inflation while refusing to reevaluate the keystone xl. he announced a new $200 million in new security assistance to ukraine this morning. peter doocy is live at the white house with the latest. reporter: and in terms of a remedy, griff, to bring prices down especially at the pump, president biden is not pitching anything particularly new. the thing that he really wants to get out there is he doesn t hi think doesn t think any of this is his fault, he wants inflation blamed on putin. i m sick of this stuff. [applause] we have to talk about it because the american people hi the reason for inflation is government spending more money. simply not true. reporter: simply not true. huh. because the president admitted his policies did contribute to inflation, specifically the stimulus checks attached to the american rescue plan. he explained how in december. to change people s lives. but what happens if there s nothing to buy, you ve got more
yeah. i think when you ve got someone in the position of power of the president of the united states who makes forceful statements criticizing those who would come forward with information, that can be seen as witness intimidation. i don t know that it goes so far as the crime of obstruction of justice when he makes those statements because it s so open and notorious, but imagine if you are the person on the receiving end of those kinds of statements, you can t help but feel a little cowed by those statements. instead, what most presidents say, what most leaders say is i welcome the investigation. i encourage your quest for the truth and people should share information fully because i am not afraid of the truth. and i will be completely exonerated. that s not what this president does. chi think is what causes people to become even more suspicious. so i think the democrats are within their rights to suggest to him that he ought to stand down so that they can continue their work to fin
then he said in a tweet they wanted it to be see through chi think is another way to say slats or offense. yeah. that was i don t think, you know, general kelly necessarily thought he was contradicting the president or the president was going to snipe back at him over that. the reality has been gone for quite some time in the white house. that possibly doesn t go over well with his base but also i don t think they are that committed to concrete unless you re in the concrete business. they just want a barrier. they want a permanent barrier. who do they want to pay for it? he kept saying it would be mexico. do they want taxpayer to pay for it or want mexico to pay for it? so the whole issue about, yeah, mexico paying for the wall, it goes back to do you take the president seriously or literally? however it gets paid for they really want this wall.
become and have children. the decision by millions of americans to marry the person they love, consumer s rights, worker s rights, the powers of the president, chi think would become an imperial presidency if he becomes a justice on the supreme court. yesterday, my opposition solidified because of temperament and fitness, which i believe he lacks. by virtue of tsitting here and e gave us his views still are disqualifying for me, but his character and fitness ought to be a reason for everyone to vote no. we saw a witness yesterday of an entirely different character and
so to the republican party who had to go out there and disagree so publicly with the president and this is another issue where the white house is either maybe not competent enough to reign him in or they have no ability to reign the president in. both of chi think is going to be a concern to supporters and republicans and opponents to the president. i heard something different in that statement for years fox news had a favorite expression when somebody like president obama was seen as criticizing the united states. they call them the hate america first crowd and they applied that liberally to people that criticized america and they did it on bill o reilly s show. hate america first was an expression on bill o reilly s show and the idea that bill o reilly let president trump put the u.s. on par with putin and say we re killers too, we made a lot of mistakes. that would have been called hate