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, half travel, half history. you can find out more if you're interested at jefferson travels. com, that's my website. where have also written a lot more about our journeys and have other pictures and other thoughts and some stuff that didn't make it into the book. so, if you have any, questions i'm happy to take them. >> -- what about the language capabilities of jefferson, as he went to the different countries? was he rather fluent in foreign languages? >> yeah, that's a great question. he thought he was a little more fluent than he was. he loved languages and he loved french, he had a real problem speaking french with conversational french when he got there. he read it fluently but he had trouble making himself be understood, so he sometimes would use an interpreter or a translator for has written documents. but, still he worked very well in french, he knew latin and greet. he wrote that he taught himself spanish by reading don quixote on the ocean, on the ship right over. i don't know if you can completely lea

so we continued on our travels. we did a number of them my wife and i saw and some of them with our with our children who were pretty young at the time. so, this is stow gardens in england. so landscape gardens english gardens were basically the only thing that jefferson liked about england, but he really did love them. he went to 19 different gardens which we did as well and stowe was one of his favorites jefferson took a lot of ideas back from the landscape gardens. he saw he looked at the follies the small little temples they had he had ideas about putting what they called eye catchers way off in the distance and kind of painting a tableau through landscaping and he would go back. he thought this was a great art form. this was a very important art form in the 18th century, especially for aristocare aristocrats with the states. it was kind of like almost like instagram today. you're kind of showing off the best side of things so he came back and and had had ideas for monte cello. the landscaping he would do a mont

and all airports entering the country also for travelers entering the u.s.e push in facial recognition technology at all 159 land areas for those entering us and also pilot testing for other areas of the land environment. gao is issued numerous reports to develop into port deploy a biometric entry we will summarize the most recent report for september 2020 and i will highlight two key findings. the biometric entry exit program by for example prohibiting partners like air carriers and providing public notices on privacy protection cbp notices have not always been current or complete or more available to provide limited information on how to request for example at the time of our review the public website on the program did not accurately reflect the locations of these are tested racial for this facial recognition technology so that would not be a complete list of locations where they may encounter that technology and then one of the airport visits using facial recognition technology that further while it allows eligible travelers for identity verification and

roosevelt traveled 50000 miles with about truman traveled almost 35000 miles in the i have travel in three times as a matter fact summit had the bright idea when time dedicate a new college or something. and that would leave a very small tried to speak with people not very many people could get the president to see him or hear him and he never put it that way again. the lesson the car was used was by eisenhower and then of course use the car in 1984 october 12, 1984 through western ohio. but the cars a water system was not working. every time you had use the bathroom you had to move forward into the private car for clicks that car right now bob is on display where? in miami, florida for. >> if you are interested in seeing something that's really a part of presidential history, that is where you can go see it. >> that is right. >> we are here, we see a picture of president roosevelt sitting in the lounge area of the car. you see the shades are drawn on the windows. he often spent time there playing cards and entertaining guests who were aboard the train serving them drinks a lot of st

roosevelt traveled 55,000 miles, but truman traveled almost 35,000 miles on it. i have traveled in it three times. -- matter-of-fact, somebody had the bright idea one time, he was on his way to dedicate a new college or something and they put on the -- and that would leave a very small amount of room between the end of the car in the bumper car. doing a stop -- not very many people came to close enough to see him or hear him. it would never get it that way again. so, the last time the car was used was when she went to connecticut on january 21st 1954, the nuclear sub -- and then, of course, ronald reagan used the car in 1984, october 12th, 1984, on this trip through western ohio. the car's water system wasn't working. every time you had to use the bathroom we had to move forward into the private car. >> and that car right now, bob, is on display where? >> in miami, florida. >> so, if you're interested in seeing something that is a part of presidential history, that is where you can go see it. >> exactly right. >> so, here we see a picture of president roosevelt s

so your income depends on people travelling?d to our competitors is this is a time when you want to compare more prices. in times when you don't care about how much you pay that much, i mean, comparing prices as less useful than when you actually care a lot about prices, so that is why i am... we are slightly on the positive side, looking into the future, but the overall travel activity is likely to come under pressure. is likely to come under pressure-— is likely to come under ressure. ., , ., pressure. in general, your industry _ pressure. in general, your industry has _ pressure. in general, your industry has been - pressure. in general, your industry has been throughi pressure. in general, your- industry has been through such a vehicle few years and that will carry on. the summer has been really huge in demand, but that has presented some challenges. do you think we will see more fallout? more companies going under in the travel sector? i don't think so, i would be more optimistic. what you can clearly see right now in the t

personal travellers want - less back on? personal travellers want to - less back on?to get back on the road we saw close to 4,000 across 25 markets, willingness to travel is almost back 100%. four out of five reporting the countries returning to pre— pandemic levels, but with more travel happening executives are shouldering the bulk of the travel. i was recently at a meeting this month and many attendees talking about 70 five to 80 cent of 2019 volumes, which seems consistent with what we are seeing. the volume are hiuh what we are seeing. the volume are high but _ what we are seeing. the volume are high but have _ what we are seeing. the volume are high but have things - are high but have things changed for the worse, it is no longer why you're heading to this conference on sandwiches, they have to deal with safety, health, burnout and nonsustainable travelling objections. what is driving it do people want to hold onto theirjobs or is there value in face—to—face interaction? i think face—to—face meetings are fairly important, travel is a transformative experience for

. �* . , holidays and their summer travel. �* . ., travel.rbnb and still— travel. brian chesky, founder of airbnb and still at - travel. brian chesky, founder of airbnb and still at the - of airbnb and still at the helm, he has talked to us quite a few times at the bbc and during the pandemic and one of the things he kept saying is how travel has changed for ever and how air b&b had to think about that and change, in order to respond to how we have changed, in terms of travel. i would imagine business travel is one of those aspects, ie there is less of that going forward. your thoughts on that, how travel has been completely changed? how travel has been completely chanced? how travel has been completely chanied? ., , changed? time will tell, humans are resilient. _ changed? time will tell, humans are resilient. a _ changed? time will tell, humans are resilient. a lot of _ changed? time will tell, humans are resilient. a lot of us - changed? time will tell, humans are resilient. a lot of us are - are resilient. a lot of us are looking at lives

so group travel in individual business travelers has yet to really fully recover. a long wait to go there. i think we will seek me at continued demand growth. katie: leisure is the right spot but are you worried this is pent-up demand and the word of the month and year has been recession, and i am curious what past experience with recessions tells us about what that does for leisure travel. mark: we serve the high-end traveler and our representation is in higher-rated segments in the industry. we believe for our customer base , there'll be a higher level of resiliency and persistence and demand through the economic uncertainty we see, and that is consistent with what we saw empire down terms. that is, our customer base was first to return to travel and leisure led the way. we are positioned after our acquisition last year to have more than 50% of revenues come from leisure and the guest base we are serving is in a category of income levels that allows them to actually plan ahead and complete their trips. we are not terribly concerned about the economic uncertainty

travelers for that year. so, as you can imagine, that is a big impact. tonight we're joined by rodney phong he's the president and ceo of the san francisco chamber of commerce. thank you so much for being with us today. i know this is a complicated issue. it's a nuance issue. tell me if the number that we just talked about reflect what the businesses on the ground are actually seeing. are they the same? do they match up? okay we apologize. we're having a problem. we're not hearing rodney. rodney we're not hearing your sound. okay. so what we're going to do is we're going to fix this for a moment. we're obviously having some technical difficulties with being able to hear mr. phong. so we're going to take a quick coeak and when we coeak and when we for years, california's non-gaming tribes have been left in the dust. wealthy tribes with big casinos make billions, while small tribes struggle in poverty. prop 27 is a game changer. 27 taxes and regulates online sports betting to fund permanent solution to homeless

emily: what's happening next travel season? it's clear that urban and cross-border travel are back. what are the destinations that will be most popular? brian: last year i thought it would be the rebound of the century ended nearly was but of was we had the delta strain and this was an even bigger year, record order for us. this was before asia recovered. a large percent of travel is asia-pacific and it hasn't covered because of javad yang cross-border and people are not really crossing borders yet. urban and cross-border more generally is just getting to recover, double what it was last year. i think that everything is going to continue to recover, notwithstanding what happens in the economy will be bigger than next year. emily: airbnb closed shop in china at the end of july, so tough to do business there because of the zero covid wallace he but you are now focused on outbound trip china travel. any expectation on when restrictions will he's and that will open up? brian: i don't. we are not in the business of predicting when countries will reopen but we will be the most prepared wh

rush back to get to travel.we saw in may was very impressive. when things started to open up again, we suddenly had 22% higher room nights than we did in the same month we did in 2019. that was huge. some people say, maybe that -- the bookings we will see in july. i am looking for the long-term. the long-term is more travel. kailey: how to set breakup regionally? we have spent a lot of time on this program today talking about how europe is toast and it is facing a serious inflation crisis with the growth outlook deteriorating. that is a lot of where your sales come from. most are overseas, not in the u.s.. what are you seeing on a regional basis? glenn: there is no doubt there is more impact happening in europe than the u.s.. we see the other side to though. asia has been waning. in the second quarter, asia has not been showing as many room nights as we did in 2019 and the second quarter. that is an opportunity. that is hopefully coming back. there are -- all over the world. our job is to provide a better servic

two staff members traveling with her were also killed. jackie represented indiana's second congressional district and was serving her fifth term. the transportation secretary said, "i am shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of congresswoman walorski, she was always prepared to work together to find common ground. " the representative was 58 years old.

i will find out in the big boss of the company that owns the online travel giants, booking.com.herever you are watching from around the world, once again a big hello and warm welcome to the show. you know, while the emergence of a new middle class of millions of consumers across asia and africa will change how companies operate this century, the american shopper, for now, remembers the most powerful on the planet. the most recent numbers from the world bag shows the american consumer spent a massive $14 trillion in 2020. that's nearly three times that of the chinese, who spent a happy $5.6 trillion. might be explained by china spending more of the pandemic year in lockdown. those lockdowns have continued in some of china's biggest cities, hampering its post pandemic recovery and halting much of its tourism and travel industry. at the united states is still the world's biggest economy and has big challenges of its own. rising energy and food prices as well as interest rates to curb inflation are adding to the cost of living. but in the plus column, thejobs market is strong, recen

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the travel ban. look at the singapore vent and traffic numbers, it is right after they canceled that travel ban. since earlier this year in january, investors diverged between hong kong and singapore. i think travel has been split between china and hong kong. the traffic outlook will be back in hong kong. >> we look forward to speaking with you again. she is head of asia consultancy. there is plenty more ahead in the show. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> when you couple that with the blooming jobs report of 528,000 jobs, we are seeing a stronger labor market where jobs are moving and americans are working and we are seeing some signs that inflation may be getting -- be beginning to moderate. >> it is good news but i think we have to be cautious. a big reason for the good news is gas prices are leveling off. that helps consumers but as you point out, are other issues like in housing where we have to keep our eye on the ball. there is no silver bullet here. >> positioning has become very low. people are worrie

kailey: we have to talk about the travel sector, because we have had a slew of travel earnings.eans airbnb, and the latest is expedia. topping expectations. revenue coming in ahead of analyst estimates, suggesting a solid start to the busiest travel season. joining us now is ceo peter kern with more. peter, obviously you're the -- your results show demand has been resilient through the second quarter. as you look forward, what does that demand picture look like? peter: thanks, kailey, for having me. let me say that right now pacings for the rest of the year are running ahead of 2019. there is strength for the rest of the summer. i think the macro backdrop, as you and guy have been spending all morning talking about, obviously is something we think about. right now travel seems to be the number one area people want to spend money on. recovering from when they were buying goods and other things during covid. that demand, you know, continues pretty unabated. we are looking forward to a strong rest of the year, but there are plenty of unknowns in the macro environment. we are happy

it's not a good time to want to go on holiday or travel for business. to go on holiday or travel forseem _ business. that's right, it really doesn't seem like _ business. that's right, it really doesn't seem like the - business. that's right, it really doesn't seem like the airlines l business. that's right, it really i doesn't seem like the airlines and airports are reallyjust going from bad to worse. they seem to be one of the industries that hit the hardest. i think at the heart of it is the fact that a lot of them laid off a lot of staff during the pandemic and haven't been able to recruit them again now that travel�*s ramping up and this is affecting everyone from short—haul flights, and this is affecting everyone from short—haulflights, now long haul short—haul flights, now long haul flights. short—haulflights, now long haul flights. this is not good news for holiday—makers this summer trying to book a last—minute getaway, and it looks like that might be increasingly difficult for them. let's go back to the leadership race. i want to get your thoughts because we chatted over th

is there anyone who has heard the stories about air travel lately? i am 70 that travels a lot.vel over 100,000 miles per year. i was one of the best customers. i was a business traveler. since the pandemic, i have never come back to traveling as much as i used to. nowhere near it. of course, we saw a big uptick in consumer leisure travel. look at what is going on right now. we have a confluence of events. and none of them are that positive. for one thing, we are seeing eye watering the high ticket prices. almost every time i talk to anybody traveling anywhere, friends and neighbors, this is what they complain about. you combine that with budgets to other inflationary pressures. that is not a great recipe. we are coming to the end of the biggest season for leisure travel and we have reopened. you put all of those things together, and that is not a fantastic recipe. one other quick point i would make about the etf. when we talked about what the s&p might do if the market will go lower, these will go lower. this is the higher volatility etf. this is about 1.5 times as volatile. ag

as it relates to travel on monday, he will only travel if he tests negative. i was addressing the last couple of weeks, it sounds like, they have been questions about that. >> the full pool would be able to participate and be able to cover the president, he has taken questions. but today was only a limited pool. on behalf of my colleagues, we are asking -- >> completely understand. i would also say from here that we have been transparent with all of you about covid and giving a letter every day. are job -- again, the president is a unique position. -- again, the president is in a unique position. we are here to adhere to the protocols given to us and make sure you're safe. to the first question i was addressing this past week, he will not travel unless he is negative. of course he will not do that. >> thanks so much. could you address the new analysis about the inflation reduction act? it says it would have almost no impact or a negligible impact on inflation. in 2022 and 2023. >> i will say this, leading economists have said that this inflation reduction act,

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members of congress have the right to travel wherever they chose. our part of this is to make sure we give them a thorough and complete briefing when it comes to the geopolitics of the region or the state, or when it comes to national security. that is our part in this. reporter: now that taiwan is effectively encircled by the chinese military doing these drills, does the president think that the trip was worth the trouble? ms. jean-pierre: i'll -- look, i already said this, and i'll just repeat it to you, there's no reason for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis. there is no reason to do that. we have been very clear, there's no change in our one china policy, which is guided by the taiwan relations act of 1979. that has not changed. and so, look, the united states will not seek and does not want a crisis here. but we are prepared to manage what beijing chooses to do. reporter: and last one about that. there's a chinese official who says the u.s. must pay the price for its own mist

the 3 full world carp is on its way to cattle. hook your travel package today. hi there, good to see. lets go with your weather update beginning in the middle east. not really much changed since we spoke last. we've got some temperatures back into the fifty's that includes for buck dead with a high of 50 degrees. and look at all this san and dust being tossed around for oman on saturday. gotta take it to pakistan. it is still raining upper sin province into eastern baluchistan, but of a breather for karachi. and we're also seeing this brain leak into afghanistan. there's been some flooding here as well, so bursts of rain to come for cobble the hive 27 degrees on saturday for turkey. it's looking like this, i think. yeah. okay. shower is around that black sea coast. maybe even seen them sneak into is stumble at times as well. after central africa we go and we're seeing the rain pick up toward western areas of the democratic republic of congo, raid up into bungie as wildly take it to the south. because we got this vigorous weather system moving in to the eastern c

there's no travel been other kinds of reasons to be issued. for example, for russians who want to settle to study here or to visit family. this is possible, but it will, the tourist visa will be severely cut back. many countries have announced that now, but for russians, there's also a way to circumvent the turkey, for example, allows visa free travel to it's tory to. so if you want to vacation on the sea, you can still do that as a russian. dan got their reporting from brussels. now looking up to space, the u. s. space agency nasa is counting down to a high stakes lunar launch space enthusiasts have flocked to cape canaveral, florida to watch the maiden mission of the art of miss program. blast office schedule just hours from now. the plan is to san an unmanned capsule around the moon and back to earth. fall goes well, future flights will carry astronauts to eventually set foot on the moon again. and although beset by delays and cost overruns, artemus aims to use the moon as a springboard to mars alive look at nasa space launch system. rocket

government to undo harms by the travel ban.der denied, be says and waive any fees related to their applications for a second time. this is far from the end of the road, right? it's it's a victory. >> and it's an important victory, but it's really just a step. it's effectively in order that forces the government to come to the table talk. resolution and singer and helping us figure a way go forward. >> he says people who have been waiting for a are, of course, excited. but wary as the wheels of government most often turn slowly in san francisco. i'm ella sogomonian kron. 4 news. >> in national news, republicans are rallying behind former president donald trump after his mar-a-lago estate was searched by the fbi. the investigators are looking into whether he mishandled classified documents. washington correspondent hannah brandt joins us live with the latest. good morning, anna. >> reyna, good morning. republicans are really rushing to defend former president trump. many of them are brushing off any potential wrongdoing and inste

the weather will be even and calm for travel.s getting hotter every day today 28-29, but on friday it's already plus 30 and above in st. petersburg today +26 and without precipitation and plus 30 in moscow, and then up to 33 in the capital announced orange level of weather danger beware of the open sun. and by this time i have everything about the weather, see you. hello diva, i am now about the main stage without stopping attacks ukrainian nationalists aim western weapons at the elderly neighborhoods of donetsk

now as it relates to his travel on monday, he will only travel if he tests negative. but i also wanted to address what i was addressing is the last couple of weeks. it sounds like there's been, you know, some questions about that used to have a virtual event where the full pool would be able to participate and be able to cover the president asked questions. he's taking questions i think peter and others and he took a question today from someone but it's only a limited pool. so we are just again on behalf of all of my colleagues asking completely, completely understand and i would i would also say from here is that we have been transparent with all of you about uh when it comes to covid and giving a letter every day we are job again, the president is in a unique position. we are all in unique positions and we have to make sure that we adhere to protocols that are given to us and make sure that he's safe and you all are safe as well. but to your first question i was kind of addressing uh just this past week. but to your first question he will not travel unless he is neg

we think that's going to be very impactful in the travel and tourism sector and in fact the us travel association just came out and said they expect the direct impact of that change to be an incremental more than five million visitors to the us in the balance of this year, spending more than $9 billion. pres. biden: well i mean that sounds pretty encouraging overall not just for this summer , but looking forward. one of the things i want to ask you about is that the obviously the pandemic had a profound negative impact but right now as i look out there and i've traveled around the world a lot of late going to various conferences, there seems to be a willingness or an inclination for business to travel more instead of everybody sitting and zooming everything. it seems to me in person movement of personnel and businesses around the country and i see it more around the world quite frankly, seems to be on the is that accurate or is that just a? perception? >> in fact we see two principal drivers. i think number one businesses that are customer facing consulting firms, law firms, accountin

travel advisory for russia remains at a level four, meaning do not travel. but americans are still able to travel to the country. officials warn, rodman's interference could do more harm than good for griner. a senior biden administration official saying it is public information that the administration has made a significant offer to the russians. and anything other than negotiating further through the established channel is likely to complicate and hinder release efforts. in the past decade, the five-time champion has made multiple visits to north korea, developing a relationship with dictator kim jong-un. >> he's a friend of mine. great. >> reporter: rodman credits himself with helping secure the release of american kenneth bay from north korea in 2014 who was arrested on dubious charges in 2012. rodman appeared to side with north korea while working on the case. rodman later apologized. but bay said he was thankful for rodman's comments. >> i thank dennis rodman. because of his rant, the media attention to my plight was increased. >> reporter: as for the

will they keep traveling >> yeah.hink what we've seen, right, is inflationary pressures right now aren't affecting the affluent consumer and what we think will happen next year is if we did go into recession they'll travel and they'll probably go to a cheaper hotel and our view on booking being able to resemble the recession and they were able to gain share and the aggregators with supply such as booking will get more traffic to their site on comparison shopping and booking is strong as a strong balance sheet which allowed them to buy back stock and they have strong marketing efficiency, so that's our call >> so there will be demand for travel will the supply hold up and by supply i'm mainly thinking about the airlines, many of which are cutting lines and will that have a trickledown effect on the bookings of the world? >> we think it will happen next year, right, when the airlines are able to train their staff, when they'll look at the fall and say they should have more employees and more people will be up to speed o

even if you -- the cdc guidelines discourage you from traveling. >> the travel is different because there are no cdc recommendations on travel for rebound. that does not exist in this case. as far as travel, i do not have anything to share with you right now. the cdc does not have any recommendation for rebound on cases. >> you are operating under the function that when the president tests negative, he will be cleared to return to work and travel? >> i just imagine the isolation is five days, he is going to be testing regularly. one of the reasons that we were able to share with you that he tested positive is because of his testing cadence and his unique role as president, we wanted to make sure that we were keeping an eye on that. that test was positive on saturday. we will continue to do that. as far as travel, there is no cdc recommendation. once we have more, we will let you know. >> once he tests negative, he can return to all activities? >> that is our expectation. we are going to follow the cdc guidance as it relates to isolation. >> before he tested negative, you gave us the data

what this measure will me for russians who want to travel to the there's no travel been other kinds of reasons will be issued. for example, for russians who want to settle to study here or to visit family. this is possible . but as the tourist visa will be severely cut back, many countries have announced that now. but for russians, there's also a way to circumvent the turkey, for example, allows visa free travel to it's territory. so if you want to vacation on the sea, you can still do that as a russian span. he got their reporting for brussels flights, have resumed, and shops have re open in tripoli, following gun battles at left dozens, dead. after months of relative calm residents of the libyan capital, fear the fighting between 2 rival militias loyal to different administrations, could escalate into a nation wide war lobby has been rocked by civil war and political upheaval. since dictator mark gadhafi was topple in 2011 residents of libya as capital tripoli. dealing with the latest full out from the countries enduring political turmoil, gutted shops and burned out cause. with the