he says discussions over this bill are far from finished. i haven t walked away from anything. and inflation is my greatest concern. energy is something that we have to have. and we can walk and chew gum, we can find a pathway forward. we re in good talks. and joining us now is senator ben ray lujan oig. you just heard from senator manchin that he hasn t walked away from anything. are you still hopeful that congress will pass something and if not, should the president act at the executive level? i always remain optimistic. if there is anything that i ve learned about the senate, it is that nothing is dead until the final vote. and negotiations are still ongoing. so i share the frustration with my constituents, with colleagues across the country, but i am hopeful that we still can make progress and that we will come to some positive resolution moving forward. with that being said, i do agree that the president should be
to be fixed and so many pieces and all need to be fixed at once. we have the tendency to want to fix one thing at a time. you have to fix all of it. put your energy everywhere, chew gum and walk at the same time. as a country, we need to work together, talk about actual change that s going to prevent death and prevent loss in so many ways. i am fortunate to have had everyone in my family walk away completely fine. but, we know that others didn t. has that set in for you? yes. that you could have easily not been here today. i could have been talking to someone else about you. right. or your children. uh-huh. and it s yeah. i feel very fortunate that we survived. but not fortunate to have been there and not fortunate about anything else. nobody should have to live through that. we re working on it. we ll do our best to get through it. it s definitely going to be a long road. sad but you have the hopes and the wishes of a country that doesn t want to have to see this again
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so, you can get the oil and gas industry to release more supply but you accelerate clean energy. you can walk and chew gum, you can do both. the fact that we re paying these prices is almost an exclamation point on the fact we need to move to clean energy so we re not in this position in the future. for now we remain very much subject to the whims of the global energy market and relying on fossil fuels. it s about 30% more expensive to fill up your tank today than it was the day before russia invaded ukraine. and granholm conceded to me that even the most powerful person on the planet only has so much influence here. as she put it, presidents don t control gas prices. despite the fact that prices are very high, poppy, an estimated 35 million people traveling by car this holiday weekend. airline prices are a lot, too.
in strengthening those relationships in the indo-pacific with japan and korea are of the utmost importance. again, we don t have the luxury presidents don t have the luxury of deciding, they will focus on certain things. this white house is going to have to make progress on inflation. they re going to have to get the kinks out of the supply chain. they re going to have to continue to manage ukraine, which is halfway around the other side of the world, as well as provide a check on china. there s a lot of different things that are going on. as you said, the clock is ticking faster towards midterm elections. they re going to have to focus on that. that s the point of a white house, you have to be able to walk, chew gum, juggle, ride a unicycle at the same time. that s the level of problems that come at a president. that s what this white house is working to manage. robert, just because you have firsthand experience with this kind of thing, i m not someone who pays a lot of attention