the brakes on his agenda blocking more than half a trillion in new climate spending. bill: you call the audible. the president going all in on green energy despot experts saying it is one of the things that put the u.s. at risk for black outs. the president is urged to go back to the drawing board. if you are looking for the answers, mr. president. they are in america. open up the xl pipeline and offshore drilling and federal lands and get clean, american energy into the mix here to address this issue. dana: team fox coverage and analysis. let s begin with mark meredith at the white house today. good morning. later today the president will be leaving the white house heading up to massachusetts to outline how through executive action he believes he can address climate change. the president s orders are likely to fall short of the original goal to get congress to pass a sweeping tax and climate bill. it s joe manchin who says he cannot support the proposal and especiall
america. i would add his focus is executive focus on climate change to the long growing list americans looking at the biden/harris white house say it makes no sense. they don t think he is connected to them in a way he is listening and hearing their concerns. and when he goes to massachusetts today, that s one thing. people should know two things. blaming manchin is foolish. it is joe biden s democratic party that owns washington one party rule. his vice president has the tiebreaking vote in the senate. if joe biden goes around congress to try to move funding away from things like military and disaster relief funds for green energy, people will be upset with that particularly if they are hard hit. on earth day this year just less than three months ago joe biden took a round-trip from washington, d.c. to washington
as democrats in the last six months, that s not a winning strategy. i understand the anger that the democrats feel in arizona but i think the better course for the democrats is to sit down and say what will work for you? what are you willing to support? get it passed and then begin that all-important midterm campaign. and eugene, when you talk about blaming manchin and sinema and letting the frustration boil over, you re pointing out that many hill democrats are upset with schumer s strategy. so, have they burned the bridges or can they bring them back in the fold? it seems like they re going to definitely try to bring them back to the fold. there s frustration that there was the press to get rally around manchin and sinema,
they figure surely to god we can move one person. guess what? i m from west virginia. i m not from where they are from. brian: good point. senator joe manchin firing back after the white house accused him of going back on his word. by rejecting biden s social spending spree in a new op-ed steve clemmons a long time friend and ally of senator manchin pulling in the same direction and bang white house released a statement blaming manchin for the delay. i knew he would perceive it as a breach of process and joe working this out. g.o.p. senator pat toomey sits on the senate finance committee and joins us now. senator, the joe manchin you know is those couple of lines blaming him for the delay? did he really take that personal? is that the breaking point? well, it might have been the last straw for joe. i mean, i give joe a lot of credit. the amount of abuse and flack he has taken from some of his colleagues from the left wing
copper products, stealing any type of scrap metal they could easily fence. user the five i m referring to, does that mean there have been more of this happening? yes. how big a problem is this? . a call we re dealing with people who just lost their homes, a lot of families lost their loved ones and people are trying to exploit this? yes. it hasn t been a huge issue since the initial report of it. we that may be another handful of folks who have been arrested as a result of this. neil: just read the statement from the kentucky attorney general saying the full force of the law will be brought against anyone who tries to take advantage of kentuckians. somebody does something like this, what s the present time are they looking at? as far as the outcome i