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prices that keep spiking. we begin with peter. charles, good afternoon. president biden says he wants to spend a few trillion more because the trillions he s spent on pandemic relief have been panning out. we needed to act quickly and boldly to save jobs, save lives. we had a more than 600,000 jobs a month since i ve taken office. 3 million jobs all told. it s the fastest growth at this point in any administration on record. that kind of fast growth and fast spending means inflation. inflation has increased notably and will remain elevated before moderating. that s as some republicans are against letting the government intervene the way the president wants. this bill has been looked at from people on the right and left. it does not add to inflation. the democrats are doing with the $3.5 trillion bill would add to inflation. have a look at this video from this afternoon. know masks, no social distancing. lots of touching, which is normal for a biden exit. b ....
in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one. the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbil ....
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s offering all of you a friendly reminder that sunday is mother s day. i am kasie hunt on this friday, may 7th. we ll start with the news. in the united states, covid-19 infections are now at their lowest levels in seven months, a sign that vaccines are working and saving lives. deaths and serious illnesses related to the coronavirus have dropped significantly, as well. the u.s. averaged about 48,000 new cases per day over the past week. that is a 13% improvement over the week before, and it s the first time since october that average daily cases have dipped below 50,000, according to axios. over half of all american adults have now received at least one shot of a vaccine and 41% of adults are fully vaccinated. also some more good news on this front. two new studies show the pfizer/biontech vaccine is highly effective against virus variants. researchers used real-world data from vaccinated people in qatar and is ....
sure up the nation s ageing roads and bridges and rail lines and utilities, a plan he says will transform the united states. i m proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work, not just rewards wealth. it s not a plan that tinkers around the edges it s a once in a generation investment in america unlike anything we ve seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago in fact, the largest american jobs investment since world war ii it s big, yes. it s bold, yes and we can get it done. biden says it will cost over $2 trillion among his plans to pay for it a corporate tax reich from the current 21% to 28%. keep in mind he signed his 1. 9 trillion dollars covid act into law without any republican support. the plan biden introduced today is part one he says he ll announce part two helping the nation s families, education and health care and the like in a matter of weeks. today he invited republicans to work with him on both. th ....
your top military advisors wanted you to keep 2500 troops. it was split. that wasn t true. they didn t say we should keep 2500 troops, a stable situation and we can continue to do that? president biden: no one said that to me that i can recall. dana: enraged critics on both sides. some arguing the president decisions cost 13 am troops their lives. ignored military advice, ignoring congress and ignoring the american people who do not think that this was the big resounding success that he does. with all due respect to the secretary of state, he provided no real responses to my questions because at the moment there aren t responses. there is nobody in charge. his own general on the ground warned him, warned biden the afghan government would fall and yet biden did nothing. i do think it needs to be clear that the advice was given and the advice was rejected. he was lying about it. he wanted political cover. dana: do you remember one of the reasons pres ....