Now on Bbc News political thinking with nick robinson. Hello, And welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than a newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking about what a shape theirs. My guest this week has just celebrated ending the longest Train Drivers strike in history a strike that was blamed for crippling the railways And angered many, many travellers. His members haVe Got a 15 Pay Rise over three years. He is Mick Whelan, The General secretary of aslef. He said that his members strength, resilience, And determination was what had won that Pay Rise others say it was down to his crafty negotiation style. Mick whelan, welcome to political thinking. Thank you, nick. You finally got a deal after all that time how did you celebrate . Erm, by talking to the press. As soon as it becomes public knowledge, you And your colleagues obviously, so sky, bbc, the guardian, the usual outlets, And press will be Here Today With You And once you ve done that,
And i think with all the horrible shootings we have had, and the murders we have had, where the shooter fits the same profile, i think its incumbent upon people who want reforms to wage a very aggressive campaign to convince people at minimum to make it much much harder to get people under 21 to get guns. Tim, garrett, yamiche, thanks to all of you. Thats going to do it for us this hour. Our coverage continues with Katy Tur reports right now. Good to be with you, im Katy Tur. Vice president Kamala Harris is about to talk to voters in New Hampshire. She is scheduled to roll out new economic proposals aimed at Small Businesses and entrepreneurs, but we expect or at least we imagine that she will start with the latest School Shooting. At least four are dead and nine are injured after a teenager open fired inside apalachee High School before noon this morning. The suspect is alive and under arrest. The identities and ages of the victims, though, are still unknown. Heres one student who des
Might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . We all ready . Let me welcome all of you, and thank you for being here. This has been a group thats been in labor of intense effort and i know every one of us want to thank our staffs because theyve done yeomans work. As you can see, we have with us a bipartisan, Bicameral Group of people that have been working diligently for the last 30 days or more trying to get to a conclusion and a template, if you will, or a framework. This is covid emergency relief framework, its exactly what it is. Take your mask off. You cant hear me . Okay. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work that the staffs have been doing for quite some time and every senator, every congressperson here has put in an enormous amount of time on this in person and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. Weve worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, is g
You and the president were taking credit when things were going well in the economy. The president now when so many people are suffering . Larry well, there a lot of there, i agree, ut i will also argue the economy has registered a very the g comeback from pandemic, including todays jobs a 6. 7 unemployment rate. Now theres still over 10 Million People who are jobless, not good. That is hardship. Be ay the way, that should target of any in any assistance package. At the peak it was 23 million. 150 million t working. And thats way up. The 10 million unemployed is way down. I like that. I have to say, look, in terms of these numbers i know you are deep in the get numbers, but you still got on. Es a housing boom going Consumer Spending is strong. Business and of Factory Production going on. T. M. I. s s and the were nearly 60 . Thats very healthy number. At that. All that stuff looks like a v. One of wall streets top economists, ed, has his index. As tree thats growing at 29 a little chee
Debate. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent all right. Let me welcome all of you. Thank you for being here. This has been a group that has been in labor of intense ever intense. Bicameralbipartisan, group of people working diligently for the last 30 days trying to get to a conclusion and a framework. This is covid emergency relief. That is exactly what it is. You cannot hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me say that this is intense amount of work that the staffs has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has been an enormous amount of time on this fund. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked more on the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, our state and we can go home knowing that we have worked diligently to make sure that the unemployed, the Small Businesses, the state and local findings, student loan forbearance, everything is going to come to a halt in december because of the timing, that is no