pre-pandemic records with more than 2 million people passing through security checkpoints. today is expected to be each busier. cnn s pete muntean is live from reagan national with more on this. what are you seeing? reporter: the numbers are hour than in 2014 before the pandemic. the tsa screened 1.08 million people compared to 1.94 million people back in 2014. the same wednesday back in 2019, that was christmas day where the passenger loads are typically lower. though we ve seen a week-long stretch ever numbers higher or near or maybe a little bit below 2 million passengers each day. passengers tell us they are pretty confident about getting out right now, even in spite of the omicron variant. here s what they are telling us.
unpresidential, reince priebus said obamacare is complete poison, the fact is it did drive young people to the website and actually got people to sign up. technician the overriding question with this 1 million outstanding, though, is can it get those kinds of numbers, particularly of young people, which are so important. i mean, and that is the question, isn t it? and you know, you also have republicans, you mentioned reince priebus, they were ads running in several states by conservative groups that are countering what the white house is saying. so they also have a little bit of head winds going into this. so it really remains the to be seen whether this really gins up what they need to get before the deadline. we should say these ads are running on places like tnt, doesn t take much to see who s being targeted. but dana milbank writes in the washington post, i m quoting him, the administration announced last week that only 1.08 million people ages 18 to
to withdraw. then rory mcilroy faultered on sunday. watch this. goes down and, plop, hit that ball right into the water. such a bummer. yeah, leading to a double bogey. russell henley came out victorious. he got a birdie on the 18th hole beating out russell knox, palmer and rory mcilroy. he was awarded $1.08 million. nice. for the ladies, the lpga, paula cramer nailed a 75 foot putt to win the hsbc tournament. she ended a four year winless streak winning her last lpga title in 2000. great reaction. in nascar, an incredible fete. kevin harvick held off dale earnhardt jr. and became the all time winner with five victories.
created 1.08 million jobs in all eight years. now, we re talking 1.6 million, president obama, in five. and we re still counting. at the end of president bush s total, 1.08 in all of his eight years. now, how can the gop still be hitting president obama on his job record given that the numbers numbers don t lie. we can have different opinions. but we can t have different facts. of course, those numbers are in spite of their efforts to hold back the economic recovery. i mean, we would have even stronger gdp growth. we would have even stronger job growth if we hadn t been forced into this premature austerity that the republicans have have made the country go into. if we had continued with the sort of policies that the president wanted and that he started with with the stimulus, we would have an even stronger economy right now. but, you know, the republicans love to throw around the term the obama economy.