bribes. right? they got rid of the keystone pipeline because that wasn t worth anything, so here we have the new pipeline to west virginia so we can get the green new deal. kellyanne conway, former white house counsel and author of here s the deal joins me now. if you are able to bribe the senator? this is crazy on so many different levels. he was a hero to many in the right and center for standing in the way of this $3.5 trillion build back better nonsense and now he s revived some of the more onerous pieces of it just to get, drumroll please, a pipeline. this has been held up by environmental groups and the fourth circuit court of appeals has also upheld their concerns.
agenda is probably something they pursue by and large outside an infrastructure bill. here s the thing, an infrastructure bill that is not climate focused not worth focused, probably worse than nothing because climate is the central infrastructure challenge we face obviously. remember last month when one of the largest pipelines in the country was hacked and shut down for days. what does that pipeline carry? it s a fossil fuel pipeline. remember what happened in texas during the winter storm. that was all energy infrastructure. what drives our roads and bridges? vehicles almost entirely powered by the fossil fuel we have to keep burning so we don t heat the planet to a crisp. the infrastructure does not live outside the energy and climate system. it is the backbone to the energy and climate system. not only that, but if you strip the climate plan out of the bill, you re going to lose a lot of democratic senators and will be left with nothing to pass. senator ed markey told the new