airlines have already started to cancel flights for the weekend, as well. travelers of all ages being forced to change their plans. the thing i don t like about it is when you get stuck because airport is is so busy. it s canceled. it was bound to happen. it sounds like me as a convenient excuse for delayed flights because they are already short-staffed as it is. david lee miller is live in new york city with more. hi, alicia. many of the cancellations taking place are entirely not unexpected. it delta s ceo earlier this week fearing staff charges could result in disruptions, for people testing positive for the virus from ten days to 5. the airline boss at the current policy was developed last year when there are no vaccines and effective treatments. today, delta granted at least 141 flights, about 7% of its schedule. united canceled 170, about 9% of its flights. in a statement, united said, and i quote, the nationwide spike and overcome cases this week has had a
want to fight inflation? support build back better. this will reduce inflation. if you care about making sure that we ease inflation in the upcoming months, in the future, voting for this, the build back better act is the way to go. martha: so will that play with voters as the president s numbers continue to slip? including a new real clear politics average that just came out. this is a low for the president. 41.9 approval. that s a basket of a number of different polls and that s the average of it, approval rate at 41.9. tom bevin is from real clear politics. thanks for being here today. good to be with you. martha: one of the things that strikes me, the language that you hear from the biden administration and also from senator schumer, from the build back better plan, it was reduce inflation pressures. they re not saying it was reduce inflation. their argument is that if we have this free stuff surrounding it, it will be easier for families across the country, r
your mouth and pull the trigger if you re in part of this [bleep] fraud. howie: reuters tracked down nine people who left such messages. this is the incredible part. they admitted to it. they thought it was fine to curse and threaten people who were doing their jobs. one man left a message with arizona secretary of state katie holmes office saying she would hang, quote, from an f dashing-e tree. most of the cases don t get prosecuted. while the press is starting to pay attention, there should be a much bigger story. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howie: ahead of the media totally botched the kyle rittenhouse homicide case, the media hadn t been all that concerned with rising prices, not the world s sexiest topic but when the biden administration announced the annual inflation topped 6%, even some pundits sympathetic to the president acknowledged he faces a major political problem. everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more and it s worrisome.
heard from the biden administration, and food, gas and household goods continue to soar. we are going to see ease, yes i say ease lower inflationary pressures on our economy. and we will be carrying this out, what i call blue collar blue print for america. the white house says the hard infrastructure bill the president will sign will eventually be supply chain issue and more big spending democrats want to pass in the social infrastructure package will eventually get americans back to work. it was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care. but even democrats are urging the white house to pull other levers now. i have said let s have the president tap the strategic petroleum reserve that would bring down the cost of gas. administration says there is nothing to preview on that front. also challenging the assertion there is no relief in sight by touting the coming end to their own programs. democrats passed along party lines in march. but these are l
at the stores. watch this. we do it right, we know what the it will mean. it will create millions of new jobs and grow the economy. we ll win world economic competition that we re engaged in with china and many other countries around the world. we re going to see ease, yes, ease, lower inflationary pressures on our economy. martha: okay. former speaker of the house, newt gingrich joins me. the author of the new book, beyond biden and a fox news contributor. let s jump off from there from what the president said. he said this build back better program, which is a very large extension of benefits, programs that would be given from childhood to the elderly, he says this will cut inflation and make us more competitive with china. what do you say? well, first of all, biden can say anything he wants to. he doesn t have any relationship to reality. the fact is when you have $50 billion in this bill to amtrak with no reforms, all you re doing is throwing money into a system t