their approach to how they charge college tuition. maybe they will be more likely to take responsibility and return on investment depend on what you're majoring in. you shouldn't take out $100,000 of student loans to be a teacher , or a police officer, and those are the messages that we need to put out, to reach the student body and to reach the parents out there. ashley: well, reform is most definitely needed. nicholas, thank you and again the u.s. supreme court on a vote of 6-3 along ideological lines, basically agreed with six republican-led states that had sued to challenge this bailout program by some estimates would cost more than $400 billion and again, basically, the court rejecting the initiative saying that president biden exceeded his power. all right it's now right at 11 a.m. right here in new york and again, we're just going to reset the program for you. we've got the supreme court decision on student loans ruling

that blocks president biden's plan to cancel $430 billion worth in student loan debt. let's go back to edward lawrence to recap what we've learned so far. edward? reporter: yeah, again, let's reset the situation here. the supreme court did hand down a ruling. they ruled in two cases, actually. in one, they found two of the borrowers did not have standing related to this. so they flu threw that out and in the second case they ruled the states did have standing and beyond that they ruled the biden administration overstretched its authority when trying to forgive student loan debt. basically reversing that decision from the biden administration. president biden during his campaign promised to remove student debt some 20,000 or up to $20,000 worth of student debt per borrower. the federal reserve and the new york federal reserve says that's about $441 billion. now, what the chief justice john roberts wrote is that he rejects the argument by both the biden administration and in the descent. this was precisely the kind of

program talking about the heros act that congress intended when it reached and enacted the heros act. that is what the biden administration used, the heros act, after 9/11 to wipe out or try and wipe out this student debt. the justice roberts also goes on and says he rejects the biden administration's contention that the heros about gives them power to wave legal provisions saying that the effort could wave here does not remotely resemble how it was on prior occasions. it doesn't rise to the level of a national emergency as basically what he's saying there, so he goes on in this decision to say that it is the congress' ability to get the power of the purse. congress is the one that can approve this much money going forward and that is something that this decision definitely divides. the separation of power between who controls the purse is it the president or the congress. the president trying to appropriate basically $441 billion according to the new york federal reserve to wipe out student debt. the supreme court saying no, if

you're talking about this size, this amount of money, it's congress that has to appropriate that. it goes on to say the president does not have the authority under the heros act to do this. ashley: the president doesn't have the power. edward lawrence thank you so much, edward. stay right there as we get more information but guess whose here dagen mcdowell. great to see you, dagen. okay, supreme court says you know what, mr. biden? you don't have the authority to throw around $430 billion and that people are off the hook when it comes to their loans. dagen: he knew that in advance of this decision. nancy pelosi knew that in advance of this decision. he moved ahead with it anyway because he was pushed by the squad who were screaming to the high heavens that you have to do something to relieve these people of their student loan debt. he did it to buy votes. it was very obvious. he did this with the moratorium on evictions. he knew that he didn't have the authority to do that. moved ahead with it anyway.

the osha band aid on vaccines did that, overturned as well. i want to point something out. in terms of the bidenomics tour of how awesome the economy is. if bidenomics has been such a boom for americans, and people have it so good, then why do people need a student loan bail out? ashley: very good point. very good point. dagen: they are buying votes, once again, and one more thing. the american people, excuse me, people who didn't pay their own way, people who didn't pay off their student loans, people who chose not to go to college or chose not to take out debt, there's been a moratorium on making student loan payments for more than three years. that doesn't, they only have to start resuming payments. interest will resume in september of this year and then

there is a three-month grace period if people miss payments. payments are only due to start in october of this year, so let me explain what's going on. there's no, so no payments for more than three years, and no interest accruing for more than three years. what does that mean? when you have a loan with no interest accruing, that loan is declining in real value by the inflation rate. ashley: of course. dagen: so, what has happened, over the last three and a half years, everybody in this entire country with student debt has gotten a bailout because their loans have declined in value by the inflation rate because they have not paid a dime in payments and they have not had interest accruing on those loans, so you got your bailout regardless of

what scotus decided today so shut the hell up. ashley: anyway, you know, and also, lauren, follow that. lauren: [laughter] ashley: look, you were saying to dagen's point people haven't been paying their loans for three-plus years. it's gone in their mind. lauren: whether they have a job or not, and pay or not, they are using whatever income they have to go on vacations and spend it otherwise, and now you're telling them that you have to start paying your debt. i just don't think three and a half years later people are going to do that. the white house is weighing in on this. a source telling fox news, obviously, the white house strongly disagrees with the court. they were prepared for this scenario and the president will have more to say later but he will make clear he's not done fighting yet. he's going to announce new action. new actions to protect these student loan borrowers with bidenomics, to your point, dagen , being such a great thing. they should be able to repay this debt. last thing. the politics of all of this. this person familiar telling fox

news that the white house will be making it crystal clear to borrowers that republicans are responsible for denying the borrowers the relief that biden has been fighting to get them. ashley: well there you have it and we knew that was coming, dagen. let me bring you back in. it's the mean, nasty republicans who all they're interested in is making millions and billions of dollars and they don't want to wipe out the debt of poor students who can't afford to pay their loans. that's his take on all of this. dagen: this relief that everyone with a student loan has gotten, every month, for the last three- plus years was started under a republican president. it was started under donald trump. lauren: yes. ashley: yeah. dagen: that's not a complement but that's the fact. ashley: right. dagen: it was $5 billion every month that was not being paid, that was not going into the u.s. treasury. all told, it's going to be more

than $200 billion that was not paid into the u.s. treasury by student borrowers and it will probably be even more than that. that's based on the committee for responsible federal budget. i haven't even done the calculation on how much the actual loan values decline based on inflation without the interest accruing, but they can spin it any which way but this is immoral. trying to say to people that you made, it is an obligation. you borrowed and it was a promise to pay it back. ashley: exactly. dagen: and if you never had any intention of paying that money back, that's called fraud and that's a felony, but that's a discussion for another day. ashley: but you're absolutely right and so many people feel the same way. dagen, thank you so much. dagen: sorry. ashley: you're so fired up and guess what you'll be on later today with sean duffy covering this and i can only imagine

you're going to go off. right? you're going to let it rip. dagen: did i curse earlier? ashley: no you didn't, relax. dagen: i adore you ashley webster. its been too long my friend. ashley: 6:00 p.m., watch dagen, let it rip later on today. let's bring in jonathan hoenig right now. jonathan great to see you. look, millions of borrowers are going to be forced to payback their loans based on what scotus has just done. from a market point of view does that have any impact? >> well it's a positive, ashley it says at least the rule of law is still intact and the fact that borrowers are being held responsible for their loans. i mean, look. the notion of forgiving people's student loans as dagen pointed out this is immoral. why should a truck driver from pensacola subsidize some liberal arts student's degrees from new york city? i mean, completely immoral. it's also impractical ashley. talk about inflationary. as dagen pointed out we're talking about billions and billions of dollars. no such thing as a free lunch.

every american pays for that so the real problem here is governments involvement in this whole student loan and the whole education financing scheme at large. that hasn't changed and the fact the democrats want to expand that even more. ashley: very quickly, jonathan. we talk a lot about consumer debt in whatever form, but it's starting to pileup isn't it? does that worry you? >> it does, ashley. the average household now has $10,000 in credit card debt. that has exploded and another reason why despite again this victory lap of how strong the economy is, why are more americans tapping into their 401 (k) and once again, piling up tremendous credit card debt at a time what credit card interest rates are at an all-time high so lots of warning signs on the economy. ashley: jonathan thanks for jumping in picking up this issue of student loans and consumer debt we do appreciate it thank you very much. >> thank you. ashley: lydia hu back on the set with us. now we know the result. maybe not a big surprise, lydia. we'll hear from the president we think later on in some form or

fashion but what happens now, do you think? reporter: well, you know, we have been talking about the financial ramifications of student loans coming back into play. we know that many student loan borrowers especially if they graduated during the pandemic have not paid a dime yet on loans that the they will now owe ashley: right. reporter: so we know that businesses have been bracing for this very moment and we maybe will see the ramifications. not to say that borrowers should be left off the hook because of that but i think because people are so squeezed at this moment we know credit card balances are high, inflation is still remaining sticky. you know, i was just taking a look at some of my notes from past reporting that we've done. we have heard from jpmorgan anticipating some major brands feeling the squeeze from this because people are going to be particularly millennials and gen x'ers have to go back to paying two to $300 on average brands like canada goose, crocs,

nike, nordstrom, steve madden predicted by jpmorgan are all going to feel the squeeze. we heard from the ceo of over stock earlier talking about how the consumer remains under pressure and this is an issue he was predicting. in fact for the rest of the year ashley: interesting thank you very much. stay there. coming up, republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy will be here. we're going to get his take on the supreme court's decision to block joe biden's student debt bailout. vivek is with us next. do you shop for vitamins at walmart? force factor products powerfully improve your health, but they're also delicious, easy to use, and affordable. that's why force factor is now the number one best selling herbs and supplements brand at walmart.

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call today to request your free bond guide. 1-800-217-3217. that's 1-800-217-3217. ashley: let's get back to the u.s. supreme court blocking president biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. 2024 presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy joins us.

great to have you here, vivek. let's start there. get your reaction to the court essentially saying joe biden doesn't have the power to handout that kind of money. >> i think it's a great decision by the court. it actually builds on west virginia vs. epa which they ruled on a year ago. that held that the epa, the environmental protection agency, exceeded its constitutionally authorized scope from congress. this comes down on the same side of that question with respect to the u.s. department of education so i think this is even more important than just being about student loan forgiveness, and as a policy matter, i think it is a disaster to be able to forgive loans for some in what's actually a regressive move by biden but the more important legal point, and this is what'll be important to me as u.s. president, when i lead the executive branch, is that if you agree with the supreme court here, it means that most regulations committed by the federal administrative state are probably also unconstitutional, which i think

is great news and i will govern the executive department of the u.s. government accordingly, not enforcing a lot of these unconstitutional administrative state made-up regulations. ashley: wasn't this whole program just a vote-getting exercise from the president to try and get the younger vote, hey i'm going to wipe out your student debt. it's all about votes. >> it's about pandering, absolutely, buying up as many votes as you can like showering cocaine on a bunch of addicts. it doesn't mean it's right for them but it works in the short run. what i think we need to do is start thinking over the long run our federal government now ashley has a bad habit of paying people in this country to do the opposite of what we should want them to do. pay them more to stay-at-home instead of go to work. more to single mothers not to have a man in the house then to be married and now subsidizing loans for the people who aren't paying them back rather than for the people who do. i'll end that as our next president. ashley: very good. i want to go on to the other big issue the high court also struck down. affirmative action in college

admissions. your thoughts on that? >> so, i have been a chief proponent of affirmative action for a very long time. i think the court came down on the correct side of this but i think that's not a destination. that's just the first step. we now need to evicerate race-based preferences in every sphere of american life including in the economy. as u.s. president i'm going to use that as a next step to say i'll repeal lyndon johnson's executive order which requires government contractors, employ ing about 20% of the u.s. workforce, to adopt these race-based quotas as well. we need to restore a country where again you're judged not on the color of your skin, but in the content of your character and your contributions. meritocracy is part of what it means to be an american and i'm proud to say the supreme court took a first step. it is just that, a first step to restoring merit in america. ashley: next one for you, vivek. a new fox poll shows 48% of americans believe the country's best days are behind us.

well that's depressing. it's down 9 points from just two years ago. what would you do to turn this around? where's the disconnect? >> i think the disconnect is that young people don't even know the facts about our country 's history. i believe that every high school student who graduates from high school should have to pass the same civics test that immigrants to this country. my mother had to pass when they became a naturalized citizen, that other naturalized citizen vs. to pay to know something about a country. young people don't valet country that they just in hair it. they valet country that they have a stake in building. the other thing, ashley, is the declining economic growth in this country is not helping that statistic. we're slated to grow at less than 1% gdp growth this year. for most of our national history we've grown at over 4-plus percent gdp growth. i have a good plan to restore that. it's not complicated. unlock american energy. put people back to work. reform the fed. shutdown the administrative

state. once we restore economic growth again in this country, i think many americans of every age will once again be proud of this nation as well. it's part of what we need. ashley: very good. i got to ask you about the polls how much faith you put in them but they certainly show donald trump way out ahead at 56%, ron desantis at 22%. you're in at number three in the latest poll at 5%. what does this tell you? i mean it's very early days yet, but it does seem that donald trump is no matter what his legal challenges are continues to be streets ahead. why is that? >> well here is what i'll say. i'm ahead of where trump was in june of 2015. that's the apples-to-apples comparison and the fact is ashley i'll be honest. most of this country still doesn't know who i am. so the fact that i'm placing as high as third place in some of these polls including that recent one is i think a great sign for what's ahead for this campaign. the debates start in august. i think anything before the debates at a granular level

is irrelevant. i'm glad i'm going to be close to the center of that debate stage hopefully and then we'll actually move up from there. we have an early voting system in iowa and new hampshire for a reason. i think first in the nation status is important because it allows voters to really get to know candidates personally. that's why i think we have a good system that selects the right nominee and i'm aiming to be that person. ashley: will you take the pledge the rnc is asking for to support whoever the gop picks for their primary candidate? >> if every other major candidate in this race also does the same thing, then as a table stakes for getting into that debate i'll absolutely do it but i think that more importantly we as a party need to debate. forget the who. we need to debate what we stand for and why we stand for it. that's the more important part of the debate stage. we argue about the who too much. i argue about the what and the why. let's define that agenda and i hope we select the party the nominee for our party whose actually leading the way in

defining that agenda. i think that's what we're already doing ashley. ashley: very good. we'll have to leave it there but vivek ramaswamy, sir, thank you for joining us today. really appreciate it. >> good to see you. ashley: thank you. come back in here, lauren. what's presidential candidate talking of primary candidate tim scott. what's he saying about the supreme court ruling? lauren: this is a strong statement. senator scott says joe biden wants you to pay off the student loans of lawyers and professors. i want to strengthen vocational education and apprenticeships, we need more welders carpenters electricians. these are the jobs that built america and these are the jobs liberal elites can't ship to china. college isn't the only path to the american dream and it's time for a president who values hard work and the people who do it, and that has long been an argument by many people. ashley: it has. lauren: we're rethinking the value of college education. is it worth the money? why do prices still keep going up? if you look at the size of the student debt market borrower

s owe $1.75 trillion in student loan debt. was that degree, are you using it and was it worth the price? ashley: very good questions thank you, lauren. lydia hu still with us here too. lydia, you have more reaction to those decision? reporter: yeah, we have a taste of what chief justice john roberts also wrote in his majority opinion since he wrote for the court here and it touches on what vivek ramaswamy was just talking to us about, about this opinion of obviously canceling this plan to forgive student loans, but also really being about separation of powers and limits on executive authority so here is what chief justice john roberts wrote. "this court has never drawn the line. the secretary, that's the secretary of education, suggests and for good reason. among congress' most important authorities is its control of the purse." all this leads us to conclude that the basic and consequential trade-off inherent and a mass debt cancellation program are

ones that congress would likely have intended for itself. i think that's interesting there , too, ashley, because i'm sure you remember. congress, back in june, presented a bill to the president to cancel his student loan program. the will of the people, speaking there, i think you could argue and president biden vetoed that. now, here we are again back back reversing. ashley: now he's being vetoed by the u.s. supreme court. reporter: it feels that way. we're also hearing from elizabeth warren quickly because she has reaction. she said "the same supreme court that overturned roe now refuses to follow the plain language of the law on student loan cancellation. the fight is not over. the president has more tools to cancel student debt and he must use them." so there we have it. the call from the progressive wing to use other tools, perhaps as they discussed the higher education act. ashley: lots more to come for sure, thank you very much and of course we'll have very much more coverage on the supreme court's decision to

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ashley: let's get back to the u.s. supreme court blocking president biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. shannon bream is at the supreme court this morning. shannon, thanks for joining us. can you take us through the ruling? >> yes. so, we had wondered after sitting through the arguments whether we would get past this issue of standing because there was a lot of time spent on whether or not the states that brought this claim, actually had standing. there were also individual borrowers. the court said no, they don't but they did say the state of missouri has standing to this take on and you'll remember what happened is here the education secretary said i'm going to use the heros act after 9/11 meant to help service members and different issues they were having. i'm going to use it and apply it to covid and say we can wave just out right forgive chunks of people's student loans to the tune of $430 billion. here is what the majority opinion written by the chief justice said. the secretary asserts the heros about grants him the authority to cancel $430 billion of student loan principal.

it does not. we do hold that the act allows the secretary to waive of modify existing regulatory provisions but they can't rewrite the statute from the ground up and essentially that's what the court found happened here. there's language about whether something this massive was better left to congress they are already bubbling on other things but today the 6-3 majority had admitted at times they weren't sure it was going to be legal to do. ashley: shannon, thank you very much. just getting some information in my ear, but i do appreciate it. shannon thank you very much. basically the u.s. supreme court , lauren says, you just don't have the power to do this. congress is the one going to have to handle that kind of money. shannon bream. always so great at the supreme court. shannon, thank you. let's check the markets now. we're not forgetting those. they are nice and strong today the dow up 212 points as you can see the s&p up 1% and the nasdaq

up a very healthy one and one- third percent. end of the week, end of the first half of the year, and investors are in a happy mood. lauren: it's astonishing, the performance of the stock market. the week, the month and the quarter. ashley: what are we looking at first? lauren: take a look at snap. the stock is higher. they launched snapchat plus, you pay $4 a month. they launched it about a year ago and they already have 4 million users. that's a pretty solid number. the stock is up 1.5%. let's look at roblox the stock is also higher so sony was ambivalent about offering a version of roblox because of kid users, and they are kind of having a change of heart now. they say maybe we were too conservative at first. roblox is up 3.8%. ashley: how about carnival? lauren: so this is number one on the s&p 500. a 7.5% gain the other cruise lines are sharply higher as well jefferies came out. they said it's worth the buy,

and it is likely a long term investment. does that suggest that this volatility might be over? they are slapping it with a $25 price target. ashley: smooth sailing which stu would roll his eyes because he hates puns and things like that but good stuff. lauren: i'm not sure if that's true. ashley: oh, he does. lauren: its been a great week for carnival. ashley: thank you, lauren. clayton fuller, former white house fellow, joins us now. clayton, good to see you. your reaction to the ruling today by the supreme court says the biden administration can't just hand out more than $400 billion in student loan relief. >> well, i think it's first off , thank you so much for having me. ashley: of course. >> but yeah, this is not a surprising ruling and something that i think reflects just years and years work on the conservative side to make sure that we have a conservative

court that we need to deal with these types of issues at the supreme court level and increase freedom across the country and i think you're seeing that in this term with the supreme court ashley: you know, house speaker mccarthy put out a tweet and part of that said 87% of americans without student loans no longer are being forced to pay for the 13% who do and i think that really says it all doesn't it? >> you're exactly right. this is a great day for the american taxpayer. these are decisions made by individuals that they are trying to pass off to the american taxpayer and i think the supreme court saw that and this is a great day. ashley: all right i want to change subjects while we have you here and talk about crime and progressive district attorneys. you have a new op-ed out. it reads, "this movement could retake control of prosecutor's offices." i'm intrigued, clayton. what movement are you talking about? >> well, it's a movement at the beginning stages. so i'm a district attorney in northwest georgia and the thing

i've been inspired by, i've been seeing with the left has been dealing with for a number of years especially in prosecuteing offices with alvin bragg in new york you have a 25% increase in manhattan on felonies and he's downgrading those at a 52% rate and now he's going after a minority of the american population, which represents 6.4 % of the american population by going after a veteran who was defending an entire train car there, and this indicates to me that we need a movement. these are prosecutors who are funded by george soros. he spent $35 million across the country in d. a.'s races and when you talk about these supreme court decisions that we're seeing coming down, this has been a decade-long movement whether you talk about federalist society and so many others ensuring that republican presidents have the opportunity to appoint conservative justices we need the same thing on the d

a side. i don't know how many conservative, district attorneys or prosecutors you can name off the top of your head but most americans can name five to 10 radical prosecutors ruining american cities and we need a movement immediately. ashley: ruining is a very good word, clayton, i think you're absolutely right but how do voters keep putting in these liberal progressives? i mean, i know george soros money is going into help with the effort but surely, the results speak for themselves >> and they do. i think you're seeing that even in liberal enclaves in san francisco. when you look at a prosecutor like kim gartner, they had an extraordinary reprimand by a trial judge in st. louis for having to dismiss a murder case her office was trying to prosecute. the victim family was beside themselves with what was happening in that office. kim gartner isn't running any more. these leftist cities are waking up to the crime and to what's

happening in their cities. you look at san francisco, just in 2021, they had 17 walgreens that have to close because of the non-prosecution of theft. so, even in those cities they are recognizing it and if we can give examples of alternatives that work like here in northwest georgia where they are conservative prosecutors focused on law and order and see the country represented by the year 1789 and 1776 rather than 1619 as chesa boudine would, we can offer the country a real alternative and it takes funding and it takes an organized movement and the conservatives have done it before because our conservative majority on the supreme court is evidence of that. ashley: just uphold the law. clayton thank you so much for joining us today. we do appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you for the privilege. ashley: thank you. by the way we know that george soros's son talking of which, alex, recently took over his father's very powerful open society foundation.

come back in here lauren. what has he done since taking the helm, anything noteworthy? lauren: he meets with a lot of people and i give him credit he's vocal about it. he shows it off on social media. nothings done in secret in terms of his meetings, so he met with senator chuck schumer the most nine times according to his socials, nancy pelosi eight times, and a couple weeks ago he held an event in new york with the house minority leader hakeem jefferies, jerry nadler, congressman gregory meeks, richi e torres, so he gets about. he takes a lot of pictures. ashley: yes, indeed. the 4th of july holiday weekend expected to break travel records , but unfortunately, chaos continues to pileup at the airports. grady trimble has the latest report from reagan national airport next. fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away ♪

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ashley: u.s. supreme court has blocked joe biden's student loan bailout. we know that now. lydia hu still with us and great to have you here. what about the costs of colleges how much is it for private school compared to public school that the a big part of this equation. reporter: because it's really putting up a spotlight on what the real problem is, which is the run-away cost of college and we know they have absolutely ballooned since 1995. you can see here how much the increases are up by more than 200% for a four year public school, 163% for a four year private school. just to put some numbers on that , ashley, the average price for a four-year public school, $21,000. so, not cheap even for the public education. lauren: public is 21,000?

reporter: yup. so, along with those costs, we've also seen the total portfolio balance as you've talked about for federal student loans. back in 1995 the balance collectively $187 billion. ashley: whoa! reporter: back in 1995 and we're now more than $1.6 trillion, and not only have the costs of college increased at a rapid rate but so has the rate at which we're borrowing to afford that. so, now you know, we're seeing, there are some government agencies taking a look at this. earlier government accountability report was late last year in december they came out with a report analyzing how college is communicating with students about these costs and they have found that nine out of 10 schools were not adequately disclosing the total cost of a financial aid package, books, tuition, room and board, and so there are some republican lawmakers taking action. senator bill cassidy introducing a bill just a couple weeks ago

to increase transparency around the cost of college. ashley: lidia, thank you very much. very quickly we want to move on to the markets for you keeping an eye on all very positive today. the dow up what 211 points, the s&p also moving higher by 1% and the nasdaq, big tech up one and one-third percent. now this. if you are driving anywhere this 4th of july weekend, good luck. no it doesn't say that but i say good luck. triple a expects more than 50 million people will drive at least 50 miles for their vacation. they say the best time to drive saturday any time before 12 p.m. and on the 4th of july any time before 11 a.m. worst times to head out is after 1:00 p.m. on saturday and on the 4th of july, they say, somewhere between noon and 3:00 p.m. probably the worst time. so, there you have it. may not be able to avoid it but let's take a look at the ongoing airline delays and cancellations as well as we head into the holiday weekend. grady trimble at reagan national airport this morning.

grady what's the latest from there? reporter: good morning, ash. it is busy. a lot of people here but for the most part, their flights are taking off on time which is an improvement from the past several days. even here, yesterday afternoon, there was a brief ground stop because of that smoke coming in from those wildfires in canada but overall, like i said, things are improving from earlier in the week. i want to show you the flight aware misery map. more than 1,800 delays and cancellations across the country right now. some of the problem airports are almost all of them on the east coast including boston, new york , d.c., as well as chicago o'hare airport and denver. it does appear though that the airlines are recovering after a combination of weather and staffing problems lead to those mass delays and cancellations earlier this week. jetblue is now joining united airlines and pointing the finger at the faa and lack of air traffic controllers for making

the problems worse this week. we also know the airlines are dealing with a shortage of pilot s and other employees themselves. we've talked to people who flying this morning. some of whom were impacted by those earlier delays and cancellations this week. they tell us they are a little nervous flying today, but they don't think the blame game is productive. >> i don't think finger pointing helps all that much. >> we had to stay overnight in chicago. all the hotels were full. we slept at the airport, and he missed his meeting monday morning here in d.c. >> the faa should already have their about together. i mean, they should have everybody together. they have been short staffed for 15 years. reporter: so better news today for the more than 4 million people expected to travel this 4th of july weekend, which as we have been reporting all week long is probably going to break records. even before covid, so a lot of people hitting the skies today. ash? ashley: looking very calm behind you but i don't want to jinx it.

grady thank you so much really appreciate it. by the way there's this story. trip advisor and stich fix are teaming up to make it easier for people to plan their outfits for vacation. they just launched a fashion forward version of tsa called the travel style advisors. shoppers can use trip advisors experience hub to add travel details, style, and the size of your suitcase and you will receive a personalized style output with a corresponding packing recommendation through stich fix. do we really need that? do you think? lauren: no. you pick your one color for your shoes and your belt and you go with it and -- ashley: focus on not losing your luggage. lauren: layout all my outfits. ashley: okay, don't go anywhere. friday feedback, it's coming up next. ♪

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ashley: you're looking at sea brook, new hampshire. doesn't look like the best beach day. a little foggy, right? it's currently 75 degrees there. you know what? you're on the beach. stop complaining. now it's time for friday feedback. come on in here, lauren. just you and i. lauren: holding the fort down. ashley: yes. first one comes from hc who says ashley webster. not only does he present your program at the highest level as a presenter, but his hair is lovely. lauren: it is. ashley: jealous? congratulations young lady is rather nice and easy on the eye also. well how about that for a comment. lauren: am i the young lady? ashley: you are indeed. lauren: thank you. i'll take it. ashley: my hair, by the way won an award when i worked in nashville. i won over another -- lauren: that was an actual award ashley: it was a got a wicker basket for the hair products. don't like to brag. lauren: it's real.

good genes. ashley: this one comes from joe. hi, guys. if you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you pick? all right, who would you pick? lauren: elvis, trump -- ashley: okay that be interesting lauren: oh, gosh the pope. ashley: that's pretty good i'd do something like henry xiii, einstein, is he really that smart, and then leonardo divinci , because he did everything, he was brilliant. lauren: is he the one who didn't shower often and smelled? ashley: i hope not. hold that thought. lauren: the italian artists was always ostracized because of his stench. ashley: anyway, all right let's move on from that lovely thoughn helena from 1995-2016. which station or network were you with while you were there?

so nice of you, i was at the nbc station, ktvh. i was there from 1987-1990 and i miss it and my two daughters were born there by the way so i have a lot of move for montana. miguel writes, traveling to las vegas on southwest airlines for years, dozens of people pre dashboarded wheelchairs and quickly and miraculously exit the plane and get to the slot machines without any help. we called them the vegas miracle flight. amen to that. we were talking about this earlier. lauren: i feel bad for the airline, because -- archdiocese what are they going to do? lauren: you can't question someone's disability and if you can accommodate people you do, but it's with everything going on flying right now and you see a long line of people who don't need help getting assistance? ashley: more of an issue when you have 28 people lined up but anyway, thank you, to everyone by the way who sent in their

friday feedback. it is now time for the friday trivia question. which club did astronaut alan shepherd use to make his golf shot on the moon? what a great question. 9 iron, 7 iron, 6 iron, or a sandwich. think about it, the answer, when we come back.

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ashley: all right. so we just asked you which club

did astronaut alan shepard use to make that all famous of all golf shots on the moon? the 9 iron, 6 iron, 7 iron, sand edge? i don't know if you play golf, lauren -- lauren: no. i've tried it. i'm not very good at it. i'm going to go with the 7 iron. ashley: that's a good guess request. i'm going to go with the 9 -- it's either the sand wedge or the 9 iron. and the answer is, we're both wrong, it's the 6 iron. probably the hardest of them all to the hit, but i guess when you're on the moon, it doesn't take a lot. lauren: why would he pick that one? ashley: i don't know, maybe service the his favorite club. shepard who commanded, of course, the apollo 14 mission, hit the golf ball on his fourth swing, three whiffs in front of a t audience back -- a tv audience back home. the markets are moving higher on this friday, we are down on "varney & company." thanks for joining us. "coast to coast" starts now. ♪ ♪