Want to say is this group of folks here are the epitome of resiliency and we re here with you. We re going to continue to be here with you. Again i want to thank the governor, and senator schumer and the mayor, just for the collaboration of resources that are going to be here in queens. We want to make sure that we re all here to make sure that this is done equitably and that these folks here that have been suffering so long suffer no more. Thank you. At this point, we ll take questions. But i also want to make a statement before we go on to questions. To the people who live on streets like these throughout the city of new york, i want them to know, a new administration, my administration, we don t govern by press conference. Yes we re here today to answer questions but i want to assure them it is not just about today, but it is what we do tomorrow and the next day and the next day. So you re going to see a different tone, a different era of collaboration and i served as a council memb
Agenda next deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, a columnist, chemist rasul and mary anastasia o grady. Let me start with you, dan. These inflation numbers are mindboggling if you don t have to tell people on main street because if you like washington d. C. , the irony is on one hand, president biden want to take victory laps for economic achievement and yet keep the pressure on for emergency spending. That s for sure, charles. Finally free visiting the wonderful world of inflation. In that world, an economist talk about push inflation and demand, we are not going to talk about that. We are going to recognize that prices are being pushed higher and yet you have the white house and federal reserve in the chairman jerome powell trying to pull back expectations inflation is going to go much higher or persist in the economy. The struggle here is between consumers out there worry about the effects of inflation on their budget and conceivably pulling back their spending. Reporter: no
Down vaccination rates and costing lives. Fish or cut bait? the bipartisan infrastructure deal is in peril and now has a new deadline. How president biden s number one priority could soon collapse. And the extraordinary life and tragic death of anthony bourdain. A haunting yet beautiful new film, the filmmaker joins us. Thanks for being here. We begin this hour with the entire country now trending in the wrong direction for the first time in a very long time. Right now every state is showing an increase in coronavirus cases from this week to last. Take a look at this map. It is now a sea of red and it is fueled by the unvaccinated. The drop in vaccine rates and the delta variant tearing through the country. The cdc director is now sounding the alarm again. Listen. I think things could still get worse which is why we re doing everything we can now to make sure that doesn t happen. I don t like to see our cases rising, we haven t seen this amount of cases for months. I m very concerned.
congress proceedings against this man. former trump doj official. jeffrey clark. he refuses to answer questioning about the attempts to use the doj to push the big lie. a senate judiciary report, clark was instrumental in that effort. a contempt referral would make him the second person after steve bannon to potentially face criminal charges for defying congressional investigators. one member of the house leadership says the committee has no choice but to move against witnesses. who themselves refuse to cooperate. you have to use every tool we can to get to the truth. there has to be a consequence. to the failure to follow the law. the committee has yet to announce action against former trump chief of staff. for that matter. mark meadows who failed to comply. however one of the two republicans serving on the panel predicts he may not have to wait long to find out where the members stand. i expect there is going to be movement particularly on mark meadows that we ll know
office, he will continue trying to cheat in the election until he succeeds. then what shall you say? we were all warned. we were warned by adam schiff who turned out to be correct on every single count. more than a year and a half after he said those words on the floor of the united states senate we all are living the fallout of the now twice impeached disgrace asked deplatformed expresident s attempts to steal the 2020 election. we are grappling with an ongoing threat to our democracy as the republican party sets the stage for an attempt to overturn the results of the next presidential and midterm elections if they don t go their way. few people have witnessed the degradation of our democracy at the hands of trump and the republican party up close and personal in the way that adam schiff has. in his new book, he describes the current situation, our system of government depends on two functional parties. now we have only one. the gop have become an anti-toout anti-democrati