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first approached. one grabbed a couple of muffins from his squad car. it got the dog out of the water and soon reunited with his owner. >> julie: that's all the time we have. rich, great to see you and "the faulkner focus" with gillian turner in for harris is next. >> gillian: thank you, rich and julie. supreme court may have ruled against president biden's student loan forgiveness plan but his allies insist the fight is far from over. administration is focused now on a so-called plan b. i'm gillian turner in for harangody on "the faulkner focus." they're criticizing the high court for gutting the president's 400 billion student debt plan. >> the supreme court is going themselves much too far. they are expanding their role
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into acting as though they are congress itself. >> this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is -- if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don't say gay caucus. >> i hope very strongly that the president's next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. >> gillian: within hours the court's decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. >> the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority
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to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was taken by nancy pelosi. >> people think the president of the united states has the power for debt forgiveness. he does not. he can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. >> speaker pelosi took that position before the president asked for a legal analysis on the heroes act. >> gillian: who does have the power here? grady trimble joins us from the white house. he knows. >> the president thinks he does and says he does. his new plan to tackle student debt forgiveness is two fold. number one they'll create an on-ramp to loan repayment and while they are doing that, number two, they will take another crack, the white house is, at forgiving and canceling student loan debt. the white house says interest will start accruing on student loans september 1st. borrowers will have to start
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payments in october. but if they miss a payment in the first year, president biden says their credit won't take a hit. at the same time, the white house is working on a new plan to cancel student debt using another law, the higher education act of 1965. >> president biden: we will ground this new approach in a different law. this new path is legally sound. it will take longer, but it's the best path that remains to providing for as many borrowers as possible with debt relief. >> some progressive like alexandria ocasio-cortez say the biden administration should go further pausing interest rates over the next year during the on-ramp period. republicans say president biden's student debt forgiveness plan was unfair, would have made inflation worse, and had more to do with politics than actually solving the problem. >> but e did not have the
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authority to do this. now he is going to try to do something else. he will -- he is giving false promise. it is wrong to expect 100 million americans who didn't have the opportunity to go to college to pay for those who did go to college. >> the committee for a responsible federal budget says it is time to put the costly cancellation schemes behind us. too much time has been wasted on empty promises and not enough time is spent making sure borrowers are ready to begin making payments again. they say the decision from the supreme court will help reduce the deficit in 2023 by $4 hundred billion. so scotus helping out with the accounting of the federal budget a little bit. >> gillian: grady trimble for us this morning. thank you. a lot of capitol hill democrats are hitting the justices over tm
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-- >> these are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep toward thor tearism and centralization of power in the court. there also must be impeachment on the table. we have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach and abuse of power in the supreme court has not been receiving the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy. >> gillian: let's bring in matt whitaker former acting attorney general. thank you for taking time with us this morning. want to get your take on all of this. first of all, on the politics side of things you heard democrats saying this is huge overreach, the ruling on affirmative action and student loans by the supreme court. but republicans are saying this is on the president. this was overreach by president
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biden, who was warned by some of his own legal advisors he didn't have authority to issue the student loan relief in the first place. >> i see it as having three independent branches of government. the supreme court gets to say what is and what isn't constitutional. it goes back hundreds of years. they have said that this is not allowed under the law. that congress has to pass a bill. now instead of passing that bill and giving student relief, the members of congress are blaming the court for the president's illegal acts. so i see this as very much the founder father's system working. vilifying the court like aoc and others want to do does not help our republic. it does not help our country get stronger. it just further divides us. this is the sad state of american politics right now, gillian, is that the left wants to vilify and delegitimize the
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supreme court, who is, as john roberts told us, is only there to call balls and strikes. if congress wants to pass that bill they can pass it and the president would happily sign it. >> gillian: what about the tens of millions of american college students or high school students about to become college students, the folks directly impacted by the supreme court's ruling and the president's move to forgive loans. is there any kind of resource for those people who feel like they were promised this tremendous debt relief and were counting on it for months and now to find out they won't receive it? >> i have think they had false hope in a president that did not have the power. nobody believed he had the power and legal experts for as long as that plan was pending were saying that this -- he didn't have the power. i think ultimately this goes down to teaching better money
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standards. that is teaching these students if you take out a debt you will have to repay it. where does this lead? not only does $20,000 of per student get forgiven, but then they will want their credit cards forgiven. this is going to be a classic children's book if you give a mouse a cookie. that's where we are right now with millennials and gen z. that does not teach responsibility with money. the government is not going to be able to bail out poor decision making and the value of higher education is what is the issue here. it costs too much to go to college and get a degree. unfortunately in the modern world is worth less and less. >> gillian: some of the responsibility is borne not just by the students who took out the loans but by the colleges and universities who have continued to jack tuition and other kinds of fees associated with higher education for decades now virtually unchecked in this country. let me ask you about this.
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after reporting the president has been warned by his aides giving any advice relating to his son, hunter biden, recently pleaded guilty to tax fraud he brought him to camp david twice and they call whistleblower claims bogus and saying this about the whatsapp messages alleged to be between hunter biden and a chinese biskupic he cans. >> the images are not real and continue issues. the data purchase ported to have come from mr. biden's devices has been altered or manipulated. john ratcliffe says he sees a cultural problem at the d.o.j. underlying all of this. listen. >> the reason the whistleblower and house republicans are saying
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absolutely adds up and everything you are hearing from the department of justice and f.b.i. doesn't. it is frankly inconsistent with f.b.i. and d.o.j. practices. it is no longer a question of whether or not there is corruption, but who is involved in the corruption? not a question whether or not there has been a fair and impartial administration of justice but who is involved in obstructing that justice? >> gillian: "wall street journal" op-ed argues the attorney general has an obligation to prove the hunter biden probe was not tainted by politics. do you agree with that and think he has a special obligation in this instance? >> i do. i have a lot of respect for director ratcliffe. i have think he speaks the truth. he has been in those chairs. he is a u.s. attorney in addition to being dni and a member of congress. i have think president biden is thumbing his nose at the american people by taking hunter biden along with him. obviously hunter is making sure that everyone sees his red backpack, that raises questions
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as to what they are talking about. this goes down to the bottom line is that hunter biden is the bag man for joe biden. they both became very wealthy because of their government connections and because of joe biden's public service. i have think it raises tons of questions. merrick garland needs to answer the simply questions as to why those felony tax charges were not brought before the statute of limitations required. that's a fundamental question we need to understand or it does look like a two tiered system of justice. >> gillian: the "wall street journal" is talking about david weiss. they say in a friday letter to house republicans he count provide specific information about the hunter biden case. his refusal to contradict the whistleblowers enhances their credibility. do you see it that way? >> i do.
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weiss could say it is not true and the conversations didn't happen. there were at least six witnesses to those conversations and it is true, he did try to take these charges to other places like d.c. and l.a. he have did try to get special counsel status from d.o.j. and was denied. and so u.s. attorney weiss will have a very interesting story to tell and we should wait for him to speak. congress should demand he come and speak as soon as possible to clear all this up. >> gillian: join me in holding our collective breaths on that one. matt whitaker, thank you for taking time with us. >> happy independence day. >> gillian: people are on edge after three explosions within minutes of each other targeted three different businesses. the suspect still on the loose. plus political issue the biden re-election team keeps coming up against in poll after poll. the president's age and its impact on his fitness for
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>> gillian: d.c. was rocked by explosive sunday morning and a molotov coke tail hitting three businesses in 15 minutes. a manhunt still underway for the suspect. police have been reaching out to the public for help catching the culprit or culprits. they released this photo of the alleged suspect and their vehicle. david spunt is in the d.c.
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newsroom with more. >> police offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or multiples behind this. the good news, these businesses were closed when hit. no one injured. an incredibly dangerous situation. it happened at three properties in northeast washington, d.c. early yesterday. the first location a bank atm. someone detonated an explosive outside the building causing extensive damage inside. the second location a nike store not far away. the third just minutes later a safeway grocery store. it happened within a 15-minute period beginning at 4:30 in the morning. the suspect threw what appeared to be a molotov cocktail through the store. palm is put out the photo of the suspect in the vehicle. the vehicle is a gold champagne acura tl are maryland plate
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17971ck. now local police and the federal a.t.f. are putting together the pieces of who and why authorities offering that $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect or suspects. let's look at the car once again. police have a clear picture of the license plate. it's a maryland tag 17971ck. any information viewers can call the d.c. police line. or text the tip to the department's text tip line 50411 and we cannot say this enough. when you give this information, it is important to remember you can remain anonymous. authorities just want the information. gillian. >> gillian: great advice, david. thank you. president biden's age has become a potential stumbling block ahead of 2024. karl rove has this advice to the campaign team. he says, quote, i think we're at a point in our country's history where people are dying for a
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generational shift. the party that figures that out has the upper hand next year. >> the president traveled yesterday, traveling today. you saw how he traveled during the mid-terms. especially is foreign travel. he is incredibly active as president and will continue to do so. that will not change. >> gillian: former senior communications advisor to senator chuck grassley joins us now and former senior advisor to judd committee. and a former mayoral candidate for south carolina. you heard what karl rove said off the top. it is hardly as if a vote for the republican frontrunner, donald trump, is a vote for a spring chicken candidate. >> so i think karl is wrong in one area with republican primary
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voters. you look at the fox news poll that just came out. he is dominating that poll again here. the next closest candidate is 30 points down. he is up by over 50 points there and tracking in that poll. and so i think he is wrong there. you've seen the momentum and data behind that. the rally in south carolina, tens of thousands of people and polls continue to show him dominating the gop primary. others have been a non-factor and who other interesting parts of this here. one is by 30-point margin donald trump leads with republican voters who care about the issues and 30 points on someone to beat joe biden in a general election. voters trust him in the republican primary to do that. talking about joe biden. in a democrat primary it's a different story here. recent nbc poll 43% of democrat voters are concerned about his age. economists polled 45% of independent voters are concerned about his age.
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any time he gets out and talking he is a gaffe machine. voters have ears and eyes and they look and it looks like joe biden is old to them. that's not getting to a general election where 70% of voters think the company is heading in the wrong direction. >> gillian: garrett points out in the polls trump may have not be younger than biden but people are not holding his age against him in the polls. what do you say? >> i have agree. president trump is clearly the person in the republican primary that certainly we expect to win the republican primary. as garrett said here in south carolina saturday people got up at 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning to stand in line to see him. he has a lot of support. so age is not an issue there. i would say from the democratic party side, you know, i agree with the press secretary. president biden is out there. he is doing the work. so, you know, the alleged gaffes
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or whatever, you know, that's why people love joe biden. he has always been the everyday person. he had gaffes when he was 50. i don't think that's an age issue. it is just him as a person and i think if they can focus on the work that he have is getting done and showing how active he is, i think we'll get past the primary and in the general election it won't be an issue. they're very close in age. >> gillian: to her point here, garrett, none of this is really easing worries in a general election about the president among republicans who are going to, in fact, need to vote for him in considerable number. take a listen. >> president biden: the constitution says all men and women are created equal. hard to tell. he is losing the war in air act, losing the war at home.
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>> thank you very much. great to have you. don't go anywhere, exciting day around here. we'll have reaction. >> gillian: republicans on social media pounced on the president's walk offset. scott walker tweeted the biden presidency in one clip. msnbc the network that aired the interview tweeted a laughing emoji. one political consultant. oh goodness, joe biden is really lost. >> him walking off is the least of his problems. i think it's funny and whatever. looking forward again his age will be something he has to answer for. this is not just republican talking point. you have democrats and independents deeply concerned about his age and stamina to do the job and doesn't help when he is not really campaigning, not talking to press as often as previous presidents. that plays into it.
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the other part is getting out and selling his agenda is something he has to do. the issue for the biden administration the agenda is unpopular. you can't find a poll where the american public approves of his handling of issues, the presidency or policies. he has a lot of work to do in 2024 that he wants to make up to that to address his age and policies. they have been unpopular. the question remains about his age and they have not done a good job easing those concerns right now. >> gillian: last week's supreme court rulings will also likely have a big impact on the 2024 presidential race and even farther down ballot. a couple of headlines. supreme court decision on education could offer democrats an opening. another supreme court just gave democrats a new 2024 rallying cry. republican candidates on the other hand are applauding the court's conservative majority. listen. >> i believe in the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscious of every american.
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in this case the supreme court drew a clear line and said yes to religious liberty. >> it was a fantastic win for individual liberty and freedom. the democrats are upset things didn't go their way. the people won. >> when the court makes decisions they don't like all of a sudden the court is a not normal court according to president biden. this is a results-oriented type of judgment. >> gillian: tamika, do you think the rulings on affirmative action and debt relief for students will help the president in 2024? >> absolutely. i think this is a time most people didn't understand the elections have consequences as relates to everyday things that the supreme court has now ruled on. so i think the key will be messaging. how do you tie in these elections, independent freedom and get it out in 2024 not just for president but the senate and the house. so i think most people will be
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very engaged in trying to figure out how do we combat these decisions and that is going to the ballot box. >> gillian: tamika is right. it will be easy for the republican candidate to say hey look what happened here. the student promised you debt relief and not able to deliver. >> elections have consequences. president trump is the greatest and longest lasting accomplishment is the appointing of three supreme court justices. i would see quick the polling, "new york post" had an editorial showing 52% of voters agreed with the supreme court's decision on the affirmative action, 45/40 on the student debt case not looking at the law. you are talking about getting rid of racial discrimination.
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asian-americans had a higher standard and then chief justice john roberts quoting nancy pelosi to get rid of student debt relief. the law matches up with the popularity from voters on both decisions. >> gillian: thank you both so much for your time. we have to leave it there. enjoy talking to you both as always. critics are ripping into the president over his count of his own grandchildren. a new report says the official line is to leave one of them off the list. plus this. a new flight mare taking off. pete buttigieg's -- >> it's a common them where they deflect and try to blame it on others. when you send somebody into a cabinet position that they aren't prepared for, this is what we're dealing with.
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unfold. this right here at home a record 40 million plus americans are set to hit the road this holiday. one reason is probably lower gas prices. the other is that the flightmare, national flightmare is continuing across the country. take a look a live look at the growing number of cancellations and delays at nation's airports. stranded passengers are talking about their frustration. >> i have never seen so many people at the airport. i have been traveling for years, i'm from the caribbean. i have never seen it like this, never, ever. >> everything takes so long. this is the worst. the very worst. >> gillian: so many folks are not getting to their destination. fox business's jeff flock is on the pennsylvania turnpike and we'll find out from him whether it was a good move or not. hey, jeff. >> i'm going the old-fashioned
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way getting behind the wheel of a car. we've been looking for traffic jams. give gillian a look out the window. can't find them. everything is moving pretty much according to plan if you are behind the wheel. not so much if you are in an airport somewhere. look at the numbers. as you report, this is the busiest holiday when it comes to independence air travel and car travel in history. 43.2 million people according to the aaa say they'll drive over this holiday and there is also a record number of people say they are going to fly. yeah, you heard from one of those travelers there, they've never seen as many people at the airport. look at this number. over the weekend almost 8 million people traveled by air according to the tsa through the checkpoints including friday, which was the all-time busiest
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day ever in u.s. air travel history. that led to multiple delays and cancellations. i think the numbers are delays over the weekend 24,000 delays and 1400 cancellations. the folks at morning consult, which try to keep the pulse on people's attitudes on things out there told us what people are thinking about all that. >> consumers and travelers understand that flights may be delayed or canceled beyond their control. one of the things we're seeing is a high level of frustration at the lack of response in customer service when flights are delayed or canceled. >> gillian, you mentioned at the outset that would be gas prices, yeah. pretty low right now. about 3 1/2 dollars on average. this time last year 4.81 the average gallon of regular. there it is. pennsylvania turnpike. if you go to ohio, which we're
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headed for, you're going well. >> gillian: i can only wish our viewers sailings as smooth as yours. keep your seat belt on. pete buttigieg is trying to explain it. >> if you look at the overall picture we've seen improvements. we have a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. we saw the cancellation rates stay low. we're below 2%. they shot up at the first part of the week largely because of severe weather hitting some of our key hubs. i think most passengers understand no one can control the weather. >> gillian: a lot of those flyers are refusing to let him off the hook personally and directly. let's look at twitter.
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one traveler writes almost 3,000 flights were delayed or canceled this weekend. this is after he said he would, quote, fix the airline industry. and this is unacceptable. do better, secretary pete. so let's bring in raymond arroyo, travel expert extraordinaire. he books all my flights for me. >> god help you if that's the case. you know what we're learning? the only reliable airline at this point is greyhound. this is a disaster. i have been talking to so many people. i was stranded at the miami airport for four hours for a routine flight from miami to laguardia. people have been going through so much worse over the last few days. i've spoken to a lot of pilots and people in the airline industry. they all point to the faa here. you have the ceo of jetblue and united saying the faa has failed to staff enough air traffic controllers. so when weather intrudes, they can't reroute your flight quick
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enough. they don't have the manpower. that's what holds up so many flights and snarls everything up. the airlines don't have enough personnel, either. a tragedy given that you and i, the taxpayer, gave them $50 billion in covid relief. that should have been enough to bulk up their staff or retain it. >> gillian: that's on top of the historically high prices we are paying with tons of hidden fees to begin with for these flights. who do you think is complaining here and who needs to do a better job? list what you want? >> faa and airlines have to start working together. you need air traffic controllers. now they talk about flying cars, gillian. imagine that in the mix of everything else. the faa can't deal with the flights at present. we don't know people going up into a flying car that they just
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approved. >> gillian: that's coming up at the end of the show. ask you about this, too, raymond. new controversy now surrounding the biden family. this one over the president's grandchildren. here is what he said himself a couple months back. >> president biden: the best part of it all, i have six grandchildren and i'm crazy about them. i speak to them every single day. not a joke. >> gillian: the six count leaves out hunter biden's 4-year-old daughter. according to court documents a paternity test has proven she is indeed hunter's, he recently settled a child support case in her interest. "the new york times" is leaving her out in a new white house policy. aides have been told the bidens have six, not seven, grandchildren. critics blasting the bidens over it. marc thiessen calling it a disgrace. others labeling the bidens
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monsters and scumiest people to have disgraced american politics. why can't we decide how many grandchildren we have and leave it at that? >> this breaks my heart. we talk about a little 4-year-old girl who knows who her father is, knows that her grandfather is the president of the united states, and they don't engage with her or even acknowledge her existence. i mean, the psychological pain of that for that little girl everybody should take note of, particularly from a president who often talks about the dignity of every person an he is the protector of the soul of the nation. start with your grandchild, mr. president. >> gillian: one of the shots was of this 4-year-old girl. her mom posted on social media taking her to washington, d.c. to see the white house and the monuments. she knows who her grandfather is and said she herself is very proud of that relationship though it doesn't exist. we have to leave it there.
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happy independence day to you. >> god bless that poor girl. >> gillian: the fourth of july also means a whole lot of cook-outs for american families. they might be finding that food prices are burning a hole in their wallets yet again. we'll take a look next at just how big of a hole. plus this paging george jettison. the era of flying cars is set to take off giving one company the go ahead to begin testing. the ceo of that company is in "focus" next. stick with us.
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>> gillian: the future is officially here. the world's first flying car has been cleared for take-off. the faa giving a special air worthiness certification to this aeronautics company allowed to test their fully electric car on the road and in the air. the company's website says the car can get up to 200 miles on public roads and fits into a regular car garage and take off
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vertically or horizontally with a flying range of 120 miles. it is expected to cost around $3 hundred thousand and they are taking orders for the vehicle. the ceo is joining me now. jim, thank you for joining me today. it looks and sounds an awful lot like what we used to watch in the 80s on the cartoon network the jettisons. can you talk to me about the similarities? >> sure. so thanks for hosting me. the idea actually comes from science fiction. my father was very big into science fiction and gave it to me and big into science fiction. so we took inspiration mainly from different writers and also took inspiration from different movies especially from back to the future.
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what we try to do now is recreate driving on a street and taking off on one of the urban streets, which is possible with our car today. >> gillian: how did you come up with the $3 hundred thousand price tag? will you make any money on these cars once you are able to sell them commercially? i imagine it is very expensive to build one of these. >> yes, this is so the long-term vision we wanted to make it affordable and common place and nothing preventing it. the design of the car is such we can go to mass manufacturing production. we can deliver it at a cost close to something like toy ota corolla. initially in the beginning it is a very high cost so fortunately or unfortunately we have to make a high price tag but we are hard working at starting mass manufacturing and trying to get the price down to make it affordable for everybody. the whole idea is make people's commute easier and save people time.
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if it's done for a large group and a larger and larger group and everybody, it will make everybody's life easier and why weigh started the company >> gillian: once this takes off and people start using it. how and who is going to control traffic in the sky so that everybody is not crashing into one another? >> yes, thank you for using correct terms. highways of the sky, traffic in the sky. faa is working on it and doing a better job than what most people expected. i say your previous segment. they are overloaded. now they have to deal with us. they are doing a better job than people think and working hard trying to make it happen and try to make sure that there is -- it's very direct and very organized. in fact, we have a huge advantage of being organized in the air over -- than doing it on
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the ground. the main idea is you can expand and contract the highways as you need to in both directions and most of the cars are communicating with it in the air. that would be a much better solution than what you have on the ground. >> gillian: thank you so much for sharing this with us. we would love if you can share some clips of the tests and we also wish you all the best. >> we are working on it. thank you. >> gillian: get ready to fire up the grill and burn extra bucks. the american farm bureau says the cook-out prices are the second highest of the last ten years though they are down slightly from last year's record. we are joined from a background in arlington, virginia. hey, madison. >> we have a full spread thanks
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to ryan cooking up for us all day long. we have the grill going early just for you guys. we want to talk about prices. you can't do the july 4th cook-out without the sizzling, delicious burgers. unfortunately that's one of the items that will cost you more. when you look at ground beef, that's up 4% in cost. yeah, the bad news is it's not just the beef that goes inside, the buns as well. those are up 17% in cost. so i don't think you can do an independence day cook-out without your burgers but it will cost you more. if you are a chicken fan, it will go down in cost 9%. why the difference? the cost of farms are going up. chicken last year was crazy expensive so we've seen it come down from there. moving to desert, i promised this ice cream tastes better than it looks. the price is up 3%. good news, chocolate chip
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