night two or three days before the government shuts down after the last cr 3 weeks ago. there is never a long-term plan to get our fiscal house in order. the leadership of the democratic party in neither the house or the senate wants to get serious. bret: one last thing. put up this picture you met with judge kentanji brown jackson friday. your thoughts initially and how that process is going to work? i was glad to meet her in person. i m glad we are taking her nomination seriously. she is a serious human being. i have lots of questions about her judicial philosophy. i didn t vote for her on the court which she now sits but we have a process to publicly vet her. and i hope she will be very forthcoming about what a judge s job is. a judge s job is not to be a super legislator. i would like to hear her clearly articulate why we have three branches and why article iii limits the discretion and powers of a judge. bret: going in, it looks like a noncontroversial nomination? i mean,
running to iran and mow durrough. when you want to cut off putin as we should, the right solution isn t to line somebody else s pockets along the way. it s to have a long-term energy plan. we are going to need cleaner energy over time that s true. we should be energy independent now and this administration came to office 14 months ago and one of the first things they did was to kill the keystone pipeline. this was a bad idea then. we said it was a bad grd then and now think think it s a surprise they have an energy problem on heir hands. bret: we just did this live report from capitol hill about the spending woes and what is happening. i mean, is this all going to come together up there this time around? it hasn t come around come together for years and years and years. i m 50 years old. and in the last 46 years of my life i think only four times has congress spent more than 30% of its money on the appropriated process. i saw your clip from speaker pelosi say we need to grow up a
advantage of using vladimir putin as the excuse for high gas prices while continuing this argument here at home that we need to transition to alternative form of energy, that because gas prices are so high now is our opportunity as pete buttigieg has said to way in electric car. and so they actually the rebranding is good for them but bad for the american consumer and when it comes to actually produce are more oil in the united states, the white house is capable of telling the bureau of land management to be faster on the permitting process to approve more drilling here in the u.s. and yet they haven t done that and the question that keeps getting raised by jen psaki at the white house is well they have all these permits, why aren t they drilling? it s because the administration from the beginning, day one and also through personnel choices they have made to be in charge of a lot of this process have made it very clear that they re not interested in continuing to expand oil and gas, th
they get some bread as well but, yeah, so people are huck gri there wants a shift change for the hostages and red cross to deliver food, medicine and other splice. while chernobyl s three nuclear reactors were shut down in 2,000 and the facility no longer provides energy to ukraine. it still needs to be maintained as it undergoes a demissing process. ukraine s 2022 diplomatic wants russia to agree a cease-fire to allow workers to restore power. shooting one can ensure them that [inaudible] will not be fired at. so they can t give any aid to the area. despite the power loss at chernobyl, the international atomic energy agency says it sees no critical impact on safety. one nuclear expert says the war still presents a threat. this sun precedented. we have never had conflict
to the federal government. so, house speaker nancy pelosi announced today they are going to just take out the code funding piece all together to try to salvage the rest of the package. you are blaming republicans for the delay in a situation with the covid relief but if you didn t have folks within your own party no, no. that s the way it is. let s get let s grow up about this, okay? we re in a legislative process. we have a deadline for keeping government open. we have a lively negotiation. it has to be bipartisan. we have got a war going on in ukraine. so they are going to try to vote on this tonight and get this passed in the house, bret. but, by the way, because of this stall in the house, democrats were supposed to go this big conference in philadelphia and they have had to postpone and delay a number of events by the way in this conference there was