languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
lot of the states they are forced to be in the unions, they have wanted to open the schools earlier than the leadership, like in virginia closed longer than any other districts with the lock as you mentioned and irritated a lot of the teachers in the classrooms saying i want to get back to doing what we are supposed to be doing, which is educating children for a better future and they stole that away from a generation of kids and parents are fighting back and winning the battle. it will come up in midterm elections because we have seen it in local school board elections and of course local elections for governor. john: a wake-up call for the teachers unions. sandra: police chase like something out of the wild west, west side of manhattan, officer on horseback approaching a shoplifting subject on the sidewalk not far from the heart of times square. then he makes a run for it. the mounted cop in hot pursuit