Time time time time time greg yeah. Did you ever wonder how local news becomes national . It napped montgomery, alabama. A cityowned river boat tried to dock in its designated spot along the water front but a pontoon boat was mored there they asked the pontoon owner to move but when they were asked to move the owners were happy about it at all and then this happened. Mind you what youre about to see is disturbing. So if you have children in the room, punch them hard in the face as a diversion. Get out the way [screaming and yelling] greg well, thats disgusting. Appalling. And when im disgusted and appalled, i need to see more. Oh, new angle. Check the two guys in the water, make sure nobody drowns. Hey, hey, hey oh, my god that hurts. And then more people jumped in to defend the guy and it turned into quite the melee or what the irish call, friday night. But its what the rest of us might call just plain good tv which explains how this quickly went from a local story to a national one.
critical issues like taiwan and uk. a surprise among democrats to lower drug prices and address climate change. we re going to discuss with democratic senator brian schatz from hawaii. also new this hour, a u.s. prisoner swap proposal to bring wnba brittney griner and businessman paul whelan home from russia. what moscow is saying, ahead. we begin this hour with the state of the american economy. a short time ago the government reported economic activity fell by 0.9% between april and june. that s the second straight quarter it has fallen. moments ago president biden issued a statement on the report saying, in part, it s no surprise the economy is slowing down as the federal reserve acts to bring down inflation. but even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure. also this morning, we learned that 256,000 people filed first-time unemployment claims last week. that s a slight decrease
have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
alone or you live in new york city, you should wear a mask in your house so when you break in you can go what are you doing i m working this side of the street. go over there i m working this side. oh, sorry. i m wearing a mask bro. respect. greg: imagine visiting somebody like that who s alone in a mask. like the expectation that she s going to run into anybody. that s like, i don t know, that s like jamie carrying around a condom. jamie: that s right. i feel bad for surgeons. greg: yes. jamie: because they were the original mask wearer. and then they re like yeah i m a surgeon and people are like, yeah right. martha: they also say that surgical masks really don t work so now i m wondering why all the surgeons are wearing them and if i should feel protected when the doctor s wearing that little thing. greg: i wonder if surgeons wear masks because they re sticking their tongue out at you. tyrus: maybe they re ventriloquists. greg: that s it. tyrus: or are they.