chuck yeager breaking the sound barrier. then i said, wow. i didn't know that. maybe i wasn't paying attention? i didn't know that. they put it down and literally, that was the end of the tour. polly and i started walking out of that room, as i am walking out, it hits me. wait a minute. wait a minute. why did they stop there? i represent the hometown of neil armstrong. think about it. think about. 22 years later, after chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier, neil armstrong steps on the moon. in 66 years, we went from two guys flying 100 feet in this thing they called a plane to a man stepping on the moon. in between, another american breaks the sound barrier and another ohioan orbits the earth, all in one lifetime. don't ever let the left or anyone tell you this is not the greatest nation in history. and it is worth fighting for every single day. god bless you, god bless president trump. thank you very much. [applause] >> usa. usa. usa. usa. usa. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next congressman from ohio's 16th congressional district, max miller. ♪ >>

chuck yeager breaking the sound barrier. then i said, wow. i didn't know that. maybe i wasn't paying attention? literally, that was the end of the tour. polly and i started walking out of that room, as i am walking out, it hits me. wait a minute. weighted base -- why did they stop there? i represent the hometown of neil armstrong. 22 years later, after chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier, neil armstrong steps on the moon. in 66 years, we went from two guys flying 108 and this thing they called a plane to a man stepping on the moon. another american breaks the sound barrier and another ohioan orbits the earth for and one lifetime. don't ever let the left or anyone tell you this is not the greatest nation in history. and it is worth fighting for every single day. god bless you, god us president trump -- bless president trump. [applause] >> usa. usa. usa. usa. usa. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next congressman from ohio's 16th congressional district, max miller. ♪ >> wow. this is awesome. hello, ohio. i am wondering. are there any ohio state fans o

a few years ago my father shared the stage with chuck yeager, who broke the sound barrier, and today i shared the stage with sir richard branson. so, that's pretty cool as we talk about what's going to drive retail investors in this market, i do believe they have been emboldened by information that's available on reddit, success with the meme stocks, whether it was their personal success or their fringe success. i think that that's getting people more interested in the markets. and at the same time, there's a lot of people with extra time on their hands and extra cash in their pockets, compliments of the government stimulus payment. so, i do think that is working toward more involvement from that retail side of the market however, i would caution that we can look for increased volatility in the markets overall and particularly in these main time of names >> so, brice, marianne's basically saying retail investors in the market add to the buying power but also the volatility how would you describe market conditions as we head into the second half? >> well, i think what -- >> i'm sorry

but as west virginian chuck yeager said, you can't stray on results, no risk is too great to prevente got to focus on getting the job done and he has a chance to make that happen in a way that doesn't just build back our economy better but builds back our democracy better. >> he's not getting a lot of empathy from democratic circles this week, so he may appreciate wisdom that comes from somebody who has walked in footsteps similar to the ones he's walking in right now. tom perriello, thank you for your column and for being us tonight, former democratic congressman from virginia, executive director of the open society u.s. that is tonight's "last word." catch me tomorrow morning on "velshi" at 8:00 a.m., following president biden's historic first foreign trip. i'll be joined by congressman roger krishna morti and washington governor jay inslee. "the 11th hour with brian williams" begins right now. >>> good evening once again. day 143 of the biden administration, but it is the trump administration and its attorneys general that are under scrutiny tonight, increasing scrutiny at that. 2

chuck yeager, all of those guys to sit on that, to light that candle when you send up a monkey, he'st. but he has no idea, unless he's really smart he has no idea what he's in for. but men and women know exactly what they're on top of i'm not bidding on that auction. i know you have pretended to want to bid on that auction. >> i would love to do it, but i don't want to be the first >> you want to be the millionth. >> and richard branson when we asked him, he said the same thing, he's not going on the first flight for virgin. >> that's a ceo. >> it's still a huge presence, though, i would think, too >> all right let's talk about the fed it is preparing for the markets for the eventual reduction in its bond purposes. eventual, eventual, eventual, with the goal of aprovoiding a taper tantrum. steve leisman joins us, what does it mean >> i have a bit of a time line, we know the fed is in the early stages, tapering, that is, reducing $120 billion of monthly asset purchases that it did to stimulate the economy and keep interest rates down. comments by the fed said the issue is likely to be