welcome, everybody. we begin on the unofficial first day of the summer travel season. and you better pack your patience. 42 million americans will take to the skies this memorial day weekend. experts think it could be one of the busiest on record. now, the white house is pushing to avoid another flight mare like last year. president biden is touting his effort to compensation travelers for flight delays, quote, ledezma up for travelers this memorial day weekend. we launched flight rights.gov. if the flight was cancelled or delayed, check the dashboard to see how you could be compensated. transportation secretary pete buttigieg thinks it will serve as a big test for the airline system. this weekend will be a test of the system and i think all of us have airline stories from last summer and the disruptions that took place then, cancellation and delay rates were at unacceptable proportions last year, and it s important that that not happen again. all right. so pete buttigieg
to so called no regret messages which to so called no regret messages which you to so called no regret messages which you are pretty sure we ll be good which you are pretty sure we ll be good things and generally do no harm almost good things and generally do no harm almost for good things and generally do no harm almost for sure. so hand washing became almost for sure. so hand washing became very rapidly, even by the time became very rapidly, even by the time we became very rapidly, even by the time we were engaged, highlighted as an obvious time we were engaged, highlighted as an obvious thing to try and slow transmission. so yes, that would be an example transmission. so yes, that would be an example of a no regret. it is hard an example of a no regret. it is hard to an example of a no regret. it is hard to think of examples of washing your hands hard to think of examples of washing your hands doing much harm. no,| your hands doing much harm. no, i c
lockdown helpful particularly on the autumn lockdown and managing, he did much more lockdown and managing, he did much more of lockdown and managing, he did much more of the lockdown and managing, he did much more of the operational implications of the more of the operational implications of the decisions that have been taken of the decisions that have been taken and of the decisions that have been taken and i think dominic cummings did more taken and i think dominic cummings did more of taken and i think dominic cummings did more of the ideas, i would say. i did more of the ideas, i would say. i don t did more of the ideas, i would say. i don t how did more of the ideas, i would say. i don t how helpful that is.- i don t how helpful that is. special advisers presumably i don t how helpful that is. special advisers presumably are i don t how helpful that is. special advisers presumably are meant i i don t how helpful that is. special advisers presumably
roulette with your vacation, your situation. it is tough for somebody to understand if it is weather somewhere else. part of this is government connected, right? you have the faa, you have also pilot shortage that we talked about, air traffic controllers that we have simply not enough of. you feel like every time you go in the sky, i hope i don t crash into another plane. where is the government responsibility here? you shouldn t be famous if you re the secretary of transportation. that should not be something that gives us a segment to talk about, shouldn t have train derailments, backups in the supply chain, shouldn t have ports you can t open, shouldn t have the faa system crashing. we have all of this under this supposedly genius secretary of transportation. and there are a number of ways to fix that. you can deregulate, allow stacking on some crates that we have to deal with at the ports, there are a lot of innovative ways to make that move faster. you can work on the rail
democratic majoritys in either house or burning his own credentials and looking over his own legacy, which one of those has he chosen? i think this is another example of that taking place. the damage of this was baked into this many, many months ago. you did some in-depth reporting during all that went down in what we ll call the season of glitches. this decision that the administration made in the last 24 hours seems in part because they want to ensure that people can actually enroll and they want to encourage enrollment and so forth, but bloomberg reports that the officials said yesterday the federal exchanges web site, healthcare.gov had more than 1.1 visitors and march 24th, one day, 1.1 million visitors. this also would seem this choice by the administration would also seem to be sort of an insurance policy against the actual system crashing. there still seems to be some concern that the glitches could