blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a
gasoline. but we again made a misjudgment as to how long of a transition it was going to be and what we needed to do to make the transition work. to claire s point on political weakness or the appearance thereof, the president on voting rights and build back better, this just adds to that. steve, you just walked through what little impact this will have if it indeed even comes to be, so what does change this? what eventually will lead to gas prices going back down? before i do that, fun fact for today when we talk about democratic leaders being opposed to this. in 2008, barack obama called it a gimmick when it was proposed during his campaign by his opponent. unfortunately, we re just in a tough place. we had this explosion in demand due to the pandemic. people are out there, they re buying things, it s created inflation. the only way to reduce inflation is to reduce demand, usage, whatever you want to call it. and so jay powell testified yesterday, the chairman of the federal rese
essentially the president s protector in chief by being able to interfere with that investigation and he s made clear that that s what he s going to do. the fact that matthew whitaker has been quite loud about his opinions. he s spoken about them and wrote about them. it may be why the president picked him. the 1978 ethics in government act has a clause in it that would suggest he must recuse himself as jeff sessions did for this reason. it says in part, that if an investigation of prosecution by the doj, or the appearance thereof, this person must be removed and any violation of doing so can result in all sorts of prosecution and removing of office on its own.