Everyone, kind of the comings and goings here, ron. i want to go to you. we saw jared kushner and ivanka trump entering the room, waiting for the president to make his entrance as well. give me your take, ron. the white house, they ve kind of dubbed this infrastructure week. i can t say it, but it seems to be what they re trying to do, rolling something out each day to focus on their infrastructure agenda. i do wonder, is donald trump the only person at the white house that doesn t seem to have been told that after you look at what he s been focused on this morning? right. staying on script has never been the strength of the president, right? look, first of all, the entire infrastructure debate has evolved in a way that is much more confrontational and partisan and ridden with conflict than originally. originally, this seemed like one of the areas, if not the principal area, that we might see agreement across party lines in what had been a very divisive trump agenda, but the actual s
Covering the infrastructure debate, and in mississippi and california covering the dangerous spread of coronavirus. in fact, that is where we will start. nbc s allison barber is outside a hospital in jackson, mississippi, where they are starting to see a rise in children hospitalized with covid. las vegas an indoor mask mandate is back in america s second largest city and i want to bring in dylan byers and dr. patel. let s start in mississippi, one of the least vaccinated states in our country and now children make up 7% of icu covid patients statewide there. what are you hearing from folks on the ground about the crisis? reporter: yeah, the numbers are rising here. they re rising quickly. that s what s giving a lot of doctors concern is the rate at which they re seeing these numbers really start to pick up. we are outside of a children s
Everybody. michelle democrats, are they making this political? of course they are, they re politicizing this tragedy. when someone has a car accident and they re driving too quickly and they kill someone, we don t say, oh we need to fix the bridges, the roads in this country. we say, why were you going so fast. it appears as though this tragedy was caused by human error. wasn t caused by evil republicans on capitol hill. we give $1 billion a year to amtrak. republicans, there s nothing they could have done to stop this guy from speeding. they already authorized a speed control system. so it s not about republicans. that s all they re focused on. politics aside, where do you stand on the whole infrastructure debate? well it s a simple thing, eric it s a technical thing. i mean these all of these infrastructures have an amortization schedule. supposed to be, you know taken care of over a period of time. they last a certain amount of
An economist with the economic cycle research, michael cooper with the new york times and has written about the infrastructure debate and also adam schaffer, an education policy analyst with the cato institute. unemployment has dropped in this country. it s still too high, for most. 9.4%. but the real unemployment rate is more than 16%. explain this, the real unemployment rate and why do you think it s even higher than we ve measured? well, you have the real unemployment rate people underemployed or have stopped looking for work, kind of dropped off the rolls and have a broader of unemployment to capture those people and it s very high, in the high teens. and also, it s picking up, i think something that s not really a cyclical event, there s a structural event going on in unemployment as well. recall that before this great