>> buttigieg: yeah, i think so. i think that used to be this bridge. >> cooper: when grading the overall state of this country's infrastructure, the american society of civil engineers recently gave the u.s. a "c-." how is it possible that a country like the united states gets a c- on infrastructure? >> buttigeig: well, you get what you pay for. and for pretty much as long as i've been alive, our country has been under-investing in public things. for a long time, everybody here in washington said, "we got to do this," or, "we're going to do this," it's finally happened but we-- we got a lot of time to make up for. >> cooper: the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law by president biden in november guarantees at least $850 billion of spending over the next five years. there's $55 billion to help communities remove lead pipes and deliver clean drinking water, $65 billion to expand broadband internet service and make it more affordable, and another $65 billion to upgrade the nation's power grid. many federal ag

and want to acknowledge the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg sheer today. and those moving things. you know, as well as a dozen members of congress that are here, both democrat and republican, that's the good news. months ago in my state of the union address, part of my plan to lower costs for american, i promised to crack down on ocean carriers whose price hikes have hurt american families and american businesses and today i'm proud to say that we've got that done. on a bipartisan basis. and did you it quickly, folks in. just a few minutes i'm going to be signing the ocean shipping reform act of 2022. to stop shipping companies taking advantage of american businesses. and to bring down prices and give the american people a little bit more breathing room. you want to know why prices are so high? there are a number reasons having to do with putin's war in ukraine, disruption caused by the pandemic. but one of the factors affecting prices is this. nine major shipping companies consolidated into three alliances that control the vast majority of ocean shipping

pete buttigieg telling the press the feds may have to step in to fix the chaos as another busy travels away but things are not looking good out there, this is more than 2300 flights canceled just today so far. let me go to my pal katie, his flight is canceled, he has to go from new york to washington, d.c., is the motivation by his own personal cancellation or the hundreds of people who have to fly the week before the memorial day, what is the endgame? katie: he's more interested in trying to solve the problem but i don't have much faith in a guy who couldn't fix potholes in indiana to take care of this airline problem that we have with thousands of flights being canceled. my flight last week at 6:00 a.m. got canceled, no explanation why so i talked to a friend who became a pilot during covid and says was going on with all these problems why is there pilot shortage were during covid they retired they attend the pilots and they haven't been able to push and new pilots so that as part of this problem but for pete buttigieg to get involved i think will make it worse and i hope that he to

secretary buttigieg, thanks for joining us this morning.et's play off what jamie was saying there, he sees storm clouds there. elon musk is worried about the future of the economy. is that americans should be braced for? >> well, right now, what we're doing is preparing for the road ahead, where you're not going to see this kind of swift red-hot, wildly fast economic growth that we had over the last year or so, but still expecting strong economic growth and working to keep it this way. now, look, whether we're talking about growth or inflation, one very important principle right now that this administration takes seriously and respects is to allow the fed to do its job, but the administration and congress have a job to do as well, and that is to support growth in this economy, including issues on the supply side of our economy, like making sure our supply chains are stronger, making sure that we invest in the capacity, both physical and human, of our economy to keep up with the demand and taking action where we can to lower costs for americ

as more than a thousand canceled flights leave people stranded pete buttigieg are pushing airlines too something about it. jonathan sirri tracking develops in jackson international airport. >> hey, there, mike, in fact, u.s. transportation pete buttigieg experienced a canceled flight of his own on friday which inspired some of his ire. he spoke with the associated press on saturday saying that he wants airlines in the u.s. to stress test their summer schedules. he wants to ensure that airlines can operate all their plan flights this summer with existing staff and hire additional customer service workers. pete buttigieg says the transportation department could impose fines on airlines that fall short of consumer protection standards. the transportation secretary's actions come in response of growing complaints from travelers. >> when we checked in the ticket agent had said that almost all of the flights were delayed or canceling today. so i was just glad that at least ours wasn't canceled completely but now we won't get home until 1:00 a.m. >> one or two things, renting a car, driving

pete buttigieg is calling on airlines to hire more staff. >> your apology also continue. you got to be able to find pilots. there's a shortage. >> buttigieg is giving them until the fourth of july to find workers or face fines. they expect shortages through at least september. >>> where it will toonsoon cost little more to cross. tolls will increase to 20 to 35 cents. >> going up almost ten bucks, right? >> that threshold is coming. along with the 100-degree threshold. the heat kind of built today. peaks tomorrow. take a look at the big picture. the pressure increases, the atmosphere is weighing down on top of us and heat it is up. there's this little ripple dropping in from the north. it's not a full-fledged storm system but a little bit of a weakness. as that slides in from the north, it is going to help kick in offshore winds. the winds are not going to be very strong to start tomorrow. but they will turn to the offshore direction. not overly strong. so the fire threat, while it's going to be elevated with the near record temperatures tomorrow, not off the charts, whic

secretary buttigieg may crack down, fine, personize airlines for flight cancellations after buttigieg'scanceled the day after he met with airline executives. what do you think is going on here? >> the white house is confusing what is going on quite a bit. so the inflation is poorly perceived. in fact your viewers are better at forecasting inflation than the d.c. establishment was. if you look at inflation expectations by the population it's much more closely aligned with actual inflation than what the federal bureaucracies in d.c. have said and there is still inflation expectations are 2% higher than the bureaucracies are predicting essentially. that is worrisome. it feeds into consumption. consumer confidence as can sequence is lowest on record. elizabeth: yeah. >> that translates into consumption. consumption has dipped. retail sales dipped last week. consumption is 70% of our economy. it is spelling recession all over the place right now. elizabeth: why isn't the white house grabbing what you're saying, thomas? near is the thing, even the faa has a worker shortages. there are worker

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when the day is, none of us know what they are there, i promise you. >> please run pete buttigieg.: i would love that, i wish pete buttigieg and mike pence would rub them together. >> we've got dave smith. kennedy: i love him and want to help him and he makes more sense than anyone and i hope he gets on the big stage. let's talk about the young people. old politicians ruining the country on the it appears the teens, the kids are reading the awards according to the new york post, my official publication of choice, some enterprise and high schoolers are making up to $70 an hour in their summer jobs all because of the nationwide labor shortage. post reports in the last year average pay for a lifeguard jumped to $17 an hour. camp counselors, 18. waitstaff, $25. more specialized gigs making more than that. post interviewed a teenage basketball coach making $70 an hour. it works out to 136,000 a year. if i tell my 17-year-old that, she's going to learn how to play basketball just to teach little kids. how much less did you make in your crappy summer job? >> i made about half that or even

buttigieg also warning that the u.s. government could take enforcement actions against airlines that fail to adhere to consumer protection standards. >> we're doing everything we can, including trying to get in touch earlier and more often with our passengers and then again trying to hire more people back. >> reporter: mona, analysts predict that travel issues will continue throughout the summer. one analyst putting it bluntly saying, quote, the summer of 2022 is going to be travel hell. mona. >> faith, thank you. >>> new questions about the police response to the uvalde school shooting. sources tell abc news that surveillance shows police said never tried to open the doors to the two classrooms where the gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. had access to a tool that could have opened the doors. >>> senators working on a bipartafety bill meanwhile wrapped up another day of negotiations without finalizing the text. sources say talks are still moving in the right direction and they have until tomorrow to write the b

as pete buttigieg said, no magic dial in the oval office that controls gas prices. to opec and demand more production, that will help alleviate some costs we are seeing. the president's hands are tied and no good answers, you know, we have to get in bed sometimes with dictators when it comes to this kind of issue. >> sandra: critics may say he wrapped his own hands up in the keystone after he canceled that and saying during the election campaign i want to put the fossil fuel industry out of business is not creating a client to sink money into exploration. >> he wants at that shake anyone's hands, six hours into pennsylvania, and people willing to make energy for the american people, create great jobs, administration getting ready for the worst election outcome since watergate, they know it and they are trying to do anything they can to try and change policies that they put in place a year ago that has driven up food costs, energy costs, and made it less safe in america. >> john: so action on mass shootings, guns, john cornyn willing to work with him. the president g

buttigieg hopes to see some improvement by the fourth of july. anne-marie? >> naomi ruchim in new york. thank you very much. >>> breaking overnight, a 15-year-old boy was killed and three others hurt after a shooting at a street concert in washington, d.c. ent, but they shut it down after a large fight. another scuffle broke out, and that's when the shooting happened. a police officer is among the wounded but is expected to be okay. so far, no arrests have been made. >>> and we have an update on the investigation into a mass shooting at a school in uvalde, texas. according to "the san antonio express news" surveillance video showed police never tried to open a door leading to two classrooms in the 77 minutes after the gunman entered the rooms. 19 children and two teachers were killed in last month's attack. investigators believe that the shooter could not have locked the door from the inside as first suspected. earlier this month, school district police chief pete arredondo said that there was a delay because officers waited for keys and tactical gear. >>> t

transportation secretary pete buttigieg says he wants to actually see airlines in the u.s. stress test their summer steges, he wants them do this to make sure they can operate with existing staff and hi wants them to hire additional customer service workers. pete buttigieg says the transportation department could impose fines on airlines that fall short of consumer protection standards but he says he first wants to see how well the airlines do over the summer especially during the very busy july 4th weekend holiday. the transportation secretary's actions come in response to growing complaints from air travelers. >> we were going to go to maine to do father's day stuff with my son and that's canceled out. >> two out of three luggage. my third one is on a whole other plane. we have to get a rental car and wait for my luggage to come and hopefully make it out by this evening. >> atlanta is home to delta airlines which explains a variety of factors that continue, weather, unscheduled absences and some groups, canceling our flight is always last resort and we sincerely apologize

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transportation secretary pete buttigieg is warning airlines that the government could step in if the air travel chaos is continuing. jonathan serrie is live at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the world. if you want to go to heaven, you've got to change at atl, but they've been having delays there too. [laughter] >> reporter: that's right. at least if you're going on delta airlines. looking across the country today, 837 frights have been canceled according to the tracking service flight aware. u.s. transportation secretary pete buttigieg did an interview with the associated press this week and says he wants to doing something about it. what he wants to do is have the airlines conduct a stress test of their summer flight if schedules. he wants to insure that airlines can or not all their planned flights with existing staff, and he also wants them to hire additional customer service workers. buttigieg says the transportation department could impose fines on airlines that fall short of consumer protection standards. but he says he first wants to see

no one immune to this, even transportation secretary pete buttigieg had his flight cancelled.e had to drive just like so many other pivoted to when they had their flights cancelled, victor. >> richard, that brings us to you. this is not just u.s. airlines, we see the staffing problems all around the world impacting flights and traffic. >> all of that plenty of blame to go around, victor. plenty of misery loves company and global misery at the moment. give you an example, heathrow airport. cancelled flights. gatwick has done the same, amsterdam wants them to cut the number of cancelled flights. and reasons exactly the same. the industry has ramped up faster than anybody thought they were going to. in doing so, it's caused bottlenecks and pinch points across the industry. you know the airlines, i was talking to scott kirby of united airlines attending the annual meeting. scott was saying at the end of the day, we did staff-up to where we needed to be. the airports, customs, border protection, security, checking, you name it, every bit has lost workers during the pandemic. can't

explain to us, secretary buttigieg.how can you fix it. >> what is a failed mayor's knowledge of the transportation industry? >> martha: he accepted the job. he better get up to speed. >> if we're going to spend $50 billion, spend 100 million or $10 million on accountants to track the money. they haven't been doing that. the idea that the government does anything better than the private sector -- they say they know how to fix the problems of the oil industry. don't believe it. when you hear i'm here from the government to save things, grab your wallet. >> elected representatives should think about it when they start forcing money through. yeah, i voted for it. then they don't care. it's gone. >> watch out for the compete with china bill. another $52 billion up in smoke. >> martha: thanks, david. we have reports that are breaking of an amtrak derailment speaking of transportation. this is in missouri. we're working to confirm what happened here and to find out if there's injuries in this situation. we'll get you an update

transportation secretary pete buttigieg is pushing airlines to make sure they can operate their planr schedules and since his department could take action against airlines that failed to meet consumer protection standards. wall street journal global economics contributor is standing by with his reaction we have fox team coverage tonight jonathan serrie with airline delays and cancellations, first to lucas tomlinson live at the white house right now. president biden says a recession is not inevitable. the top economic advisor disagrees and calls us federal gas tax gimmick. >> i think the likelihood is that in order to do what's necessary to stop inflation, the fed is going to raise interest rates enough that the economy will slip into recession. >> we call the grave warning before passing a 1.9 trigon dollar covid stimulus bill saying it would cause skyrocketing inflation. the u.s. inflation stands at 8.6% today and already at 7.5% january before russia launched the war on ukraine despite biden blaming putin for weeks only 32% of americans blame putin the inflation crisis and gas rema

this is all coming with a stern warning from transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he met with airlines last week and told them to get their schedule act together, especially with july 4th on the horizon. that's when so many people will be traveling again. interesting tidbit here. transportation secretary buttigieg said in an interview, he had his flight cancelled from new york to washington. had to drive, instead, like so many people during this major cancellation period we're seeing right now. >> that's the reality for a lot of people. pete muntean, thank you for that. >> pete buttigieg enjoying the new jersey turnpike, no doubt. >>> the next public hearing for the january 6th committee set for tomorrow. the central theme has been the pressure campaign on vice president mike pence to unilaterally overturn the election. an exclusive interview with cnn, adam schiff, a key member of the january 6th committee, says they are still talking to pence -- or they still say the idea of talking to pence is on the table. >> we're not taking anything off the table in terms of w

this is all coming with an urgent message from transportation secretary pete buttigieg.m to get their schedule acts together with july 4th on the horizon. secretary buttigieg had his own flight canceled over the weekend between new york and washington. had to drive like so many people pivoted to after their flights were canceled, jake. >> pete muntean at reagan national, thanks so much. >> joining us now is brian kelly, a travel expert and founder of the points guy travel guide. thanks for joining us. testing requirements and restrictions ease, a lot of people are taking their first summer trip since the start of the pandemic. for those who might not have flown in a while, what do they need to know about airline travel today? >> yeah, it's a tough summer. you know, when you're traveling now, i highly recommend using flight aware. don't just track your flight. it will let you see where your inbound aircraft is from. and what so many people are experiencing is, it might be really nice and sunny at your airport, but where your plane is coming from, weather, air traffic, can

. >> todd: dan, don't worry, pete buttigieg said joe biden has got it.has made clear that it is a top economic priority and he laid out a clear strategy for doing that. i'm sure additional ideas will be welcome. unfortunately from the other side of the aisle is not very much concrete ideas. >> todd: i studied this stuff at my job but pete buttigieg with a clear strategy but do you know what he's talking about? i haven't seen one. have you? >> i haven't, no, it has been a muddled communication and this thing is transitory last april or may. a year later, clearly not transitory. look, it is tougher and a president to get his arms around inflation and there's only so much you can do. todd, here is the bottom line here and so much of our economy is dependent upon the crisis energy. fuel, right? for the most part fossil fuels. as we have seen those prices double since the president has taken over, really, the president has been dealt a difficult hand here. all of us are paying more and that ripples through with the gas costing more for you and i, carley, the

week and a half buttigieg hauled airline executives in front of him and said you need to get your acts to be habit for the biden administration, they love to bring industry leaders in and say you are not doing a good job, you are the problem. airlines are pushing back, you are not staffing up the faa. they have a points, the faa is not fully staffed, that has been a problem. the losers are consumers. remember we bailed out airlines to tune of $54 billion during covid, supposed to help them adapt to all of this. i was flying to california, there were travelers lined up through hallways trying to rescuddule flights, a terrible situation. the administration, instead of making this economy work better, reduce fuel prices, they keep blaming industry leaders, that is never going to work and when you see pattern of it, you have to ask, is it industries to blame or biden administration, are your policies causing this economy not to work across the board? >> carley: you have faa snapping back, they wrote a letter of their own saying after receiving 54 billion in pandemic relief to save the air

pete buttigieg isn't even doing the bare minimum to fulfill his job requirements.e should resign at least rate clay travis, great to see you. pete buttigieg most entertainin cabinet secretary ever, he really has afforded us joy, but he's transportation secretary a a time when you can't fly from point a to point b and expect t get there and he's lecturing us about abortion? >> remember, his paternity leave ? i can't believe that story has vanished, the biggest transportation and supply crisi in our nation's modern history in the that guy was on paternit leave and this is symptomatic o what is going on right now in the biden administration. i know your history guide to, one of the great history books team of rivals about the cabine that abraham lincoln put together after his election in 1860. what joe biden has done is put together a team of incompetents because as bad as granholm and me or pete, tucker, if i told you right now that you're a smart guy coming you have to draft somebody from the biden a ministration that you have any faith at all in, he has managed to

earlier this week, secretary buttigieg met with airline executives.t the potential for logjams during the busy summer travel season. well two key wireless mobile carriers agreed to hold back some five g technology at airports. verizon at 18 t say they'll cooperate with the faa in delaying some five g c band usage around airports until 2023 while airlines retrofit plate to protect against interference. now, back in january, the companies agreed to delay making changes to towers around airports. through july 5th of this year. the fda is concerned that five g service could interfere with airplanes altimeter, which are crucial for bad weather landings. now to philadelphia, where firefighters are mourning the loss of one of their own tonight who was killed on duty when a building collapsed early this morning as foxes jonathan siri explains. the fallen firefighter was a 27 year veteran of the fire department. the fire broke out around two a.m. in the fair hill community of philadelphia engulfed small, mixed use building. firefighters were able to get the fi

brief period i realized i was ranking transport bureaucrat in the country until, damn him, pete buttigieg was made secretary of transportation and outranked me. >> reporter: along with his position, feels a huge responsibility to the gay community. >> it's funny, i've never been as aggressively out as a gay man than i've been in this job. yeah, i think i did that out of a sense of obligation. >> reporter: he is distressed at way trans people with still treated. asked we show this early picture of him in a dress to offer support. husband and longtime partner says he admires that commitment. >> one of the things i so like about him, way he feels enormous feeling of responsibility. >> reporter: despite all the support, he admits intense drive to succeed probably stems from childhood feelings of shame. >> still not quite recovered from that. still a part of me still overachiever. >> reporter: working to goal of being a slacker someday? >> i am working towards that goal. >> reporter: journey of discovery, not in his nature to relax, seems happy with the man the 12-year-old kid grew up to be. >

that is what secretary buttigieg is upset about.he federal government could crack down on airlines, perhaps fining them if problems continue on delays and cancellations. delta led the way on cancellations. a watch a war of words between delta pilots they wrote to passengers. we've been doing our part. working on days off. flying record amount of overtime. by the current rate, pilots will have flown more overtime in 2022, then the entire years of 2008 and 2019 come binded. delta struck back. we have challenges with air traffic control, weather, urn scheduled absences in some work groups. still a problem finding enough people to dote get you where you're going. we're not getting you where you want to go. neil: we're not in the busy part of summer. reporter: not yet. neil: you're right. yes, thank you very much for that. by the way the baden administration is also taking a look what is happening at the airports, along what jeff is outlining hinting with some help on the roads. if you don't fly when it comes to gasoline, apparently deci

he has no idea how to get out of this box and here we have over the weekend pete buttigieg blaming thepete buttigieg who is supposed to be involved in helping supply chains has done as far as i can see literally nothing to do that. gina raimundo talking about lifting tariffs on consumer goods from china. that's not going to be popular with american workers. they have no easy solutions. there are no easy solutions. this is a problem of their own making. the war on fossil fuels is a big part of it and they absolutely can not turn it around because they're climate zealots in the white house running the show. dagen: it's astonishing to me that for a year almost they dismissed that inflation was a problem, that they were picking up the language from jay powell at the federal reserve, saying it's transitory, it's transitory, and then they -- remember, mike, i have to always go back to the giant build back better plan where they actually had the audacity to look at the american people and say we need to spend money to fight inflation. >> you know, i think biden brought up that gem a week or t

a small town turn transportation secretary in over his head pete buttigieg trusts press secretary out to lunch you're talking about some switch to renewables. once we are energy independent with her nobles will be able to get lower prices on energy. what renewables? exactly explain what technology there talk about where are they? when will they come online? what is the plan here and can anyone in the administration answer any of these questions? if it's renewable so great why is joe biden heading to saudi arabia the pariah nation as he calls it to kiss the of crown prince who he accused of murder they came to pump more oil? when i just go to midland, texas, go to north dakota, get the natural gas in pennsylvania and create high-paying career jobs and not have to put the lifeblood of our economy in the hands of people many of whom do not like us i don't like that guy and i don't trust that guy. nor should we. saudi arabia, opec nations, venezuela, a ran they all pretty much hate us. sadly we are now being led by complete total fools and in our transportation secretary former mayor of i

can the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg force the issue? what does the government do? can it do? should it do? >> look, we now how business works. they're good intentions. we appreciate the help. the truth is there a profit motive here. every cancelled flight is full. that cost brand loyalty and good will from customers, this is expensive for the airlines. if they could fix it, they would. this is a matter of not that they don't want to get more staff but it takes time to get more staff. >> neil: yeah, it's not a luxury that people have time for. thanks for updating us on where this stands. could get worse before it gets better. hope springs eternal. an sample probably one of the most generous corporate players on the planet. for the workers, there's never been a threat of any of them going union. that was until a maryland store decided to do that after this. (burke) a new car loses about ten percent of its value the minute you drive off the lot. or more. that's why farmers new car replacement pays to replace it with a new one of the same make and model. get a whole lo

know, we now have senator sanders calling on the industry to pay fines for late flights and pete buttigieg better customer service and they've already cancelled and they're literally getting apologies from the airlines that they traveled and it's an acknowledgement that it will be so bad >> i'm not sure pete buttigieg knows it from the back of an airplane so i don't know if it will be helpful or not the operations are affected by standards and you're seeing a bottleneck in the supply chain, i guess you'd call it and getting your airplanes out on time every day and quite frankly, the availability of equipment. so your maximum, everything is running at maximum and it doesn't leave a lot of room for error. any hiccup along the way shows up across the system and that's what's causing the frustration >> so the back end of the plane is the one with the tail on it, right? >> just so we're clear >> that's when a lot of people know about the airline business from the back. >> let me ask you this, though it's been a year since demand came surging back post-covid for the airline industry and you can

. >> now, if all those cancellations keep happening, transportation secretary pete buttigieg says his department might take action. buttigieg wants the airlines to stress test their summer schedules ensuring they can operate all their planned flights with the employees. they have. he also wants them dad, customer service workers. he says he'll wait to see how airlines perform over the 4th of july holiday weekend before considering enforcement actions that could lead to fines. >> a suspected dui driver has been arrested after a crash in the bay bridge early this morning. one person died. 4 others were injured. it happened just before 3 o'clock in the morning. police say a car carrying 4 people slow down on the road and was rear ended by a pickup truck. a 22 year-old man seated in the back seat of that car was killed. 2 others were seriously injured. the driver of the car. a 22 year-old from san francisco woman was hospitalized and later arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. the driver of the truck was hospitalized with minor injuries. >> the san francisco board of educati

he sent a letter to the transportation secretary pete buttigieg saying we bailed out the airlines now the airlines need to bail out stranded passengers. he wants refunds for flights delayed more than an hour. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." more like your bumpy delayed world because for ten days running, we've had better than 2,000 flights either delayed or outright cancelled. the trend will not be the traveling friend. mark meredith on the latest in washington. mark? >> hi, neil. good afternoon to you. both airlines and passengers are bracing for turbulent days, a record number of travelers, this could create a perfect storm and major delays. they're pushing back that this is somehow their fault and blaming staffing shortages. major u.s. carriers says the industry is doing everything possible to create a positive customer experience since it's in the airlines interest to keep customers happy to return for future business. bernie sanders does not buy it. he says airlines won't act until money is involved. now sanders is calling on the department of transport

this all comes with an urgent message from transportation secretary pete buttigieg to airlines. he met with them last week, said get your act together when it comes to the summer schedule, especially with july 4th on the horizon. what is so interesting is that transportation secretary pete buttigieg also found in himself in the position that so many other travelers are in. his flight was canceled over the weekend, between new york and washington. no one can really escape this, dana. >> no. they sure can't. thank you so much for that, pete. appreciate it. >>> so if you're listening to pete's report or if you had experience that he just described at the airport, you think, well, i'm going to get in the car, guess what, there is not going to be much relief when it comes to your wallet there. gas prices are dropping slightly but still remain near record highs. nationwide, a gallon of regular gas averages $4.98. it is a drop of 3 cents from last week. joining me now is patrick duhan, head of petroleum analysis at gas buddy. i'm trying to find a silver lining here and i don't know if

among those ground this weekend transportation secretary pete buttigieg.and his husband are driving from d.c. to new york. the biden administration now demanding airlines stress test their summer schedules as travel tempers are all heating up. white house correspondent mike memoli on the north lawn. what can they really do? there's talk of the team are going to be talking to them. what can the transportation department do? >> reporter: what you see is pete buttigieg trying to say that the administration is being proactive. the white house is trying to avoid a repeat of memorial day weekend when there's 3,000 flight cancellations, a lot of disruptions at the airports, long lines, issues with rebook ing. we're already seeing that from this past weekend when you have summer vacations for many, father's day weekend and now a long wbd with the juneteenth holiday. the real concern is looking ahead to 4th of july, one of the major travel periods. so we saw transportation secretary convening ceos from the major airliners, putting them on notice saying they want to

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now transportation secretary pete buttigieg is putting the airlines on notice.rk city. the secretary is pushing the airlines to do more to fix the mess warning that the government could step in on behalf of frustrated fliers and force airlines to hire more workers to solve the problem. adam, i'm going to start with you on this one. one of the problems the airlines are facing is the high cost of jet fuel, not their fault, more the administration's fault. the other problem of course is what's happening in the labor market and even though those numbers look strong as we discussed, there are still shortages in some industries and that's a problem that's plaguing the airlines right now. >> you know, if you roll back the tape about 18 months and remember where we were in the middle of covid, there were a lot of airlines that actually were forcing pilots to effectively take voluntary dismissals, layoffs, et cetera and a now all of a sudden fast forward the economy comes roaring back, you can't just bring those people right back in. they have to be recertified, that tak

so you mentioned to me in the break that is interesting that they did a big profile pete on pete buttigieg. what do you see happening here? >> i think the media wants a replacement, the left-leaning media wants a replacement for biden and pete buttigieg was profiled by cooper on 60 minutes as being the solution. when you think of him specifically as a member of the cabinet in the middle of the worth supply chain transportation crisis we have as secretary of transportation took a two-month paternity leave, i don't know if he has all the cred. they're looking for anybody to replace biden. >> nobody would care about his age if his policies weren't so beige. he ran as a moderate. he adopted bernie sanders policies and now we have massive inflation and all of this stuff and now there's a problem with his age. so it's hypocritical. >> martha: you're right. you can be in your 90s and be sharp as a tack and have great policies and nobody would care. >> reagan wasn't sharp at the end. but he was -- but his policies were. >> reagan was 69 when he took office, by the way. i'm talking when he took off

and pete buttigieg is stepping in to ensure this doesn't happen again. according to a source, the transportation secretary held a virtual meeting with airline chief executives thursday to ensure they can operate flight schedules amid the rising demand and improve their customer service. the meeting comes as airlines are still reeling from the pandemic. they laid off several employees due to the decrease in travel. now the staff they do have are overwhelmed and timing out. if you're operating at the maximum with very little buffer. >> you're going to find flights, canceling it normally wouldn't cancel because the pilots have a maximum amount of time of flight non duty pilots for delta airlines published an open letter for passengers on thursday saying, quote, we empathize and sharing your frustrations over the delays, cancellations and disrupted travel plans. you've experienced. >> we agree it is unacceptable. and if you plan to travel this summer, travel experts say this is what nou should expect starting next month. delta is planning to cancel 100 daily

george stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with transportation secretary pete buttigieg and plus republicanntative tom rice discusses how his vote to impeach president trump is affecting his re-election prospects. eva, over to you. >>> thanks, whit. if you have been thinking that you are paying too much for gas, wait until you hear how much one california community is now being charged. gas buddy is reporting that the chevron on main street is charging close to $10 for a gallon of gas, among the most expensive gas in the country, and to make matters worse, residents say it's the only gas station in town. aaa now saying the average for a gallon of gas in the u.s. is nearly $4.85 a gallon. >> i saw some of those high prices yesterday, eva. >>> turning overseas now to the war in ukraine and a new threat overnight from vladimir putin. the russian leader saying if the west continues giving long-range rocket systems to ukraine, his country will hit targets that have not yet been struck. britt clennett is with us. good morning to you. >> reporter: we're here at a car repair factory. railway facili

buttigieg: let them know that this is a moment when we are really counting on them to deliver reliablyhere could be a repeat of the travel troubles around memorial day after nearly 9000 flights were canceled or delayed over the holiday weekend. >> they don't have enough pilots, they have not trained enough pilots. they are literally canceling flights because they don't have their act together. >> andrew dymburt, abc news, new york. >> a mission district favorite will have their food available today at the ferry in san francisco. this afternoon, la cocina will begin having its monthly marketplace for fairy fridays. there will be live music, mural paintings and specials from businesses. it will be held every third friday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. through september. >> i just want to wear this jacket. >> i love your jacket. i wore blue today just for the warriors. >> i don't have stuff that i can put off and on fast enough. >> you have like a jackets. >> may be will go check it out, go in my closet rick. >> he has like 10 warriors, i feel like you have all the warriors swag. >> i do have som

. >>> recently, airline leaders met about problems and then that included buttigieg. his flight was canceled the very next day. they want to make sure that they live up to consumer protection standards and they want to protect against overbooking flights. the true test will be over the july 4 weekend. >>> a live look at the bitcoin trade value. you can see it is around 19,000. at one point it out below 18,000. this is the lowest value they have seen for it since 2020. other digital currencies are falling much lower and that is bad news for cities that have banked on crypto currency. >> reporter: >> welcome to the future of finance. >> reporter: the city of miami road the bitcoin market to its high. one place though that has really hurt is also miami. this man once talked about city coin as an alternative to taxes. while the project did bring a $5 million windfall to the city, it comes with risks. >> this technology is new and they are always speculative. one of the things i have always said is that you should never invest money in something that you don't believe in b

there was a brief period i realized i was the ranking transport burro cat in the country until pete buttigieg was made secretary of transportation and out ranked me. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but a long with his position, he feel as huge responsibility to the gay community. >> you know, it's funny. i've never been as aggressively out as a gay man than i've been in this job. yeah, i think i did that out of a sense of obligation. >> reporter: he is distressed the way trans people are being treated and ask we show this early picture of him in a dress to offer support. his husband and long-time partner hub peterson says he admires that commitment. >> i think that as one of the things that i like about him, the way he feels an enormous feeling of responsibility. >> reporter: despite the support, tumlin admits his intense drive to succeed stems from childhood feelings of shame. >> i'm still not quite recovered from that. there is part of me that's an overachiever. >> reporter: are you working toward a goal of being a slacker some day? >> i am working towards that goal. >> reporter: it's a journey o

transportation secretary pete buttigieg defended president biden's economic record. stuart: okay, steve forbes come on in, please, the voice of reason. i think we're in an inflationary spiral, and that's what has me worried, because prices are changing, going up so fast that we feel anxious about it. i think it's real dangerous. what about you? >> it is and this gets to something we all know energy prices are going up, but what's not fully realized especially with this administration is theres going to be a shortage of energy. opec does not have much spare capacity left. they're almost at the end of their capacity, so they're not going to come to the rescue, and capex in this country is only two-thirds of what it was in the oil fields, in 2019. that takes months, if not a year or two, to get backup to speed, so in the meantime, with china coming having their economy come back, we face real shortages which means higher prices, which means a slow or recessed economy. i don't think this administration fully grasps just how dire the energy supply situation really is. in

at bureaucrat until him, pete buttigieg was named secretary of transportation and outranked me. >> along with his position, he feels a huge responsibility to the community. >> it's funny, i've never been as aggressively out as a man than i have been in this job. >> i think i did that out of a sense of obligation. >> he's distressed at the way trans people are still being treated and asked that we show this early picture of him in a dress as a way to offer his support. his has been a longtime partner, petn admires that commitment. >> i think it's one of the things that i so like about him, the way he feels an enormous feeling of responsibility . >> despite all the support, tumlin admits his intent to succeed probably stems from childhood feelings of shame. >> i'm still not quite recovered from that. there still a part of me that's an overachiever. >> are you working toward a goal of being a slacker someday? >> i am working towards that goal. >> it's a journey of discovery and though it's not in his nature to relax, tumlin seems happy with the man that 12-year- old kid grew up to be. >> so

david, let's take a listen together to how transportation secretary pete buttigieg framed it.there are two very clear and very different approaches, here. there is our approach which is to find solutions to invest in our supply chain, what we are doing with this infrastructure money, certainly in my department and in others, to do everything we can to lower costs to american families. like the cost of insulin prescription drugs. then there is the other path that congressional conservatives have put forward. which does not speak much to inflation. it is raising taxes on lower class families, making a lot of political hay out of the very real challenges that families are feeling. and going to war with mickey mouse. >> what do you make of that messaging? >> look, i think the secretary might be on the right side of history. what i would suggest she was at most voters do not care how you get there. but when they are going to evaluate in november's, are the better off than they were before. and do they think democrats or republicans can correct for that? the harsh reality, alex, is