neil. well said, thank you. 20 years have gone by, but it really seems as if it has not been one more day. i'm reminded that the sky this morning is just so blue, we call it that september 11 blue when the first plane, american airlines flight flew over my head and banked to the right before it slammed into the north tower of the world trade center and right now ongoing here at ground zero, the familiar scenario of reading of the names. we've had a very east motional ceremony this morning that continues and perhaps more painful because of this anniversary mark of one generation and perhaps we know now that the taliban have retaken afghanistan. as usual, the names started to be read this morning of the 2,753 people so tragedy perished. >> 20 years feels like an eternity, and still feels like yesterday. until we meet again, my love, rest in peace. >> even after a generation, the emotion endures. as usual, there were the four moments of silence marking when the two airplanes hit both towers an

neil? >> neil: yeah, to your point, there's a lot of questions back and forth about the 100 americans but the thousands of others that worked with us in afghanistan still stuck there. the generals didn't have an immediate answer on that. that is worrisome. all right. aishah, thank you. >> that's right. >> neil: finish that thought. i apologize. >> no, you're fine. i was going to mentioned somebody that i know personally myself that was an siv that has a brother still in the country with his family, they're not getting any answers either. they're one of the families out there complaining that they're reaching out to the dod, reaching out to find out how to bring him here. they're still not hearing anything yet. neil? >> neil: yeah, that's disturbing to put it mildly. thanks, aishah hasnie in the capitol. i want to go to william boykin. you know him a familiar repeated guest on this show because we admire him so much. a retired lieutenant general, the u.s. deputy under foreign affairs. he nev

neil. neil: thank you very much for that. todd access reporter at white house whether the president's declining popularity will make it more of an uphill battle for him. in light of the storms at least on the bipartisan infrastructure package that has done more to help them on that front than anything else, right? >> the clock is ticking on that bipartisan package, right. whether you call it 1.2 trillion or 500 billion. what the moderates in the house, moderate democrats i should point out, neil, they think they have a firm fast agreement, that move, that vote will go forward on september 27th. that is their argument. when you talk to those nine, 10 moderates, they say the best way for democrats to maintain the majority for them to get that infrastructure, bipartisan bill passed. the problem a lot of other progress serves want a much bigger vote, that is the 3.5. that is in so much doubt this morning given manchin's op-ed, given everything pelosi is saying on the hill. there are real questions how you get that bigger bill acr

neil, it's yours. neil: stuart, thank you. thank that colleague sitting next to you there, jackie for filling in for me yesterday. thank you, jackie. we have a reversal of fortune today in the market, folks, but as stuart said it would really be a problem if all of sudden these gains evaporate and we add to credit's selling. we're not there yet. keep in mind we had been up over 300 points that is in the futures markets so there is a little bit of concern some of that is getting back. you can read into that any which way you want. still waiting word out of china specifically whether it is going to come to the rescue of evergrande group and at this point it has not hinted of that. we'll explore that a little more detail because you're not imagining, this is a pattern on the part of china to essentially risk doing great harm to itself to the markets and economy in china to make a bigger point here. so we'll watch that closely. let's get the latest on how all of this is reverberateing with tomorrow being the wrap-up of the two-day

neil? neil: chad pergram, thank you very much, scott hodge, tax foundation president noticing all tax hikes. it's a lot more interesting to secrete activity to use coming up with getting money, not spending money. all of that said, these are pretty creative and aggressive tax hikes here. what do you make of them? >> well i think the war on success has begun. what they're trying to do is fund this very massive expansion of government, really on the backs of about 5000 u.s. corporations and about 1 1/2 million successful americans most of which are individually owned businesses. this is a huge, huge, tax increase on the core of the u.s. economy. when we modeled the biden plan previous to this, our tax model found that it would shrink the size of the economy by 1%, cost the economy about 165,000 jobs, shrink wages, shrink capital stock and so forth and so we suspect that this plan will have roughly the same results. it is going to be a slower economy, fewer jobs, and a less prosperous over all

neil? neil: got it.ghn, i'll have luke lloyd on this because luke if even half of the things that hillary mentioned come to pass besides hiking the top rate back to 39.6% the corporate rate to maybe 25-28%, all this other stuff on investment assets, yearly gains, you know, extended tax hikes on corporations that have ceo pay that's out of whack with the lowest workers on the totem pole, that could be considerable what do you think? >> well i think all no matter if you raise taxes at the corporate level or at the personal level it's definitely going to hinder the growth of the economy and we don't need that right now. we saw record level of earnings in the stock market, we see wall street doing just fine but that's the thing. wall street is really doing just fine right now. consumers are on a spending spree and the question you need to ask yourself right now is where is all of this money going and it's going to wall street, it's not going to main street so what i'm truly concerned about is how small busin

neil. neil: griff jenkins, thank you very very much. those who we have been able to cite on planes coming here or to the air force base in germany, we don't know how many we're talking about. it's a good issue to get into with joni ernst. senator, good to have you. do you know what this derogatory information could be that is preventing at least a few afghans from making their way here? >> well, there could be many reasons behind that, some of which could be that there was interaction between the individual and the taliban, or other terrorist organizations. we don't know that and certainly in the past when my office has tried to find out various pieces of information through the state department, we have not been allowed access to that type of information. so, it's hard to know at this point, but we do want to make sure that as individuals are coming into the united states, that they are properly vetted. that's very important to my constituents, my others. but we do want to evacuate the special immigrant visa holders that are qualified

neil: yeah.rselves, you know, not on the storm front, but in this position, oil and energy, because it was an either/or type of a choice here. we have a lot of energy, a lot of oil and all the production methods, to your point, why not keep using that? by all means, explore wind and solar and all the other things, but not one at the expense of another particularly when we're a world leader. phil, thank you, my friend, very much. >> thank you. neil: we'll keep you up-to-date on some of these startling images we are getting in the northeast that shows something you would normally think, all right, this happened in the south. we're looking at louisiana, right? we're looking at mississippi. ono, no, it's coming from up north, and now talk that new england is bracing for maybe not as bad, but still pretty rough stuff. after this. let's go walter! after you. walter, twelve o' clock. get em boy! [cows mooing] that is incredible. it's the multi-flex tailgate. it can be a step, it can even become a worksp

time's up for me, neil. it is yours. neil: six inches? stuart: yep. neil: that makes sense i guess. i just add six inches of paint and away we go. thank you, stuart, very, very much. we're focused on what you've been focused on the last couple hours the dow trying to make a comeback after yesterday's rout. this seems to be a pattern, after a big hit make up for it next day. that doesn't always work. 600 point drubbing it was flat after that. came back roaring in the days that followed. we'll see what follows. the worry is over the course of interest rates and whether they get rip-roaring ahead. so far that does not appear to be the case. relatively contained right now but when you look at 1 1/2% or so 10-year note and remember that little more than a month ago it was in and out of 1.13%, that is a pretty heady backup in yield. following all of that, meantime the back and forth on this spending plan that democrats want to put together to pave the way for a bipartisan vote on infrastructure tomorrow but progressives are having it, after starting to tear apart the 3 1/2 trillion dollar

neil? >> neil: thank you, william. that, we'll pass it along to you. all of this at the same time the president of the united states is going to sort of toughen up when it comes to vaccinations in this country and particularly try to budge those that have not gotten vaccinated in the federal work force. he has some power here and he can force the issue. he plans to do that. for everybody else, not so fast. after this. what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? salonpas contains the most prescribed topical pain relief ingredient. it's clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. salonpas. it's good medicine. fine, no one leaves the table until your finished. fine, we'll sleep here. ♪♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. finding new routes to reach your customers, and new ways for them to reach you... is what business is all about. it's what the united states postal service has always been about. so as your business changes, w

neil? >> neil: aishah hasnie, thanks very much.we go to my next guest, one of the questioners today, thoughts from leon panetta, who was barack obama's defense secretary, chief hoff staff under bill clinton who said that already for this administration it's quickly become their bay of pigs. take a look. >> we don't have that. their bay of pigs. leon panetta says this will lead to a series of tests from others to see the administration's resolve, whether the timing of north korea missile strikes, cruise missile tests and china chomping at the bit. what do you make of that? >> might be a good analogy. it's about competence, isn't it and commitment to our allies. this was a disastrous withdrawal. there's no other way to put it. the evacuation was rushed, chaotic. resulted in us not only getting americans out entirely and a lot of green card holders and sivs, the afghans that help us and resulted in us bringing people to america that weren't properly vetted because it was so chaotic. a lot of reasons why this is an example where the un

neil?hank you very much for that, trey yingst on all of that. wonder what paul bremer thinks of this? you know him quite well. former special envoy to iraq and terrorism chair under former president bush 43. good to see you, paul. i would be remiss if i didn't mention what is going on in afghanistan and reverb ranges throughout the nation and particularly in iraq. your thoughts? >> i think we have a real problem in the region. just look at the headlines. russia and china have both moved in to try to fill the vacuum that we created by our retreat in afghanistan and iran, for the first time has been invited to attend a chinese organization called the shanghai organization. they have been kept out for many years and now they have just been invited and the new extremist president of iran, mr. rahisi, will travel to the next meeting of the shanghai organization. so, and meanwhile, just to make it worse, the iranian backed hezbollah terrorist group, identified as a terrorist group in the united s

>> hi, neil. we knew the bipartisan infrastructure agreement and the social spending path were on a collision course in terms of what gets voted on and passed first. now the wheels are coming off entirely. house republican leadership is now whipping their members urging them to vote no on the bipartisan infrastructure deal because they think it's clear that the two are linked. now 11 senate democrats are telling their colleagues in the house to hold their vote on the bipartisan deal until the budget bill gets passed first and heads to the president's desk. so there's a lot at stake for president biden's build back better agenda with progressives and moderates at war with each other. he's trying to get everyone on the same page today. >> the progressive democrats or the moderate democrats, who will give here? >> sometimes there's need for compromise. he will know more after these discussions today and the coming days. >> president biden met with spoker pelosi and chuck schumer. he has two meetings

neil says hi. >> hi, neil.history of the new york stock exchange. neil: iconic. reporter: and he was here and talk to me about what happened. he sat 3 feet that she said 3 feet of ash outside and it was a horror in so many regards and if you think about six days later when the new york stock exchange reopened, that iconic moment up there on the balcony and watch people saw, which, of course, was then new york governor george pataki and treasury secretary paul o'neill, one of my personal favorites, you know you head to the senators at the time new york senator schumer and new york senator hillary clinton, but harvey picked up the fcc, it was the firefighters and the police officers, the survivors who got to ring that opening belt six days later and this was the longest shutdown since 1933 and the depression. i don't know when i would think about the floor traders here and i think about the hallowed ground and we always talk about the floor. look at the ceiling, neil. look at this building. this represents so muc

neil. neil: all right. even some moderate democrats here pointed out earlier in the week they're getting a little fidget at this about it as well. hillary vaughn, thank you. what are the long term i am play i am i long term implications with this with evergrande and lehman brothers, could that what happened then happen now? all of that can change. hal lambert joins us right now. point bridge capital founder and ceo. hal, first to the marketing what they're sort of digesting for the time-being, that evergrande is not lehman. do you agree with that? >> well, i think it is really tricky to answer that. the markets are certainly ignoring it but i think they're ignoring it at their peril. i think there is a lot of red flags right now, no pun intended on investing in china and the economic mod china. starts with the crackdown president xi did over a year ago where jack ma disappeared for a while. trillions have come off of market caps of these countries over there. president xi coming out saying he wants to move

i'm neil cavuto. we're on on the of this spending show down because while they are making progress avoid ago government shut down that could have occurred as early as tonight, right now the senate and the house have approved a temporary spending measure that is on its way to the president's desk. so that immediate problem solved. now to the spending issues coming up and this divide we keep talking about between moderates and the prossives within the democratic party. seems like for the time being, republicans are standing this one out. we have the latest for you with the best of the business covering this including chad pergram with a view from the capitol, also have jacqui heinrich with a view from the white house. first, to chad at the capitol. chad, what can you tell us? >> good afternoon, neil. this underscores the infighting among democrats about what they can do with their narrow majorities. that is the reality. house speaker nancy pelosi insists it's all about -- it's all possible despite a thr

>> neil: neil, good afternoon to you.ott just visited this area earlier today. he said that he never heard back from president biden when he sent him a letter yesterday asking him for a federal emergency declaration because of what's going on over my shoulder here at this camp in del rio. never heard back. take a look at this video. i talked with him one-on-one before the press conference. he was at the spot at the river where the illegal crossings were happening. he plans to reach out to private landowners to ask permission to build a wall to help shore up the area because the federal government won't do it and texas has to step up to the plate. take a listen. >> we're arresting and jailing anybody that comes across the border illegally and trespasses on private property or on public land. so it's not the biden administration catch and release policy. it's the arrest and jail policy. >> texas doesn't need anybody's permission to protect texas. >> we mentioned the crossings on saturday. take a look at again at this video

neil? neil: absolutely. to your point we're learning it is not just joe manchin has a problem with this when it comes to some of the tax hikes. mark warner with whom wechat later in the show, jon tester of montana, krysten sinema of arizona. this is problematic to put it mildly. hillary great reporting as usual, my friend. let's go to chad pergram on this. chad so many questions to ask you. the first is the magic of this september 27th date joe manchin is indicated they can't make, at least by his thinking. what is that? reporter: keep in mind the house of representatives. for the house to vote on that transportation and infrastructure bill, that is an agreement between house speaker nancy pelosi and moderate democrats. they have already voted on that bill in the senate. but the next few weeks are a challenge for congress. consider the list of things they have to do. the government is on the brink of shutting down on october 1st. the secretary of the treasury, janet yellen is pleading with congress to raise

neil?ou very much for that, jeff paul. i want to update you as well on new jersey now. the new jersey governor confirming that there are 25 dead in the state right now as a result of the storm, at least 6 missing, and now we're dealing with some explosions happening around the mandel, new jersey, area where we'll find bryan llenas if, what's going on there? >> reporter: neil, right now you are seeing the saffron banquet hall that exploded at two a.m. this morning. local firefighters are throwing water on it to try to douse the smoke and the flames after the explosion. if you come back over here, we can see the building, it was just 40 obliterated by that explosion. a couple of feet of water went into that building, and what we've been told happens is that natural gas ends up leaking, and all you need is just one electrical spark, and that's what happened. so is a total loss. we spoke to the owner, he is completely heart broken, he says he doesn't know what he's going to do next. we have aer

neil? >> neil: thank you, bryan llenas. indeed to bryan's point, there were a warning about flash floods hours before they hit. in fact, might have been a nuisance for those of you with smart phones and the like. you were getting beat and pummeled with updates throughout the day and later into the night. so i had a tough time understanding the politicians that said that they were caught off guard by this. be that as it may, let's go to david lee miller in hoboken where a lot of road look like rivers, right, david lee? >> indeed. you're right, neil. a boat might be more helpful than a car. the storm deluge the state of new jersey. dumped almost five inches of rain here in hoboken. you can see for yourself the main intersection here in downtown hoboken, first in clinton. there's a long line of cars slowly, very slowly making their way through the city. we're told that the water now has started to recede, but at this intersection, it's as much as eight or nine inches. it was higher than that a few hours ago. the situation here

neil? neil: they can't afford to lose more than three, right? reporter: lose more than three on the democraticside. that's right. if you get 10 republicans across the other side you could probably pass it. but do the liberals balk, get up to 12, 15 nos on that side, that is where the equation doesn't simply work. neil: got it. that is planned for thursday? >> so far. this is very fluid. neil: got it. thank you my friend chad pergram on capitol hill for that. this must be the day washington hearings, the general news interest is popping, general mark milley, defense secretary lloyd austin, let's say it has gotten a tad contentious. aishah hasnie following all of that from capitol hill. ashiah? reporter: neil, that's right. i stepped out for a couple of moments from the hearing that is ongoing, and the key headline going that the key admission from all three witnesses made a short time ago. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general milley and also general mckenzie just testified their pe

neil? >> neil: all right. peter doocy at the white house. thanks very much. so how is this faring on capitol hill? will anything get through? will they have the infrastructure-only package vote monday as was the plan? is that still on? let's go to chad pergram with more from the capitol. chad? >> good afternoon, neil. when you lack an agreement in politics, you give the appearance of a deal. that's why nancy pelosi brought chuck schumer and janet yellen to her press conference today. they declared there was an agreement to make sure that everything in the social spending bill is paid for. pelosi is noncommittal about the timing of a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. >> are you confident you have enough support in your own party to move forward with a vote? >> we take it one day at a time. i'm confident we'll pass both bills. >> bringing everyone to the press conference today was stage craft. let me fillet what pelosi has figured out here. she heard from her members the most import

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>> neil: good.hat day, if you can, mike. >> well, i was on the 17th floor of the south tower. i got there early. i got my coffee. i started preparing for a class. put my handouts. about a quarter till 9:00, the north tower got hit. there was a tremendous after of debris coming down. huge amounts. size of the kitchen table and paper all over the place. unbelievable the amounts of paper. i told the people, i arrived early, keep away from the windows and stuff like that. you could see the debris was heavy. then i decided, something was wrong. that it was time for me to leave. so i told the woman that was in charge of the institute at that time that, you know, i'm leaving. i think you should evacuate the whole floor. she had a whistle for fire and things like that. she started blowing the whistle. she told everybody to go down the floor. >> neil: not everyone was evacuating, right? your gut was right. what were you being told to do in the building or the intercom system? >> we weren't being told to do a

neil? neil: jeff, thank you.et through, maybe the infrastructure package monday and then the spending showdown over the real big one, the three and a half trillion dollar infrastructure measure that could be worth considerably more than matt's. an issue i took up with austin who says it's well worth the price. >> even with the inflationary pressures, given what we have seen, given the inflationary spike that's already out there, do we need something this big? >> that paid for spending, that is something where you raise taxes on high income people to pay for the spending, that's not inflationary and doesn't overheat the economy and is certainly something if we are talking about investments over a 10 year plus period for infrastructure and other things, i don't think that the immediate business cycle is really the relevant thing. neil: all right, so not inflationary to cut austin. has appropriations committee, what do you think of that, congressmen? >> i could not disagree more with the gentleman. america has had a

neil? >> neil: peter, that is an important distinction. we're going to pay for it, maybe half of it. at these numbers, you're talking 1.8 trillion that you might not have. so you have to go back to find more tax money, right? >> yes, especially because the big thing that president biden likes to say about this package is, well, we're going to pay for all of it unlike donald trump with the tax cuts where some of the payment was not all done up front. we're going to have the money up front. according to nancy pelosi, the one with the piggy bank, that is not necessarily the case. >> neil: well, all up front, half up front, something like that. >> a few trillion. yeah. >> neil: thanks. i hear you. the numbers geek here at fox. not red or blue, just green. you commit with the green or you don't have the green. if you're going to pay for half of it, that's not all of it. i digress. remember rahm emanuel when he talked about using crises as a way to get something, take a look. >> you never want a

neil?had, this is gut read on your part but the feeling seems to be that democrats will rally around that, there will be a push from the chief, talking the president of the united states, you have to do this, rally around the gipper, get this done. you have qualms but if we don't get it done we're all toast anyway, that they will have to just you know, get a stiff upper lip about this and sign on to it. do you think that is likely? >> they need a big win, the democrats do after the afghanistan debacle, especially president biden. this is why he met this morning with kyrsten sinema, the moderate democratic senator from arizona at the white house. joe manchin is going down later this afternoon as well. i talked to one democrat this morning. i said can they get this don't by the end of the month. they said yes, it will be stressful. this is where you look at the size of the bill. it is probably going to come down in cost, maybe 1.5 to $2 trillion. that is why there is this big debate trying to

neil. neil: wow, that is a bit creative. you know, one thing i caught from her statement that you had there, half to maybe all of this is paid for. well all of it should be paid for. that is a wide range, half to maybe all you know? reporter: right. they really don't have any of these pay-fors neil set in stone there are proposals on the table, there are ideas, there will be a lot of disagreement what pay-fors actually have the 60 vote threshold of support and what pay-fors don't, don't make it in. that could mean it is definitely not fully paid for even though there may be ways to do it. there may not be agreement to include all of those ways in the final package. neil: yeah. i was looking at my math hire on some of these numbers. they don't come close to paying for it. they have to come up with i guess more tax increases. where they get those in the end will maybe decide this. great reporting, my friend, hillary vaughn. on capitol hill. art laffer, former reagan economist, one confidante of donald trump. looking at all of

neil? neil: jackie, thank you very, very much.ou might have heard to jackie refer to this 83 million-dollar payment that is due in interest on a u.s. dollar-denominated bond. it is due thursday. a lot of people are rightly saying china is a good 14 hours ahead of us depending where you are in the country. so if we haven't heard announcement on that have they already passed this deadline? they base this on new york time. they have until the end of today to make that payment new york time. i just want to be clear about that and that's what we're waiting to find out. technically if they don't make a payment like that the company would be in default, the cascading effect, domino effect would be alive and well. there are separate reports we're getting out of chinese state media the government already warned local authorities do what you can but we're essentially leaving it up to you for the time-being but separately there is some drama in the background here because $18 billion has been poured into the banking sector by china's version

neil? >> neil: part of that, jennifer at face value is relying on the taliban to help us get these other americans out that want to get out, the thousands of afghans. i don't know if that is a lay-up. what are you hearing? >> it's not a lay-up. we're hearing already about vicious killings where if the taliban find if you have anything on your cell phone to see that if you been in touch with americans and calling the phone numbers and executing people as they try to get to safety. so those guarantees from the taliban probably not worth the paper they're written on. most of them are not written on paper because the taliban are illiterate for the most part. this is an impossible situation. the reality has changed. the intelligence networks are already starting to dry up because the cia had to close their bases there. the u.s. military is now out and they're now reliant hoping that the enemy of their enemy, isis-k, which is the taliban, that they can perhaps use the taliban to fight against isi

neil? neil: jennifer, much is being made of the phone call the president had back in july with the afghan president in which the president was, i think trying to counter perception, advise him counter the perception that the afghan army isn't prepared or ready, that it is falling behind the eight ball. i'm paraphrasing it. what is the reaction at the pentagon and others to this revelation? reporter: remember, neil, president ghani came with his national security advisor to washington in july. he met with the president at the white house. he also met with congress and at that time the pentagon, the white house were trying to bolster ghani and 300,000 afghan security forces hey, we're pulling out you need to step up. president ghani's message to congress, he was not encouraging those special immigrant visa holders to be evacuated from afghanistan. we need the people to build our country. the state department took the decision not to accelerate the evacuations. the pentagon had to have permiss

neil? >> neil: thanks for that, laura.ould also now tell you that whatever you make of this storms, it is providing catalysts to get that infrastructure package through. i'm talking about the bipartisan one that has republican backing. you heard from senator bill cassidy. let's go to chad pergram on capitol hill. >> democrats are using the storm to justify their push for the infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion billion. it's loaded with environmental provisions. >> this bill will end years of gridlock. make us more resilient to the kinds of devastating impacts from extreme weather we're seeing many so many parts of the country. >> bipartisan members of the louisiana delegation asked for more money to help cover the hurricane damage. troy carter was driving with the president to make the pitch for hurricane relief and tie hurricane aid to the other bills. >> you get caught up in the semantics of calling it hard or soft infrastructure. it's people. it's making louisiana and americans lives better. >> conservatives want

neil? >> neil: peter, thanks. the great weight as to whether you need a third shot, they're still waiting on that right now at the fda. they're rephrasing the question, remember. the key vote is whether they would accept this as something for all americans to try. on that, they said no. you don't need to do that. the effectiveness is that you don't need to pump it up or take an insurance shot to boost it up. in other words, to get the boost you would get to increase your immunity to the virus. separately they're taking up the issue presumably -- that's what they mean by requesting -- whether this might apply to the vulnerable parts of the population of those, again, with compromised immune systems, the elderly. that is open-ended. most doctors seem to agree maybe for this subset of the population, it might be a good idea. i bet the fda has ruled on that. when they do, we will pass that along to you as well. we'll be talking to top doctors on what they think this could signal. keep in mind a

neil, it is yours. neil: think about it, stuart, also lost in the sauce if they can't get their act together on either of these measures, they can't vote on a short-term funding plan that was agreed to with republicans. that doesn't happen that is immediate concern. they have to do it by tonight. what a mess. thank you, my friend. we're following that as stuart indicated here. everything was going along smoothly on final day of the month, final day of the quarter, we'll be 3/4 of the through the market year when the closing bell rings today. you knew about all the pieces to keep the government open, raise the debt ceiling eventually. vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan, come some sort of agreement on the human infrastructure plan, 3 1/2 trillion. maybe make it less than 3 1/2 trillion, two trillion. along the way something happened the push to get a bipartisan vote on smaller lean and mean trillion dollar plan was falling apart because progressives were not getting the assurances they wanted that

neil?l: perhaps of more immediate interest to our viewers for the time being whether they benefit are if these other packages or not, lucas, is where they stand on this stopgap measure to sort of fund the government before the lights presumably could go out september 30th. where are they on that? >> reporter: that's right, neil. the end of september here in washington which means one thing, a budget crisis. you have to fund the government for another year, that includes the u.s. military. there's no bill, you have, you know, just one-year stopgap measure, it's going to be a showdown. we expect congress to be in session many weekends coming forward, that's according to our own chad pergram. neil: which means you will be in session for many weekends. [laughter] lucas, thank you very much. great reporting, my friend. let's go to senator mike braun on all of this, the indiana republican, senate appropriations committee. senator, if you were a betting man, do you think a stop gap measure could b

neil? >> neil: thanks very much for that, steve. want to go to mark eiglarsh, a criminal defense attorney. there's a lot to this case. obviously it doesn't end with the fraud, insurance fraud. where does this go? >> today was just the beginning, a huge victory for the defense. had the judge ruled in the prosecutor's favor, he would have had to posted a surety bond and come up with at least 10% of the $100,000 bond that the state was requesting. the defense got a huge victory in that he could guarantee he will pay the $20,000 bond if he takes off and flees. he didn't have to pay anything. huge victory. where it goes from here, this is just the beginning. every time the state adds additional charges which they will, at a minimum, stealing from his own law firm, wins you have those charges, he will be brought back in front of the court and now he's more a risk of flight. you're facing additional time. you have more of a reason to take off and the bond amount will go up. >> neil: the death to the housekeeper serves me right, it was cons

neil? >> neil: thanks, alex. we're learning a little bit more about the emergency funds that the president is requesting. this urgent spending request calls for $14 billion in aid to respond to natural disasters that occurred before hurricane ida as well as 6.4 billion to pay for the on going relocation of tens of thousands of afghans that partnered with the united states during the war in afghanistan. you can bet with reports of up to $10 billion in extra funding requests to help those post hurricane ida, these will be eye-opening sums. karl rove is here with us. best sell-author and former chief of staff. very few will stop or turn down a president who is asking for emergency funds after a disaster. more than half of this money is prior to that disaster what do you make of it? >> well, either bad planning or an attempt to take advantage of a crisis by getting money for other things. i think we need to look carefully at the details of the request for monieses that are not connected with this emergency. if they w

neil? neil: when they cancel a party, you know it's a big deal. rich edson, thank you very, very much. man, oh, man. let's get the read on this from dan joseph. to say he's a china expert would be an understatement. the book, "the china learning curve," spells out how we deal with the chinese. from almost all indications, they're and spit-fire angry. they're talking about bringing carriers off the coast of hawaii as a sort of take that, america, with you doing that in the south china sea. where is this going? >> well, certainly i think one result is that china is going to harden its position, at least in the short term. you who won't see is it back off -- you won't see them back off the large increases in defense spending and some of the naval operations they're doing in the south china sea. longer term, bigger picture, china might notice there's agreement among the allies. in the last couple of months we've had the u.k. and now germany send their boats through the south china sea, freedom

that doesn't cut it, neil. they inherited a deadline, negotiated with conditions based negotiations as pointed out by the republicans of may 1. but then they renegotiated that deal to make it september 11th. they renegotiated it. in the interim, they didn't come up with a plan about how to get americans and other people out by that date. which is what led to the situation that we saw. >> neil: i've always wondered about that. you think about it, bret. the biden administration came in ripping up all sorts of deals and actions taken by the prior administration. why stop at this particular one when it was adjusted to your point. what i'm asking, we can put a forward spin on this now, bret. this notion that the taliban will continue cooperating with us, working with us to get these 100 or so americans out, these thousands of afghan nationals out. the latter seems a little bit of a steep climb here. but in the interim, the vacuum is filled by the chinese, the russians, others. how do you see this playing out for the

neil mcneice? lead. is that correct? >> a friend of mine, something he had said. >> so why didn't the detective at least go talk with neil mcneice? it's just something that fell through the cracks, or because you were so focused on pam phillips? >> that's what the defense would have you believe, that we were focused on pam phillips. i would say there were eight to ten, what i felt, were viable leads in addition to pam phillips. >> and neil mcneice wasn't one of them? >> no. >> in hindsight, do you wish you had dragged him in a room and asked him some questions? >> of course. >> and if you'd done that, what do you think you would have found? >> based on the evidence that i've seen, both from our investigation and from the defense investigation, we would have cleared him in some way. it would not have risen to any kind of a level where we would have been a suspect. >> there was nothing to the mcneice story, said investigators and prosecutors. the true killer, they said, was the person sitting in that

neil: i would say historically -- this will get technical.re looking at different universes of companies. the ppi index is measuring the pricing power from a manufacturer or wholesaler. you are looking at a different universe of companies. it is not a one to one thing. when you live it up against profit margins it does not work that well historically. the margins will come down. i do not necessarily think that is the death knell for equity markets. they are at very high levels. i sympathize with the idea inflation will be stickier for longer. i do not think that is going to be something that is catastrophic. jonathan: i said you hate that word that is being thrown around, stagflation, in a period like the one we might be going into. neil: we are not stagnated. one of the reasons why inflation is firm is because demand is firm. it is important to remember how covid affects the economy. the most obvious is no one is going out to eat, no one is looking to travel. that is sort of a first-order effect. looking under the hoods is what happens is pe

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neil mckennon -- neil mac kinnon, vtb capital global macro, give me your thoughts.nting. the adp numbers gave us a pretty good steer, and it does suggest there might be some disappointments. but i think as far as the fed is concerned, this is slightly worrying. it may well bounce back next month. who knows? but a lot of the jobs growth was in the leisure and hospitality sector. dissipation rates, the things that jerome powell looks at. wage inflation i think is becoming more of a problem. i think we had the last five months gain an average earnings. that could present a problem for the fed at some point, and raise worries about stagflation that he just mentioned. guy: what does it do in terms of the timeline? there was an expectation that maybe would start talking about tapering. do you think we will push that into a next year? neil: i think there's a good chance for that. there's an outside chance that it might not happen at all. guy: let's talk about that tail risk. why not? neil: the view in the markets is that there will be tapering. we don't know the numbers. w

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andrew neil was so much more than just - neil was so much more than just another presenter on gb newsenging the metropolitan mindset and representing views, people and stories that were not being represented, he said, by other news channels, notably of course the bbc and sky. it was a channel very much based around one man's vision, and then after just based around one man's vision, and then afterjust eight shows, he goes on holiday, and notjust a holiday, but a holiday that lasts for months, and of course there were questions immediately as to what was going on behind the scenes. now, when it started, there were a few technical issues, certainly, and there were also the teething problems you get with any channel, but its audience at the beginning wasn't too bad. it was certainly challenging bbc news and sky news at the time on some of its programmes, but a great deal has changed while he has been away. perhaps most notably, if you want to talk about personalities, the arrival of nigel farage in the evening who is now pretty much getting their best audiences. braids evening who is now

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i'm not the case on a bill on all those years of research professor look at neil. thank you so much for joining me once again on the alex simon show. lobby. thanks so much i in recent weeks, 2 of the highest back committed countries in the world. the us and u. k. have record of the high streets of krona virus. it is true that the vaccines have weakened the link between infection and hospitalizations, but the us, the store recording the highest number of deaths in the world at over $10000.00 per week, while the u. k. as one of the highest, in fact typically dates per head of population. they almost block a reaction of substantial sections of the population and media to this continuing level of infection and loss speaks to people bravely and the societal restrictions . however, both countries are heading into a northern winter where conditions are conducive not just to cruel of iris, but to other winter killers. and both countries have health services already buckling under the pressure of the virus. in the circumstances, the news to mister vaccine shots and further