Hot on friday. Sandra good morning. Dropping stuff off the desk left and right. It is friday indeed. Good to see you as well. Sandra smith, americas newsroom. By the way, surveying the damage outside of the new York Area here the city got hard hit but all this is days after it rolled through louisiana in the southeast parts of that state and the president will be there later today. Bill we were on the Air Yesterday and the scope of this was coming in focus for a lot of people. Now were a day and a half removed from it and see what it is left. Sandra rivers are still rising in some areas as crews look for people who may still be trapped in some of their homes or even cars. Bill the rain overwhelmed drainage systems. Roads out of commission. The Bronx River Parkway in New York. Sandra one of the most deadly aspects of this storm has been the tornadoes. Officials confirming that The Storm spawned at least 10 tornadoes. Allout assault catching people completely offguard. Devastating. My bo
Word we heard in the 70s. you may have to get used to it again. bill: we re waiting for the president to see how he frames the numbers. joe manchin, wall street journal his headline. why i won t support spending another $3 toin 5 trillion. instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget reconciliation legislation. a pause is rity on the trajectory of the pandemic and allow us to determine if inflation is transitory or not. your take? you have to start with politics here. west virginia voted 68% for donald trump, okay? 29% of the state voted for biden. and that was before the debacle in afghanistan. that was before the increase in inflation. that was before the border crisis. so if there was a vote tomorrow and trump was still running, i would expect him to get 75%.
Fellow citizens and green card holders, once those with valid visas get to your country get back to the united states. yet the state department probably because of bureaucratic red tape and maybe because they want to turn the page and get afghanistan out of the news is not giving those assurances to third nation countries. that s what we ve been hearing for a couple of days now. bill: we ll follow that. the president said the other day for those remaining americans there is no deadline. we ll remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. do you believe that? no, it s another broken promise by joe biden. he promised the taliban he would be out by august 31 and promised american citizens he would stay until they got out. he broke his promise to americans and continuing to break it because there are american citizens trying to get out of the country right now. there are generous americans and other third party non-governmental organizations who are trying to help them get
Months i ve been repeating again and again bill and you will testify as a witness. the virus, that s the thing that drives the economy. we have to get control of virus. we clearly lost control of the virus and the same thing is happening in the economy that happened in november, december, january of last year where the virus resurged and then you is a you the job numbers fall apart. bill: so it s covid there, steve. how do you see it? certainly there is a lot of truth to that, no question that the delta variant has had a negative effect on hiring. negative effect in terms of people getting back to work. i this i the story is bigger than this. what you have is a problem with policy right now where, bill, we re paying people to continue stay unemployed. not just through unemployment benefit. expanded food stamps. rental assistant. $300 a month per child benefits. all the free cash to people
bill: this may be a question of time as i m certain you are well aware. thank you for coming back today. tom cotton, republican from arkansas. thank you for your time. sandra: we ll go to the president shortly. we ll bring in former education secretary bill bennett. good to have you here. your historical perspective in this moment. we re about to hear the president talk on jobs. as we know there are still stranded americans left in afghanistan. i know you ve been thinking about this a lot and if you could just put it into context as we approach the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. sure. when my wife and i were in orange county our son was in pendelton in the marine corp supposed to come up for dinner and couldn t come because a pair of night vision goggles were lost. the entire battalion, 1,000 people were kept on the base until that pair of night vision goggles were found. that s how seriously they took