committee. watch coverage tonight at 9:30 eastern on c-span. online at c-span.org, or full coverage on our new video app, c-span now. >> president biden spoke with reporters briefly before heading into a meeting with his cabinet to discuss the bipartisan infrastructure plan. he talked about modernizing roads and bridges and expanding high speed internet access he was also asked about tensions with russia. president biden: let me start by first saying a few words about russia and ukraine. i've been absolutely clear with president putin. he has no misunderstanding. if any, any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border, that is an invasion. and it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response that i've discussed in detail with our allies, as well as laid out very clearly for president putin. but there's no doubt, let there be no doubt at all, that if putin makes this choice, russia will pay a heavy price. that's also not the only scenario we need to be prepared for. russia has a long history of using measures other than overt military action to carry out aggression. paramilitary tactics, so-called gray zone attacks, and actions by russian soldiers not wearing russian uniforms. remember the little green men, they weren't, they were dealing with those who were russian sympathizers and said, russia, nobody in there. well, that includes little green men in uniforms as well as cyberattacks. we have to be ready to respond to these as well in a decisive and united way with a range of tools at our disposal. the foreign minister said this morning that he's confident of our support and resolve and he has a right to be. now, let me tell you the topic of the day. by enacting the bipartisan infrastructure law, we demonstrated that democrats and republicans can actually work together to get something done. and by implementing it efficiently and effectively, we're going to demonstrate that government also can work for people efficiently and effectively. in just two months, investments are under way to modernize our roads, our bridges, our ports, our airports, our rail, delivering high speed internet and clean water and expand and modernize, as i said, rail, as well as the energy grid and the list goes on up until now our nation has never fully made this kind of investment. in part that's the reason why we got the whole problem with regard to the supply chains. but when we start moving stuff faster through our ports, when bridges don't have weight restrictions, when there's less traffic on our roads because there are more roads to travel on, and people aren't backed up bumper to bumper, and more capacity in our rails, that's how we resolve supply chain problems and get goods to people and get them to them quicker and cheaper. i know you've been all over the country, mr. mayor, former mayor, and my buddy, meeting with mayors and governors, county commissioners, tribal leaders, and like i did with the recovery act, which was a similar kind of operation. because we need to stay on top of it. i know you remember what it was like and how detail really matters. the detail matters, excuse matters, i'm looking forward to an update on where we are now and where we're going from here. so thank you very much. i'm going to turn it over to the guy who i asked to come out of retirement, not retirement, but come and take over this gigantic job for me. >> mr. president, thank you so much. i'm honored and thank you for having me. you asked to us rebuild america, the largest infrastructure investment in generations in the country. this is the team, mr. president, that you put together that has been in the last 60 days hitting the ground and getting things done. this is actually the seventh meeting that was passed in the last 60 days and each one of these individuals have been organizing their agencies but their partners around the country to actually make this happen. we actually are spending a lot of time running to the fire, as we like to say, flushing out the very difficult problem that attends anything this large that hasn't been done in a long time. but you asked us not just to rebuild america, you asked us to ble a better america. and a better america from your perspective is one that we're following which means good-paying union jobs, it means using products that are made in america so we can boost our domestic manufacturing. so that we can take the supply chains back and grow independent in our safety and security and lower costs for the average american. it also means not doing anything without a sense of equity and an understanding that we can't go forward if we can't go forward together because diversity is this nation's greatest strength. also thinking about the tremendous challenges we have with climate and resilience and sustainability, to build back in a way so that we know when bad things come, we can sustain whatever that is you also said to me when i first got here, listen, the american people need to have our trust so therefore accountability and transparency is important. and we need to make sure we work with inspector generals and other people to regain the public trust. then finally, as you've reminded me, when you ran the recovery act, outline logistics, getting it right on the ground, where it matters, with people where they live, is critically important. mr. president, this is your team. we're hard at work. we're ready to get the job done and we're ready to continue to do the work. thank you so much. >> thanks. [talking simultaneously] >> thank you, guys. thank you. [talking simultaneously] >> thank you, let's go let's go thank you. thank you. >> good job. 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