congress. you know how things work. is this a stain, the fact
growth at all. pretty stable. but we need to be generating about 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with the growth in the labor force. jenna: we re going to talk a little bit more about policy with our economic panel coming up. steve, i know you will be part of that. yep. jenna: the questions viewers have about the jobs market is why? why are we creating jobs but not even enough to keep up with population growth? what is really disappointing, jenna, as you mentioned earlier, the first three months of this year and actually last year we have pretty healthy jobs numbers two or three times higher than we re getting now. looks to me like an economist that the economy is stalling out a little bit right now, jenna. i think one of the big fears what we ve called on this show, taxmageddon . a big tax increase that will hit the economy on january 1st. businesses are in a hunker down mode right now. they re trying to survive and they re very reluctant to invest and hire workers given the
will do anything. bill: don t you think with his poor polls across the board that the governor should take his case to the people? well, i think can he will come on with you. i have no doubt about it. i don t know why he hasn t come on earlier. i do think the perry campaign right now is in a hunker down mode. they re trying to fill his head with as much stuff as possible, get him ready for the october 11 debate. he had a poor showing in the last debate. no surprise there, given everything that we saw and how it played out. he didn t look sure on his feet. he didn t look all that confident. he looked like a different person from the guy who made the speech down at liberty university where he looked he was very confident, knew what he wanted to say and he seemed a bit off his game. bill: but there is a difference between making a speech in front of a friendly crowd. you have to perform. bill: but look, i just don t understand, i ve been doing this for 15 years. a guy like ric