passengers upset and exasperated. i was meant to leave at 8:00 a.m., you know, flight canceled. another flight was going to be 11:00 a.m., canceled. one more at 3:00, canceled. we have to get home. we have a flight. it is going to be, you know, canceled. they need to let us know now so we can know what to do. the problem a huge surge in passenger traffic. call it post-pandemic rebound. the tsa says it screened more passengers on friday than on the same day in 2019. let s talk about what s happening here. business journalist mark stewart joins me now. tsa says they screened 2 1/2 million people. that is remarkable. same number as way back in february 2019. or 2020, i guess. what is that telling us about the american economy? it tells us people are finding room in their budgets to travel. it s the notion of pent-up demand. another struggle facing the economy is labor. airlines are dealing with these pilot shortages. i heard from one pilot last night, there should be scr
what do you make of this? christine, i talk about a lot of economists about the gas the last few weeks. not one has put the burden on the individual gas stations or the oil companies necessarily in particular. gas station margins are like nothing, right? they re so small. that s why people say go to the discount places like costco because the markup isn t that big. as we know, this is a global commodity. and even if things are okay in the u.s., if there are disruptions in other parts of the world, or even other parts of the country, it does create this higher price. i talked to one alanist last week who was telling me that he feels that gasoline, actually the price has been quite high despite the demand. well, now demand has cooled off. perhaps some people are going to choose to drive. this is serious. some people may choose to drive instead of fly. that could bring prices up again. in addition, there are a lot of things to look forward to in the
pretty clear there are no conversations or discussions about removing mr. mueller. do you take the white house at their word? or i suppose i should say, at which word? i think at this point, enough has been said to threaten the mueller investigation that the republicans in the senate, particularly chairman grassley, should schedule a markup of the bills that would provide a little bit of due process before a firing of mueller could be concluded and less those bills come forward. we ve had the hearings. both bills are bipartisan. they can be readily reconciled, but there s no point in reconciling them if a markup isn t scheduled. so that would be the next logical step and i think as a senate, as a congress, we should be stepping up to do the things that even speaker ryan has said we should do, which is to make sure that the mueller investigation can run its due and proper course. that s the logical next step.