the same to declare a climate emergency. here we are. we don t know why the white house stopped short of making this emergency declaration on climate today with of course president biden standing in front of a once-fired coal powered plant being converted into an offshore wind manufacturing facility. there s speculation a tough time to roll out that announcement amid high gas prices and recession fears and since can it be used as a legal basis to drop oil and gas drills. congressional republicans say pain at the pump is the point. i think the administration does want us to suffer. the secretary of transportation said yesterday you don t like the cost of gasoline, buy an electric vehicle. so some announcements did come from the president s remarks plan to propose wind mills in the gulf of mexico and a record of amount of fema funding for infrastructure, neil. jackie, thanks for that. let s go to jeff block right now. he s in philadelphia. witnesses this for himself. the
That person for your son. Its remarkable to see that. Such a great series. This Champions For Change series that were doing. Great to see a different side of your life. Just wonderful to see that. Erin burnett, thank you so much. Great to see you as always. Really appreciate it. Me, too. Thanks. And up next our onehour Champions For Change special hosted by dr. Sanjay gupta. Reporting from washington, im jim acosta. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 eastern. Good night, everybody. Every day all l around us people are breaking barriers. Theyre building new connections, and theyre expanding what is possible. 12 of us journalists here at cnn recently met one folks who are making big differences in the world in ways that have personally touched our own hearts. These are their stories. This is Champions For Change. Welcome to Champions For Change, im dr. Sanjay gupta. You know, tonight were going to introduce you to 12 amazing people youve probably never heard of. But theyre all making
That person for your son. Its remarkable to see that. Such a great series. This Champions For Change series that were doing. Great to see a different side of your life. Just wonderful to see that. Erin burnett, thank you so much. Great to see you as always. Really appreciate it. Me, too. Thanks. And up next our onehour Champions For Change special hosted by dr. Sanjay gupta. Reporting from washington, im jim acosta. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 eastern. Good night, everybody. Every day all l around us people are breaking barriers. Theyre building new connections, and theyre expanding what is possible. 12 of us journalists here at cnn recently met one folks who are making big differences in the world in ways that have personally touched our own hearts. These are their stories. This is Champions For Change. Welcome to Champions For Change, im dr. Sanjay gupta. You know, tonight were going to introduce you to 12 amazing people youve probably never heard of. But theyre all making
Countries to Work Together to confront some of the Biggest Challenges theyre facing. But in addition to that large meeting, the president also will be holding oneonone meetings with various World Leaders throughout the week. Some of the most closely watched meetings will include a meeting on wednesday with israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. There had been a lot of questions about whether such a meeting would take place since netanyahu came into power last year. The white house has expressed criticism about netanyahus governments plans to overhaul their judicial system. So there had been questions about whether the two leaders would meet at the white house or at unga. It does turn out that that meeting will happen in New York City on wednesday. The president also will be meeting with brazilian president Lula Da Silva for the first time as well. Then after the president wraps things up in New York City, he comes back here to washington for perhaps the most consequential meeting o
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n