we've been talking to john tapper and johnny by the way. a lot of people got you said a lot of people are making drinks at home, more involved drinks than they used to. you should tell one of your bar owners that i don't think they're going to be able to take a world class martini. so they should pitch them something called martini t. e n y. just the little one. sipped martini. i think there's a really that's a great, you know, years ago, one of my restaurants i used to so i love that idea. years ago in my restaurants, i used to sell the world small. it's hot, budge, sunday. it was like an a shot glass. where do ice cream little hot buds, cherry? and it was the world small was type something every time we put it down in front of people, they complained it was too small. those low supp, spelled it is the world's luck was unbelievable. the customer is always right except this course when they're wrong. we've enjoyed our time with john tapper folks. happy go lucky, entrepreneur. tv personality, best selling author. and he is the creator, host,

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we're talking to john tapper, once again. it's done a little know, and i'm with you buddy, but you know, it also should illustrate to people the power of local government and how, you know, sometimes we don't pay as much attention a local government. we focus on national campaigns. but it was a local government in very many cases that made these choices. local school districts, welcome chapters of unions, etc, that made these decisions. so i think we need to take look at politics from locality as well as national real hard this next cycle. exactly. john, tell me about campers cover franchise. i'll just be honest. some tablo ross on this . i see it in the notes. i'm not here to it. i see was hatch during the coven. tell me barbara. so it's actually a cool story that is about 2 and a half years ago, unemployment was so low that the restaurant industry couldn't find employees. so i said, the casual dining restaurant model doesn't work. could i create a kitchen that has 60 percent less employees using robotics and computers? coul

more about the hospitality industry than anybody in the country is bar rescue founder and host, john tappero staffing. >> we're really coming back, when you speak to every restaurant owner, the people are coming back but we have two problems. both government caused. the enhanced unemployment benefits, think about this. and larry knows this well if it's a two household, two-person household making $800 each, in unemployment benefits that's about $83,000 a year. median household income is only $67,000 a year, so you can stay home and exceed median income. right now government is stopping us from getting our employees back. restaurants are open two days rather than seven days it's killing us. steve: and so in talking to the guy from kansas city, he worries about what's going to happen next year because the way restaurants currently are able to pay people 35 or $40 an hour to work back in the kitchen is they're taking the ppp money and using it this year, but next year, those people are still going to want the 35 or $40 an hour. and so what are they going to do they have to raise the prices and

john served as dni under president george w. bush starting in 2005. and he told our jake tapper that cyberattacks can have an impact, just as significant as more conventional forms of terrorism. >> absolutely. no, and i certainly don't want to, in any way, minimize the -- the tremendous cost that we suffered back on 9/11 in 2001. but just like you mention, an attack on a healthcare system. a network of hospitals, for example. or, you know, other such facilities. shutting down the energy supply, let's say, of the entire east coast of the united states. you know, what could be the health impacts of something like that? they could be enormous. >> my colleague, michael holmes, discussed the threat posed by ransomware, earlier, with an expert. robert lee was a u.s. air force cyberwarfare operations officer, and now he is ceo of the cybersecurity company, dragos. here is part of their conversation. >> so far, everything has been criminal in nature, both from non-state actors and state actors. taking advantage of these things. but it does expose the weakness that everyone's concerned a

john served as dni under president george w. bush starting back in 2005. he told our jake tapper that cyberattacks can have impact just as significant as more conventional forms of terrorism. >> absolutely. no. and i certainly don't want to, in any way, minimize the -- the tremendous cost that we suffered back on 9/11, in 2001. but just like you mention, an attack on a healthcare system, a network of hospitals, for example. or, you know, other-such facilities. shutting down the energy supply, let's say, of the entire-east coast of the united states. you know, what could be the health impacts of something like that? they could be enormous. >> robert lee is the ceo of cybersecurity company, drago, and he joins me now from krofton, maryland. good to see you, robert. so, the fbi director comparing these attacks to 9/11, in terms of threat, because of what they can do for infrastructure. i mean, he wouldn't do that without thought. i mean, do you agree with him, just how big and serious is the problem? >> absolutely. so, it sounds like it could be hyperbole. but in reality, these atta

democratic senators including angus king told jake tapper this morning he wouldn't support it as it is. in the op ed he said he would support the john lewis voting rights act and says there is bipartisan support to do so. i think the filibuster should be reformed. i think we are doing everything we can to reform our democracy. >> also, to be fair, jim, as you know, hr-1 is a very sweeping bill that does more than just voting rights. it also includes a comprehensive campaign finance reform action as well as other things. you know, you can do -- the reason the hr-4, the voting rights act, is separate is because it is but pun part of hr-1, you can be for voting rights and not be for hr-1 as a democrat. >> absolutely. i think what you are going to see over the next several months is a real debate over this issue because these republican state house bills that have been sweeping the country just raced ahead of, you know, any, you know, movement that you could possibly see in washington. things move incredibly -- at a glacial pace here in washington. and the state bills move so far ahead of the federal efforts here in washington. you have

. >> you told jake tapper that it is your job and as budget committee chairman to get in p input from other members of the caucus. joe manchin and john tester, they're expressing d, what you just described. we believe $6 trillion. are you planning to scale back of what you want to do in order to get it passed? >> well, the process had just begun. that's what the process is about. as chairman of the committee, i intend to discuss this issue with every member of the democratic caucus. i think there is general agreement that the time is lonl ll long overdue. that's something we have to work together. >> that's your track and i want to keep going on that. >> there is this compromised infrastructure plan. i know you don't support it but it is all part of this complicated balancing act that you are part of trying to keep afloat. fellow progressives say they won't back that bipartisan bill unless they know their priorities will be covered in what you are working on. the moderates whose votes are essential to pass on what you come up with are reluctant to support a big price tag. how do you thread the needle to sacrifice everybody in the dem

tapper sell a few more copies of his book. he tells me how he managed to fool his own lawyers. >>> but first we have got a lightening round with former trump national security advisor john bolton. i know what he thinks president biden's strategy should be for his meeting this month with vladimir putin especially after the u.s. has been hit repeatedly by hackers believed to be based in russia. john bolten joins us next. every day unilever does good for communities across america. ♪ every squeeze every smile every drop every style every spray every bubble every day dove, suave & hellmann's donate everyday products to local communities. every day u does good. unilever (burke) phone it in to 1-800-farmers to get policy perks, like a home and auto-bundle discount. (man) i'm phoning it in and just saved twenty percent. (burke) get your policy perks by calling 1-800-farmers. go ahead, phone it in. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ [sfx: psst psst] allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ to prove our aa battery is the world's longest-lasting, we tested i