impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and secretary
goods but they couldn t off load them. there was no place to do it. the containers sat there. thanks to the biden administration s vaccine mandates, there weren t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. so all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottle neck in memory and lasted for months. the price of transporting goods rose by 600%. so if you re wondering why inflation started to go up, that s a big part of the reason. none of this happened by accident. the bottle neck was a manmade disaster. it could have been, should have been fixed by the people in charge of transportation. they re called the department of transportation. but for much of the time, this disaster was unfolding, joe biden s secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg from south bend, indiana, was disengaged. he wasn t on the job. he was at home. i was on paid paternity leave posing for selfies for social media. buttigieg didn t seem embarrassed at all by this. this is work, h
at least 10 people have now died because of it. four of those deaths in kentucky where the issue have issued including flooding and damaging winds. nearly 1,000,000 1/2 ohms business or power, kentucky, tennessee and michigan now reported the highest number of outages. the northern part of the storm, and the northeast with heavy snow. which is expected to last throughout saturday, parts of new england might see as much as 16 inches of snow. winter storm warnings are now up from michigan to maine, winter storm warnings are up again and parts of the west as a new system moves in, some places in northern california can see more than two places of snow officials say they have had more snow this winter than they have had in two decades, that has been critical in helping replenish some of the states reservoirs, even so the water flow is still well below average, only a year ago, the entire state was in a drought. now thanks to these winter storms it has been cut in half
embarrassing, pennsylvania democrats elected a dead man. they knew they were doing it. they did it anyway. this would seem to defeat the idea of representative democracy, which is that you vote for people so that they can represent you. but party leaders in pennsylvania were not embarrassed. they were proud, quote: well we are incredibly saddened by the loss of representative tony deluca they said in a statement. we are proud to see the voters show their confidence in him and his commitment to democratic values by reelecting posthumously. in other words, electing a guy who can t possibly represent you is not an offense against democracy, it s the essence of democracy. now, it s not a typo. they put that in a press release and actually makes kind of sense when you remember it was also in the state of pennsylvania that democratic party leaders backed a senate candidate called john fetterman long after he had suffered a massive stroke and could not longer talk or communicate cle
and it s not as if she is breaking the law, but she could really have the judge come down on her hard. and she could raise arguments that trump will eventually raise as to tainting the jury pool, that. but the headline here, you know, let s just take a step back. the fulton county da, they clearly recommended the indictment of donald trump, not to mention maybe how do you know that? she has as much as said it. i won t tell you, but the initials are donald trump. when they asked, well, he says he was completely exonerated. she literally rolls her eyes and laughs. there are four different ways in which she really makes it beyond any doubt there is a possibility willis doesn t take her up on the recommendation. but it s a small one. so, yes, absolutely right, she s talking out of school. it s not good for the case. but man, we re going to have for the first time in the history the country a fulton county da s going to indict not just trump, but almost certainly it seems to