relentlessly attacking republicans and proposing big, liberal ideas like a new 28th on guns. newsom has shown america he s comfortable at the white house. remember his confident sleeves rolled up appearance while joe was out of town. now newsom is getting his message out to a larger audience by sitting down with sean hannity. do you think he is cognitively strong enough to be president? i have conversations with him all the time. yes. i have talked to him when he s been overseas. i ve been on air force one, marine one, in the limo. you never answer my question directly. how many times has your phone pinged with people saying you need to get in this race. ruling he s not up to the job. it s a fair question. i m asking. not answering. judge jeanine: well, you can catch the full interview with gavin newsom airing tonight on hannity on 9:00 p.m. eastern. meanwhile, biden has a new excuse to stay out of the spotlight: a root canal. the president canceling all events to
overpass. officials predict the road will be close for months and that is having off a wave traffic nightmares. transportation secretary pete buttigieg planning to give whatever resources are needed to rebuild. the entire region affected by this will have the full support of the united states department of transportation for as long as it takes to get that restored to normal. it s a cool remainder of the importance of our infrastructure but we have been surrounded by reminders of the importance of our infrastructure which is why we are coming together at such an important moment. dana: that speech reminded me of another one that we play on this by another person in the administration. the latest disastrous questioning buttigieg s obsession with equity over actually fixing america s crumbling infrastructure. the transportation secretary launching a $1 billion pilot to build racial equity into roads and has spoken about how construction workers are not diverse enough.
in florida, pine island bridge collapsed in florida and governor desantis fixed it in four days. they are going to be waiting months. that s what the democrats do. dana: of the thing that happens, we saw this with covid money and it s happening in the infrastructure bill, they push money out so quickly because they want to get money out there. one of the things that we know looking back is there was not enough venting and a lot of a lot of frog. greg: a lot of fraud. so much fraud i don t even believe those numbers. he isn t thinking forward, to your point, harold, because he s too busy looking backward. i would not blame obviously this thing on him except that he s constantly blaming everything on racism. that is looking backward and set of forward. the equity choice is impossible. different cultures. you can t have the same equity for everybody. that s the way things are. to his credit he got me to look
other other bridges that might be vulnerable to collapse with overheating? it s terrible what happened that made this happen. these are the things politicians should be focused on. you re right in one regard. it was an accident. you can t try to blame something other than it being an accident but when you really blame people as if they don t begin to think forwardly about what can we do to ensure that seemingly this doesn t happen again. that s what i don t hear enough and politics by that s why i was pleased to see governor newsom say what he said about the homelessness issue in crime. he owned it. we ve got to own these challenges and figure how we fix them. dana: what do you think, judge? judge jeanine: pennsylvania got $11.3 billion primary work. 51% of pennsylvania roads are considered poor. there is no secret that work needs to be done in addition to that apparently the american society for civil engineers gave
artificial stance, you re dead wrong. you are dead wrong. people died. we shouldn t be politicizing this. maybe this will take 45 years to fix because you have to grease all the right people in philadelphia. fine. but it s important that we realized this was a racist highway and these things happen. dana: is that right, harold? harold: part of what jesse is saying is right. i say this a lot but i think two things can be right. we need more equity and we need to fix things. think about what happened, i didn t give her credit. i give her credit after the show. i texted her, the judge. talking on east palestine and how we have forgotten that in the narrative. people there have not. not to say the local politicians have but it s not part of the national dialogue. we talked on the show when that happened, we needed and that inventory be taken of how many railways on the country may have similar challenges as those railways there. it would behoove the secretary and perhaps they have this