defense production act over the price of gas. carley: the president s push for a gas tax holiday getting pushback from the democrats, warning this policy would at best achieve miniscule relief while blowing $10 billion hole in the highway trust fund that would need to be filleded if we want to fix crumbling bridges, advance the modern infrastructure system, and griff jenkins is live in washington can more. good morning. griff: good morning. the president s plan is combination of suspending federal gas tax until september and calling on states to suspend their respective gas tax and now issuing war-footing edick that oil companies lower their prices. watch. president biden: to companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump, this is a time of war, global peril, ukraine, these are not normal times. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect cost you are paying for the product. do it now, do it today. griff: the president s messaging bla
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From driving the Republican Party and the country over a claf . Will money talk sense to those that logic hasnt . Will budget chairman paul ryan divert the herd from the abyss . Theyre confronted with the old jack benny question. Your money or your life. Will they stick to the battle cry of texas senator ted cruz . Will they do what the money boys say . Tonight its anybodys guess. Both of our guests are msnbc analysts. The Koch Brothers are revolting against the gop strategy right now. In a letter to congress, their company says Koch Brother Industries writes, koch has not taken a stance on tying the continuing resolution to obama care. They should focus on tightening the budget, cushing kronyism and eliminating mandates. Well, the Koch Brothers arent alone. Howard fineman wrote Michael Needham wrote the a new a gallup poll shows that the Republican Party is viewed positively by 28 . Its gallups lowest favorable rating measured for either party in history. Of course the democrats arent
Should remain in tact. Democrats reportedly want those to last through november. But republicans are looking for a stretch. A little longer on that deal. Over the weekend democrats rejected a plan by senator Susan Collins to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for repealing the tax on medical devices included in obama care and yesterday senator john mccain warned about the dangers of their strategy. We should be sitting down and the president should be engaged and democrats, they better understand something, what Goes Around Comes Around and if they try to humiliate republicans, things change in american politics and i know what its like to be in the majority and in the minority. It wont be forecast gotten. Now is the time to be magazi magnanimous and get it done. Meanwhile, senator mccains running mate was in washington over the weekend from 2008 joined by senator ted cruz for a profession over the shutdown and obama care. We are here to honor our vets. You look around, though, and you
World. Especially for ted cruz, his unfavorables have doubled. But its the whole party thats taking a beating tonight. People dont like having their government held captive, dont like their economy being threatened and guess what. They now like the president S Health Care plan a lot more. It hurts the country too much to laugh, but lets face it, even the republicans are facing it tonight. They followed the wrong leader into the wilderness. They went off a cliff because a bugle boy out there blew charge into the nasty winds of reality. They got drew into a cause that no one can explain now. Did ted cruz only have one cause . Could it have been ted cruz . And is john boehner about to take back the banner of leadership . Can he . Will he . Before his party is drawn further into regret. And will he . Chuck todd, ed rendell, michael steele. There have been major developments in washington today with john boehner proposing now a sixweek debt ceiling increase. But the government would we main