somebody else is basically controlling wherever that airplane goes and when it goes. reporter: so far united hasn t faced the severe fines imposed by the department of transportation, but that s meant turning some delayed planes back to the gate and canceling the flight. we re making it work. doesn t mean that it s not painful to the passengers who don t understand that we re operating under this wall that will fine us $27,500 per passenger on a flight. reporter: when it comes to delays, there s the uncontrollable causes like weather and the controllable causes like an air traffic control system that needs a serious upgrade. and it does slow us down. it does impact us. reporter: ali velshi, cnn, chicago. summer is in full swing. for many people that means vacation time. flying just about anywhere can cost a pretty penny. rick, what are the best deals out there right now for this flying public? we ve had a really tough summer for deals.
because it all depends on the size of the economy. so really the central question, we re talking about sort of stimulus versus deficits, do you want to tax more, do you want to spend more. the real center issue is how do you get the economy to grow. and a half a percent or an extra percent a year of economic growth solves a heck of a lot of problems. and that really i think needs to be the central question of the debate. you can have the economy growing robustly, steven, and then suddenly you turn that whole situation upside down. no matter what, don t you have to have either cutting spending or raising taxes or some combination of both, you can economy on its own fix this problem? first of all, i agree entirely that the first thing we have to do is get this economy growing. and that s why i just think it really is such economic insanity to be talking about raising tax rates on capital investment. what we need in this country is investment in the country from foreigners around the
violation of current agreements between the united states and its partners. during his recent comments on the nsa controversy president obama insisting the agency has a singular focus. i don t have an interest in the people of the nsa don t have an interest, in doing anything other than making sure that where we can prevent a terrorist attack, where we can get information, ahead of time. reporter: this morning the nsa fox s request for comment to the state department, arthel. arthel: catherine what about edward snowden, is he now going, see i told you so, i told you so? i don t know. reporter: that s right. a russian newspaper is reporting this importanting that the former nsa leaker edward snowden got stuck in moscow after the u.s. put pressure on cuba not to accept his asylum request. snowden s plans you remember to travel to cuba were so far advanced he had his seat booked
it s basically i think made businesses in a hungered down environment. we know what worked. if you look at the book that i wrote,ered down environment. we know what worked. if you look at the book that i wrote,kered down environment. we know what worked. if you look at the book that i wrote, the history shows when we cut tax rates that s when the economy grows. it grew in the 60s and it grew during the clinton era you c era, as well. don t forget that bill clinton cut the capital gains tax rate. barack obama is talking about raising it. we re having a very ideological discussion here. this is what you ll be hearing when we come back this fall. we should be spend, spend, intending to keep the economy going. this is not the time to be taking our foot off the gas.ten going. this is not the time to be taking our foot off the gas. candy, how is this going to play out millpolitically for the president? i don t think you ll hear a lot of we need to spend some
dip recession mean you re in favor of stimulus now? no, look, i think the lesson we ve learned over the last so we don t tax, but we also don t stimulate, it s like that classic bush philosophy of gont tax but don t do anything on the spending side and have big deficits going into a financial crisis which has positioned the u.s. so well? i guess my view is we ve just had this experiment in spending stimulus. the biggest experiment in american history with $800 billion spent. and it was that we all now know that it has been a failure. it didn t create jobs. that s completely untrue. we don t know that at all. it didn t create it wasn t big enough to it wasn t big enough to end the recession, but we don t know the imagine had we not had that stimulus, don t you think the which i would be even worse? no i think we d be much better off today if we hadn t done the spending. all we ve got this exchange seriously? yeah, the spending just created a much larger gap and