hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w
will this be the big stick that republicans believe it will be to beat democrats with or will they have to, as some republicans, including bobby jindal had suggested recently have to find some new issue to go after because obamacare will not be the big drag on democrats that it looked like it was going to be earlier this year? but if these results are any indication, it may be that obamacare is a very powerful issue in these mid terms because alex sink was a much better known candidate. a much better financed candidate and in fact won this district in 2010 when she narrowly lost a governor s race to rick scott. greta. john, thank you. we will be checking back with you. does the florida race tell us anything about obamacare in the midterm elections? this is an older population voting. right. is this really sort of an indication on obamacare. it s skewed republican. it was held by a popular republican congressman for