any sense that they re about to reduce their troop strength around ukraine at all. all right, nic robertson in moscow for us. thank you, nic. meanwhile, president biden is vowing to cut off that critical gas pipeline between russia and germany if putin invades ukraine. but after the president s meeting with the german chancellor yesterday, it s unclear if germany is on board with that. germany is heavily dependent on russian energy. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us now. so, the president said that he could, quote, bring an end to the pipeline if russia invades. how can he? and he didn t offer many details, at least yesterday, guarantee that? reporter: that was the big question. how specifically can you do that if germany in and of itself given the chancellor would not commit to it yesterday is not also in agreement with that statement? and supportive of the u.s. position that if russia does invade ukraine, that nordstream ii would not go forward. r
service to buy american but actually takes action, investing in innovation and manufacturing which powers up companies like tritium to do what they do best. create great products and good-paying jobs. that s been my approach from day one and now we re beginning to see the results. my first full year as president, the economy created 6.6 million new jobs. that s never happened before in american history. and that includes 375,000 manufacturing jobs. 2021 saw the highest increase in u.s. manufacturing jobs in nearly 30 years. and let me give you one example. a few weeks ago, the ceo of intel, pat gelsinger, came to the white house to announce a new $20 billion semiconductor factory that they re going they call a campus outside of columbus, ohio. i had the two senators from ohio here standing with me, one republican, one democrat.
price gains are being any price decreases are being passed along to consumers. we re seeing very high profitability in these oil companies, lots of stock share buybacks. this president wants to make sure that in a period of such strong demand, that some of those benefits are being passed along to consumers, and he will look at the regulatory authorities to make sure that happens. jared, the last time you were on with me, it felt like you were softening the blow for a disappointing january jobs report where you were saying that some people were saying there were going to be a loss of jobs. man, were you wrong. i mean, 467,000 jobs in january. the question is, how is the administration we re seeing the adjustments at the bls, these private banks are getting it wrong. how are they, you all, getting this so wrong month after month? well, first of all, let me say that i have never been happier to be more wrong. i bet you are. as you would imagine. yeah. secondly, we are learning
just in to cnn. white house officials have begun reaching out to president biden s potential supreme court picks. they re gathering more information about the records, and as part of the normal vetting process, the fbi has conducted friends and former colleagues of potential nominees. there are about three weeks until the president s self-imposed deadline to announce his final choice. okay, now to a consequential ruling from the supreme court that will impact voters in alabama. the justices have allowed a redistricting map drawn by state republicans to stay in place. the map had been criticized for racial bias against black voters. a lower court ruled that the map likely violates the voting rights act. but in a 5-4 decision, the nation s highest court decided to keep the map in place for now, which means it will be used for the state s primary in may. let s bring in melanie campbell, the president for the national coalition on black civic participation. thank you so much for being
countries in terms of oil-producing countries, we want them to live up to their supply commitments, and we re engaged in diplomatic measures to make that happen. opec says they re going to stick to 400,000 barrels a day. they re not ramping up in the way that you re asking them to. so, you may be approaching them, but they re not responding as quickly as you d like. so, let s talk about what we can do. so, oil-consuming countries have strategic reserves, and the last time we released 50 million barrels, many of which are still in train, by the way, the price of gasoline it wasn t just the strategic release. but it helped. the price of gasoline actually fell by ten cents a gallon. for a very short time. are you going to do that again? that is certainly an option that can be put on the table as needed. finally, we got to protect consumers from any abuse and the president is making sure that every legal and regulatory authority we have is going to be tapped to make sure that any