you are on wet cheryl chumley of the "washington times." go ahead.r: yeah, good morning, cheryl. i think you are hitting on a lot of good points there. i think the biggest problem is that the politicians are not hearing the voices of their constituents. should probably be holding more town hall meetings and, you know, really feeling the pulse of what americans really want and what they would like to see. also i want to say real quick, i have an idea. i don't know if this is ever come up, how to pay for a lot of, instead of raising taxes and things like that, it seems like there is a lot or investors buying stocks and, you know, especially younger people. putting a tax on every transaction, whether it be $.50, one dollar. i mean, there is thousands of transactions every day, and i don't think many people will complain about that. host: tom, we will leave it let d to those. guest: thank you, tom, for your comments. republicans, democrats, every you stand i think at this time in american history we can pretty much all agree that our politicians, our lea

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host: cheryl chumley is the host of the bold and blunt podcast. you very much. guest: thank you. host: we now go to the president of the united states. [laughter] pres. biden: folks, yesterday i don't think it was an exaggeration to suggest took a monumental step forward as a nation. we learned that our economy created 5.6 million jobs since we took office on january 20. recent unemployment rate of 4.6%. two full years earlier than the vast majority of economists predicted that would happen. we are just getting started. we did something that is long overdue, that long has been talked about in washington but never actually been done. the house of representatives passed an infrastructure and jobs act. that is a fancy way of saying--. it will turn the climate crisis into an opportunity and put us on a path for economic competition it will create more jobs, good paying jobs, union jobs that cannot be outsourced and will transform our transportation system with significant investments in passenger rail, roads and bridges and more investment in public transit than we have ever made. it

host: cheryl chumley is the host of the bold and blunt podcast. you very much. pres. biden: finally, infrastructure week. [laughter] i'm so happy to say that. infrastructure week. yesterday i don't think that it is an exaggeration to suggest we took a step forward as a nation. our economy created 5.6 million jobs since we took office january 20. recent unemployment rate of 4.6%. two full years earlier than the vast majority of economists predicted it would happen. we are just getting started. we did something that is long overdue, that long has been talked about in washington, but never been done. the house of representatives passing and infrastructure and jobs act. that is a fancy way of seeing a bipartisan infrastructure build. a once in a generation investment that will create millions of jobs, modernize our infrastructure, roads, bridges, broadband, a range of things. to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity. it puts us on a path to when the economic competition in the 21st century that we face with china, large countries, and the rest of the world. it will