investments flowing into west virginia to help transition that economy. particularly in west virginia, because they have a whole array of resources that could be used to help put people to work. but also power their grid with clean energy. you can provide incentives for the utilities to decarbonize the fossil industry. add technology that allows that industry to have zero carbon emissions, and expand. it s a big asset. i m not going to negotiate, obviously, for chuck schumer or anything like that. but there s a huge amount in this series of bills that will be extremely beneficial to west virginia. some of which on the infrastructure side, manchin has negotiated himself. well, as i mentioned, cnn is learning that manchin is telling committee chairs that he won t cave on the climate provisions. what is the administration s
mccarthy has to say about the president. i ll bet you this. i bet you he spends more time filling out his march madness brackets than he does writing a budget. wow. with news views like that no wonder the meeting was tense. the truth is the gop s real policemen with the president isn t his outreach, it s that he won t cave on his principles. paul ryan today put forward his budget and he says he s challenging you to come forward with a budget that also reaches balance. are you going to do that? no. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. it s not balance on the backs of the poor, the elderly, students who need student loans, families who have got disabled kids. that s the gop s real problem. don t let them fool you. ginning me now is e.j. dionne. e.j., let me ask you, is the real problem here what i m saying? what is the real problem, in your opinion?
investigations. that is traditionally how we do things. in part, because people are innocent until proven guilty. we want to make sure that we don t prejudge these kinds of situations. so my expectation is that they follow the protocols. mr. president, on the fiscal cliff, two years ago, sir, he said he would not extend the bush era tax cuts. but at the end of the day you die. respectfully, sir, why should the american people and the republicans believe that he won t cave again this time? president obama: two years ago the economy was in a different situation. we were still in the early parts of recovering from the worst economic crisis since the great depression. ultimately, we came together, not only to extend the bush tax cuts, but also a wide range of