out of control ahead of the july 4th weekend. rich, great to be with you. wonderful to be with you, i m in for john roberts, rich edson. millions are expected to travel for the holiday. aaa predicts 3.5 million will fly, but staffing shortage, pricey fares, and some pilots threatening to strike causing turbulence for the friendly skies. gillian: thousands are being canceled, delayed, experts are fearing an influx of new holiday travelers starting today is set to make matters even worse. listen. all of it is coming to a head, we are seeing the cancellations. we just need more people to work in the industry both as air traffic controllers, pilots, you know, flight attendants, all of that. all in short supply and they can only staff so many planes. gillian: casey stegall is tracking the travel nightmare from dallas-fort worth international. hi, good to see you. a little turned around, i should be wearing my winter coat, usually when we are standing at the airport doing
are not feeling the 4th. i m rich edson. gillian: good to be with you, john and sandra are out today. americans are kicking off the weekend, but instead of celebrating our nation s independence, people are not happy with the red, white and blue. rich: researchers say a big reason, the hyper partisanship stemming from washington. they say it seems politics has taken over for patriotism. gillian: and then there is the economy. a lot of americans frustrated having to shell out more for pretty much everything. rich: we have fox team coverage. the cost of the cookout, and wall street woes. gillian: hillary vaughn is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this
afternoon. when it comes to the state of the economy, president biden has a story and he is sticking to it. he thinks the economy is strong, does not think things are as baed as they seem and does not believe anybody thinks the u.s. is going down the wrong track. they do not think that. you haven t found one person, one world leader say america is going backward. america s better positioned to lead the world than we ever have been. we have the strongest economy in the world, our inflation rates are lower than other nations in the world. recent polls suggest a lot of americans are not happy with how things are going. a recent a.p. found 60% are not happy with how he is handling finances, and some people are not proud of america today, of democrats, 48%, and republican, 60% are not proud, and
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nation gets ready to celebrate independence day, new polling shows more than half of americans are not proud of the state of the nation. they say a lot of that is because of the mud slinging going on in washington. we will talk about how politics is poisoning patriotism. plus, the national security risk you may have just downloaded on the iphone. and southern border deaths and general keith kellogg on nato s dire warning. all of that coming up.