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Some great moment, john. my favorite when l.b.j. handed the pope a bust himself provering that donald trump was not the only president who had a high opinion of himself. there had been other meetings that gone a bit better. let s hope today as well. nothing says hey, i am a humble guy just to serve the lord and the people than giving someone your bust. it was one of those moments. awkward. you know there was president reagan and john paul ii, something that comes to mind. also, the presidents three presidents, george w. bush and george w. bush and bill clinton who went to the funeral of john ....
To be encouraging people to buy now and created unnecessary panic. we need to resolve problems. the port issue running 24/7 is a step in the right direction. look at trucks. too few truckers. tens of thousands too few to get product to market. in the roundtable today with the white house, the leaders of the railroad industry talked about open capacity on the railroads. how do we move more product? we need more federal coordination. the federal government needs to be a partner in the supply chain in a way it hasn t before. let s hope today is a first step in that direction. trace: right now it s taking from asia to get shipping containers from asia to the united states, 80 days. double what it took about ten months ago. how much do you think that will change under this new plan by the president? the jury is out. the point is the system is resilient. the point is this system is doing everything it can but the system is strange. we think back to the early days ....
Been there, we ve seen it. alisyn: i think that s what it is. bill bi-it s bad. don t remind me about it. alisyn: i think we ve gotten used to the roller coaster ride, and let s hope today that the ride that the roller coaster cart chugs up the hill. bill: what a shame that we ve gotten used to it. okay. we ll see. open for business. now to four days, and a key republican straw poll in the first caucus state of iowa. there is a name not on the ballot that could become a big story on saturday and karl cameron has that and carl cameron has that. it must be iowa! what do you expect from rick perry, the texas governor, this weekend? reporter: well this, weekend he s got an appointment, a long scheduled event in south carolina to take part in a red state blogger s convention. he literally literally scheduled it months ago but coming on the same day as the straw poll, it s coming up. perry s campaign in waiting has said for the last month or so that he would ....