there today. thank you. for more on this we want to get to chris stirewald. you were listening to all of this. lot of news, lot of headlines being made. but to stick with katherine s point, the opening remarks that we heard from senate judiciary committee chair chuck grassley, a cloud of doubt hangs over the fbi s objectivity. but you heard the fbi director fiercely defending all of his decisions along the way. yeah. i think republicans ought to tread lightly here. i know they want to prebutt whatever might come out of the russia investigation that would be harmful to any of the associates of the president. i understand wanting to put, scuff that ball up a little bit so comey doesn t look too pristine if, in fact, something were to issue from this long and on going investigation. but they ought to be a little careful because in so doing they all scuff up his findings that were so harmful to hillary clinton and cast so much shadow
federal dollars. he also talked about expanding one of his programs that caps student loan payback rates at 10% of their salary. those just a few things that president obama put on the table today. you talk about the prebutt by reince priebus. we re getting reaction this afternoon, chris, from john klein, the chairman of the house education committee. he said he was interested in the president s ideas but also expressed concern that those ideas could ultimately wind up driving up the cost of college. now, all of this, chris, if you put this into a broader picture is part of the president teeing up the fall budget battles with republicans, the of course debt ceiling and, of course, the budget. when you talk about the budget you talk about education, college affordability, those will be some of the things they discuss. the president drawing the battle lines. in the past several weeks the president has made a number of other stops. he s talked about housing winding down fannie mae, freddi
is the first in a series of speeches on economic issues that the president is going to be traveling the country to deliver over the next few weeks. in today s speech, the president taughted the fact that during his presidency, we have doubled our investments as a nation in wind power and solar power. our priority as a country is to cut down on carbon emissions and invest in renewable energies that do not add to the carbon problem. clean up the environment and move to new cleaner sources of energy. republicans, congressional republicans decided they were going to prebutt the president s big speech today by announcing ahead of the speech that their plan on energy in the environment is to cut the budget of the epa by a third. oh, yeah, environmental protection, who needs it, especially now. house republicans ahead of president obama s big speech today moved to cut funding to the epa by 34%. and while the president is insisting that americans reduce carbon emissions, republicans included p
over the next few weeks. in today s speech, the president taughted the fact that during his presidency, we have doubled our investments as a nation in wind power and solar power. our priority as a country is to cut down on carbon emissions and invest in renewable energies that do not add to the carbon problem. clean up the environment and move to new cleaner sources of energy. republicans, congressional republicans decided they were going to prebutt the president s big speech today by announcing ahead of the speech that their plan on energy in the environment is to cut the budget of the epa by a third. oh, yeah, environmental protection, who needs it, especially now. house republicans ahead of president obama s big speech today moved to cut funding to the epa by 34%. and while the president is
the president is going to be traveling the country to deliver over the next few weeks. in today s speech, the president taughted the fact that during his presidency, we have doubled our investments as a nation in wind power and solar power. our priority as a country is to cut down on carbon emissions and invest in renewable energies that do not add to the carbon problem. clean up the environment and move to new cleaner sources of energy. republicans, congressional republicans decided they were going to prebutt the president s big speech today by announcing ahead of the speech that their plan on energy in the environment is to cut the budget of the epa by a third. oh, yeah, environmental protection, who needs it, especially now. house republicans ahead of president obama s big speech today moved to cut funding to the epa by 34%. and while the president is insisting that americans reduce