puerto rico today, devastated by hurricane fiona two weeks ago and the president and white house officials did their part to try to tamp down that controversy. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are putting out the word that federal help is on the way for people who need it the most. race is not going to be a factor, despite what the vice president said. hello. surveying damage from hurricane fiona. president biden is already sounding the alarm about storms that won t hit for years. today i m announcing more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas in puerto rico. [applause] become better prepared for the glorm he says his response doesn t favor friends. times like these our nation comes together, put aside our difference our political differences and get to work. we show up. that s different than what vice president harris suggeste
didn t in fact embrace innovation. put at risk the dependability and, in fact, going to drive up costs unnecessarily and put virginians at a disadvantage and oh, by the way, at a time when they can least afford to see further inflation. and so our policy is an all of the above approach that we are in fact going to embrace our existing clean stack where we have natural gas and nuclear that provide most of the power in virginia. we are also going to embrace innovation and yes renewables in window and solar but also new innovation. i have actually set a 10 year challenge to virginia. our moonshot to develop the first commercial small modular nuclear reactor in 10 years that would be done in southwest virginia. and virginia should be at the forefront of this industry where we have such great capabilities already and we are going to do something that not just impacts the future of the commonwealth of virginia but the nation. and the world. bret: your name has come up a lot in discussion a
worried about excellencen in schools and kids being challenged. they are worried about not having any choice. at the end of the day, i think education is going to, once again, show itself to be the primary issue in this cycle. and, by the way, we are seeing the same thing in virginia right now where there is arguments about the role of parents in their children s lives. let me tell you parents matter. i think voters will once again state very clearly like they did last year they are voting for parents rights in their kids lives. bret: there are some walkouts in different schools in virginia about transgender support. they say that your policies are somehow threatening them. the washington post wrote it up this way: the draft policy release september 16th by the state education department would require transgender students to use school facilities and programs matching their biological sex. parents would have to give approval and other staff members to refer to students by a differe
records but students, like this one student catherine said governor youngkin is using this cover of parental rights to push a political agenda through schools. your reaction to that write up and what you are seeing in virginia? well, what of course our draft policies are all about is reasserting parents rights in the lives of their kids. these most important decisions should, in fact, be made between the child and their parents. not to the exclusion of a trusted teacher or a counselor. but parents have a fundamental right to make these decisions and oh, by the way. children deserve to have their parents engaged in this discussion. i think anyone who tries to push this any place else is trying to avoid the fundamental question. should parents be engaged in their children s lives in these kinds of decisions or not? voters in virginia spoke loudly last year that they think they should. i believe they should. and i do believe that voters not just in virginia but across america believe
it back. let s bring in the aforementioned virginia governor glenn youngkin. governor, thanks for joining us. that s an important race i think jen kiggans can pull it out. bret: on the issue of education, do you think it s a big issue for republicans across the board this midterm cycle? yeah. absolutely. what we are seeing, of course, as everyone is back in school is that education comes right up to the top of the list again. yes, inflation is a huge issue. and bad policies out of the biden white house have driven us to a 40 year high of inflation. seeing education again come to the forefront as parents worry about what their children are taught.