The 'Fox & Friends' hosts discussed the findings amid a supply chain crunch and rampant inflation.
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Biden and Kamala Harris Campaign
Ed for him, the very
latest NBC News poll. Do you
approve of how or what the
president is doing,
hes under water on that, as you
can see right there, but the
more damaging one is the
fact that is the country
headed in the right direction,
and seventy one percent of Americans say that we
are as we change the polls
there. It is right there look at
that, the upper right hand
corner its in red, because
thats a warning number and its
terrible for Joe Biden and the
Democrats. Seventy one percent think were on
the wrong track,
Ainsley. That is unbelievable.
Seventy one percent that includes Democrats too
on the wrong track,
Steve and think about all of
the Democrats in Congress who
are pushing this gigantic. These
two gigantic spending bills, as
they look at seventy one percent say were on
the wrong track. Is that going
to help Us-
and the answer is probably not
Ainsley well, think about you?
Have Afghanistan, leaving
Americans behind enemy lines and
our allies back? There also
think about whats happening
down in Texas and our southern
border, letting people in saying
were thinking about paying the
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Steve. What about gas
Ainsley the economy? To your
point, thats on the list in
Virginia on Everyones list,
your electric bills are going up,
we cant get supplies, we
cant get Christmas presents and
people are worried about that
and crt in our schools. Thats.
Why education is such a big deal,
because you have one candidate
that says no were not teaching
crt, but parents show
evidence of where CRT is being
taught there with you trust
Mcauliffe. If hes saying us not
being taught, and we have
examples where it is being
taught and then he comes out and
says because web he was ahead.
Two months ago, parents
shouldnt be involved in our kid
s: education,
Steve Wrong Answer,
Brian. So a couple of things I
dont want to hit you within too
many numbers, but thirty seven percent say Joe
Biden has the ability to handle
a crisis. Forty seven percent says he doesnt,
only thirty seven percent say hes, competent and
effective.
That is tragic.
Then twenty eight percent says hes knowledgeable
and experienced, and this is the
scary part. If youre a
Democrat,
the GOP against the Democrats,
the GOP ranks higher by twenty seven
points on the border on
inflation, twenty four on crime, twenty two on
national security, twenty one and the
economy. Eighteen on getting
things done, they have a 13 point
advantage
if youre a Democrat, whether
its the New Jersey Governor
race, which it seems to be that
closing at the last minute or
in Virginia or you wonder,
whats going to happen in twenty twenty two.
Well, you cant pass a
spending bill that only thing
youre doing is asking your
party to vote for something the
president of your party
wants.
They look absolutely like. They
are thrashing and im, not saying
they arent going to get
something done, but the fact
is that they missed four cutoff
dates that they put out there
and pulled back on tomorrows
dates to have a vote.
I think this is the utter
definition of CHAOS
Steve yesterday, as they wrapped
up the g 20 in Rome, they had
press availability and given the
host of as Ainsley depicted
the things that are going wrong
at one point, one of the pre
selected reporters,
apparently who was
Ainsley? How many were there?
Five
Steve? I think five
one of the questions was, Mr
President, why do you think
America is back on the world
stage? Because you know
everything is going the wrong
way for you at home?
Also, you know when it comes to
the supply chain thing. A lot of
people are worried about
Christmas.
A lot of people are worried
about fabric and its not coming
anytime. Soon.
Here is what the president had
to say where hes talking a
little bit about look the
reason its hard to find
people is because theres so
much demand so thats, a good
thing right,
heres, the President in Rome,
because theyre able to
negotiate for higher wages and
they like to move from one job
to another
thats. One of the reasons why a
lot of people dont want to
continue to do the job they did
before, making seven eight nine
bucks an hour. So what youre see
the desire of people to be able
to change professions to be
able to do more and take care of
their families and, at the same
time, dealing with an issue that,
in fact, we are short of
workers, but worker pay has
actually gone up and weve
employed six million people. Just
since I got elected so
employments up, the economy is
actually, in spite of all of this
still growing and youre,
going to see continued economic
growth under our proposals,
Brian, I mean his explanation,
hes absolutely winging it.
The fact is: hes had a chance
to address the border. Excuse me,
the ports and the numbers
have gone up by twenty extra shifts.
It went from fifty four to seventy two shifts in
the LOS Angeles port, and that is
the place that was supposed to
work twenty four hours and begin to
alleviate the backlog.
This, at the very least, you
know what the american people
want at the smallest and
greatest level
to know you care and are Hustl
Ing, to try to get something
done,
theres, no indication that he is
so then reelect, your
transportation secretary, who
didnt tell anyone in the public
he was taking off for two months
for paternity leave and then a
commerce secretary, both of them,
had tried to explain the
continued glut when it comes
to our ports and goods.
There are definitely going
to continue to be issues,
especially as long as the
pandemic continues right.
If you have, for example, the
third largest container port in
the world in China, shutting down
because of a covid outbreak in
late summer, youll feel that in
the fall here on the West Coast
now were taking the actions
that we know we can
you cant just turn the
economy back on overnight.
So its takes a little bit of
time.
People say to me: will Christmas
gifts be delivered, to which I
saw CALL Fedex
that isnt, what the government
does?
What we are doing- and the
president is committed to
this- were using every tool in
our tool box to be supportive
to help to unstick the ports
Steve for her to say you cant
turn the economy back on
overnight. Remember Joe Biden
ran on, I can do a better job.
Getting the country out of the
pandemic than Donald Trump
did.
Okay, he got the job and
obviously, at every turn it
looks like the White House is
coming up short.
They did not forecast the demand.
They did not help.
Employers get people back to
work and, of course, there are
so many people who were not
working thats. Why there is a
supply chain problem
arent enough driver arent
enough warehouse people arent
enough people to stock the
shelves,
its just a vicious cycle- and
you know for her to say about
your Christmas presents. Dont
blame us, blame Fedex,
its all part of a larger
problem. That starts with the
federal government,
Ainsley yeah and TIM Scott
Senator from South Carolina. He
said if you are the Secretary of
Transportation, and you want to
solve this problem, you need to
fly out to the port. You need to
sit down with everyone find out
what the problem is and solve it.
He said his mother was a single
mom struggled to put food on
the table for their family.
Inflation really hurt her, so go
solve, it go fix it.
He says they are just
commentators.
They say this problem will last.
Transcript generated on 2021-11-01.