semiconducts rers. power everything from cell phones to automobiles and so much more. these chips were invented in america. let s get that straight. they were invented in america. we used to make 40% of the world s chips. the last several decades we lost our edge. we re down only producing 10%. we all saw what happened during the pandemic when chip factories shut down overseas. today s automobiles need 3,000 chips each of those automobiles. but american automobiles couldn t make enough cars because there weren t enough chips. car prices went up. people got laid off. so did everything from refrigerators to cell phones. we can never let that happen again. that s why that s why we came together to pass the bipartisan chips and science act.
0 you don t but the chief justice has often said that he doesn t really like to come to these things because they re political. but he s come to many of them. i think he has one he has come to every one. one of the records. something like 18. even during the covid year when almost nobody came, he was the only supreme court justice who came. we see there the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, secretary of energy. you re joining us, you re one of the preeminent biographers of joe biden. what is going through his mind in this very unique landscape with a new republican-led house and this newly-heightened challenge from china, not a new challenge, but newly-heightened? you know, there are moments for a political speech. we heard some of thoiz recently from him during the midterms and may, in fact, be hearing more of that kind if he does run for re-election. that s not what tonight is about. tonight is about being president of the united states. and i heard from one of