moving. they need a president willing to do it to get that happening. joe biden will take a more aggressive stance on that. charles: patrice, i tell people to be careful what you ask for. president biden didn t mention mr. smith goes to washington. that character was 30 years old. the average senator is 63 with 70 and 80-year-olds. they better be careful. they might find themselves in the mid-terms having to skip it. you brought up bipartisanship. i think this is the one area that people are frustrated with. we heard some democrats this week with the tone that president biden has been using, that speech in atlanta, when he bolted out of the democratic caucus yesterday. this is not the president that we were promised to help heal the nation. it wasn t. you know, it s interesting when you look at the poll numbers. he s losing support among independents, 57% of which say they don t approve of his
he knew what the u.s. and our european allies would do, likely not kick him out of swift because that would backfire on some european countries like germany and play intoing putin s hand. other thing president biden didn t mention, listen, we re going to ramp up oil production, best way to hurt putin is become europe s greatest oil partner, that conversation never took place. doug: does biden fear russia or aoc and liberal squad on the green new deal more? i m beginning to feel he fears them more. why go from independence to energy dependence and now beg opec for oil. we gained energy independence which gave us strength as nation to move for theed.
thanks for having me, chris. chris: why does president biden think the number of homicides and shootings is up so dramatically in the last 18 months? well, part of it is the plethora of guns that are flooding the streets of this country and that s something that the president wants to deal with. knows the toll that violence takes on families and especially gun violence and what s it s doing over the last 18 months in this country. chris: but let s discuss some of the factors that president biden didn t mention in his speech this week. take a look at republican senator lindsey graham, here he is. the biden five-point plan will not address the rise in murder and vicious assaults in this country. we have a lack of prosecution and we ve declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it. chris: dozen tore graham have a