had it right over a month ago, he said we need a special envoy to midland, texas to meet the oil and gas crowd. they are some of the best-run companies in the world, much less this country. anyway, it s all a failure, and there are not going to be any changes. i ve had reports from people in the meeting today in the oil and gas, and it was, the word they are using is constructive, because granholm did not insult them the way biden did. sandra: it went longer than predicted, they said 45 minutes, it we want on for an hour and 15. larry: but unfortunately no waivers, no permits, no regulatory rollback, talk about interfering in markets, stopping product exports to go around the world, which would do harm. of course, nothing regarding refineries. the issue here is so simple. you want more gas on the market, that would bring the price down in a more permanent sense if you increase supply, but the
the playing field for women, many female athletes say their title ix rights are under attack and the push to include transgender athletes coming from the highest levels. talk to a world champion runner about her fight to protect women s sports. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. john roberts from washington. good to spend thursday with you, sandra. sandra: and as well you, john. sandra smith in new york. john: we start with an economy teetering and a plea from american energy companies as record high gas prices continue to climb. jennifer granholm meeting with the nation s top executives, white house asking them to boost oil supply while also saying the u.s. needs to move away from fossil fuels and now the nation s top energy groups appealing directly to the president writing before you board air force one for the middle east, we hope you will
i love reports today, his own economics people did not like it. so, he s got problems selling this thing. look, he should have been in the meeting today with the energy c.e.o.s, and he wasn t. he brought them in, he had jennifer granholm, energy secretary and some others, he should have been there, joe biden, the president, and it gets worse than that. not only was he not in that meeting, but they then scheduled a 3:30 meeting today on wind farms with various governors and local officials. sandra: he ll be there. larry: biden will be there. you have two meetings in the white house today. we have one energy crisis, got one explosion of gas prices. biden is going to the windmill meeting, i m sorry, the wind turbine meeting and he s not going to the oil meeting. sandra: can t make it up. larry: our friend rick perry
capitalist society. since when do we tell private business they are too profitable. so, biden invites them to the white house and doesn t even meet with them. jen granholm did, his energy secretary, lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. one of the executives left and said he believed it was constructive, other are saying not enough time to accomplish anything. but what is really going on here? cut through this. charles: it s a public relations stunt, and the packaging later as they take more actions, we reached out, extended the olive branch, invited them to the white house, and everyone needs to pay attention to, it s bigger than an oil story. i believe there s a large portion in this white house and administration of people that do believe there should be limits on how much money a business can make. and so right now crude oil, to your point, gasoline we are all feeling it. and their minds it s low hanging fruit. if we can demonize them