you are on with douglas holtz aiken of the american action form. andrew, go ahead. caller: good morning. thanks for being on today. my question is, do you think that when facing the american -- the debt crisis, and i'm sure you have seen a lot of this, the debt counter that is continuously rolling higher and higher, do think congress can find a bipartisan way to look at that and deal with that? thank you very much. guest: it's a great question. the one that keeps me awake at night, quite frankly. there is a lot of discussion now about whether a lot of debt is a bad thing or do we really need to get the national debt to down. there is an on norma's amount devoted to should we have a higher low level of debt related to say the size of our economy, but the key fact in all of that is you are picking the level of debt. you say we would like to have a lot of debt or have less debt. the u.s. has shown no capacity to pick in the 21st century. we have seen the debt only rise. rise in absolute terms relative to the size of the economy, all of the projections to rise in uncont

♪ host: douglas holt aiken is the head of the form.e also served as the head of the cbo from 2003 to 2005, joining us to talk about economic issues in the biden administration. guest: good morning. host: one of the key takeaways from the budget last friday was the topic of what happens to it. summarize what you saw from the report and talk about what that means for people who look at these things, such as yourself. guest: the report was quite striking. this is a budget that plans to spend more as a fraction of our national gross domestic product on average over the next 10 years than we ever have, including the world war ii period. it is a very expansive view of the government spending a lot of money. to finance that they are going to raise 3.6 trillion dollars in taxes and will average more in taxes as a fraction of national income then we had in modern history. it will also add another $1.4 trillion to the national debt running deficits over 10 years. it is a lot of spending, a lot of taxes, and more borrowing. host: if the trillion

. >> reporter: in the small town of forest, pastor odee aikens is trying to encourage people to get vaccinated after he nearly died from covid in april. 80 days in the hospital? >> 80 days. i didn't know whether i was in the world or out of the world. >> reporter: and a 2% chance of survival? >> 2% chance of survival. >> and so marcus moore is with us now. and marcus, we know this fourth of july goal of having 70% of americans with at least one dose of the vaccine isn't just a goal, authorities say there's an obvious reason for this. a real correlation with what they're seeing as far as new hospitalizations in counties and states where they're not even close to meeting these numbers. and abc news has looked into these numbers? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. an abc analysis, david, looked at the counties with the lowest percentages or rates of vaccinations of residents and it found that hospitalizations in those areas actually were more than double compared to the counties where they had the highest rates of vaccinations, david. >> all right, marcus moore on the virus tonight. and as you hear

aiken is theltz president of the american action forum and also served as a former director of the congressional budget office from 2003-2005 joining us this money to talk about economic issues in the biden administration. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> one of the key, i guess, takeaways from the release of the budget last friday was this topic of that ultimately what happened to it, summarize what you saw from the report and then talk about what that means for people who look at these things, such as yourself. >> well, the report was quite striking. this is a budget the plans to spend more as a fraction of our national gross domestic product on averagemi over the next ten years than we ever have, including the world war ii time so it's a very expansive view of government spending to finance that they will raise $3.6 trillion in taxes and we will average more in taxes with a fraction of the national income that we have in any modern economy history. they will also add another $1.4 trillion to the national debt by running deficits over ten years. it is a lot of spending, a lot of t

todd: joining us with his reaction, fairfax county school district dad gary aiken.n my high school graduation, how about yours? >> todd, thank you very much for having me on this morning to discuss this very important topic. i think it's important for your viewers to know that the comments here, her incendiary comments are not the first example of divisive and anti-semetic rhetoric. several weeks ago she posted vile anti-semetic tweets on her social accounts which were linked to the official nonpartisan fairfax county school board page where she called israel an apartheid colonizer that desecrates the holy land and kills palestinians and this caused huge outrage with jewish americans here in northern virginia and sparked outrage across all political lines and there were calls for her to apologize. she offered no apology. she dubbed down on it and -- doubled down on it and all of this was done on the final day of ramadan when she could have called for tolerance, when she could have called for dialogue. instead, she chose words that drove division. there's no surprise

and dick van dyke telling anthony his secret to success and what does it mean to earn aiken differentor he is 95 years old. he is still exercising. >> he looks good. >> congratulations. you go. >> i saw his dance moves in the latest mary poppins he is impressive. >> we need to know all the secrets. hopefully he has them. >> i think if anyone can do it would be anthony. >> for sure. not worrying about him. >> gayle. >> we will see you in 15 minutes. >> see you then. bye. >>> 6:45. let's get you caught up on traffic. here is gianna. >>> good morning. let's start off with the travel times. we are busy. travel times right around 50 or 48 minutes if you go from 205 to 680. no accidentsful that earlier trouble spot. tracking the brake lights. east shore freeway. 22 minutes and highway 4 itself. we have a couple things to look out for. getting reports of a car fire westbound around railroad avenue. first reports on the on-ramp. if are you trying to action set highway 4 that may be an issue. right now your travel time 42 minutes. we go from antioch toward 80. the south bay still in the green.

. ♪ host: douglas holt aiken is the head of the form.e also served as the head of the cbo from 2003 to 2005, joining us to talk about economic issues in the biden administration. guest: good morning. host: one of the key takeaways from the budget last friday was the topic

>> deandre aikens in the final pass, takes the suns from 103 to 102 win.hey compete for spots in the finals, the detroit pistons are looking ahead to next season now with a legup in the 2021 draft after securing the first overall pick. follow next season's draft board will be the houston rockets and the cleveland cavaliers. >>> let's go to the ice where the visiting montreal canadiens are one win away. in the 4-1 victory in game five of the semis. >> and to major league baseball, where the game's top prospect, 20-year-old wander franco was called up earlier in the day to make his major league debut. the switch hitter did not disappoint making his greatest impact in the fifth inning with his team trailing by three runs. >> franco, walked, scored flied up to center. drive to left field. he hit it out of the ballpark. his first major league hit! a three-run homer. >> wow, franco's three-run blast ties the game at 5. but they go on to beat the rays 9-5. and then seven in a row with a slump in the a.l. east. >> finally in philadelphia, two days of baseball's en

we'll see if we have to go back this mind get scrambled sometimes but my wife aiken, south carolina. there was a frost top. and all the kids from aching it go there on a friday night. and this was the central kind of focal point of this film one night the last night between two of the central characters. irani howard and richard dreyfuss will end up plant their planned anyway to go to on a plane to the east and to start college. and it's supposed to be this last night. and it's about cars. it's about romance. and there's a tinge of sadness in it because this character here toad. who's the nerd, you know, he never has a girlfriend. he's always awkward. he's always stumbling he will end up being the character in the postscript where you see where these characters go according to lucas. it's told to dies in vietnam. another central character and there's a sense. there's a drag race at the end involving harrison ford and this character john milner. but milner is the greaser milner is the guy who never goes anywhere. he doesn't go to college. he's just going to work around the garage, but

you are on with douglas holtz aiken of the american action form. andrew, go ahead.aller: good morning. thanks for being on today. my question is, do you think that when facing the american -- the debt crisis, and i'm sure you have seen a lot of this, the debt counter that is continuously rolling higher and higher, do think congress can find a bipartisan way to look at that and deal with that? thank you very much. guest: it's a great question. the one that keeps me awake at night, quite frankly. there is a lot of discussion now about whether a lot of debt is a bad thing or do we really need to get the national debt to down. there is an on norma's amount devoted to should we have a higher low level of debt related to say the size of our economy, but the key fact in all of that is you are picking the level of debt. you say we would like to have a lot of debt or have less debt. the u.s. has shown no capacity to pick in the 21st century. we have seen the debt only rise. rise in absolute terms relative to the size of the economy, all of the projections to rise in uncontro

dudas pero para comenzar, tenemos mucha esperanza en que se encuentre vida, realmente, ¿quÉ posibles aiken manejar y pueden tener fallo renal. lo otro, decir actuaciÓn severa que lleva a una persona a desarrollar un shock, la persona sanguÍnea baja demasiado y obviamente puede morir. >> ¿quÉ cuento puede una persona aguantar sin tomar agua? >> es difÍcil saber porque los seres humanos son disto mÁs de tres dÍas 400 se convierte en algo bastante difÍcil. >> seguimos esperando que esos milagros se den. mÁs adelante seguimos hablando contigo en el tema de los doctores pero estamos consternados. >> terapia psicolÓgica despuÉs para todos aquellos familiares que estÁn aquÍ, hay muchas preguntas sin respuesta y aquÍ estaremos informando en "despierta amÉrica". >> hay cosas bonitas en esta vida que es el amor. >> es que la vida es como una montaÑa rusa de emociones, de una cosa pasamos a la otra poco mÁs agradable tiene que ver con jlo, no puede evitar la sonrisa de oreja a oreja que le provoca su adorado ben affleck y es que la pareja sigue disfrutando de las mieles de su amor, estaba llegando al

american action forum president, form earn cbo director and former mccain campaign advisor, douglas holtz aiken much for being here. i want to get to the budget with you. but first, give us your assessment of the broad economy today, pretty good op-ed this morning in the journal about the economy coming back and growth on the horizon. this year, as well as next year. why do we need all this spending if the economy is doing just fine on its own? >> we really don't. this has been a mystery to me why there's all this talk about stimulus. we're having a tremendous recovery, the reason we're having a tremendous recovery is this has been a recession unlike any other we experienced. it wasn't the 20th century where incomes fell. it wasn't a 21st century where we saul wealth destruction like the dot-com bubble or financial crisis. the coronavirus stopped people from spending. they couldn't go to restaurants, get on airplanes, stay in a hotel. now that that's receding the economy is coming back just fine. the private sector expanded payrolls. they'll continue to do that. what we're seeing is supply side