maria: welcome back. good thursday morning, everybody. thanks very much for joining us this morning. i'm maria bartiromo. it is thursday, may 30, 7:00 a.m. on the button on the east coast. hope you're having a good thursday morning. time for the hot topic of the hour. president biden and vice president harris campaigning in philadelphia yesterday, trying to continue to to court black voters whe where biden has sen his support drop in recent months. here's biden claiming we're better off under his economy than under former president trump's term. >> the congressional black caucus got that money. [cheers and applause] >> when kamala and i came to

office, we passed legislation to deliver for checks in the pockets of millions of americans and trump continues to lie by saying black unemployment was under record low unemployment. it happened under my watch. a range of motion miss made, -- a promise made, a promise kept. maria: the stimulus checks biden talked about sparked inflation according to most economist, unemployment for black americans reached a record low first under president trump at 5.3%. in august and september of 2019. and according to this chart from the st. louis federal reserve, the wealth gap under president biden appears to be wider than under president trump for all of his term. singer john legend plameing disinformation for driving black and latino voters to support president trump, he said this on his save america podcast. >> i think trump performs a form

of mass of masculinity that's ag to some men. i hear disinformation about the economy under trump and what's happened since. to be clear, the economy is doing quite well. maria: economy is doing quite well. we'll see. i mean, it's bifurcated for sure, joe. >> look, this reminds me of the 1985 new coke disaster. the problem wasn't with the marketing budget for new coke. the problem was that they changed the formula for the first time in 99 years for a part of american iconography. that's what democrats are dealing with right now, it's not information. it is not the fact that black men are you attracted to the manliness of president trump even though he is clearly a manly man compared to joe biden, they're you attracted to the fact that inflation is a disaster, if they have a job wages are up but inflation is crushing the wage increase. they're attracted to the fact that if you're living on the

south side of chicago, you're watching migrants who have been here for 24 hours receiving better treatment than you have even though your family has been here for the better part of 300 years. that's why they're fleeing the democratic party. it's burning to the ground and democrats want to say none of your problems matter. everything has to happen for the democratic party will help you and then they get back in power and what happens, black people circumstances never get better and they say we'll deal with it next time. maria: i'm wondering the if any of this is going to work. is it going to work that joe biden goes on the campaign stops and comes up with stuff and lies about how great everything is. it's clear we're not better a off today than we were four years ago. >> it was a week or two ago when he said all the polls were wrong. all of them are wrong. right? this is also the guy who was traveling from city to city, saying if you have a problem figuring out if you're going to vote for me or the other guy then you ain't black, right?

he's just got a history of these racially just miscues, these blunders, but with regard to what john legend said, i take no issue with most of what he said but then he talks about the economy being great. now, john legend is a multimillionaire and to your recall yesterday point, the wealth had gap has grown since president biden took office and when you look at a what's important to black voters, the number one issue for black voters is the economy. and only 20% or so of black voters would grade the economy as excellent or very good. so they don't believe the economy is doing well and the unemployment t rate for blacks is at 6%. it's gone up 1% over the last year. so you're far from record lows in unemployment there. maria: we'll get another reading on the economy this morning, we'll get the gdp out, it's expected to show an economy growing at 1.3%. that's pretty measly when you

consider can where we were a year ago at 4.9%. dr. jill biden teamed up with the co-host of the view this week, she wanted to run cover for joe, of course. watch this. >> this election is about character. so you have two choices. you have my husband, joe, who you all know, who has integrity, he's strong, he's steady, he's a leader, he's smart, he's energetic, or you have chaos. and you're going to see how smart he is and the experience he has and then you'll see somebody who like you're saying, i'm going to use joy's words, can't put a sentence together and a those polls are going to turn. i'm competent of it. i believe that americans are going to choose good over evil. maria: todd, it's interesting to hear her say that trump can't put a sentence together. i almost thought she was talking about joe, actually. and in terms of running cover

for joe, she says he has integrity, although the oversight committee would digs agree because they've said he's accepted tens of billions of dollars from overseas adversaries like china. >> whether it's joe trying to stumble through his words or surrogates like john legend or jill biden, this is beyond spin at this point. spin is taking a fact and kind of tweaking it. theses are out and out lies that we played from joe biden earlier, jill biden and john legend. they're saying x when the answer is really y. it's incumbent upon republicans running to not say this is normal campaigning but to call out the lies and come forward with the facts, showing these are lies. one area where biden will have trouble is people feel what's in their wallets. wallets don't lie. you know how much money you have, how much you don't have and you know how you're going

impacted. to mark teppers point. i disagree with what john ledge end said, when you're talking about masculinity, you can't wear a knit sweater at the end of may unless you're my father who is on blood thinners, sorry, i no you're watching. that's not -- i know you're watching. that's not manly. maria: they constantly say trump is a threat to democracy. meanwhile, they're trying to take out supreme court justices. they want to take out clarence thomas. they want to take out because of the flag situation they want to take out alito. here's what dr. jill said yesterday on the view about scotus. watch this. >> we could get a lot worse under a trump president sigh. you have to believe him when he uses word like dictator, blood bath, third term, violence. joy, you and i remember when roe came -- >> that's right. >> became the law and we kept thinking oh, this won't be taken away but we cannot take things for granted because they can and

think of the supreme court for god's sake, talk about things getting worse. can you imagine if we put any more republicans on the supreme court? >> no, no. >> no. we will lose all of our rights. maria: oh, boy. >> i mean, look, the woman -- we forget it was chuck schumer who said they want to pack the supreme court, it wasn't republicans who said that. it's them saying that somehow an appeal to heaven flag is indicative of january 6, not actually 1775 when the flag was actually originated in solidarity with our call for freedom in this nation on this soil so they don't care about facts and that i think is the most disturbing fact of all these things. we talked about it before. the last fact check from the washington post, one of them, was them saying that president trump calling his own wife a lovely consequential first lady needed context. if that needs context the, then i don't know where you're going to put all this nonsense they

keep trying to shove down the throats of americans. maria: there's a lot of trump derangement out there, man. all right. we've got a lot come upping up. fast food turning into a luxury for many american as prices sky roskyrocket as places like mcdonald's. we'll tell you about it. the word on wall street panel is here with reaction. don't miss it. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪ did i read this? did i get eggs? where are my keys? memory and thinking issues keep piling up?

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ago, reported mixed results while cutting the an a wall anns forecast. kohl's stock down 18 and-a-half percent, best buy mixed, domestic comp store sales down 6.3%, dollar general reported a double beat as americans are flocking to their stores, dollar general stock is up, the only one up this morning, 6 and a quarter percent, kohl's down 18%. sales force is another killer this morning, that's down sharply as well. we'll her from costco and nordstrom after the bell tonight. mark, what's your reaction to the earnings season here? >> i guess when we look a little more broadly at the consumer, what this means, what it shows us about the consumer is that consumers are becoming a heck of a lot more discerning, becoming more price conscious, they are trading down and we saw that in target shoppers becoming walmart shoppers, we can see that if you look at walmart specifically. rather than buying the bag of doritos, consumers are buying the walmart brand ranch flavored

corn chips, whatever it might be. they're trading down within the stores as well. you look at a lot of these companies, look at dollar general, that's a discount retailer. discount grocery chain essentially. they've had their struggles over the course of the last several years, had leadership issues. they have their old ceo back in the seat which is good. and then they've got a very rural footprint which typically makes them like the only game in town so that's a positive for them. but you look at nordstrom later today, one of the potential positives for i nordstrom, theye expected to beat in the nordstrom rack line which is their off-price brand, their t.j. maxx and my guess is if kohl's came in a little bit weak, again, consumers are potentially bypassing buying these items at the full price department stores and they're waiting until they can go and enjoy the treasure hunt experience at an off-price retailer like t.j. maxx. but again, consumers are passing

up big ticket purchaseses, focusing on essentials, less on discretionary and we're seeing that play out. maria: retail is getting crushed this morning in the stocks, mark. look at that you've got nordstrom down 5%. we haven't had the news on the quarter yet. we've got kohl's down 20%. this is a serious selloff in retail this morning. >> big-time. and who is down -- what do we have? maria: nordstrom down 5% and a kohl's down 21% right now. that's a blood bath. >> that's a blood bath. maria: i'm wondering if we're seeing expectations plummet for he retail right now. you said it. it's because we've got a bifurcated market, the rich doing well and a everybody else really struggling. >> jane phraser of citigroup said we're seeing a k-shaped consumer. the john ledge p -- legends of d think the economy is fine, they don't know what inflation is. these retailers do understand what inflation is.

consumers are obviously seeing that. and you look at cost he costco. that will be important to take a look at today. costco is the anti-inflation play when you think about it from a more essentials standpoint as opposed to discretionary purchases. maria: you buy in bulk and it saves money. part of this is interest rates, kathy, right? look where the mortgage rate is. that's cut into people's ability to buy a home, take out a mortgage, 10 of year treasury yield this morning looks like this as the federal reserve's beige book survey finds the economy growing at a, quote, modest pace. the yield of the 10 year is down 1 and-a-half basis points. we're wait on the second read of first quarter gdp at a 8:30 this morning. economists are expecting the economy to grow 1.3%. then we'll get the pce index for the month of p april out tomorrow morning, that's an important inflation indicator but this growth until better here, kathy, that's down from 4.9% in the third quarter of last year we're going down, down, down.

nancy la czar says that means -- nancy la lazar says that meanse are going to get a recession. >> we are definitely paying more and getting less. that's hitting the bottom line of the consumer as mark indicated. a at the end of the day what we have to see i think before the fed makes any moves is a little bit of pain. we're starting to see the pin now and eventually those numbers will start to show in the books and then they can start making the changes in order to boost up the economy again. maria: so what do you want to do then as an investor when you see all of he these signs that you've got a macro story that is clearly weakening, blood bath in certain retail stocks this morning? >> as an investor what i would say is we're always looking for the types of companies that in this type of economy you're going to want to own such as consumer staples. look in your closets, look inner pantry, see what you're buying, owningnd using. buy those. and keep it simple. at the end of the day you don't want to start pulling big dollars out of the market can. we know over long periods of

time if you take your money out of the market you don't get the same performance as the rest of the group. stay invested, be thoughtful. look for opportunities where strong cash flows, strong balance sheets and stay invested. maria: practical advice. mcdonald's u.s. president says the average price of the menu, mcdonald's, is up about 40% since 2019. 40%. he's dismissing claims that a big mac meal costs $1, saying that, no, that's only -- costs $18. he's saying that's only at one location. writes on the company website that the average cost of a big mac, average, is currently $5.29, up 21% since 2019. meanwhile, a new lending tree survey finds nearly 80% of americans say fast food has become a luxury because of rising prices. >> and typically historically fast food has been a tradedown, right, like when times get tough and we're in the middle of a recession, consumers they stop

going to olive garden and go to mcdonald's instead and we're actually not seeing that play out right now and we talked a couple weeks ago about the $5 value meal promotion that mcdonald's is rolling out for a month or so. franchisees pushed back very hard on that. they were not happy that they were going to take a bath on all of those sales. so it's very interesting. as you look at the consumer and you look at whether it's fast food or fast casual, there's definitely a changing of the guard and you take specifically in california really the issues that fast food companies, fast food restaurants are up against with the $15 minimum wage, that presents a big issue because at some point it's going to be more -- it's going to be less expensive for a consumer to go and get take-out from apple bees bee's or chilis to get a value

meal from mcdonald's. maria: you've got to trade down. kathy, thank you for joining the conversation. mark, you're with us all morning. we're grateful. we've got a lot coming up. stay with us. house democrat leader ah ha kees accusing republicans of trying to shut down the government as ahead of the presidential election as they struggle to markup 12 bills ahead of the recess. steve scalises is here live exclusive with more. you're watching "mornings with maria" on fox business. stay with us. ♪

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deal tore the democrats to hit their political opponent. maria: joining me is louisiana congressman, house majority leader, steve scalise. good to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. your reaction to what's taking place downtown in new york. you heard what president trump just said. >> yeah, good morning. great to be with you, maria. what's happening in new york is, it's an embarrassment to the judicial system, the fact that you've got a judge so heavily conflicted. his daughter's making millions of dollars off of this trial. you've got the democrat party literally with president biden's campaign rolling out an old washed up actor, robert deniro to try to intimidate the jury to get a guilty verdict, regardless of the facts. they never presented any facts. they b don't care. they really don't. it's doing tremendous damage to the state of new york. is there any surprise that new york is the state that's seeing the most exiting of people, people leaving their state to go

to other places. i think people are watching this abuse of the judicial system law fare, whatever you want to call it, weaponization of government. it's all there on display before the public's eyes, people see it. most people in america are disgusted by it, whatever they think of president trump and i think a lot of people that maybe weren't going to vote for president trump and saying wait a minute, i'll give this guy a second look because i don't like what the democrat party is doing from the president of the curunitedstates to democrat dasn on a plat form not of putting criminals away but of just trying to find something on donald trump or even if you don't find it, you saw instructionses the judge gave to the jury, you don have to be unanimous, just find a way to put this guy away because we don't like hill. that's what the democrat party is doing in washington and i think there are a lot of democrats across the country that don't agree with this and are going to be voting for donald trump. it's why you saw so much support for trump when he went to speak in the prongs, when he went to the jersey shore, this is real

what's going on out there in real america and you've got the democrat party's america which is very different. maria: well, i mean, what is this going to mean for the election? i mean, we could see a b conviction. we don't know where this is going. could be a hung jury. could be a conviction. but what do you think in terms of the impact on the election five months yo away. >> i think most people have already factored this in. you can see the polling. every big bombshell, cohen is going to give some great testimony. he will say whatever he wants to. he's a serial liar, a convicted perjuror. most americans have been following the circus. they view it as a circus, an abuse of the judicial system. whatever verdict comes out, they know it's so skewed it's not reflective of what's happening in america. what you're furious about is what you showed on the last segment, the prices they're

paying for everything. they can't go to a fast food store anymore because of joe biden's america. we've got millions of people that have c come across our borr including people from countries that want to do us harm, people on the terrorist watch list, people murdering our citizens in every community in america, that's what joe biden has gotten us. donald trump will fix those problems. people know that. maria: a top israeli official is predicting the war against hamas could go on for at least another seven months and they're targeting rafah is not pointless, he said. john kirby is still talking about what israel should do and shouldn't do. he said israel has not crossed a red line. watch this. >> there is a fresh proposal that's being worked and i can tell you that the israelis are fully supportive of this fresh proposal and as before have been

willing to deal in good faith on this. we still have not seen a major ground operation in rafah in the manner i described it as yesterday, large amounts, thousands and thousands of troops moving in a coordinated fashion against -- maneuvering against a vair rye you at this of targets on -- variety of targets on the ground in a very aggressive way. maria: what do you thick, congressman? the white house is promising to reconstruct the failed gaza pier to get more humanitarian aid into the region of. part of it broke off on tuesday. your reaction to the status of affairs in gaza and hamas. >> first of all, the only reaction from the united states should be to support our friendndal lie, israel, who has been under attack since october 7th. there's a war going on and hamas, a terrorist organization, is the group that declared that war that went in and brutally murdered israelis and americans

by the way. there are still hostages that are both american, jewish, israeli, why isn't the united states being more unequivocal in their support of israel? that's what people are frustrated by. the pier was another debacle. we've got to get rea align bment and a accountability in our military when major mistakes are made. there's absolutely no accountability. they just continue to kind of give this soft support to our ally. you saw what's happening in ukraine where joe biden put limitations on the missiles that were given to ukraine, saying you can't just shoot into russian territory where all the russian troops are. that means that will drag that consistent president-elect out n longer. jjoe biden wants an elongated wr with more loss of life with ukrainian soldiers with the

limitations joe biden put on. with israel, he's saying don't go into rafah. that's where hamas is. these are people trying to kill jews and others ins israel. israel's got to defend their done you tri. our own statement should be we support our ally. the 300 plus million dollars of money thrown in the trash can, over half was stolen by hamas. maria: i've got to get to the work in the house. house republicans are planning an aggressive government funding strategy for 2025. you're aiming to markup 12 spending bills before the august recess. the appropriations committee already you proving legislation to fund military instruction, veterans affairs and r related agencies last week. house minority leader hakeem jeffries is coming after you, saying he's coming after the gop spending plan. watch this. >> the extreme maga republican majority has unnecessarily decided to engage in political stunts and gamesmanship.

by marking up appropriations bills that have zero chance of becoming law. the extreme maga republicans who understand that dynamic are trying to shut down the government and hurt the american people in advance of the november election. maria: how ridiculous. you want to hurt the american people ahead of the election. you're leading this charge. what's your reaction to these charges? >> yeah, that's quite rich coming from somebody who literally voted against every single appropriations bill that came out of the house last year. we passed over 80% of bills to fund the government last year. long before the deadline. so there would be no shut down and hakim and almost every other democrat voted no. they voted against funding the government so they wanted a government shutdown and i'm sure they're just setting up the stage for another series of no votes. we're going to bring 12 bills that fund government.

and we're going to have a robust debate on spending. they've spent so much money that people can't afford to leave their house to go to a fast food restaurant and they want to keep spending money we don't have. we identified over $250 billion in illegal payments, payments going to people that aren't even real people, tax credits to illegal aliens and they want to keep doing that. they want to send your money to people that aren't here legally. that's what we're trying to get under control so we can get the economy moving again. we're going to move the bills and let them vote for those. maria: we'll be watching your work. thanks very much for being here this morning. great to see you. steve scalise in louisiana. stay with us. we'll be right back. daughter: hey, dad. dad: hey, sweetheart. daughter: what are you doing? dad: i'm gonna clean the fence. daughter: it's a lot of fence. dad: you wanna help me? dad: aim at the wall, but get closer.

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jurors in former president trump's new york trial will return to court today this morning, they'll continue deliberating for a second day after leaving the courthouse yesterday with no verdict. trump telling reporters about the lack of prosecution witnesses. watch this. >> we have a lot of big players, very big players that would have solved their problem or actually would have given us the win. we already have the win. we had a fair judge, this would have been over a long time ago. why didn't they calls those witnesses? they didn't call them because they would have been on our side and it's a shame. maria: joining me is chris swecker, a former fbi agent and attorney. thank you for being here. what's your reto rea action to s trial? >> as a former prosecutor, i've been practice law since i retired from the fbi, you get a sense of what the jury is thinking, they're unpredictable. in this case, you obviously had

the defense -- the defense usually tries to confuse the jury in a criminal trial and they default toes there's reasonable doubt. in this case, i feel like the prosecution has tried to confuse the jury and then when they do that, because it's a complex, convoluted case, when they do that, the jury defaults to the judge and we a know this judge d his thumb on scale since day one. they look at the defense table and say he's at the defense table over there, he must be guilty of something so in this case it's a ver to confuse the , throw a lot of counts at him, they are asking for testimony from cohen, i see that as a bad sign. cohen's testimony ought to have been discarded completely. yet they're now asking about that. that's a bad owe men, i think. maria: -- omen, i think. maria: do you think there's disagreement among the jurors, maybe some of them are sure they want to go one way, others are

saying no, i want to go the other way and that's why they say let's look at that again. >> yeah, i mean, i hope so. we look at the john edwards case, for example. there was something similar going on there. he was trying to cover up some sort of you allegedly trying to the cover up a marital affair. that jury went 12 days and rendered not guilty on one count, hung on five others. the longer the jury is out, the better it is for trump. at least it speaks of a hung jury and if a hung jury comes back it will take a long time to retry this case, it will be long after the election. i fear that these two lawyers on the panel, these two new york panels on this jury panel are going of have an outsize influence on other jurors. i think they're spring loaded towards sort of influencing them, they're lawyers, they're new york lawyers. you know they're going to be on

the progressive side, shall we say, so i'm y afraid they're gog to have influence. maria: do agree with that. you're a lawyer, right, todd? >> i don't know. we were talking about this in the green room earlier. yes, you may be a lawyer but that doesn't necessarily mean that you engaged in criminal law when you were there. trey gowdy talking with steve doocy the other day, basically said this is like me saying do you want me to write your will and he would rather have brian kilmeade write the will than trey gowdy because you're specialized in certain things. what i think matters is the fact that they are going to actually care about the jury instructions and i think, my gut -- you tell me if agree, that ultimately was the reasoning for the recitation again of the jury instructions one final time yesterday. it's those lawyers saying hey, we need to be button up on this because the instructions to the

jury and how we follow the elements of the case actually matters. your thoughts, chris? >> yeah, i don't think these two lawyers are going to be able to help themselves but from trying to interpret that law because they don't have it in writing. it's all verbal and the judge forced them to go back and ask questions if they want to hear more about the law. he's basically taken the law out of the hands of the lawyers. normally, a defense would take the elements, recite the elements of a defense and go through a, b, c and d of those elements saying they didn't meet the burden here, didn't meet burden here, didn't meet their burden here. in this case, this judge has taken that part of the argument out of the picture. so that part alone i think shows sort of a bias on the part of the judge. everybody's been talking about this, that he's clearly got his thumb on the scale there with respect to the two lawyers, we don't know anything about them but i feel like lawyers in general like to explain things,

they're not going to be able to help themselves from not doing it. maria: trump is asking the new york court of appeals to expedite the review of his gag order. ohio senator jd vance is calling for a criminal investigation into judge merchan over his gag order enforcement. vance writing to ag merrick garland, quote, the public evidence suggests an investigation is warranted at least and all indicationses are that the responsible parties had their sights set not only on rights protected by the constitution but on rights holders of core federal concern including the leading candidate for the presidency, chris. >> yeah. i mean, that's a big issue. i think a bigger issue here is if he's convicted, how quickly can this get up to the appellate courts because there's mountains of reversible error here from start to finish and the gag order is one thing. maybes he succeeds on that but the more important thing here is he wants to avoid having that

felon label on him as we lead up to the election and that's the whole purpose of this prosecution. so i would look for an expedited appeal as quickly as they can. i doubt we'll see it. but we've got a presidential candidate here. maybe they can expedite it. you can see i'm a little pessimistic about the jury. maria: what happens if gets a conviction? how does that play out? >> well, then immediate appeals, post trial motions come first. i don't think this judge will rule favorably towards the defense on a quick post trial motions. then it gets into the appellate court as quickly as possible. then who knows what happens in new york. does it move quickly because of the nature, because of the election or do they slow it down? i think that's key here. again, unpredictable juries, i don't like that they're asking about testimony on cohen's part. they should be discarding that completely. maria: yeah. attorney for president trump

will sharf who is on the president's a pellet team joined the program last week, he said the courts will ultimately get it right on appealing any conviction. watch this. >> there are any number of issues we would raise on appeal. obviously evidentiary sufficient ssigh, numerous trial decisions relating to what evidence he allowed in, what evidence he didn't you allow in, what sorts of arguments he allowed to be made, what sorts of arguments he kept out of the courtroom, any fair jury would see through this sham of a case and i'm hopeful that the jury seated in this case can look past any potential political issues, any potential political biases and see this case for what it is which is an absolutely baseless prosecution, brought for fundamentally political not legal reasons. maria: but chris, they may actually be v victorious. even if the appeal wins that

would happen after the election. that would still impact trump's chances because it would happen after the election. >> highly likely. unless they can just get a very speedy appeal, get it up to the aappellate courts quickly. they have to frame their arguments. that takes time. you have to brief it up. they have to pull the record out from the lower court, brief it up. that takes a lot of time, it's a long, drawn out process. we know there are mountains of appellate reasons for the appeal, basis for the peel. appeal.it's all there. the judge should have directed a verdict right after the prosecution's case, no question about that from a legal perspective. maria: so many questions. like why the prosecution went last in the closing arrestingments is another -- arresting aments is another thing people are questioning because that's not typical. it's great to get your insights. thank you so much. chris swecker here with us on the trump trial. stay with us. we'll be right back.

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a new college poll of likely virginia voters shows that president biden and former president trump are tied in the blue state. trump and biden getting 42% support in the poll, putting virginia in play for the election. biden won the state by 10 points back in 2020. pga star scotty scheffler's attorney getting into a heated exchange with reporterses after criminal charges against the golf her were dropped yesterday. watch this. >> he is being interrogated after the most stressful situation of his life. all right. and an officer is actually asking him leading questions and trying to get him to agree with them. okay. and that's why you don't talk to the police. because they are going to try to put words in your mouth. that's exactly what they did. he wants to move on. he's still the best golfer in the world. there's a lot to be said for that.

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unnamed investor on the deal. new york magazine is out with a critical piece about transportation secretary pete buttigieg's job performance, in the column they write, quote, is pete buttigieg doing a good job, trains are derailing, plane parts are falling from the sky and a former mayor of so south d is overseeing it all. under his watch the southwest airlines holiday disaster of 2022, 17,000 flights canceled, faa full ground stop happened the next year, the east palestine, ohio train derailment, spilled toxic chemicals and this year too many boeing issues to list because we don't have that much time. i want to point out that pete buttigieg went on the sunday morning show on cbs and he tells margaret brennan, climate change, turbulence and the issue on the roads, the skies, it's because of climate change. maria: unbelievable. >> critics are saying

absolutely not. the tusturbulence is because ths more flights in the sky right now, that's causing the jet stream disruption. maria: we're talking about incompetence and about him being mia. a lot of situations happened and he was nowhere to be found, like the east palestine situation. where was he. >> the southwest airlines holiday disaster, took days to come out. 17,000 flights. maria: new york magazine is questioning it. that's something. >> the broader issue is not that things have gone wrong on his watch, because these things would have happened no matter who was the secretary of transportation. maria: there's oversight they're supposed to be doing. >> the broader issue is he and the entire administration pretended nothing bad ever happened and somehow it's not their fault so i think the problem is, you have a person who was the mayor of south bend, indiana, probably more qualified to be secretary of agriculture or maybe secretary of the navy than he is to be secretary of transportation and so he thinks the bridges are racist, built in 1960.

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