35 Burst results for "Mayor Pete"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Transportation Worker Cannot Justify Pete Buttigieg's Comments
"Hey, yes. This just blows me away. Can you imagine? That accidents are racist? You know, I work for a transportation agency. I guess I should be careful about how much I say, but indirectly I work for mayor Pete. And because I'm in state government transportation. Gotcha. And this just blows me away. I'm in the design section. And we designed intersections crosswalks, pedestrian signals. And I can tell you without a doubt that we go by calculating we go by different opportunities for someone to get hurt. All right, all right. Do me a favor. Do me a favor. Do me a favor. Hang on, 'cause you know this area. And I'm going to challenge you. I want you to play devil's advocate for a minute, because you know there's space. Much more than I do. So I'm going to defer to you. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. What could he possibly be thinking in suggesting that traffic accidents involving people in vehicles and pedestrians are racist or discriminatory? What could he possibly be thinking? You know, I've tried I've tried to imagine where that could be coming from. And I like I say it blows me away. I have no idea where he's coming up with. I got an idea. I got an idea. I got an idea. He's an imbecile. He's a moron. Well, I think you're probably on to something there. I mean, what else could you say? I mean, I mean, honestly, to the left, everything is racist. And you know what kills me about that? There's real racism in America. They're racism
WLS-AM 890
"mayor pete" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Back is the bench bureau show. So Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation mayor Pete, a man who presided over at least dozens of people in South Bend, Indiana as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Well, he says photo ops are no longer important because he did some bad ones recently. Here is Pete Buttigieg, who is a walking photo op explaining that going not going to east Palestinian. It really is not about. In any way, shape or form, the image of it. So much information and frankly, so much misinformation, thrown at this community and thrown at this situation that a lot of them are asking who they can even trust. And it's so important to continue to make sure that they can get good, accurate information about the things they care about most, which isn't a national politics or who looks good or who looks bad. It continuing to know that their air water and soil are going to be safe that they're homes are going to be safe. That's what anybody would want to know in this situation. That's it is political toast. Smear some butter on them. He's political toast. He is done. He's burned toast, man. By the way, I was wrong. The population of South Bend, Indiana. I was guessing a 150,000 off the top of my head a 100,000. There are a 100,000 people in South Bend Indiana. And that dude is the secretary of transportation. After not filling the potholes, there's so much that Domino's Pizza had to do a fundraiser to fill bottles in South Bend Indiana they're like, ah, this one, he's got to be our secretary of transportation. Meanwhile, Joe Biden says that he can't even recall if he talked to the mayor of east Palestinian to be fair to Joe Biden. He literally can not recall what he ate for breakfast. So do you plan to travel there and have you talked to the mayor? I can't recall where that. I don't think I've talked to the mayor. I talked to everyone else there, and I'm multiple times, talked about the senators, but both governors, I've talked to everyone there to talk to. And we made it clear that everything is available. Oh, well, I remember because of me. He did remember he didn't remember who we talked to over in east Palestinian. He didn't remember to make some weird musical jokes that were relevant in late 1962, I think. That was weird. It's not required. I did a whole video on the picture. You do? I like the other competition that's really new
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why Was Biden in Ukraine?
"Did you think of our alleged president's staggering around over there in Kyiv? I didn't think he looked really good. Did we ever find out who it was that actually felt out of Air Force One? I know, Joe felt up when he was going up, but there was that video of somebody who literally like tumbled down the stairs. So I was wondering if we ever found out who that was because we don't know that wasn't him, but the other videos I saw him walking around, he doesn't look very mobile, not particularly awe inspiring. No, he does not look good. And I don't think and I don't think the optics were great. I think with what's going on in palestin, Ohio. Winging off to warshaw and Kyiv without first stopping and seeing Americans in trouble. I just think that looks terrible. No, I thought it was an awful. Now, I don't know how long they'd had this trip planned, but they should have figured something out, even if it wasn't, it didn't have to be a long stay, but it should have been some kind of state, especially because they don't have any federal people there. I mean, mayor Pete. So it's just like there was no attention. And I'm not a fan of war, so I'm not really in favor of this war. Over Ukraine, so the idea that we go over there and Biden would tell everyone we are going to defend every inch of NATO, which I don't think Ukraine is not in NATO, which is right. But is NATO even threatened? I mean,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Sen. Ted Cruz: What Does Pete Buttigieg Need to Do to Get Fired?
"Ted Cruz yesterday, common sense perspective. He's on a podcast with Ben Ferguson, listen to this. He's ridiculous that Joe Biden has not been to east palestin yet. You literally have an American city with a major derailment that was on fire where the water is being poisoned where the air is being poisoned where it's ongoing for multiple days. And this administration does not give a damn. Why? Because that part of the state voted 70% for Donald Trump and it's clear their attitude. Look, it's all politics all the time. It's all communications and PR all the time. And so going there is a bad message. And it really is striking. So Donald Trump publicly said he was going to go to east Palestine and promptly the Biden administration said, oh, we'll go to now. When the timing's right, mayor Pete now says he's going to go, I don't even know what that means. The timing's right. The timing was right. The day or two or three after this happened. Well, and let me ask you a question. What in the hell does Pete Buttigieg have to do to get fired? Like in the history of this country has there ever been a transportation secretary who is screwed more things up, honest question, do you think Pete Buttigieg should be fired?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pete Buttigieg Finally Visited East Palestine
"Mayor Pete finally showed up today, I know they're so surprised you. It has not gone well. We've got a video clip that you're going to want to see. A reporter. Trying to interview him as he's walking with very grim faced. It's kind of a gray cloudy day. It looks like in east Palestinian. But gray and cloudy would describe the mood he must be in, finally being shamed into going to east Palestinian. And he's there, you know he dreads being there because he got kind of shamed into going. Sarah Gonzalez and Savannah Hernandez came up and when they saw mayor Pete, he's walking along with some looks like some state troopers and there's some officials there. And they're asking him, why did it take you three weeks to show up? Well, he won't talk to them. And then Buttigieg's press secretary says that asking questions like that on camera is aggressive. They can't reporters were aggressive during the Trump era,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pres. Trump Is Moving Forward Without Support From Fox News
"Yeah, and incidentally, just to correct the record, they're not dead. They're by far and away the most popular cable news network in the country. So they're not dead. They're not dying. They're not, and I'm not defending Fox News if I was defending Fox News. I wouldn't even bring this up. In fact, I'm criticizing them for ignoring Trump's visit. Listen, there's no way around the fact that Biden's handling of this train derailment has been a disaster. And there is no question that when the former president visits east Palestinian, ahead of the transportation secretary, mayor Pete. When Joe Biden, I don't know that he's even mentioned the train to realm. And he's busy over in Poland falling up the steps. So it's really frustrating and I tell you I want to talk about it with you though because I want to lay out what Trump is clearly going to be up against. As we head into the 2024 campaign, this is going to be a battle that is a hundred times more intense than what he faced in 2016. He had Fox News in his corner in 2016. This old fascinates me how tone deaf, so many people can be who are in positions of authority.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Video Producer Yuriy Sukhorukov Confirms 1,000 Train Derailments Stat
"Yuri did some research. Let me bring my video producer into this conversation in a few minutes because Yuri was checking it out last night. Hey, Yuri, tell me what you found because again, this was stunning when mayor Pete is on TV saying there's a thousand a year you called and you looked it up and you were able to confirm it. Yeah, I did the math and it comes out to over 2.7 trail derailments each day if you break it up into 360 five days a year. But did you did you confirm the number though that there's this many happening in America? Yeah, approximately. I think it's insane. But I think they also count the tranquil and that's with minimal damage but still there's a whole wide variety of range with how bad these trails are lands really. You don't like the
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Joe Rogan Blasts Buttigieg Over Construction Worker Comments
"When you get Joe Rogan's attention on something like this, now that's saying something. Here was podcaster Joe Rogan's response to mayor Pete complaining about too many white construction workers in America. Do you know that he gave a speech the other day about how there's too many white people working in construction sites where these construction sites are set up in these communities where the people in the community could benefit from it. Which shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor. Because if you're talking about people that are carpenters and people that are plumbers and people that are electricians and people that are framers and roofers, that's skilled labor. You have to hire people that are really good at that. And if they don't exist in that community, you have to hire them from outside that community. That's why those unions are important. That's why it's important that, look, if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you disasters. Yes.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pete Buttigieg Downplays 1,000 Train Derailments a Year
"There are a thousand cases a year of train derailments, a thousand a year, are you serious? Did you know? That we have a thousand train derailments a year in the United States? Here was mayor Pete or as the residents of east Palestine are now calling him pistol Pete downplaying this massive train derailment in eastern Ohio on Yahoo news. Look, rail city is something that has evolved a lot over the years, but there's clearly more that needs to be done because while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1000 cases a year of a train derailing. Obviously, they have levels of severity, but where all of that points us to is a need to continue to raise the bar on rail safe. And that's especially true. When it comes to rail that involves hazardous materials. Now this train was subject to certain enhanced requirements because the hazardous materials on board. But obviously none of that prevented what happened in east Palestinians. Now, wait a minute. There's so much to unpack there, but if you're listening to mayor Pete's comments, I gotta believe the first thing that astounds you is that the transportation secretary just seems to shrug off a thousand train derailments a year.
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: Biden Has Lowered His Stock Since Entering Office
"Pretty much the hallmark of this whole administration I mean you have this ongoing rail disaster in Ohio And you have to transportation secretary giving a spiel the other day about racist construction sites in black neighborhoods or something like that I mean it's really stunning and I'm sorry I don't want you to be long within the question but there's an end to this Isn't it shocking that when you look at polls in New Hampshire and elsewhere that mayor Pete who's an absolute clown is actually polling ahead of Joe Biden I mean does that not speak to the ineptitude of this entire administration It really does It's a great indicator of just how much Biden has lowered his stocks since taking office And I'd like to add one other example of the incompetency of the Biden administration if I may the one of the ambassadors to Afghanistan was tweeting up a storm over the weekend about how the Afghan women apparently need a strong black female role models like lizzo and Beyoncé It was so beyond embarrassing so out of touch This is the person the Biden administration sent to Afghanistan Someone who's so steeped in local left wing identity politics that they would stand on this pedestal about black history month as Afghan women are repeatedly raped and beaten and routinely treated like dirt because of a lot of the cultural mores there It's just so stunningly out of touch It's incredible
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Gov. Mike DeWine: Buttigieg Hasn't Been Involved in Railway Response
"I don't know what to believe at this point. You got the governor of Ohio suggesting it's not so bad. But he's admitting that the transportation secretary, this is the Norfolk Southern railway. This is a national railroad, a railway rather. Does that not fall under the purview of the transportation secretary? Listen to what dewine told Martha maccallum yesterday about mayor Pete. Senator Vance pushed back a little bit on that on this show. And then you said, no, we've had a great response from the Biden administration to this problem. He's asking, you know, Pete Buttigieg. Do you wonder why he hasn't been there, looked at what's going on? Is he looking at the testing that's going on? Is he looking at the damage to that one car? Why did this happen? Why so many derailments lately? Is he involved to the extent that he should be in this governor? Well, look, I'm not seeing him at all. I did get a call from the president. You know, the president said, I'll send you whatever you need. Wow, he hasn't been around at all, Buttigieg, they had a town hall yesterday, no Buttigieg, no representatives from the Norfolk Southern railway. The way we are treating these people in east Ohio is appalling.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: Pete Buttigieg Is Selective About What's Considered Racist
"Hey, Mike. Secretary Buttigieg has a very selective sort of way he goes about deciding what is and is not racist. I'm curious if he would be bothered looking a lot of construction sites and noticing how many of the people on that site are illegal aliens from Honduras or Mexico. That's not on his radar, Chris. I don't think he's worried about that. No, he absolutely don't worry about that. And it's the alarming to me that we've reached a point in this country where and I'm sorry if this is going to cut against the grain. If you are either gay or black or black and gay or an immigrant or maybe an immigrant or half white, you can be entirely incompetent and it's okay. It's the absolute product of affirmative action of identity politics of hiring somebody not because of the qualities that they possess, but because of the color of their skin and of course I'm getting flooded with all these text messages. Anybody driven, do you think mayor Pete's ever driven by a construction site? He thinks that there's too many white construction workers?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pete Buttigieg Jokes About Spy Balloons at NACo Conference
"To that, listen to this exchange. Again, during the national association of county's conference, here's the transportation secretary, mayor Pete. But it couldn't be a more exciting time for transportation. It's had a challenges. Right. I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years, partly because of the pandemic, we've faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations, now we got balloons. That's right. He makes a little he makes a little face. He raises his eyebrows and he says, oh, we got balloons. Isn't that funny? I'm the transportation secretary. Excuse me, mister secretary, your government has stated that these balloons posed a threat to commercial air transportation. You know what that means? That means American Airlines flights and delta. And united. That means men, women and children are on airplanes. On jets, they could have been impacted by these balloons. And they're barely talking about it.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Pete Buttigieg's Lackluster Response to FAA Meltdown
"What's Pete? When does mayor Pete say, 'cause, you know, he's on the case, isn't he? Well, this happens all the time. Nothing to see here. We're doing the best we can. Is there a critical vulnerability here where the entire country had to be stopped because of something that probably involved one sector or another? We're going to part of what you're seeing here is an abundance of caution and making absolutely certain that operations were safe. But this is one of the reasons why we need to get these answers and have this review of exactly what happened because we need to understand whether this reflects a systemic issue and what would be required so that there's no single point of failure here. Again, there need to be redundancies and layers and layers of protection here. This is an incredibly complex system. So glitches are complications happen all the time. But we can't allow them to ever lead to this level of disruption. And we won't ever allow them to lead to a safety problem. Picture what would be happening if this happened under a Republican president's administration.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"mayor pete" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Tucker Carlson had an epic monologue pretty brutal if your Pete Buttigieg about the state of affairs with today's transportation department. Now mayor Pete himself flies private so he didn't have a tactile firsthand experience with our crumbling airports or crowded stinking planes last refurbished during the Clinton administration. But he knew something more important, he knew that the FAA was beset by structural misogyny and transphobia. And to fix that, mayor Pete had the FAA announced that the aviation system called notice to airmen, that's the system that keeps pilots up to the end of their flights. That system would change immediately. Actually, the system itself wouldn't change. It would remain the same. But more important, the name would change. Going forward, it would be called notice to air missions. Missions, not met missions. See the massive improvement there. Now we're getting somewhere. So at the beginning of last year, mayor Pete declared victory. 2022, he said, would be the year that quote every transportation decision inherently is in many ways a decision about equity. In April of last year, mayor Pete noted that ensuring equity and accessibility for every member of the traveling public is one of the department's highest priorities. So he was on it and the equity crisis was solved. Unfortunately, our transportation problems were not solved. They had, in the meantime, become much worse. In fact, it reached a point. It is at a point that you might experience and say a trip across Bangladesh. Just ask anybody on the train that was headed from the northeast to Orlando, took 37 hours.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Tucker Carlson: Mayor Pete 'Solved' Equity, Not Transportation
"Tucker Carlson had an epic monologue pretty brutal if your Pete Buttigieg about the state of affairs with today's transportation department. Now mayor Pete himself flies private so he didn't have a tactile firsthand experience with our crumbling airports or crowded stinking planes last refurbished during the Clinton administration. But he knew something more important, he knew that the FAA was beset by structural misogyny and transphobia. And to fix that, mayor Pete had the FAA announced that the aviation system called notice to airmen, that's the system that keeps pilots up to the end of their flights. That system would change immediately. Actually, the system itself wouldn't change. It would remain the same. But more important, the name would change. Going forward, it would be called notice to air missions. Missions, not met missions. See the massive improvement there. Now we're getting somewhere. So at the beginning of last year, mayor Pete declared victory. 2022, he said, would be the year that quote every transportation decision inherently is in many ways a decision about equity. In April of last year, mayor Pete noted that ensuring equity and accessibility for every member of the traveling public is one of the department's highest priorities. So he was on it and the equity crisis was solved. Unfortunately, our transportation problems were not solved. They had, in the meantime, become much worse. In fact, it reached a point. It is at a point that you might experience and say a trip across Bangladesh. Just ask anybody on the train that was headed from the northeast to Orlando, took 37 hours.
Mark Levin
Caller: Pete Buttigieg Is Wrong About Criticizing Airlines
"Yes there have been hate I want to go back to what secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the airlines for doing In regards to their scheduling that he gave them no consideration for the safety concerns for the passengers that they have to attend to I think that's completely thoughtless and as part of the learn and I wanted to say if you are sitting in an airport because your flights delayed it's because somebody is concerned about your life Here's what I would say too There are a lot of pilots right That and I've in the process of getting my pilot's license What I've learned is you don't want to push the limit and try to fly just to check a box and move on That's like the worst thing you can possibly do is to treat a flight that way And just like oh yeah but you know push it push it we gotta go we gotta go These pilots and crew members their delayed as well They would love to be home They would love to get home They would love to be able to be sleeping in their own bed And if mayor Pete is the transportation secretary keeps up doing what he's doing today which is threatening the airlines the way he's threatening southwest They're going to start pushing those limits because they're afraid the federal government's going to come down them too hard Now I'm not sure anymore that they're really worried about that I think a lot of this is semantics from mayor Pete I think a lot of this is the Biden administration I know there's a bunch of people hacked off travelers out there And this is an easy way to jump on this bandwagon of these screws Southwest Airlines in the evil CEO over at southwest and we're going to hold them accountable They're not Right They're not going to And it's an easy way for them to be like yeah we're on your team We understand we fill your pain That's what this is politics to fill your pain part of it
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Kurt Schlicter Wrote About Something He Likes: Killing Communists
"Jim, I decide to make a book about things that I like, which is killing communists. And you know, a lot of people are like, Kurt, you know, it's important when you're writing conservative action fiction that you have the hero solve problems by using his brain. And I think that stupid. I think you should use. I think you should use hollow points. And Kelly Turnbull does. If you want a book where you talk about your feels and the guy spends a lot of time going, you know, my dad didn't it wasn't appropriately affectionate. You're a sissy. Don't get my book. By mayor Pete's memoir.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
DeSantis vs. Trump Would Not Be Productive
"Maybe his attitude is, he'll run if Trump doesn't. I don't think he wants to take on Trump. I don't think Trump wants to take on desantis. That would not be productive that wouldn't be helpful. That's my worst nightmare. The best dream I have is a Trump desantis ticket in 2024. And I don't know that that's beatable. I'm serious. I don't know that the Democrats could possibly think that they could not stop a Trump desantis ticket in 2024. Who's going to beat that? Kamala? Mayor Pete, Gavin Newsom. You think Gavin Newsom, governor Hollywood? Could beat a Donald Trump Ron DeSantis ticket in 2024?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Caller: The Pain by Democrats Is Intentional
"I heard your call as it was describing the pain that he was feeling. Right. And they are inflicting that pain intentionally. Sure are. They know they know that this is going to cause more pain. Mayor Pete said, the greater the pain, the greater the benefit. This is all about trying to move us to the new world order. It's happening around the world. People need to be aware of that wake up. You know, you said something that's so profound, Zayn, and I've said it over and over and over again, but it bears repeating. These aren't bubbling idiots. This destruction is intentional. They look the other way when thousands burn cities down after George Floyd. They look the other way when activists demand that police be defunded. They look the other way when illegals are drowning and dying, crossing the border with their horrific, open border policies, they look the other way when America, they're not even acknowledging the pain of the American people. You're right. The pain is intentional. The destruction is deliberate and the cruelty is the point.
WGN Radio
"mayor pete" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Would you be with Rand Paul and these other ten I would Saying no I'm not going to vote just cavalierly 40 million more for Ukraine It seems as if almost any number they asked for were saying it's in our best interest to do that It's in their interest to do that And yet we know what all the spending does it continues and it provokes inflation Now I'm not saying it's as bad as the fact that we can't find formula enough formula for American kids Yet at the border their stockpiling and giving out infant formula to those coming across the border with kids and getting ready for May 23rd which is when the stampede is predicted will happen when that title 42 goes away How do we have pallets of that available there And look we don't want people to be miserable and their kids coming across the border but we can't get them on the store shops here How is that possible And I'd love to see where mayor Pete and his husband he was on national shows yesterday saying yes they had a really look around but they were able to get infant formula I'd love to see if there were any connections there to anybody on that It's shocking And yet 40 billion more for Ukraine All right 8 6 6 50 Jimbo that gets you to me Follow me on Twitter at DOM show 1210 DOM Giordano's sitting in for Jim bohannon Finding the right person for the job isn't easy Just ask someone who hired a karate teacher to trim their hedges Man these shrubs are not made of plywood Don't worry another few chops should do it Yeah Nope Dang But.
WLS-AM 890
"mayor pete" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"You bet on that okay Jim thank you He's trying to save himself now because he realizes pretty soon with our ongoing fight against cumulus This thing isn't going well and he may be out of a job through Just kidding love this guy What would I do without him The show be totally lost He came over my invited in my house who invite anybody at my house I'm afraid I'm afraid they're going to around my house and plant like a listening device or something I had to watch him the entire time I had a little drone robot following him around Not only were the highways designed to keep commercial traffic out The parkways excuse me the northern and southern state The low overpasses had nothing to do with keeping buses off of beaches on Long Island As a matter of fact if you look at photos of Jones beach back in the day you will see back decades ago photos of legions of buses going out to the beaches in Long Island And you will also see on the beaches that were supposedly designed in conjunction with the parkways according to this dopey Buttigieg to keep black kids and buses off the beach You will see in Jones beach bus drafts drop drop off zones which is a really weird way to keep buses off the beach Big zones bus drop offs That's kind of weird right Kind of weird Hey let's build these parkways So just to be clear you got this cabal of racists around And listen some of them did some questionable stuff There's no doubt about that But you've got this cabal of racist around right And they're like how do we keep black and Puerto Rican kids off Long Island I've got an idea Let's pour millions in today's money billions of dollars into constructing parkways that are too low so the buses can't get out We don't want them on the beaches And then another guy in the room goes he comes in lady He doesn't realize he's in with the group of racists He thinks he's in like the architect The architecture subgroup of the cabal So he comes in and he doesn't realize it's the racist group and he's like oh hey guys sorry I'm late I just want to stop for a donut I've got an idea Maybe we should put a bus drop off zones on Jones beach you know so the city kids can come out and enjoy the wonderful beach and Joe's And the race is so like you can't do that We just spent billions keeping these awful young children off of our beaches We don't want them to Well what happened How did that guy win if he was overwhelmed by the cabal of racist How is it that the photos show bunches of buses and busts drop off zones along The answer is because the story is made up and left this a morons Including a transportation secretary who again not a human being on the planet says less by saying more than Pete Buttigieg Now what do I think happen What I think happened is your mayor Pete before he went in there someone repeated to him this discredited conspiracy theory And mayor Pete knowing that the media would never challenge him on it if he mentioned that roads were in fact racist that they would love it Just went in there and said well that sounds like a good story low overpasses But the downside to that is now Pete Buttigieg is mentioned how they want to deconstruct this I know I got to take a break here but think about this now Potentially millions if not billions of your tax dollars around the country Are going to be dedicated by ripping down roads and overpasses you've been driving over for years because Pete Buttigieg believes that conspiracy theory about black and Puerto Rican kids and beaches in Long Island Now you understand why I am So against the consolidated power of big government when you give these people power a group of idiots can change the world for the worse all because they don't do even a modicum of homework on the conspiracy theories they promote Unbelievable All right more on this on the other side including a Manhattan institute article just again eviscerating this dopey conspiracy theory We'll be right back.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mayor pete" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"From the unions What's it going to be like negotiating with them And listen I'm so proud of the support And we believe it or not we need our union people No layoffs no furlongs we're not going to over challenge I was safety in that system When you think about those this is 37 workers you know who are they They are the homeowners They are the condominium the mentors That's the foundation of our city The more we do for them to keep them stabilized we will ensure that our city is stabilized Those are the police officers If I advise the EMTs and so yes I believe we can come to the table and be fair in a contract negotiation and stabilize that middle class in the city We often ignore the middle class We look at the low income New Yorkers and the high income earners are doing fine but the middle class is something that's been decimated numbers that needed to services and we need to deliver to them as well So finally on a personal note who'd you call first once you knew that you'd won when you got that name What was the first call you made It was believe it or not a job to my knees and did an emotional call to my mom transitioned on while I was campaigning this year you know she's gone physically but I think spiritually she's always with me and anyone who has lost their mother or dad They know how impactful that is and you never really get over it But I just have this emotional connection to her that I believe it's always going to be there And that was my first call That was New York City mayor elect Eric Adams Former deputy mayor of New York City Howard wolfson is a true expert on politics and political campaigns having helped run a series of campaigns including those of Michael R Bloomberg founder and majority shareholder of our parent company for reelection as New York City mayor and for U.S. president He now has education efforts for Bloomberg philanthropies I talked with Howard this week to get his reaction to Eric Adams historic win and what comes next for the city under his leadership I think there is a lot of excitement and anticipation and really some optimism around his election Bill de Blasio was a year for 8 years He's going to be going out of office with rather middling approval ratings And I think the city is ready to turn the page to a new mayor who has promised to do more to fight crime to do more to improve the quality of life to be a more active and vocal cheerleading presence for the city to be somewhat more pro business as the city recovers from COVID So personally I'm excited But I think a lot of New Yorkers more importantly are excited about his tenure You have a better sense than many of us about how difficult that job is And just help me square the circle here if you can Can you at the same time address some of the inequalities the injustices that Eric Edison said he needs to address in our populace in New York City and be pro business at the same time because as you know hard we still got a lot of businesses that are empty as I walk around the streets of Manhattan Well I think you have to because in so many ways business in New York City funds the war if you will on inequity I mean the reason why New York City has such a generous social welfare generous set of social welfare policies is because we have such an enormous tax base residents here at the top level are taxed at a fairly high rate And most of that money goes towards employing people in city government and money to help people who are somewhat more disadvantaged So it's critically important that New York maintain if tax base in order to really address the causes and the symptoms of inequity and inequality So as a national democratic strategist as well as a specialist in New York City address what you took away from these elections for the Democrats It doesn't look like there's a lot of enthusiasm right now for the democratic agenda What does it mean for the party I mean it was a bloodbath The race in Virginia the outcome in Virginia was not totally unexpected given the polling Here in New York and suburban New York Democrats took a beating and in Long Island which is a very important swing area a bit of a bellwether for the whole country I don't think there's any way to sugarcoat it Democrats took a beating and it was a pretty decisive That was former New York City deputy mayor Howard wolfson That wraps up today's program for more government and national affairs news from Bloomberg visit big of dot com You can also find political news analysis and commentary at Bloomberg politics dot com Listen to bounce up our weekdays noon to two p.m. Wall Street time right here on Bloomberg radio I'm David Weston This is Bloomberg What's the true value How many steps do you take before you have foot pain It's Jonathan cotton with a good feed store and the truth is the battle between our feet and the concrete or asphalt usually winds up with our feet losing Studies show that about 75% of people will experience some kind of foot pain by middle age I found that out a number of years ago with plantar fasciitis and I tried to remedy it with shoes and drugstore cushions that didn't work Finally I went.
The Erick Erickson Show
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"And if you listen to people in washington dc it is a way more accurate representation of how washington actually works then something sinister like the hell scars. You just got a bunch idiots morons running the shop and and they're all self interested in motivated and they do petty little things like this like a has gotten several weeks of bad press lets sabotage mayor pete. People are talking nice about a this comes so so folks that the board you know the bullwork The board is the anti republican. Never trump site. I've actually got some good friends. Who right there. Who worked there. So people i i like and They're they just they don't like up but a couple of a podcast and one of them. The other day was talking about how they both agreed. Kamla is a terrible politician. And maybe the democrats need is mayor. Pete mayor pete can be the the next one and then suddenly suddenly come louis team. I think sabotages pete after that. Podcast i think this was all kaba. Harris's team realize either. They're getting bad precedent. Somebody to be a distraction. Nobody knows mayor pitas out on. Two months paternity leave. That'll rile people up and now of course it some sympathy for mere pete. Oh he's on paternity. Leave dead fairly i. I just think yes family. I the fact that no one knew that mirror pete was gone for two months means that maybe he never needs to come back. He could just stay out in and we could get rid of the drift dacia department. I mean what's he gonna do to solve the problem anyway. Nothing so why do we need the transportation department. I don't know good question would probably has no answer for now. I got an answer for you. If you're also i. I'm stopped up today whether changes i got my booster shot for the vaccine. I gotta get the flu shot. And one of the things that i know is that you know. The stuff circulates in the air. And you want something that kills. The jurors floated in the air. The pure thunderstorm. It does that.
Freakonomics
"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"And will mostly yes but there are some factors to consider the rate of crash deaths has been declining in the us but more slowly than in other developed countries when you look at deaths per million miles traveled the standard metric the us ranks fifth highest among developed countries. According to the most recent available data beating out only japan spain slovenia and belgium the two biggest culprits in the. Us seemed to be drunk driving and failure to use seatbelts. We've been talking in this series. About how american culture is different from other countries. One difference is that the. Us is probably the most individualistic country on earth driving drunk and not using a seatbelt. Those are individual choices with consequences that show up quite clearly in the car crash data. It's worth noting that globally more than one point three million people die each year in car crashes so compared to that and considering how much driving we americans do our roughly thirty thousand deaths a year is not so bad and that number has fallen the la over the past few decades in nineteen seventy to fifty. Six thousand people died in. Us car crashes with many fewer miles driven than today still as buddha judge points out. These are numbers. Most people just don't think about again. I think this is a function of the choices that we make the assumptions that we have the idea that you know car. Crashes are just gonna happen. We can outgrow this and we should so last year because of the pandemic americans drove fewer miles not surprisingly about thirteen percent less than two thousand nineteen in two thousand twenty and yet traffic fatalities rose by more than seven. Percents adjusting for miles. That's a huge rise. Can you tell us what you know about that. We're doing a lot of analysis on this right now. There's some good work going on academically to some early. Hypotheses include one having to do with speed so the idea that there's more room on the freeway so empty roads let you fly. Let you go faster. Empty roads faster cars. The crashes had happened or more dangerous. But when you parse the data it's proven to be pretty nuanced and complex. Some is that the kinds of trips that were favored or perhaps inevitable in the pandemic environment or different in a way that somehow makes them systematically more likely to lead to a fatality meaning people are driving unfamiliar and maybe longer routes because they're not buying for example and so these are the kinds of things that we really need to dig in on. We could make it national project. And i think we should to end this. I know it's almost too obvious to pick scandinavian example. But i'm just gonna do it. Oslo got through a year with virtually zero fatalities. There was one in a car and zero pedestrian and cyclist fatalities and that was a city of about six hundred thousand. People with buddha is talking about in. Norway is a multinational project called vision. Zero which started in sweden. The idea is that for a road traffic system to be truly successful. it should produce zero deaths. New york city has adopted the vision zero plan. But it hasn't been working out very well in fact. New york is on pace to record more deaths this year of motorists pedestrians and cyclists than in the several years since vision. Zero was adopted. The mayor's explanation is that covert nineteen drove a lot of new yorkers out of public transportation and back into cars so does a- vision zero require fewer cars. Maybe does it require more and better technologies. Maybe that too but it may also.
Freakonomics
"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"As we record this. The biden administrations infrastructure plan is making its way through congress. The bill would set aside five hundred fifty billion dollars for new infrastructure and upgrades to existing infrastructure. So it's hard not to have all at binds energy on this. He is thinking big and some sense. That's exciting that again. Is the infrastructure minded economist. ed glaser. I think it's important that we figure out ways to put cost benefit analysis into the traditional infrastructure aspects of this because well. That's what economists do weigh the costs against benefits. Politicians don't typically play that game. It's the job of the economists. Always stand in the middle of the road and say stop. let's get out our calculators. Let's try and calculate what this cost and with these benefits are. I know sounds great. But let's figure out whether or not this actually makes sense so calculator at the ready. What does glazer think of the biden plan to spend sixty six billion dollars on passenger rail. It's very hard to make low density passenger rail. Make any sense in this country. I'm not saying that there aren't potentially relatively high net present value things that you can do with the seal alon the seal align or what most of us call acela. That's the amtrak route. That runs from boston through new york to washington. Dc those rails are really heavily used and you can imagine that they would returns the lower density rail transportation. It's just very hard to get that to work. And indeed it goes against one of the triumphs of american transportation policy over the past fifty years. Which is the deregulation of rail in the nineteen seventies and what that enabled was our rail companies to move out of moving people at which rail is not very efficient and moving goods. Which rail is great at doing. Many americans don't realize that america moves a much larger share of its goods by rail than europe. Does that in fact in many ways we are rail intensive country. We just aren't intensive in moving people by real. What if in this battle between cars and trains there was a third option. An option glazer calls the forgotten child of american transportation. It's the lowly bus lowly to everyone except economists. Apparently you know. Economists have done this for decades in the space of rail where. There's an old joke. That forty years of economics at harvard can be boiled down to four words. Bus good train. Bad a huff. When he came to advising countries in the developing world. that really couldn't cover. The cost of large heavy rail. Economists have suggested well. Why didn't you do something between. Why don't you big buses that run on dedicated lanes that put a lot of people much cheaper much more flexible because in fact you can run things other than the buses on this and i think this is a model that the us should take more seriously especially in a world of autonomous vehicles. One of the problems of rail is that it's remarkably fixed. You pretty much just run trains on it whereas lots of things can run on a road and so it's one thing to think about. Do we need a train between. Let's say chicago and milwaukee or would we be better off with a dedicated lane. That only runs autonomous buses and autonomous cars and less than one hundred fifty miles an hour. Long distance rail has never been money. Earner bat again is former transportation. Secretary elaine chao in fact it's always lost money and the federal government has always had to subsidize passenger rail. The only route that is profitable is what's called the northeast corridor from washington to boston for long distance rail. There's per head subsidy of over one hundred and twenty five dollars and that's a big burden to place on the american taxpayer. Infrastructure is a rule is not generally a profit center. That's the point and that's pete. Buddha judge the current transportation secretary the entire point of having a federal policy to create rail or to support rail that is not necessarily gonna turn a profit on its own it's a money earner society at large the country as a whole the economy is always better off so one story. I heard you tell a while back. It was more of a sales pitch. I guess you said when it comes to rail. Why should texas be inferior to china. And i'm going to keep putting it that way to see if it resonates has it resonated in texas remarkable. Yes there's actually. A project underway to connect dallas in houston by a high speed rail. So i'm going to continue to press the idea that it's not just in the northeast corridor that we ought to have good rail. We ought to have it. Every i'm gonna appeal a little bit too. That american competitive instinct because if somebody in china or famously japan but also morocco turkey or italy can count on a faster and more reliable train service than the us. I think most americans would think wait a minute. We should be number one. It's worth noting that china doesn't seem to think about passenger rail as a prophet center. Either only one sixth of the high speed rail lines have been building are able to cover their operating debt costs a few months ago. China's state council released new guidelines suggest cutting back spending on high speed rail. But what about the jobs created from huge infrastructure projects. Isn't that alone. A reason to celebrate the big biden spending package ed. Glaser says not really. The first question to ask is how many new jobs are actually being created if you're moving people from unemployed status where they're receiving other federal benefits to employed status where they're paying taxes then that particular transition does have benefit but all the people who would have had jobs anyway..
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"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"Are individual property rights. And why is china building so much so fast pete buddha judge again also this. They're not spending these kinds of resources on infrastructure. Because the chinese communist party is a bunch of transportation nerds like me. This is obviously about securing. Long-term strategic economic security and advantages and those advantages come to countries that invest. I mean you go back to the romans and and you know you build out a great infrastructure network and that makes you stronger domestically and abroad. That's why they're doing this. So you're old firm. Mackenzie where you worked years ago recently. Estimated that chinese construction enterprises one roughly half of all construction projects throughout africa including many funded by non-chinese sources like the world bank should infrastructure building. A bigger part of us export around the world. I think there's a huge potential here. But i we have to get our own house in order. I do think there's something very exciting. In the potential there and that kind of economic diplomacy could go along way. It's obviously working for china. Getting our infrastructure house in order might involve copying bits of the chinese playbook one way to think about the competition with china's this the distance from beijing to shanghai which high-speed train can do between four and five hours. That's about the same as the distance from chicago to atlanta and creating that alternative that option for americans could open up tons of possibility for families and employers in the interior of this country. The history of if you build it they will come in. This country has been. If you build a road. They will come more than you ever imagined. And if you build transit. They don't come. That's erik morris. He is a professor of city and regional planning at clinton university. He's also writing a history of the. Us highway system the last time we built major high quality transit systems with mostly in the nineteen seventies when they built washington atlanta and miami couple of other cities. None of those systems came anywhere near what they were. Predicting as far as ridership goes morris points out that public transit systems are essentially competing with our existing highway network and an existing highway network is hard to beat. Highways are great traffic moving pieces of infrastructure there super-efficient. They're relatively safe. They've allowed people to move to the suburbs. Empirical evidence suggests that those interstates have contributed a dramatic amount to the us economy anti us wellbeing in many many ways on the other hand detractors of the interstates are right in that they take up a lot of land ugly. They are rivers of pollution. And there's this to research has shown that the additional economic benefit from originally building the original understates the economic. Get if it was huge. But that's dropped over time because the system is basically built out and we have what we need not only have the economic benefits stagnated but adding additional lanes to ease traffic congestion around. Cities doesn't actually ease congestion since it encourages even more people to drive. The bulk of the us interstate system was planned by president. Dwight d eisenhower in nineteen fifty-six we were deep into the cold war with the soviet union and the highways were designed to facilitate the movement of military equipment and personnel. This was in keeping with most road-building throughout history going back to the ancient persians and romans roads to facilitate economic activity are nice but roads to facilitate war are compulsory and more likely to receive funding the. Us highway system costs around half a trillion dollars in current dollars. It's estimated to have returned six times that much in economic benefits in those highways wants built began to shape where and how we live. Cities like houston and atlanta and denver developed in the post automobile era and given the that was the dominant transportation technology at the time. Those cities developed in a way. That prioritized automobile travel unlike say european cities which are a thousand or two thousand years old and developed in an era of walking and transit in their for their much walking and transit friendly today in other words. Interstates created cities that are harder to retrofit with public transit since they essentially require a car to get around. You can't just go. Tearing down highways and cloverleaf to make way for a light rail network least not without great expense and complications and morris points out one huge difference between today and the period. When the interstates were being built at that time it was relatively much easier in this country to displace people and 'cause lots of disruption the new planning paradigm which largely came about in response to the interstates themselves. The pendulum has swung in the absolute opposite direction. In this country right now it is extremely difficult to build anything and this goes all the way down to you. Know a five storey mixed income apartment building in a rich suburb or god. You try to build a homeless shelter anywhere so you can see why infrastructure nerds everywhere might prefer a more centralized top down approach china's where the federal government has the power and budget two move mountains but not. Everyone likes that idea. They're just a lot of reasons to be skeptical about. this bat. Again is the economist ed. Glaser he's been leading. Research project called the economics of infrastructure investment for the national bureau of economic research. We should know that this project receives funding from the us department of transportation which means glazer is at least nibbling on the hand that feeds him because he is not a fan of big top down. Spending the federal government needed to put some planning effort into the high system but those infrastructure investments are relatively rare in comparison with those infrastructure investments. That are really entirely within state as glazer season when the federal government does fund local infrastructure. It tends to skew. The kind of projects get built and how the money is spent one example the big which converted a highway through the center of boston into an underground tunnel. It wound up taking nine years longer than planned and going to two hundred percent over the budget. The big occurred entirely within the city of boston right. And it was seated with federal money the whole thing became palatable massachusetts taxpayers. Both because the cost of the project were radically underestimated. And because we thought that the feds. We're going to pick up a large amount of the tab. So i think the idea that you're going to do something with someone else's paying for it is really not a very good reason to do something and the process of the federal government. Getting involved helps that to happen. Another big difference between infrastructure in the us versus other countries expensive. The median transit project in the. Us costs nearly one billion dollars per mile. The non us average is less than one third of that. Why is the us so expensive. Labor costs are high. So is the cost of procuring land ensuring worker safety and increasingly addressing environmental concerns if you compare the straightness of roads in the fifties with a straightness of roads by the seventies. They've gotten a lot more crooked presumably because they're not trying to run through things. Things like animal habitats or historic properties. One other source of runaway costs glazer says is that americans are an outlier in a certain important practice. We are quite special for a wealthy highly. Developed country for our willingness to completely forgo cost benefit analysis of classic economic approach to infrastructure would be well. let's go project-by-project and calculate the net present value for all these projects and let's do the ones that are over our threshold and not do the ones that are lower threshold and that would be how we calculate what we want to spend. So i think you need to ask yourself. What are you getting for that money. I mean you remember when according trillion dollars used to be real money. It was one year ago year ago. Right it was just before the cable so i think absolutely we should be asking about that after the break we do ask about that. We also look at other ways that america might up its infrastructure game. And the reasons.
Freakonomics
"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"Here again is transportation secretary pete buddha jr so the vast majority of the tens of billions of dollars that come through my department every year aren't spent on things that we go out purchase own and operate. Go out in the form of grants many of them established by formula go to states and local bodies not necessarily a bad thing even now is i'm in this role in washington but you know what it means is that we might be more like the trim rudder on a super tanker than we. Are you know literally calling the right and left turns. The reality is that state and local governments on ninety eight percent of highways and streets including the entire interstate highways system. And that's elaine. Chao buddha judges immediate predecessor at the department of transportation during the trump administration so the state department of transportation need to be equal partners and they need to be able to determine the infrastructure. The best suit the needs of their state. I mean the. Us has eighty nine thousand local governments and they would know better than washington. What their needs are so are. Decentralized system has a benefit in that it gives the local communities the infrastructure that they want. The style of funding isn't how most countries do it in europe for instance most infrastructure development and decision making or done at the federal level although to be fair most european countries are more like individual. Us states in terms of size and gdp but even bigger countries tend to manage their infrastructure more centrally china especially people sometimes wonder how china is able to have these huge infrastructure projects. Done finished completed right away. Well it's because their system very top down one can.
Freakonomics
"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"Is able to have these huge infrastructure projects completed right away. And what's wrong with all those interstates. Anyway they take up a lot of land. They're ugly are rivers of pollution. Is america driving itself crazy This is freakonomics radio. The podcast but explores the hidden side of everything. Here's your host. Stephen dubliner a lot of. Us infrastructure is aging and in need of repair at the same time. Infrastructure spending has been declining for years. This is not a good combination waiting until something is falling. Apart can mean urgent and disruptive repairs traffic congestion already costs the us economy and estimated one hundred twenty billion dollars a year airline delays. Another thirty five billion dollars. This state of affairs has led senate republicans and democrats to tentatively agreed to an infrastructure package. It would cost around five hundred fifty billion dollars over five years. It would go toward roads and bridges railroads and public transit and airports as well as electricity and broadband networks and water infrastructure including money to remove lead pipes. This bill would still need to pass in the house where some democrats are unhappy about cuts made during negotiations. The original proposal from biden administration called the american jobs plan cost two point six trillion.
Freakonomics
"mayor pete" Discussed on Freakonomics
"Between americans and our cars in the series of episodes. We've been exploring the ways in which the us is an outlier among the nations of the world. As we've learned the us is the world leader in terms of individualism in an individualistic society. A person is like an atom in a gas it can freely float about and life is an adventure. Life is an adventure that would work as a slogan for one of those car ads on. Tv for hyper individualistic country. Automobile travel as a lot. Going for control where you're going. And when and how fast more than four million miles of open roads offering boundless possibility for many americans getting behind the wheel at sixteen is a full-on rate of passage. I was driving in high school. My parents nineteen ninety. Two buick lesabre which was a bit of an aircraft carrier. You may recognize that voice from us secretary of transportation. Pete buttigieg. Buddha judge was the breakout star of the twenty twenty democratic presidential race before that he was the mayor of south bend indiana. He's still just thirty nine years old. He is self proclaimed transportation nerd so running. The department of transportation is a thrill on the secretary of planes trains and automobiles. And you can't have all those planes trains and automobiles without infrastructure. Since his confirmation in february buddha judge has been the frontman for the biden administrations infrastructure agenda. What i've found in my more or less daily conversations with members of the house and senate democrats and republicans of what they all have in common is. They're all from a place where there is just profound visible in arguable infrastructure. Need i think part of what's happening in this moment is that the under investments of the past have caught up to us to the level that suddenly.
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"Me. Katie kramer as. I take you inside the squawk box control room and beyond the headlines of tv broadcast with joe kernan becky quick and andrew. Ross sorkin every weekday. Subscribe to squawk pot on apple podcasts. Spotify stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to squawk. At and t. reported quarterly earnings this morning and the adjusted quarterly profit came in at eighty nine cents per share beating estimates by ten cents with revenue also pretty much above forecasts and. At and t. Some better than expected customer editions in its wireless business phones and a lower-than-expected churn rate. At and t. has been shelling out billions of dollars to upgrade its networks to the five g. technology as demand for the faster service surges with people working from home and learning online. It also added nearly three million domestic subscribers to its various. Hbo services. mary's town got a lot of buzz for sure and raised forecast for global. Hbo max to more than seventy million by the end of the year so those numbers. The hbo numbers are interesting. Because in may at and t. said it would spin off its media content and create entirely new global entertainment company with discovery making. At and t. a. core communications company once again. Here's joe join us now to discuss more as sarah fisher axios media reporter we can. I guess it comes under your umbrella for a little while longer. I guess telecom is part of media. Sarah but sooner or later it's going to be when it's over. No i'm saying that. There's so many other things in media that sarah would be ready to talk about it's true like net flicks or like i don't know all these other things and one thing i think people forget won't eighteen key. Shareholders have have a stake. And how well zaslov runs those assets. I mean isn't that a potential upside at something. That's not pointed out very often ensure they will ask some upside until that point seven million subscribers if they add the water matters it also matters if they're lifting guide into base have seventy million subscribers to. Hbo and hbo. Max so yes. It's good but at the end of the day. At and t. The good news here is at the fundamentals are actually Place show for a long time. It was so distracted by these media. Assets that are now all being divested that we weren't hearing as much important motives about things like the post paid phone subscriber additions or their fiber additions. The lowest turn rate ever for q two in fiber this quarter. It's great for the first time we're hearing great things about the fundamentals. Were not being distracted by this media. Stuff that quite frankly is not going to be as important orange. Their business long-term then there's talk about spinning off or selling or somehow getting rid of of zander because it doesn't make sense anymore. No that makes sense. We had a report about that earlier this week. And what's sad about it is. They spent a lot of money. One point. Six billion dollars on Nexus two hundred million dollars on other investments. And they're probably gonna sell joe for. I'm hearing way less than a billion dollars. It's gonna be likely some sort of fire sale. They don't write it off in so that's been we're being about agency. They actually are doing well. In phone-in internet in there were business. But there's been so much distractions about all these other side things that they need to spin out in order to get back to five g. How about net flicks disappointing or about as expected given that we knew how the pandemic it affected of content the ability to produce a new content and and people leaving going to live sporting events or live venues instead of staying at home. So all those things factored been still you know still five hundred dollar stock that you know that that any media company could about five years ago for for tenth of that probably nothing. yeah no. I actually was disappointed. And i'll tell you why earlier this year. They said that lee forecast growth to come at the back end of this year. Twenty twenty one so q. three q. Four but the guidance for q three was pretty low. Three point five million. Ads is not that much. I think what made the street. Happy about netflix. Which is why you saw that. Stock whip saw after earnings was that they're starting to invest in new tricks. Obviously gaining is the big one but they're investing in things like outcasts merchandising. To make their franchises more disney light more steady so. I think that the street was excited about that. But ultimately i do think that subscriber growth is slowing down in. It's a problem for necklace. Talk about firehouse approach. I think they need to be more i need. I need really quality content. Not just you know you. Just don't roll out some crappy movie. And that's not working for me. And that's what they're doing to some extent you got anything. Good little which signifies a netflix original. I just lays right over it and that's the problem for now let's right. They need to ramp it up. That's more you've seen doctor death yet. Sara on peacock now but i'll add going good job. Only if you only have you can sit there and watch someone just totally butcher and operation with blood and guts and it's hard to watch but it's great christian slater alec baldwin. It's pretty good all right Sarah thanks more things change more. They say the same content wise then someone say content is king like fifty years ago. Is it ever been more true. Would you like to be a really talented creative writer. Type producer person right now. I mean i would like to twenty people begging throwing the ultimate buyer seller. Whatever whatever you call the writing team. It's a it's their time. It's their time all those dollars chasing because there are good people. Look at some of the things we've watched in recent years. They're amazing when you watch breaking didn't you weren't you blown away the greatest who came up with some of those gain scale again but that squawk pod for today let us know what you're watching on your favorite streaming platform tweet us reps or any comments at squawk. Cnbc squawk box is hosted by joe. Kernan that quick and andrew. Ross sorkin tune in weekday mornings on. Cnbc at six eastern to get the smartest takes and analysis from our tv. Show right into your ears. Listen and follow. Squawk thaad wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be back here tomorrow. We are clear thanks guys..
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"mayor pete" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Is squawk one q andrew. Good morning and welcome back to squawk box. Right here on cnbc. man's ross. Sorkin along with becky. Quick and joe kernan senate republicans blocking the beginning of a debate on the bipartisan infrastructure. Bill that was to be expected. Yesterday's vote was only procedural in the chamber. Could take up the plan again as soon as monday. Following the vote that twenty two member bipartisan. Group said in a statement that they've made significant progress on a deal and are close to a final agreement. Join us now with the white house. Take and the road ahead for an infrastructure package transportation secretary pete buddha judge and i come up with it Secretary mary. That's what we were trying to trying to go back. And forth is a secretary of peop- i think secretary mayor pete is that i don't know but but we know as pizza secretary. Okay watch everybody is going to be doing this From here on out yesterday sort of expected an almost look like Majority leader schumer was expecting it because he voted no so he could bring it up again. It was almost a foregone conclusion that it was not complete not totally done. Not all the kings were worked out so pushing it off until monday. Was there any disappointment. Or it's going along as plan secretary. Yeah you're right. This was expected in. This is where we get to see the legislative process in all of its procedural complexity. But what's not complicated is the need to get something big done on infrastructure which is what the president and many republicans and democrats have agreed to do. And i saw myself. I was on the road last week. And you can see the need in different forms in every part of the country's from Right there in new york where we have the hudson river tunnels yet people depending on You know the absolute state in yard construction technology from nineteen ten whether you look at Oregon in the safety improvements that they're trying to make their roads what needs to be done in chicago to connect up the south side Tribal lands in arizona where they had serious safety issue is under investment in roads. Literally every part of this country sees the need. And i think that's why you have this incredible level of bipartisan agreement. Today the president and the vice president will be sitting down with labor and business leaders who on economic issues are very often on opposite sides but are on the very same side right now. Which is that. We've got to get this. Bipartisan infrastructure. Frameworks through and to the presence. Desperate signature we've had a couple of people from the other side on the in the last couple of days we had You saw kevin brady. I don't know whether you're watching was on earlier We'll get into some of his comments. We also had a senator portman on the lead negotiators on the gop. He was he was on yesterday. And i think that you know. Some of his colleagues are probably not happy with the senators on the republican side. That are going to go ahead with this. He said it's the right thing to do in terms of infrastructure to do this. I plan the trillion dollar. This is the infrastructure package that is built from the middle out. It's totally bipartisan It's very responsible. It has no tax increases as you know but it also funds something essential which is the infrastructure that's crumbling around america. We we know that our infrastructure is in tough shape but rob and Kevin brady both don't want it linked to that second three point five trillion dollar what you would call human infrastructure mister secretary. The president i think probably killed this whole infrastructure package with that statement and even though he's tried to walk it back speaking closely and and senator schumer have not they are linking it. Excuse me to the infrastructure. That's why there won't be bipartisan. Is it still linked will be in your view would Speaker pelosi require that to be done first before allowing the other one to go forward well. It wasn't linked yesterday. Read the vote they took in the senate was on the infrastructure piece And i hear a lot of this talk about whether it's linked or whether it's paired but nobody's been able to explain to the clear terms exactly what that even means. I think this is more of a kind of art and science and frankly that that's more about the politics different members have to worry about. I respect that but the basic idea is you know we're hoping that republicans can vote with us on the stuff. They can support an though. Vote against us on the part that they can't although i also want to say i refuse to give up on the idea that at least some republicans might come around and vote for americans to have paid family leave. Might come around and vote for us to cut child poverty and half by extending the child tax might come round and vote for an ideal like making sure. Three and four year olds can get pre kindergarten education or that we can have community colleges in the right thing to do Economists tell us though grow the economy. But you're right now. These are on two different passing the infrastructure part. We can do together. The other might all democrats just a different angle on on on that thinking. We'd like to do a lot of things. And there was a more recent analysis of the three point five trillion. There puts it if you get rid of. Some of the tricks puts it at five to five point five trillion at in the other trillion. That we're talking about it and we are about six trillion plus The president was asked yesterday about the transitory nation at a town hall on a on a competing network which i think was in cincinnati. Actually we're going to be headed to but And he was asked to address the the worries about inflation. Can you honestly tell me the sector. You don't have any you wouldn't worry at all about adding another larry. Another six trillion dollars worth of debt. What that might do to the dollar what it might do to to input costs what might do across the board to our our financial situation in the united states. Well of course we need to watch carefully the balance in our economy and and work to get right. That's something we do in cisco policy at something. The fed does very well. I think it's one of the reasons why the latest report out for booties. suggests that Some of this talk about inflation is overdone and You know the idea that this is too much. This is just what it takes to get the us the level. We should have been an all along. Remember we're not trying to get Gold plated waterpipes to everybody. We're just trying to ones that. Have any lead We fall into thirteenth place the richest wealthiest economy and biggest economy world in not even in the top ten in infrastructure. We've gotta get this right now. You're back to the trillion trillion instructor where we're thirteenth. And then there's the the five trillion of all of the wishlist of fried. I mean yeah. I mean the idea that the wealthiest country in the world can't come up with a policy to do paid family leave when pretty much every other country in the world not even just the wealthy ones already. Hasn't the idea that the wealthiest country in the world can't maintain macro-economic balance while having three and four year olds concerns. Debt-service gets too high miss sector. There are concerns that you debt-service gets high interest rates events. Go up to where the overall growth of the economy is hurt for years. Five ten years to go ahead and gdp is a pointer to below what it would have been so no one's trying to take anything away from anyone. They're just trying to strike a balance where you have the best as you said financial picture to to try to grow. Gdp as quickly as you can and everyone benefits. So there's there's a definite disagreement about how you get there depending on which side of the aisle you're on sure. Yeah i mean we think we ought to get to that balanced by making sure we collect the right amount of revenue to and and what to us is no brainer which also has rescued also has some downside on on the more money that goes into the public sector versus staying in the private sector. Let me ask you about flights coming in from from europe. Do you think the dot should change the requirements and start letting people and now that we've already got delta. What's the rationale for keeping people from the.
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"Research this morning reveals that a new Corona virus vaccine currently in development from AstraZeneca, Is effective in stopping the spread of Corona virus and the meeting of the pharmaceutical minds in Europe, where drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline and Germany's Cura back are planning to collaborate on new vaccines targeting emerging variants off coronavirus. 9 48 brighter skies in Boston this morning. It's 29 degrees. National Park Out west in California is once again welcoming visitors back, but you may not be able to get a look at what's inside that National Park nearly two weeks after suffering from a devastating storm, Yosemite National Park has reopened. But if you were hoping to get a look at some of the hundreds of giant Sequoia trees, you'll have to wait. Visitors will not be able to walk through the popular Mariposa Grove 15 trees there in hundreds of others. Than a park were toppled by the high winds last month. Park officials say they are facing millions of dollars in repair costs. Lisa Matteo, CBS News U. S. Capitol police officer, Brian Sick Nick will be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery later today. Last night, the president and first lady paid their respects. In the Capitol Rotunda. Here's S'more from ABC. Sandy Field, Police Honor Guard Standing Watch over capital Officer Brian Sick. Nick's remains as he lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the president and Dr Jill Biden bowing their heads and prayer. Mr Biden touching the container, with the officers cremated remains making the sign of the cross. Saluting the flag honoring the man killed by rioters here nearly a month ago, officer Sick Nick, just the fifth private citizen to ever be so honored in the Capitol Rotunda. Different sort of path to the White House for former presidential candidate Pete Buddha. Judge CBS is Allison Keyes, With reaction is Mayor Pete is confirmed as the all as the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in American history. The judge was confirmed as transportation secretary by 86 to 13 vote in the Senate and Human Rights campaign President Alphonso David says That ends an era where LGBT Q Plus, people were told they couldn't aspire to higher political office because of their sexual orientation. That is no longer the case, David says. This means young people now know that they can run and when we're elated that we were able to break down this barrier once and for all. Allison Keyes CBS NEWS Washington President Biden's executive pen gets another workout in the Oval Office. Is he signs another Syriza borders to undo his predecessors? Immigration policies, the latest Take action at curing family separation. Some 1000 immigrants still at the Mexican border have been separated from their Children, the also the executive action looking to give legal status in a path to citizenship. To an estimated 11 million people in the country who currently are not on that path. Will Democrats lay out their arguments of the second impeachment trial of former President Trump and the defense. Fires back Trump's new legal team in their 14 page response, saying the Senate lacks jurisdiction to remove from office. A man who does not hold office at one of his lawyers saying this to Fox News. Can you imagine any American citizen considering it to be a trial? In which the judge and jury has already announced publicly that the defendant must be convicted in this case and Trump's legal team, arguing that Trump's speech before the Capitol riot is protected under the First Amendment, and remember ABC News Washington You're listening to. W.
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"I want to tell you this, my friend. He's a very good friend of mine. And I have Ah, wonderful, wonderful off their relationship with him. Chris Saucedo Armadillo tacos from 9 to 11 here and W B A P Has a commercial free debate tomorrow night Tomorrow night tomorrow morning at 10 30 on his program. It's uninterrupted Live Commercial Bay between, um for the debate for the runoff race between Shelley Luther Andrew Springer. Always starts at 10 am. Forgive me. I want cash will be horrible if I gave you the wrong time. 10 a.m. to 10 30. I'm so busy telling about how awesome he is. I've got the info wrong, right? He's like Chris, Quit praising me. Just get the night You fell right? That's what I would say. That was him. So here we go tomorrow. 10 a.m. to 10:30 A.m. live commercial free debate between Shelley Luther Andrew Springer on WBBM News talking $20 VP Way to go to my dear friend Chris sell Saito and I know it'll be a great debate. All right. So, uh, if you're just joining us, of course on the program, let's get back into it. So Buddha Judge is supposedly going to be the transportation secretary for Joe Old Joe, and, um, By the way, As you hear these failures, at least you could know this. He is he's openly gay. He is openly gay is not great. He is openly gay. I mean, that's all that matters in all this. It's that that really is all that matters. Unfortunately, you know, because Trump is a massive homophobe, right? He hates gay people always killing them the streets. He's He and his vice president, prints are Taser ring and, you know, murder and gay people, right? Unfortunately, Buddha judge will not be if he ends up being a cabinet level position. And if Biden and have taken over on the 20th Unfortunately, Buddha Judge will not be the first openly gay Cabinet member. Oh, no. That would be required l Who was the Deanna under Trump openly for our first ever openly gay can't remember what What Homophobe who hates and tortures gate. Put it openly. The first over here, beat the Democrats. No. But but but But but But, um, remembers you hear all this all the criticisms and about to share with you and people to judge how much of an abject failure he wasn't small, Small town. And now we're supposed to be elevated to the transportation secretary. Just remember that as bad as it sounds here, remember, he's openly gay. So that really does make everything okay? Okay, because that is really all that matters. Are you game Muslim or black or combination thereof, or transgender? Something like, If you're something like that, then you're going to be okay. All that matters. Esso Under his two term two terms as a small town in In self Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. Let's see what happened. Ready. This is fantastic may repeat has a pothole problem. Member. Now members use I released you. Don't worry about it. Please Gay. So that takes care of all this. Just just listen. Get a possible problem, reported Fox News this afternoon from 2012, the 2020 minutes, mayor in 2019, the South Bend Tribune reported. Small town paper caught him in all this. I mean, it's not. This is not difficult to figure out. It's that bad. South Bobbin Tribune reported last year that many residents felt the city had the worst possible situation in the entire state. He's got a small town and he's got the worst part of the problem of the entire state of Indiana to put him in charge. It's perfect. Put him in charge. Let him run this the Transportation Department. Which one would have been better? The Bible was talking about one to put him in for, uh, we called China Ambassador to China. I mean, which one would be worse, But this is great. This is fantastic. I don't even think he worked at that ever talk to anybody from China as the mayor of a small town, But we know he destroyed the roast. It's the worst I've ever seen. Said here that the South and Tribune reported in 2018 that potholes at the time under Mayor Pete After six years of Mayor Pete were the worst area repair shops had seen in over 10 years. Ah, Yeah. Lines of vehicles reportedly awaited repair for pothole damages every day. There were lines every day Quote. It's the worst I've ever seen, said the service manager at Ricks. Barton Road, 66 South Bend, another local repair shop owner, So the damage typically came out to between $500,000. But he's gay later. Pete's gay so relax. It's fine. He's gay. You know, it's fine. It's worth waiting in line, destroying your car. 2019. It was so bad. Listen to this. In 2019. It was so bad that Domino's pizza stepped in. There was a contest where customers were asked to nominate. This is apparently out of the entire country. Domino's pizza had a contest for you to nominate their your hometown. So carry out pizza could have a smooth delivery home. Do you know that Dallas forwards you name it. We did not win. It was in fact, South Bend, Indiana won a 5000 paving for pizza Grant to fill in potholes from Domino's Pizza, who If Joe Biden takes over in the 20th and Mayor Pete ends up being our transportation secretary Maybe he can work with nominal to expand this paving for pizza program to the entire United States. Wouldn't it be great? Like, Hey, guys, We can't fix the roads, but dominoes will live for you. Yes, I did it in, uh in South Bend. So why wouldn't we have dominoes? Outsources of dominoes? The Buddha Judges, Democrats successor ran on a platform of repairing the pothole problem. That's how bad this is. Important. Here's what you're gonna love. This is classic. Crony Socialism, crony socialism. This is exactly how they roll these socialists in 2017. And what is that? What is it when I say that? I say when they like with lockdowns with coronavirus craft the restrictions they can do whatever they want, But you and I We can't open our business. We can't have freedom with no, no, no, no. So here we go. It's perfect. That's why he belongs with Biden in 2017, top aides to Mayor Buddha judge expressed interest in having the road in front of his house repaved. But it was not initially slated for repayment by the city. Oh, man. But emails obtained by the Free Beacon show that Buddha judges then chief of staff expressed concern that his road was not on the maintenance list. Don't you know you can't do this? He's in charge. You have to repay this road, even if it doesn't need it because he's a charge. It's like Hunter Biden. He's gotta make million's because his dad's Joe Biden What's going on. With the paving on North Shore, the email read. It wasn't on the latest paving list. Brutal judges aide wrote in an email to the city's then deputy director of public works. She sent the E Mail two days before the city releases paving schedule. Um She mentioned to the mayor that North Shore was being added history was being added Buddha Judges Road was repaved 10 Days later, the city records show is that great? It's good to be the king, isn't it? It's good to be the king. The portion of the road in front of his home was in better condition than the roads around it, Records show, but he still got it repaid. See, this is fantastic. Crony socialism. Well done, Mayor Pete. You can get the most potholes You've ever seen The America while your street gets paved, even if it doesn't need it, That's what we want. Fan freaking tastic up next I've got the well as promised Ivanka Trump. Future for her in the pot, and the political realm is surfacing that tell you about that coming up next, plus Twitter, Facebook, social media bought.