Tucker Carlson has a hot take on the Democratic National Convention. President Trump has some hot takes in Pennsylvania. Airline service is being canceled in several cities across the country and more than 25,000 employees are being furloughed.
00:03:23.800Those cities will see their American Airlines service conclude.
00:03:28.080There are more than 25,000 employees that will be furloughed.
00:03:32.720And these cities range from about, you know, 30,000 to about half a million.
00:03:38.240They are clearly the lower mid-tier markets that American Airlines serves.
00:03:42.540But it's frustrating and disappointing to see after a massive stimulus, after the CARES Act that provided so much relief to airlines that they are concluding service.
00:03:53.180And it's noteworthy that American Airlines is also, I think, the airline that said, we're going to put people in the middle seats.
00:04:17.760This better not be the result of some big corporate windfall.
00:04:21.220We better not be seeing any stock buybacks.
00:04:23.500We better not be seeing any golden parachutes for senior management, CEOs, board members.
00:04:30.080The reason the CARES Act was passed was because air travel is important for economic growth, business connectivity, human connectivity throughout our country.
00:04:39.620Frankly, in a lot of other countries, they support their airlines more than we do with direct government investment.
00:04:45.880We choose a more free market approach.
00:04:47.540But in this time where the industry was really sent through a shockwave, we did provide some support through Fed policy, through appropriations of the Congress.
00:04:57.540And the result, as far as American Airlines customers can see, is no real dedication to the same types of social distancing features that we see in other airlines and a diminution in the number of cities served.
00:05:39.900And it's the story of the company Zwing and their work on the Caravan Cessna product that is able to do a takeoff, a final approach, and a lot of in-flight activity without a pilot in the cockpit.
00:05:54.220In fact, the pilot is on the ground, in this case, utilizing a joystick, flying the aircraft, really like a remote-controlled drone.
00:06:03.220And the features of modern aviation have allowed computing and robotics and artificial intelligence to do a lot of the activity that already occurs in flight.
00:06:17.400Really, the principal feature of the pilot is as a communications operator.
00:06:22.320If conditions change, if there's traffic, if there's a sense that something needs to occur differently, the pilot is there to communicate that to ground control and to others in the area.
00:06:33.960But if the pilot is communicating those very things from the ground, if they're able to get all the sensor technology, it may be possible to remove the pilot from the cockpit.
00:07:01.800You are no longer the biggest Democratic star in California politics.
00:07:07.340That honor seems to go to Kamala Harris these days.
00:07:10.340If you look back to Gavin Newsom's time as mayor and then rising through the state California Democratic political machine and then his election as governor, you'd think he was the man.
00:07:22.220He was the one that Democrats would ultimately look to as a presidential candidate from the Golden State.
00:07:27.960And now, with all the buzz on Kamala, with, you know, her national candidacy affixed to Biden, there is the presumption that Newsom might not be the guy.
00:07:37.820He might not be the leading California politician.
00:07:40.820The story is chronicled by Politico, Carla Marianucci.
00:07:46.000And there, you know, the story is that with Kamala Harris likely to be a candidate for president in the future, whether Joe Biden is successful or not, with the likelihood that Joe Biden, if he were elected president, would only serve one term,
00:08:03.720seems to ignite the prospect of Kamala Harris as the frontrunner in a potential nomination battle down the road.
00:08:11.220And it remains to be seen what the California experience with declining revenue, with a contracting economy, with seemingly inconsistent decisions on the coronavirus swinging back and forth,
00:08:24.260if that really is the profile of Gavin Newsom's leadership that he would want.
00:08:28.800But a second fiddle now, Kamala, the darling of the California Democratic Party.
00:08:37.500There's an air leak on the International Space Station, and those aboard are working hard to fix it.
00:08:44.480The story comes to us through Dave Mosher at Business Insider.
00:08:48.940In the International Space Station has sprung a small air leak.
00:08:52.180So a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts are hunkering down to help find it and repair it.
00:09:00.200So the International Space Station is seeing a slight increase in the leakage of air, according to NASA.
00:09:06.260NASA said the leak presents no immediate danger to the crew or to the space station and was within normal operating limits.
00:09:13.880However, because of the new increase, two cosmonauts and an astronaut living aboard the space station will spend the weekend inside a Russian module to help locate the source.
00:09:25.180The crew has an option if there is the unlikely requirement for an urgent escape.
00:09:33.580They do have a spaceship there to be able to get in.
00:09:37.020But the hope and the expectation is that that's not going to be the case.
00:09:40.560The orbiting laboratory is about the size of a football field.
00:13:48.100Some of their hosts may not want to allow parties, though I think there's a way on the application now to be able to ban parties for those who are seeking to use someone's particular property.
00:14:00.420But I also think this is a consequence of just the dynamic at Airbnb where you get a lot of the benefits of hotels,
00:14:09.980but without some of the safety features and cleanliness precautions and other things that one might expect from a licensed, insured, regulated lodging establishment.
00:14:34.740Maybe a particular event is going to have temp checks.
00:14:37.760Maybe there's going to be on-site testing.
00:14:40.180Maybe there's going to be testing results required prior to entry.
00:14:43.260So I don't like the idea of a global blanket rule.
00:14:46.580Obviously, this is not something the government should get involved in.
00:14:49.300There have been calls throughout Airbnb's existence to utilize the apparatus of local government, state government, the federal government to constrain Airbnb's utilization and to limit the extent to which, you know, people can park at an Airbnb or the check-in, check-out regulations or limited periods of stay.
00:15:11.020Those are all the type of regulations we've seen.
00:15:14.340I think that really the ultimate determination as to whether or not a booking is going to be successful should fall to the person providing the property and the person using the property.
00:15:31.200I guess you'll have to party somewhere else.
00:15:36.840Suburban voters, and in particular suburban women, might not be ready for the woke-topia.
00:15:43.160Yahoo News' Suzanne Smalley has the story, the warning coming from Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan, the Democrats could see voters abandon them over violence in the streets, over attack against law enforcement.
00:15:59.740And Debbie Dingell, in this case, is saying that violence could be more important than trade this election year.
00:16:06.620We all know that Michigan is a swing state.
00:16:09.320It was a state that not a lot of folks gave President Trump a chance in, but he won that state by about 11,000 votes.
00:16:16.420And Debbie Dingell, you know, relatively astute as a Michigan politician, her husband, John Dingell, represented that state for quite some time.
00:16:24.680And she's saying that while she's been supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement, that the riots that have resulted, the attacks on law enforcement, have people concerned about their safety.
00:16:36.360I always believe that Maslow's hierarchy of needs has strong application to politics.
00:16:43.240If people do not feel safe and secure in their homes, in their businesses, in their lives, they are not likely to be thinking about their highest levels of wokeness or other things that could enhance their pursuits as a human being.
00:16:58.820And security is essential domestically, politically, and in every sense.
00:17:05.300And so when you see the radical left attacking law enforcement and those who keep us safe, it certainly paints a picture for America what this country would look like if Joe Biden were president and if he were getting bowled over each and every day by the Chaz, Chop, woke left.
00:17:26.660And you know what? Debbie Dingell might be on to something.