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manufacturing of solar panels other forms of clean energy. plan lower energy costs eventually for average americans. the critics point out the move opens for china to corner the solar panel market and again avoid unleashing all domestic possibilities. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich begins our coverage live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. that s right. the president is invoking that war time law to try to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels. one manufacturer says it is a waste of taxpayer money and falls far short of delivering a policy to sustain the industry. and there is even more blow back over his decision to lift tariffs on some imports. in a new clean energy push, president biden is pausing tariffs on solar panel imports from four scioto eastern companies. southeastern companies. whether they stalled projects in the u.s. how is this not a gift to chinese solar manufacturers to many of whom operate with forced labor and are subs ....
And we don t know what the economy will look like before that election. you re right. they should have a message that stands on the economy. people voting how they feel financially. and we saw it in the rebuttal from joe kennedy. he actually acknowledged the economic successes that we re seeing under president trump right now. i just wonder if you saw conor lamb. he s pro tariff, he sounded he had a similar message to the president. i m wondering if there s idealogical room in your party for people that sound like mr. trump. look, i think the democratic party, one of the big mistakes we made, we didn t have a economic message. trump did. i ll say that. that economic message is one of not just raising the minimum wage, it s people s wages going up. it s entrepreneurship. conor lamb and the party, the candidates that i ve seen around ....
but are they as centrist as he is or the normal liberal. the democrats are not going to life for pro life, pro tariff, pro guns i don t know. they re not going to look for those people because they can t win with them. they can t fund raise for them. almost says how is he going to vote? that s what i m saying. what part is nancy pelosi going to play in future races as we look toward the mid-term? is she an asset? she helps in some places and hurts in others. i don t think she will be speaker if the democrats take the house back this november, which i think we will. will democrats embrace her? some will. she will continue raising money. other congressmen on our side and women have stepped up to raise money for the party. she no longer will own this incoming class of democratic freshmen. the democratic party can t say that they re a big tent ....
Contingent. jon: still a big slap in the face for the minority leader. the slap in the face is if it sets a precedent, jon, and then you start to see this as a wave. remember, nancy pelosi beat tim ryan and is holding ton her leadership. the question here, i think, is what happened to the message about tax cuts that president trump thought would carry the day. what happened to the message about tariffs in a steel community, steel base economy. again, he thought this would be enough to push the cone over the finish line. jon: most elections are about the economy. why, if things are turning around, in that part of the rust belt, why did the republicans not prevail? this is a values driven district. look at who mr. lamb said he was. pro-life, pro-tariff which identified with the incumbent president. this is a group of people that vote more on what they believe maybe than just typical party lines. i think with the scandal and i don t think can you overstate that had you a ....
We have won in suburban areas. we ve won in urban areas. we ve won in rural areas. you didn t win in west virginia when the governor switched parties. jack, it s late. let him finish his point, jack. but democrats every single day mark was saying you don t want them to get comfortable with victory. but with donald trump being president of the united states democrats will not be comfortable. and there are a lot of moderates that will not be comfortable. i want you to hold that thought because i think that s very important. jack, make your point. conor lamb also had a message and i agree with, you know, all this this is good content. but he also had a message. and what his message was to the 70,000 union households in that district is i m a traditional democrat, i m going to stand up for union jobs. that s why he s pro tariff. that s why he s pro coal sxep also said i want to get to washington and not be a democrat or republican, i want to get what s right for pennsylva ....