one drives. 1 gets his permit tomorrow. there s concerns there. voters sounding off as the mid-term intensity is taking off. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto, this is your world. it s a political world that keeps turning with inflation still on fire in a supreme court decision firing up democrats and republicans. what issues are going to win the day? democrats hoping the supreme court ruling on roe v. wade gives them a supreme edge. but are voters putting pocketbook issues at the forefront instead? let s ask franchesca chambers and crystal knight. franchesca, let me go to you first here. before this ruling, it was overwhelmingly about inflation, food prices, gas prices. do you think the needle is moving much since? well, it may be a little bit too early to say. if you look at the protests taking place just over the weekend and how much of a focus this issue has been even as president joe biden has had a huge economic summit, the g-7, it s abortion rights. that supre
they have boxed themselves in. should be a cautionary tale. do we want to be like germany? not sure where they will get their heat from this summer. you re spot on correct, this is the story that a lot of americans don t know. nobody in the media reports this. the european countries especially germany 10 or 15 years ago went all in on green energy. they went all in open building solar and wind and going to replace they shut down their nuclear plants. what happens was germany almost bankrupted themselves. they had to shut down many manufacturing plants because they couldn t produce the power. so what is happening now, europe is moving back to conventional fuel. now the easy is to the left of europe on energy. charles: nuts. finally, steve, watching president biden with the world leaders reminds me of an
also in terms of supplying heavy equipment to the ukrainian fighting forces. they have moved very fast. now, zelenskyy has said they haven t moved far enough, and some of the weapons they have promised haven t actually arrived yet. it ll be interesting to see the tanks, which is what the ukrainians really want, whether they get there and how quickly they get there. jonathan lemire, what is the white house going to do to pave the way for the germans to get off russian oil? they ve already begun the process, joe. they have sent over and dipped into the strategic reserves. they ve started facilitating a shipment of gas and energy to europe. i spoke to a member of the white house economic advisers who downplayed the possibility here of a major recession that comes from this decision. if germany, indeed, falls through and the eu cuts off energy and gas. but there is a recognition that there is going to be conomic
pain. that is going to spiral not just within europe but become its borders. we already, of course, have seen fuel prices dip a little in the last couple weeks. that s good news. certainly, inflation remains extremely high. consumer prices are high. we saw the gdp contract yesterday. if that happens again in another quarter, technically, that is a recession. at least so far, though, the white house believes the fundament ta fundamentals of the economy remain strong and will be able to, despite inflation, survive this. they re keeping a weary eye, but they think the good outweighs the bad. they feel like to cut off the funding for putin s war machine, that he gets so many billions per day from europe on energy, that that would be a crippling blow. the u.s. would do everything it can to support europe in its efforts to make that happen. you know, it is interesting, what we ve heard from ukraine is they re willing to pay the price for the world s safety. that s what they re doing right
we need to double down on our commitment to clean energy. building a made-in-america clean energy future will help safeguard our national security. it will help us tackle climate change. this is a challenge of our collective lifetimes. there s no more time to hang back or sit on the fence or argue amongst ourselves. so let this be the moment that we answer history s call.