it s nuts not to take advantage what s underneath our feet while we can as we make a long-term transition to clean energy. it s just a smart thing to do. this is unnecessary punishment, the american public is getting absolutely annihilated for no reason at all other than the climate change agenda. john: biden was comparing his plan to nothing, the republicans have not come out with any kind of a plan. do you think it s incumbent on them to do that, or do you think they should just do what they are doing now, sit back, watch, and watch biden fall all over himself between now and november. i think it s absolutely incumbent they do that. yesterday i was filling in for neil at 4:00 and asked senator tillis that question, and what is your plan, and it s less political for them. trying to label things ultra maga this or that, is a waste of
nepa policies about permitting are stopping, stopping fossil fuels and pipelines, they are also stopping, bridges, highways, roads, they are going to do a lot of damage to the infrastructure bill because of the highly restrictive permitting policies and ironically going to do a lot of damage to the green new deal stuff. wind mills, energy panels, so forth. it s going to be hard to build that under these highly restrictive environmental review policies. it doesn t make any sense to me. jacqui: larry, you point out one thing, it stuck out to me when i heard the president a little over a week ago mention rick scott and the ultra maga plan. as john rightly pointed out it has not been adopted by the party, a significant risk when it first came out and makes me think are they trying to shift their messaging. what they have right now does
the war overseas and inflation surging around the world, the last thing we should be thinking about is rewarding companies for exploiting a situation. while families struggle to pay their bills, some corporate executives are on earnings calls with investors on wall street cheering their record profits and explaining how they re using this period of inflation to cover the rise in prices for beyond what they need to do to cover their costs. and all this time we re not even paying for a fair share of tax in the first place. you want to bring down inpolice station, make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. my plan, ask those companies to pay their fair share in taxes. congressional republican plan? let them off scot-free and if you weren t extreme enough in the agenda, they put it in writing. it also calls on congress to put special put social security,
he s unfit for office. he s incoherent, incapacitated and confused. these are his words. i m offering you a chance to respond. i think the man has a problem. reporter: will you drop former president trump s china tariffs? we re discussing that right now. we re looking at what would have the most positive impact. reporter: erase them? i didn t say that. reporter: i m asking. i m telling you we re discussing it and no decision has been made on it. thank you, guys. that s a wrap. thank you, all. i m john king in washington. president biden is leaving an event at the white house. he spoke just shy of 30 minutes. he took questions from reporters. the theme inflation. the president says his plan to help americans do something about it, and he drawing a sharp contrast with republicans saying republicans don t have a plan even as they criticize him in the mid-term election year. let s start with mj outside of the white house. mj, no new proposals from the president today, but
moments away. john: alexandria hoff, what was the main message from the president. certainly a main message here, but the president did speak to inflation, much of what he had to say to say was really a continuation of tactics his administration has already deployed to combat this, like releasing oil from the strategic reserve. he s also seeking to limit food price gouging and increase taxes on the ultra wealthy. another point here, focus seemed to be on contrasting efforts he has to fight inflation with what the white house calls the congressional republican s ultra maga plan to raise taxes. plan put forward by congressional republicans is the second alternative, here is how each of us would tackle inflation. my plan is to lower employer everyday costs for every day costs for hard working americans. and lower the deficit by asking large corporations and the wealthiest americans to not engage in price gouging and to