Or sleepier . Dana i would have gotten 10 hours of sleep if i went to bed like i felt like it. If you have any tips or tricks for the new schedule. Bill dana is here in the morning and evening and doing it all right now. Dana i went to bed earlier than most children last night and our Line Producer went to bed. Bill more caffeine. Eight hours. Dana we have a capitol hill watch with jackie heinrich. The Senate Moving Forward on covid relief without republican support . Thats right, dana. President biden reportedly told democrats to move forward with his 1. 9 trillion proposal not long after sitting down with Senate Republicans to try to hash out a bipartisan deal. 618 billion proposal was swiftly rejected. Democrats cleared a procedural hurdle to go forward with Budget Reconciliation to pass bigger bill with a simple majority. Republicans can join us but dont try to go against us. We have the majority and we arent backing down. Our members who were in the meeting felt that the president
plus russia meeting with allies in vienna and may announce up to 2 million barrels a day production cut. bad news for you and president biden. dana: the president visited saudi arabia this summer in hopes of convincing the kingdom to increase its oil output. that strategy now appears to have fallen flat. the white house is in damage control. when the president went to saudi arabia, he said i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. what happened? you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america s position. as i just mentioned, he took action these past several months. every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump. bill: james freeman on deck with analysis. jacque heinrich is live at the white house where we begin this brand-new hour. good morning. good morning, bill. we re seeing the first reports of these cuts could be much deeper than expected between 1.5 and 2
close the gap. crime is a problem in philadelphia. oz is there right now. this is a live camera in philadelphia. oz is receiving the official endorsement of the city s largest police union after he received the unanimous endorsement of the pennsylvania state police union. he will take this stage, speak soon. we ll keep an eye on this. but he says if fetterman wins this race people in pennsylvania will be a lot less safe. he is the most pro- murderer candidate running for office. certainly the most radical in the contested senate seat. if he really believes that 1/3 of prisoner should be released and getting murderers out of prison before they serve their time. fetterman believes over 1,000 second degree murderers should be released from prison if they didn t take a life. these brothers were granted clemency and release from prison after being convicted of second degree murder. they maintain their innocence and let fetterman to take this shot at oz. what does it say abou
today, florida governor ron desantis, when he heads to the region to tour damage from hurricane ian, bill. bill: thanks. jacque heinrich from the north lawn. dana: james freeman assistant editorial page editor at the wall street journal. you wrote another surge of greed in the biden era. rising gas prices bring back a favorite beltway excuse. what is it? it s big oil, green corporations, the problem that prices are rising is not any policy in washington, it is not about inflation or biden policy on energy production, it is about business people seeking advantage. dana: and it s interesting because i just had my assistant caroline pulled up for me to day. ron klain is retweeting a million tweets about gas prices going down in the past couple months, right? but then you have them taking credit for the fall in gas prices, watch here. i ve been working to make