david was the youngest of eight sons, and the story goes that david was basically a shepherd boy whold take his father's flocks out. >> all together, he's one of history's most fascinating characters. he was a poet. he was a singer. >> he's a little guy. he's not a smooth politician. he's not an administrator. he's not a schemer. he's the opposite of all of that. he acts on impulse. >> david took on goliath, according to the story, because goliath was defying god. he was defying the jewish god of israel by taunting his armies. so for david, this was more than just a battle. it was also symbolic of the power of the god of israel. >> david isn't even in the army. his father tells him to take lunch to his brothers, who are fighting in saul's army. and this is the picture that we get painted of the boy david, right? this punky little kid who is like, nobody's going to talk to my god like that, right? and everyone else is like, calm down, man. you don't know what you're doing. but he's willing to die to protect the honor of god. >> goliath doesn't believe his eyes. he's like, are you mock

david: i understand.laughing] david: your mother was interested in making people more beautiful, but i guess somebody likes to make people more beatable. the what is it that she did actually they got her started in the cosmetics world? >> she started to sell the products that her uncle had made. then she decided she could do even better and she started making them in the kitchen. as a little kid sitting in the high chair, she would -- i would watch her make the creams on the kitchen stove. as time went on, she would invite people to the house to do makeup. i would come home for lunch every day. i would sit in the kitchen eating my lunch and she would be next-door making someone's face up. she was a miracle worker. anyone who came and there would undoubtedly walk away looking fantastic. david: so when you are in high school, which high school? bronx high school? >> yeah. david: that is a pretty good high school. did you have time to help your mother and father in the company at that time? >> i worked after

david. david: a lot of problems there yet to work through. though we should mention, we don't want to bury the lead the economy is doing fine. makes you wonder why we need all the government bureaucrats to spend money on the manufacturing sector. doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. we'll see what the president says later on. bryan, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> stocks are swinging between gains and losses today as investors are waiting for more guidance from the federal reserve board about their tapering timeline. that is when they stop printing all of this money they have been doing. bring in market watchers dan geltrude and shana sissell. good to see you both. shana, coming to you first. there are a lot of americans who are getting slammed by higher prices. we can put up on the screen if we have it there, real average hourly, weekly earnings are actually down, that is if you take inflation into account. inflation is higher than the, than the increases they have been getting in s

david. david: you've been provocative your entire life, stu varney, and we love it. we appreciate it. david: stu. welcome to "coast to coast." i'm david asman in for neil cavuto. a very busy hour ahead. mask up to get into disney. vacs up to get into favorite restaurant or get a vaccine or doctor's note to get back into your office. how governments and businesses nationwide are responding to the delta variant and worries therein. the markets are green as dow, s&p, raise to new all-time highs. but economic signals are flashing red today. we'll tell you that story. a big lineup ahead to help us break down the other stories. nypd commissioner bill bratton on the crime crisis. karl rove on president biden and his party in danger. the headwinds facing them as they face 2022. first, the latest gdp numbers showing the economy grew at a slower pace than expected. last quarter we saw pending home sales fall 1.9% even though we were expecting an increase. all of this is as fed chair jerome powell, ceo

david: yeah.ieve they're trying to raise taxes again for the wealthy. this is not the year to do it. we're at the highest taxed state in the country and you know, if you're a business person, it's not the year to start raising taxes either. so you know, i think they have a homeless problem. so there is, then if you look at residential is food. and you know, it is so busy. a lot of young people who are priced out of the city were able to come back or finally get here. and i think that is good for the city. people were able to trade up and get much larger apartments, but, if the safety isn't there, it really doesn't matter. david: you pay a price living in the cities. because the city has usually other things worth living for. for the extra price you pay in new york, you pay a premium of about 12% on your income just to live there because of the higher taxes. but, people used to be willing to do that before the pandemic because the streets were safe, as you said, because you have theater, you have m

david: wow.l, you know, a company like apple that has a 43% profit margin can afford to do that. i suspect you don't have a 43% profit margin. >> i'm in the restaurant industry -- [laughter] david: so how long can you afford to do this? you can't keep that up forever. >> you know, eventually it's going to hut the customer's wallet. and, you know, the consumers' expectations aren't coming down, they're still up there. we appreciate their business, don't get me wrong. we're loving the fact that there's demand. but the expectations, they still want the service that was pre-pandemic, and eventually, you know, there's not a single restaurant in our town that's open seven days a week x this is our season. we make money -- we're a tourist town. we make money during the summertime, and new york's not ending the unemployment until september. david: wow. talk to me about the specific difference between the two states, in new york and florida, because i read a piece that was written about you talking about

david: ok. graduated from the university third in your class and want to be in business so people would say i will go to harvard business school. you applied their and did they accept you? mr. lauder: i got turned down flat. it was a shock to make. however, i made lemonade out of lemons. i applied for the u.s. officer candidate school and was excepted there. that was the beginning of my phd in leadership. it's the best thing i ever did. david: have you ever thought about how much more successful your life could have been? mr. lauder: [laughter] i wish the people at harvard would know i would like to thank them -- send them a thank you note. david: you go into the u.s. navy. were there a lot of, you know, young jewish boys from the university of pennsylvania? mr. lauder: when i went into the navy, my father said there are new jews in the navy. i said, ok. i know that. that was good. that was the way the united states was. the jews were in the minority. everyone was a minority then but it was fasc

david? david: claudia, thank you very much.ad of addressing the rising crime we've been talking about, l.a. county wants to test out a universal basic so-called income program. back with former mcdonald's usa ceo ed rensi. ed, you can't make this stuff up. this is clear lie not only affecting people's safety and their lives but affecting businesses all over the country. i don't think new york will come back unless it addresses crimes but they're still trying out the pilot universal income programs, what do you think? >> well, clearly small business are being terrorized by this crime. i even know in my own neighborhood people are afraid to go downtown to shop and to eat and to just walk around to see the scenery because they are uncertain. fortunately in florida we haven't had that problem but i love new york city. i wouldn't go there on a bet right now. i love l.a. i go there when i have to for board meetings. but i got to tell you, it is really scary to drive through some of the neighborhoods, when a small business person oper

david: the census too.en you took the job, did you realize how many different disparate things that you have to deal with? and did other secretaries of commerce who had this position before say this is what you have to worry about? and did you get any good advice from people? sec. raimondo: yeah, so i talked to many, and i got terrific advice. i think that's what makes the job fun. and hard. it's hard. it is hard to learn about the details of fisheries, fisheries management, trade, census, space commerce, tarriffs, semiconductors. but for me, that is part of -- it is intellectually fascinating. and i would like to think, if you put your back into it, you can have a big impact across a whole range of topics. david: so, when you decided to take this position, you called your mother and you said, guess what? i'm giving up being governor of rhode island and i will be secretary of commerce. what did your mother say? sec. raimondo: she's 90 now. and she said, "i hope you can help biden." ♪ ♪ david: let's talk abo

♪ david: this is my kitchen table and also my filing system.ver much of the past three decades i have been an investor. at highest calling of mankind's private equity. [laughter] then, i started interviewing. i have learned from doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. when i asked him how much he wanted, he said 250,000. i did note due diligence. -- no due diligence. you don't feel inadequate now because you're only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right? [laughter] david: an interesting and optimistic leader is senator tammy duckworth. she worked on poverty in thailand and hawaii but chose to become a national guard helicopter pilot and did so in iraq. when her helicopter was shot down, she lost her legs and got elected to the senate after serving in the obama administration. she is the mother of two children and is engaged and the wife of the u.s. senator. today, we will converse with senator tammy duckworth, a senator from illinois with an extraordinary life story and book now out called every day is a gift, about

saul became so jealous of david, he tries to kill him. david managed to escape. with david's absence, the war between israel and the philistines ramping backup again. we saw saul losing and losing. it goes so badly that saul, driven back and all three of his sons killed in front of him. he knows this is it and this is the end. he turns to his armor barry to be killed. >> he runs back and tells david that saul has died. and instead of celebrating that saul was dead because saul had been trying to kill him for so long, david publicly mourns saul's death. to such an extent that he has the army bearer killed for killing the king. david knew politically it was important to mourn the death of the king of israel. now the entire king no,dom recognizes there is only one man to lead them. lash impact goes sky high. lash sensational sky high mascara from maybelline new york. limitless length plus volume. sensational from every angle. lash sensational sky high mascara. only from maybelline new york. i became a sofi member because i needed to consolidate my credit card debt.

david: yeah.it in a way that a made it seem as though you have to understand the enemy's game. but let me just play his remarks and get your response. roll tape. >> so what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country from which we are here to defend? and i personally find it offensive that we are accusing the united states military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers or being, quote, woke or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. david: it's not studying theories. this is a woman, this professor, she's an associate professor of political science at the air force academy, she thinks that teaching critical race theory is the patriotic thing to do. she's lauding critical race theory even though, as it's been mentioned time and again, it was developed by marxists to undermine the u.s. constitution and our way of life here. >> that's exactly right. i mean, she seems to be clearly out of step with wha

david: this is my kitchen table and also my filing system. over much of the past three decades, i have been an investor. the highest calling of mankind i've often thought was private equity. [laughter] then i started interviewing. i watched your interview. i know how to do some interviewing. i learned how leaders make it to the top. >> i asked him how much he wanted. he said 250. i said fine. i did not negotiate with them. i did no due diligence. i have something i would like to sell. [laughter] and how they stay there. you don't feel inadequate because you are only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right? [laughter] ♪ one of the most interesting and optimistic leaders i've met is senator tammy duckworth. she grew up in poverty in thailand and hawaii but chose to become an army national guard helicopter pilot and did so in iraq. when her helicopter was shot down, she lost the use of her legs, ultimately recovered and got elected to the united states senate after serving in the obama administration. she is now the mother of two y

david: you mentioned your business background. were governor and treasurer but you were actually in the venture world. what did you do? you started your own venture fund? gina: yes. first at a firm in new york and then with the co-founder, we were in the early stage -- we were an early stage venture firm. i specialized in medical device companies. that allowed me to be a better, secretary. i know entrepreneurs and i know what it takes to have innovation. another thing we run around here is the patent office. i saw that strong patents matter to protect innovation. david: the secretary of commerce is an unusual position. there are 70 different parts of the commerce department. you have so many different things -- there are so many different parts of the commerce department. you have so many different things. when you take the job and you realized how many different disparate things you have to deal with and how many other -- did other secretary of -- secretaries of commerce say this is what you have to worry about? gina: i think tha

david: you are young.ton: i'm going to do this until i die, if i can, the good lord willing, and people will have me. i have been blessed to do something abstract and get unbelievable support from people. that is why, earlier when i , answered the question of racism, for somebody like me to complain, i'd have to be out of my mind. ♪ >> this week on "bloomberg green," europe unveils its sweeping plan to cut emissions drastically over the next 10 years. does it go far enough? >> this is europe. we have a lot of convincing to do with member states. if we can get them to agree with us, we can meet the goals. >> how will the eu's plan affect different industries? >> it would be difficult to ask more of a company of our size and scale. >> the battle to become the first carbon neutral cop them. we speak to joe biden's climate czar about america's net zero.

david: and how they stay there.e don't feel inadequate now because you're only the second multi-is meant of the world, right? one of the most interesting and optimistic leaders i've met was tammy duckworth, she grew up in poverty in thailand and hawaii but chose to become an army national guard helicopter pilot and did so in iraq. when her helicopter was shot down she lost the use of her legs, recovered and was elected to the united states senate serving in the obama administration. she is the mother of two young children and is engaged in the life of a united states senator. in a credit will story. today we will be in conversation with senator tammy duckworth, from illinois, who has an extra nearly story and book called "every day is a gift" about her life and asia, iraq, the united states, the senate and other things. thank you. >> thanks for having me. david: did you ever suspect when you were growing up in asia that you would one day be united states senator, a blackhawk pilot in iraq, and then a senator? was th

david: that's the improvisation part.hat one part allows you to, you have a lot of latitude to do things. it's like the way americans conduct business. all the innovations we have, the freedom we have to speak. the fact that we can think -- the fact we think we can step into a space and use our personality to transform a tradition. but balancing that freedom is we have the response ability to extend a courtesy and an understanding to other people who have those freedoms and nurture that common space. david: in your book, you talk about some of the greats you either played with or who influenced you. first is louis armstrong. you originally thought he was an uncle tom, but you obviously change your view. wynton: yes, because it's hard for later generations to understand the challenges of earlier generations. the norms and things of show business and what louis armstrong did. i understand more of his genius and who he was and what he played. it doesn't mean when i look at the movies he made and the positions he had, i still

david jackson was married to barbara britton. her father harry disliked david.amed why cold michael wolfe. the divorced and he later married two more times. >> we needed to talk. but >> now, finally, one of wolfe's ex-wife's, only named nancy, was sitting with detective velazquez. telling police she knew everything about what happened to david. >> can you tell me again? >> because i know how he was killed and what they did with him. >> how did she know? according to the ex, michael drink. a lot. >> every night he would almost down a whole bottle of scotch. i guess he just needed to talk. >> and the story wolfe told according to the ex, implicated more than just himself. here's what happened as he heard it. wolfe and harry britton, barbara's father, granted a motel room on that long ago july night. invited david to a meeting there. >> and when he gets at the hotel, they have a very small conversation. and michael shot david in the head. >> he told me he had to get so drunk to do it. and that was the first shot didn't kill him. he had to shoot him again. >> afterw

david: you a masters at usc.ou are writing on the side of it in the daytime or how are you doing that? >> i got a job at a place that help mentally ill find jobs and live there and i would write my scripts at night. i had an agent or a lawyer at the time that everybody got out of film school that someone would hope would happening for them. isil description that changed my life. -- i sold a script. i remember a month before that script sold, i applied for the post baccalaureate at medical school. i thought i couldn't starve this way anymore. this is not for me. i will be a doctor. luckily, i did not do that. david: their loss is the creative writing communities gain you're not a doctor but it worked out ok? >> i hope that the writing about doctors inspired young women to be doctors. david: most people who have been successful and hollywood as producers and writers have been white men. norman lear, aaron spelling are two classic examples. when you came along, you are not a man or white. was there a lot of discrimi

[laughter] david: you are young.m going to do this until i die, if i can, the good lord willing, and people will have me. i have been blessed to do something abstract and get unbelievable support from people. that is why, earlier, when i answered the question of racism, for somebody like me to complain, i'd have to be out of my mind. ♪ [ "me and you" by barry louis polisar ] ♪ me and you just singing on the train ♪ ♪ me and you listening to the rain ♪ ♪ me and you we are the same ♪ ♪ me and you have all the fame we need ♪ ♪ indeed, you and me are we ♪ ♪ me and you singing in the park ♪ ♪ me and you, we're waiting for the dark ♪ >> the following is a paid program. the opinions and views expressed do not reflect those of bloomberg lp, its affiliates, or its employees. >> this program is a paid advertisement from u.s. money reserve, a company not affiliated with the u.s. government or the u.s. mint. philip n. diehl is the president and spokesperson for the company. the markets for coins and bullion are unregulated. pric

david: so you go over to netflix. now when everybody is when somebody is famous and they move that -- say in a baseball player or a football player they go to a different team or somebody tries something different. people are always saying this person isn't really as good as their reputation and they're going to flop. and there's a lot of, i would say in hollywood maybe there's some people that don't like people they're too successful. and so they're kind of wishing secretly maybe they're gonna flop. but you didn't flop. you had an incredible hit. your first show “bridgerton” was the most successful opening show of anything on netflix ever. >> all is fair in love and war. david: so when it went on for the first time were you worried that night whether it would actually be a success or did you not panic? shonda: you know, it's interesting. i wasn't scared about the success of the show. that's not my job. i always say that. i was happy by then because netflix was already happy. everybody had already really liked the sho

david: and how they stay there. you do not feel inadequate now, being only the second richest man, right? if there is one form of music that americans are famous for inventing, it is jazz. ♪ invented in the earliest part of the 20th century in new orleans, jazz has become synonymous with american music, not just in the united states but around the world. and america has produced incredible jazz legends like duke ellington, count basie, dizzy gillespie, and louis armstrong. but today, at the top of the jazz world, is wynton marsalis, founder and director of jazz of the kennedy center. he is a performer and composer, and he lives jazz 24 hours a day. do you get tired of people calling you a jazz legend? do you feel older when they say that to you? wynton: i like the word jazz. i don't like the word legend. [laughter] david: let's talk about your family. your father passed away because of covid. it must have been a very sad loss, because you were very close to him. wynton: yeah, for all of us -- for me and my brothers,

david: so you go into the u.s. navy. were there are lots of young, jewish boys from the university of pennsylvania with you? leonard: when i went to the navy, my father said, you know, there are no jews in the navy. i said, ok. i know that, too. but that was good. that was the way the united states was. jews were in the minority. everyone was a minority then, but it was fascinating because i grew up, in my view, at the right time to grow up and learn. you don't grow up -- if you grow up in prosperity, you don't understand how to fight hard. i had to fight hard. david: so, one of your activities in the navy was running the commissary on the boat you are on or the ship you are on. how did you manage to make that a very profitable business, and did you realize you were a pretty good business person as a result of making the commissary so profitable? leonard: i became the six-star officer aboard an aircraft carrier. an aircraft carrier, we had 3000 men aboard the carrier. i had to get everything they needed and then some. so

[laughter] david: you are young.ton: i'm going to do this until i die, if i can, the good lord willing, and people will have me. i have been blessed to do something abstract and get unbelievable support from people. that's why early, when i answered the question of racism, for somebody like me to complain, i'd have to be out of my mind. ♪ emily: the u.s. is home to major tech giants amazon, apple, facebook, google, and microsoft. together, these so-called "big five" make up 22% of the entire s&p 500. apple alone reached a $2 trillion market cap in august 2020. microsoft eclipsed the threshold in in june 2021. that is more than the gdp of countries like south korea, russia, canada, and brazil. the year of the pandemic only boosted profits across u.s. big tech as more people communicated, shopped, watched, worked, and searched all online. but in the background, there is a drumbeat for more regulation of these tech giants with unparalleled market power.

david: let's talk about jazz at lincoln center. begin playing jazz at lincoln center in the late 1980's? mr. marsalis: 1987. david: you are the music director of the jazz at lincoln center orchestra, is that right? mr. marsalis: we wanted to build, build, build. we wanted to provide enough education and music and advocacy. enough concerts for us as a nation to have our native art form when it came time for us to address our mythology correctly. so that we could move forward as a nation. we have succeeded beyond any of our wallace imaginations. the concerts we have been able to do, we built three halls in manhattan on 59th street, the house of swing. we put our concert series over 30 years and have 12 education programs and since the pandemic, we put out over 500, 600. we are deeply engaged. david: when lincoln center opened in the 1960's, people thought this was opera, symphonic, and you came along and said, we could have jazz. what did people say? mr. marsalis: we had support from the top of the organization. everybody was dedicat

he sent david home in a cab.y tart's report, detectives bartholomew and hopper knew they had to act fast. there could be clues still on highway 141. and surprises, too. the media people angie and marie saw hovering around the patrol cars they'd been placed in that awful may morning had no idea what had just happened in justin michael's bedroom middle of the night. the reporters knew only this -- they had been sent here because of a suspicious death. and it was related somehow to this house. then as they waited for somebody to tell them something, they got a tip. local reporter stephanie moore. >> we heard that sheriff deputies were walking the fields along highway 141. so that would be the highway you would take from des moines to go to grimes. and they were just walking these fields. and we asked them, are you looking for a body? no. are you looking for someone? no. are you looking for a weapon? we can't say. but the public is not in danger. what happened in grimes isn't related to this. >> walking up and down.

david: absolutely. crackdown what it means for credit risk, credit ratings, liquidity, solvency may be in some issues bring in forward the director of china corporate research. laura, a pleasure to have you, thank you, good morning. interesting week, to say the least. let's try and separate education from the rest, because that seems more acute when it comes to afterschool education and some of the stocks. when you first heard the news that essentially, china said economic profits in some parts of your business, you can't raise or and tax, what was the first thing you and your team did? >> one of the first things we did was look at how big the impact would be on the company-- . we are looking at to what extent the company will be affected and how much of the revenue is exposed to these companies. now, we are looking at how the government is going to implement this -- these rules. it seems like the rules are unexpected, and we expect breakthrough in fermentation of the rules. for the next step, i think w

david: more regulation.g for more details on whether they will be banning weekend tutoring because the kids go to formal school and after that, they get tutoring. being able not really to reverse this but control the effects on the economy, the declining birthrate risks in china, the economy is different. it is no longer massively agricultural. it is an industrial economy and you do not need much labor. this will have a drag when it comes to growth. rishaad: can try to get rich before it gets old? let's have a look at the council. they said the women's employment rate should be better enforced by the reports of discrimination by employees after birth restrictions were relaxed. women were fighting legal battles with their employers. >> on the second day after i noticed i was pregnant i told the company about the situation. in a few days, the company sent me on a business trip to shanghai for about a week. when i came back, i found out the company recorded the appropriate candidate for my position and would be

this is bloomberg. ♪ david: welcome back.et's talk about indonesia. the finance minister expects the budget deficit to stay elevated as the nations worse coronavirus surge hamptons the efforts. yvonne: also discussing the impact of rising oil prices. >> the movement is one of the area that will affect our budget. on the one hand, indonesia will receive higher revenue if the oil price increases, but we see our production, oil and gas. our gas is flat or stable. oil has a declining perspective. it will provide more revenue. >> we know that you are planning a tax overhaul to boost government revenue amid surging virus cases. has the resurgence changed your calculations of when and how you implement your tax reforms? >> we are going to discuss this in the next three months. in the next two weeks parliament is going to be in -- and it will be in august. some of the measure can immediately be implemented. at the same time, the government and the parliament agree that we will recover economics. >> what might be delayed? could it be

david. can skip isolation. judging by the list, it's a little more obligated than that, companies have to apply. yes. there's that — that, companies have to apply. yes. there's that and _ that, companies have to apply. yes. there's that and it _ that, companies have to apply. yes. there's that and it is _ that, companies have to apply. yes. there's that and it is interesting that today the emphasis has gone as penny— that today the emphasis has gone as penny is _ that today the emphasis has gone as penny is also said from talking about— penny is also said from talking about workers to about in specific industries — about workers to about in specific industries. you did listed the mail. this quote — industries. you did listed the mail. this quote in the yorkshire post from _ this quote in the yorkshire post from the — this quote in the yorkshire post from the local confederation of small— from the local confederation of small businesses in north york shire saying _ small businesses in north y

david: they did give us a dividend, should we be surprised? >> the other david, yes.he stock is clearly selling off today, as you mention, but the bigger surprise for many people was last week when they said they were even contemplating a dividend. it does not seem like a company that's in any position to be paying a special dividend, especially attacks dividend. the biggest beneficiary of a cash dividend would have been the chairman of the company who owns 70% of the stock. there might be perhaps an equity payout, stock in the parent company, so there was some hope around that. those were dashed pretty quickly today. if you look at it in dollar terms, we're now looking at a penny stock of $.75. rishaad: you've got the s&p coming out cutting rates, as you would expect with the company like this, the inability to get funding, right? >> it is tough for the rating agencies to keep up with the markets and in this case the market is already telling you this company is in distress, trading at about $.55 on the dollar. two notches is a pretty big drop, there down six doubles

david, i guess the key ruestion plan? david, i guess the key question is— plan?or the police force. yes. i mean, priti patelthe the police force. yes. i mean, priti patel the home _ the police force. yes. i mean, priti patel the home secretary - the police force. yes. i mean, priti patel the home secretary has - the police force. yes. i mean, priti patel the home secretary has had| patel the home secretary has had some _ patel the home secretary has had some success in recruiting the offices — some success in recruiting the offices although i must say this week— offices although i must say this week she — offices although i must say this week she has of a setback when the police _ week she has of a setback when the police federation criticised her over— police federation criticised her over the — police federation criticised her over the lack of a pay rise and said they had _ over the lack of a pay rise and said they had no— over the lack of a pay rise and said they had no confidence in her but, nevertheless, crime is always a big issue _ nevertheless, crime is a

it's a very damaging report for david — it's a very damaging report for david cameron. and we are talking about actors on the part bench _ talking about actors on the part bench of — talking about actors on the part bench of the ft this is the b visa two bbc— bench of the ft this is the b visa two bbc there's another finding that ithink— two bbc there's another finding that i think witi— two bbc there's another finding that i think will hurt david cameron not 'ust i think will hurt david cameron not just a _ i think will hurt david cameron not just a slight salacious lobbying that effectively people who were his supporters and abusing that power retation _ supporters and abusing that power relation with them. it also goes on to accuse — relation with them. it also goes on to accuse him of being seriously negligent— to accuse him of being seriously negligent and not bothering to find out enough about greensill's financial— out enough about greensill's financial health. he simply took max -ot financial health. he simply took max got greensill and the other board members —

david petraeus, former u.s. commander in afghanistan and former director of the cia on president biden's plan to withdraw u.s. forces from afghanistan. david: welcome to washington post live. this summer, u.s. troops will withdraw from afghanistan after a war that's lasted two decades. we will be taking a close look this morning at that withdrawal and the implications for some of the afghans who have helped us in that war. in a bit, i will be joined by an afghan translator who worked with u.s. troops for 13 years as an interpreter, talking about getting visas for some of his colleagues who similarly were helpful, along with a retired army colonel who worked to get interpreters out of iraq in a similar situation, and is now thinking about ways to help afghani translators. but, first, i want to turn to general david ,who was our commander in kabul, in afghanistan, and also served as our commander in iraq during the surge there, commander of centcom. nobody knows the region better than general petraeus. welcome, ge

david: no. that is a welfare program run through the tax code. it is refundable and people got it whether they pay taxes or not. they run it through the tax code because it sounds like a tax cut when it really is just another payment program. we have to be careful and we were against the covid relief bill because of the huge debt it increased. but it also disrupted the market. you see all these extra payments create huge incentive for people not to go back to work. if you have eaten in a restaurant recently, you would notice maybe they don't have as many servers as they used to. that is a direct result of this covid ale playing out through the end of the year. john: the enhanced child tax credit was a program -- the child tax credit was a program that started in 1997 pit this just adds more money in a different way of getting the money out great but the program in 1997, were you in congress for the debates over the original child tax credit, do you remember? david: yes, i do. i don't support it when they make it a refundable tax credit. it was pr

yes, i can't help but echo what david saying. that'sl but echo what david saying.. it's been so incredibly disruptive to children. and particularly when you look at the facts _ particularly when you look at the facts and — particularly when you look at the facts and figures, 98 foot .4% children— facts and figures, 98 foot .4% children sent home did not get covid~ — children sent home did not get covid~ the _ children sent home did not get covid. the schools where they did found _ covid. the schools where they did found that — covid. the schools where they did found that they had fewer cases because — found that they had fewer cases because people, because it didn't feel quite — because people, because it didn't feel quite so appalling, the consequences were quite so severe. they were _ consequences were quite so severe. they were actually more open about their contacts and all the rest of it. their contacts and all the rest of it and — their contacts and all the rest of it. and you're right, it is incredibly difficult. and now we are looking _ incredibly difficult

david: we know what the number is, 11,000.t is also worth noting that the situation is different, depending on what part of the country you look at. how dire is this situation, which includes where the capital is? >> 60% of all of the virus cases. because of the surge of the virus cases, it has left hospitals there shot of icu beds sparse, medical equipment, staff, this is an area comprising of -- there have been numerous videos and posts circulating, in terms of staffing and resources, in response to help ministry, promising to increase bed capacity at hospitals and mobilizing resources, including thousands of health care workers. yvonne: thank you for the update. let's get to the first word news. rishaad: research supported by the national institutes of health saying people who received both doses of a messenger rna vaccine, like moderna or pfizer, may not need the additional booster shot for years. they presented a strong persistent immune response against covid-19. there is a concern about possible new form or variants tha

david? >> eva pilgrim, thank you. >>> and overseas tonight, the frustration with those who are unvaccinated on full display. the clashes and protests in france. that country now requiring vaccination passports for restaurants, bars, museums, theaters and french president emmanuel macron saying to those who refuse to be vaccinated, it's time you stay at home, not us. here's our senior foreign correspondent ian pannell tonight. >> reporter: tonight, protests across europe as countries move to allow only vaccinated people and those with a negative covid test access to certain venues. france seeing the most violent clashes with riot police using tear gas against crowds protesting the new law. where those fully vaccinated and testing negative getting access to bars, restaurants, cinemas, museums and big events. french president emmanuel macron pleading for unity after the protests saying, "what is your freedom worth if you say to me i don't want to be vaccinated, but if tomorrow, you infect your