implications for the republic. that s what concerns not. look, anyone could stumble and fall, sandbag fall. but when a president does, it usually scrutiny and ridicule follow. trump couldn t even get a walk down a slick ramp without facing scorn. president gerald ford was probably the most athletic president ever. he played football in a national championship. but when he missed a step just once, chevy chase and snl sketches forever set a narrative of ford as a bumbling buffoon. so it is curious that when hillary clinton collapsed like an old armani pantsuit and wasid physically dumped into a van, riere was no snl sketch or ridicule. which bringsdiculed th us to tht th president , who over the last two years has done more pratfalls than jerry lewiso . part of the problem is joe biden is suffering from a stiffo gait and old age. his doctor has admitted as much ,but in an effort to showl how vigorous he still is , hehec tsaffects his skipping routine. i call it the biden trot
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international where one airline is reeling flights in. kelly o grady in los angeles where folks are saying the hell with it all and hitting the road instead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your very crowded world today. doesn t casey stegall know it in dallas. casey? yeah, neil. it s been so busy all day long. we got here at 7:00 a.m. local time. steady streams of people. nothing insane. no lines out the door or anything like that. the folks at aaa says that this fourth of july is expected to be the second and busiest in terms of travel since 2000. so more than 20 years, if you can believe that. almost 48 million americans venturing out over the next couple days. for air travel, it s 3.5 million. that s the project, which is a little higher than last year according to aaa. only time will tell whether those holiday passengers will further bog down the airport and the airlines. as of this hour, i just did a quick check. more than 3,900 delays and 374 cancellations are repo