Within hours of taking office, President Biden made the supposed “climate crisis” his central focus and elimination of fossil fuels his primary “solution.”To show he meant it, Biden undertook several
this is your moment, isn t it. i would think. to your point on political ambition to go from mayor of south bend, to running for leader of the free world. you have to have a little bit of ambition, he is in the news. i just don t see him in the news on this issue. i don t hear him talking about this. i don t hear the media asking him the mainstream media, quizzing him on this much? yes. you know, you make some great points. in terms of his background, he was the mayor of south bend. that is in indiana. you know that. that is where he was mayor. before he decided to run for president. i look at background of former transportation secretaries some had been in congress for decades or
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today and flanked by his treasury and transportation secretaries. he will talk about how he can get the permitting process down from five years perhaps down to two years and make this easier for the projects to fix our roads and bridges to maybe that happen. we re waiting for the president to emerge from the elevator any minute now to talk to the press. shepard: he hasn t held a formal news conference in quite some time. do we have word on whether he will take questions today? well, we know some of his the folks taking part in this meeting are scheduled to answer question. the president may not. we re told he could speak up to five minutes. whether or not he answers questions, we ll wait and see. alex isenstadt is joining us from politco. alex, the question of the day, of course, the question for every day would largely be about the russia investigation. more recently, his problems within his own party with leader
the future. our nation will move faster, fly higher, and soar proudly toward the next great chapter of american aviation. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. as the president signs his order surrounded by elizabeth dole and other former transportation secretaries he is proposing something that does have some bipartisan support which is privatizing the faa and air traffic control. this the launch of infrastructure week which is notably coinciding with what many people are calling comey week. nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house. peter, the president missteps