behind the scenes and get your -- >> bill: quickly, you have red on, i have a red tie. >> dana: everyone wearing red. >> bill: because of this. >> dana: wear red day, very important, women have differenticismoms, learn about heart health and we will raise awareness, all day long across >> harris: we begin with those fox news alert, day one of the beijing winter games has some wondering why in a single american is there. i am harris faulkner. you are in the "faulkner focus." several countries including the united states are accusing china of committing toward their weaker muslim population. stories of torture, trying to weed out certain genetics and

the uyghurs. did you know this? republicans say they want to make this very clear, their aim right now is to protect our athletes who are over there. lawmakers promising swift sanctions for the olympic committee of any american goes missing. that's not good enough. of florida senator rick scott with this. >> chinese government took away their rights. many uyghurs are in prison, completely annihilating the uyghurs population. they didn't do it, the biden administration do something, they did nothing. so now we have our athletes over there, i hope they are safe, i hope our sponsors know what they should be doing is talking about the atrocities going on over there. we should not allow communist china to whitewash what they are doing. >> harris: those atrocities and i got into a bit of a --

forced sterilizations and putting the countries muslims in prison so they can force their wives to marry chinese men and be raped and have their children. safety concerns for anyone who might speak out against china's actions are ramping up as the games begin. house speaker nancy pelosi warning team usa not to take any risk. >> the chinese government once again attempts to distract the world from a decade-long campaign of abuse and repression. but the united states and the international community know the truth. i say to our athletes the way they are to compete, do not risk incurring the anger of the chinese government because they are ruthless. >> harris: marsha blackburn,

republican senator from tennessee is in focus now. he previously had called for a full boycott of the games and now we are starting to see why you did. first of all, tell us exactly this moment for us in time in history. >> you have to look at the way we have nancy pelosi responding. this is disgusting to tell our athletes don't tell us what you're seeing, just keep your mouth shut, we are very concerned for the safety and security of these athletes. we are also very concerned about the human rights abuses that the chinese communist party is carrying out and you have articulated those well. we know there is a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to the u.n. leadership when it comes to the biden administration, pelosi's comments, the way they are treating these games allowing the u.s. broadcast network to be there broadcasting

these games and the chinese communist party has said they are conducting extreme censorship so they have to approve everything that is going to go out about china. and to be kowtowing to this for pelosi to say what she did when she has supported blm in the u.s. and is saying don't you dare speak out anything against the chinese communist party, it is unseemly and uncalled for. >> harris: i want to show you something and i don't think many people have seen this yet and it speaks to the very issue of what you're talking about, you have to be careful what you say in china, "washington post" reporter retreating this video of what appears to be a chinese official in the middle of a live report in the face of the cohort there in the studio.

we do not have a direct translation yet of this. you can bet we will get one and we will work to independently confirm who everybody was here in terms of reporters. what we can tell you is the chinese police that you see there, correct me if i'm wrong with them not getting that right, they didn't want that going out at all. and that's a dangerous place to be in. >> it is a dangerous place to be in and the chinese communist party has said they would conduct extreme censorship. they are going to monitor and police everything that goes out because they are going to present a certain image to the world coming out of this on the fast track to global dominance. they have told us they're going to do this, pushing forward in

trying to push it and think about this? you've got them pushing their app onto these burner phones so they can still surveilled our athletes. are we concerned about this? absolutely. are we concerned that apple has in their app store that app that requires you to use the digital you want? why would they do that? these are u.s. companies. why would they sponsor this? why would the olympic committee even take them back to beijing? >> harris: why would they? it seems like the color would be green for money. >> they are doing it for the money. >> russian president vladimir putin, xi jinping united, just getting together against the u.s. and its allies today.

hyping their unshakable relationship as they called it for nato to halt any expansion, they don't want that head of the opening ceremonies of the winter games and as both of their countries face mounting criticism from washington, d.c., and as russia has amassed 127,000 troops along the border with ukraine perch to go in and invade, when we watch the facts of this rolling out, we better understand why you called for a full boycott and people were defending the athletes and i feel for them, they spent years getting ready for that. maybe america can come up with a way to do it ourselves, why do we need the olympic committee? why do we need these people? >> for the ioc to turn their back on all the human rights violations and that has been carried out in knowing that

after the 2008 beijing games, the human rights abuses picked up. look at what they did to tibet and the tibetans? when it comes to putin and xi jinping, they are part of the axis of evil. they use iran for their proxies, north korea to go shoot off missiles and destabilize that pacific rim and they are two peas in a pod. they do not wish us well. it it is important that we admit they are adversaries. >> before i do one last one on this, without us there at the table, we've pulled out and left our athletes there, we pray for everybody's safety. that's what we told the ioc, but we pray it doesn't come to that. what does it mean that we don't have a seat anywhere near there?

>> this is why it is so important that we keep an eye on this, we do those prayers for the safety and security on the health of these athletes, that we keep our thumb on the ioc and say if anything happens, there will be sanctions, there will be repercussions and at the same time coming up to keep our eye on what is happening with russia, ukraine, and also taiwan. >> it's a lot. and we track chinese burner phones? that's a rhetorical question but we got to get some of that intel. let's move on. more violence is president biden's border crisis rages on and u.s. agents were shot out from mexico. they returned fire at a suspected drug cartel. no one was hurt on our side but it highlights the real dangers are border agents are facing every single day whether dealing with everything else. can attest fast enough for that?

unaccompanied minors, adult males and females going all over the country, we are on track to see more than 2 million border encounters this year again. it entering the second year of this crisis, kamala harris sticking to her story. we just have to be patient. let's watch together. >> none of this is going to be turning on a switch. it requires focus, requires intention, requires an investment over a period of time which means you're not going to see the benefit of it overnight. >> harris: does that give you confidence? >> no confidence at all. she went to the border supposedly, went to the wrong address and never was able to go out and work with the border patrol, has refused to get busy addressing root causes, she does

not know what she is talking about. here's the thing, we know that walls work. they have a great wall in our building another wall on their southern border. we've got israel with wall. and not wanting to put a wall at our southern border, not wanting to protect this country, if joe biden believes in the sovereignty of nations, should stand up and say we are going to believe in ukraine to be a sovereign nation and we are going to believe in sovereignty for our nation. the fact that they are allowing this to take place, 2 million people from 160 countries, cartels making more money than many of our major corporations and a meeting with our tennessee association of chiefs of police

are talking about the amount, the volume of drugs they are fighting on the street. it's not grams or ounces, it is pounds. it is coming over the southern border. every town as a border town in every state is a border state because joe biden and kamala harris cannot get their act together and secure that southern border. people are sick of this. >> harris: no one articulates this quite like you do. when you say china has the great wall, you know people say of course they do. senator blackburn, always great to have you in focus, two very important topics today. a fox news weather alert, tracking a massive winter storm bearing down on the northeast and already crippled huge swaths of the nation with ice and snow. hundreds of thousands of people already without electrical power

and good luck getting a flight if you are trying to fly out today. a fox weather correspondent is live for us in chicago, illinois, at least the wind has stopped but everything is frozen where you are. >> that's right. we've got a 5:30 flight out of o'hare and hopefully that's still going to be taking off today. turn into a pretty beautiful day here in downtown chicago. had some flurries to start out the day but otherwise now standing in the iconic grant park right next to buckingham fountain and as you can see, not running right now because temperatures are in the 20s and as you come back here we have lake michigan all frozen up as well. this comes as the middle of our country is digging out after this winter wallop over the past two days. here in chicago, had about a foot of snow and then down south, we had even larger

snowfall totals, definitely a significant winter storm here in the chicagoland area, looks like we will be in for a beautiful weekend, sunshine the temperatures never above freezing. back to you. >> harris: a group of black new yorkers are suing over the new law letting noncitizens vote. remember, this is one of the things the new mayor did write when he got into office. they say the city's local election push is watering down the democratic voice of american citizens and there's this. >> this is who the new democrats are. they are. joe biden has a chance now if you would only come out against these liberal prosecutors. >> harris: president biden does not want anyone accusing him of being a soft on crime but critics say he is all talk and no action. marc thiessen in focus next.

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>> harris: how do you prove that you're serious about something? i don't know, president biden is trying to do it. he says he's serious about ending the crime crisis. he met with new york city mayor eric adams and made a point to distance himself from the far left. >> enough is enough because we know we can do things about this, the answer is not to abandon our streets, that's not the answer, the answer is to come together, building trust and making us all safe. the answer is not to defund the police, is to give you the tools, the training, the funding, to be partners and protectors and community needs

you. >> harris: those words are in stark contrast the new numbers. overall last month, crime in new york city nearly 40%. this is compared to the previous year. more, more robberies, nearly double the amount of car thefts. carjackings are a huge problem and they have people ending up with one on one fight sometimes with burglars or robbers. the only statistic that went down was murder but despite these numbers, president biden wants to put new restrictions on federal law enforcement agencies and the white house working on an executive order that would be in choke holds, reform body camera policies and restrict the use of no-knock warrants. house minority leader given mccarthy calling out president biden for not mentioning lee's policies and even geraldo rivera with this.

>> it is horrible what's happening, the democrats have totally missed the boat when it comes to relations with law enforcement and they have forgotten that the first rule of government is enough to keep her citizens safe. >> harris: maybe they didn't forget, just didn't fit their politics. "the new york post" boiling down the president's visit to three words. the editorial board following up with the headline, president biden delivers an empty message on crime that promises nothing nyc needs. marc thiessen, former white house speechwriter and a "washington post" columnist. great to have you always on a friday. so you wrote speeches for a former president, how did the president do yesterday what would you have changed about his speech? >> first of all, the reason he went is because his approvals on crime are plummeting down from 46% so like everything else, his

approval on handling of crime is plummeting so he is trying to cauterize the wound. it is not that should be calling other democrats with that he needs to be changing his own policies. you look at 22 american cities were homicides went up last year, 12 of those set crime records, a lot of those murders are drug related. why are we seeing an increase in the surge in crime. it's because the border crisis has produced not just a surge of illegal migrants but a surge in illegal drugs. last year, the amount of fentanyl crossing the border doubled in the number of overdose deaths in the country went up 30%. drug crimes are going up because the border crisis has unleashed a torrent of illegal drugs on american city streets and that produces not just overdoses but murders and carjackings and robberies and shootings in all sorts of different crime. that is a direct result of the failed border policy.

one of the first things he did as president was to end operation legend to send federal officers to help local law enforcement in major cities that were dealing with this crime surge. operation legend was a huge success that took hundreds of tons of fentanyl and cocaine and heroin off the streets. he says he wants to crackdown on illegal guns. it took over 2600 illegal guns off the street. he canceled it so as not just the democratic mayors. >> harris: i want to get a word in here, just pointing this out with operation legend and was some of the other things that the former president had in place that when this new president who has been here year came in, he didn't just wipe away a couple of things that trump had done, he got away with his most important things like title 42 down of the border, many things like marsha

blackburn just told me that has turned this nation into 50 border states if you will. so i wanted to slow you down on that one point but also on this idea that we go forth with a president who goes to the nation's most populous city, the liberal d.a. is not at the table, i didn't hear him mention, maybe he was stopped his office and we don't know about it but those things now that are driving because if you are letting your own criminals go, do you think they're going after the guys who came illegally even harder? all of those crimes you mentioned but then they proliferate. they don't get caught, they just get more of them. >> 100%. i'm glad that he is against defunding the police it is not just defunding the police that the problem. it's the fact that the police no longer feels they have the government and the elected leaders have their backs so when a police officer is driving

around a street corner and see something suspicious happening coming as a choice, do i stop and investigate or keep on going? and he thinks about it and says if i stop and investigate and something goes wrong, i will be presumed guilty rather than presumed innocent in my life could be ruined. i do stop, they say that i can't pursue them if they run away like we saw it that carjacking the other day and on top of that if he does arrest the guy, the liberal d.a. is will just throw them back out on the street so why should they take all those risks when he knows they're just going to be back out on the street the next day because the d.a.'s aren't prosecuting them and they have this bill reform putting criminals on the streets? the natural reaction is to keep driving. >> harris: i know they don't recall like they have on the west coast but voters might want to take a look at that. when you have the governor in

new york saying she's going to wait more data to come in, very personal crimes, that can go south in a minute. it's one thing to do something going into a store and rip off stuff in the store but when you're doing one-on-one combat with somebody, that's a whole other ball of wax and that can lay down another road. i want to get to this because this is one of the first things the new mayor of new york city did and now a group of black voters is going after new york city's board of elections for what they call discriminatory intent. they say the new law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections violates federal civil rights laws. a former ohio secretary of state kim blackwell and member of the board which filed the lawsuits at the exquisitely used race as a factor of d marking the voter groups they wanted to give this privilege to and that is a direct violation of the 15th amendment. the mayor did this, it is in

plate and that this group of black voters says you can't do this. >> first of all, i think absolutely right. you look at what the statement said, they said they were doing it to challenge white power. you can't bring -- not necessarily illegal. noncitizens in devote in order to dilute the vote of another race. i think he is absolutely right on the face of it but first of all, this is an issue it is a two-minute decision, 71% of americans oppose allowing noncitizens to vote, 26% supported and most americans are looking at this and looking what biden is doing with the federal election in my he were focused on the wrong thing. we've gotten forty-year high-end inflation, a record crime wave going on, the worst border crisis in american history, worth pandemic in a century still upending our lives, why are you focused, obsessed with

changing our voting laws? the voting laws that gave you the presidency and the senate and the house. why are you obsessed with it? it's because they're trying to solidify their power and put a lock on power and prevent republicans from ever coming back and so americans think it's wrong on the face of it when they are focused on the wrong things. solve the problems american people are dealing with every day, not create new problems. >> harris: if you tell noncitizens they can vote, why would anyone jump through hoops to take an american citizen if anyone can do it if they come here to new york and vote in these the elections? i loved how you put it, as a two-minute decision in the first 2 minutes of the coffee are having in the morning for most people, that's a great quote. marc thiessen, thank you very much for being in focus but the biden white house getting called out for attacking reporters who don't accept the official word at face value especially when it

comes to high-profile foreign conflicts. what is this about? and there's more. >> for too long, we have let really important parts of our democracy whether, unlimited dark money flows into campaigns. >> harris: chuck schumer says dark money is backs of wire he and the democrats ranking in big bucks from anonymous donors. we have the receipts. the power panel is next. ♪ ♪

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donors to help democrats but when they said the same thing, it was an okay. >> it will not deter senate democrats from continuing our fight against voter suppression, dark money, partisan gerrymandering. the only way to achieve our goal of passing voting rights, ending dark money and ending partisan gerrymandering is by changing the rules for the bill also fights against the power of big money. that has cascaded into our system. >> harris: a recent "new york times" analysis called out democrats like schumer for denouncing dark money before winning with it in 2020. it found that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations which generally align with the democrats spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 compared with roughly 900 million spend by 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the g.o.p. the power panel now, marie harf,

former state department spokesperson under president obama and charlie hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times," both fox news contributor's. great to see you. first of all, what is the problem? >> chuck schumer really ought to join the stand-up comedy circuit with his niece but as usual with democrats if you want to know what it is that they are busy doing, just listen to whatever it is to accuse their opponents of doing. of course, democrats have been rolling in dark money for a long time, they are happy to use it to their advantage and then of course they are always the quickest to cry the loudest and complain the loudest accusing republicans of doing it. the real problem is what is that the democrats spend that dark money on? they spend that dark money doing things like hiring a van to drive around the supreme court trying to pressure the supreme court justice to

resigned so they can replace them with somebody younger and the whole point of the supreme court is it supposed to be a sidecar the politics, that's why they get lifetime appointments. they are not supposed to be part of the political pressure campaign but that's what democrats choose to spend their dark money doing. >> harris: so how did the democrats get away with this hypocrisy? >> i think there's too much money in politics across the board, think about all the things we could do with all of the money both sides raise and democrats have put forward legislative proposals, talked about it during the presidential campaign, they actually want laws regulating campaign finance more than we have now. they hated that citizens united ruling but i also think there was a recognition after that supreme court ruling that if this is legal and these are the rules, republicans are going to use it to their advantage, so why shouldn't we? and that we shouldn't fight on a battlefield with one hand tied

behind our back some on the one hand, pushing for campaign finance reform but on the other hand, they know that as long as these are the rules of the game, let's be on the same playing field, we shouldn't give up that ability. >> harris: how are americans of us to them genuine at their word? you can start to show by example. they didn't choose the high road here. >> what i think is very clear here as it is not a position of principles. it was a position of principal, they would stick to it and that more than anything is wet regular normal american voters are sick and tired of days the inability for politicians minutes on both sides but in this case with democrats their inability to stand on principles and stick with it and then of course, the other thing, the

other glaring problem and this is something you see on both sides but a huge breakdown in washington where you have politicians who choose to fight these these issue battles, these partisan issue battles instead of trying to get to solve the actual problems that regular and normal voters care about back home. >> harris: i want to get to this, jake tapper calling out jen psaki on the state department spokesman for suggesting that reporters who question them are disloyal to america. you've got to see this, watch. >> with the biden administration is doing is saying to journalist whose jobs are to be skeptical and let us also note that u.s. intelligence on the pentagon have not only gotten things wrong before but have openly lied to the american people before, then you have jen psaki and price saying so you side with our enemies. >> harris: this is what he is talking about. >> we told you a few weeks ago

that we have information indicating russia also has already repositioned a group of operatives to have a false operative in ukraine. >> wears this information? >> it is intelligence information may have declassified. >> where is it? >> i just delivered it. >> you made a series of allegations, that's not evidence, that's you saying it, that's not evidence, i'm sorry. >> will the u.s. provide evidence to people who are skeptical of the events that took place and what happens to the civilians? >> skeptical of the u.s. military's assessment when they went and took out the leader of isis that they are not providing accurate information and isis is providing accurate information? >> the u.s. has not always been straightforward about what happens with civilians. >> harris: journalism is not dead. marie harf, why not just come forth with the declassified

information? and you can even redact some of that if you want to be up to show evidence of you want the american people to trust the military, you are shaking your head yes. it >> having been at that podium, we have moments we would do differently, ned price called that reporter and apologized and tweeted about it which i thought was good, it is the government's responsibility to declassify as much as you can. that is images, intercepted communications, whatever they have and i'm guessing the biden administration is pushing the cia and others to do that right now because it is on them. they should be careful about propaganda operations by other countries but bottom line here if they can get that declassified information out, they should. it is in their interest. we certainly try to do that and i'm guessing they are as well. >> harris: we remember when you were at the lectern and that's their job to do it,

schooling them on how they are supposed to be doing their jobs but at the end of the day, seems to be a drumbeat action is when you see time and time again the sort of lack of transparency, a pushback on basic stuff, basic questions like what he going to do about russia. >> the whole point of this is it supposed to be an adversarial relationship and reporters are supposed to ask tough questions and that's the way this whole thing is designed to work for the problem is you have the biden administration which has been coasting on softball questions and even a cheerleading press throughout the entire campaign and throughout much of the first year of the presidency, a lot of that allure is wearing off now and you have reporters who are waking up and asking the tough obvious questions and then you have these responses from people like jen psaki i can't believe they are actually being pressed on a question on a very important question and then they

react by attacking the person and questioning their loyalty which is the worst thing you can possibly do because the most loyal thing you can do is ask tough questions as a reporter. >> harris: after the deadly, horrible exit from afghanistan, you'll forgive america if they have a few questions they want to ask about any military action this government does and it's our job is reporters to ask that on their behalf and go deep as we can. right to have you in the debate today, thank you. inflation and rising gas prices throwing a wet blanket on a positive jobs report. prices at the pump are at a seven year high. steve forbes breaks it all down for us, our money and focus next.

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>> harris: we have been waiting for the president to speak on the january jobs report and he is now in our way.

it exceeded expectations, having the seven jobs after experts warned of disappointing numbers, ticked up slightly to 4%, means more people were looking for jobs with dire warnings of disappointing jobs numbers, the white house spent the week managing expectations. >> just wanted to prepare people to understand how the data is taking what they are looking at and what it is an assessment of and as a result, it may show job losses in large part because workers were out sick from omicron at the point where he was speaking during the week where the data was taken. >> harris: too bad they don't spend that much time looking at inflation apparently. they got ready for something that was going to be bad and turned out to be a rebounding effect but inflation remains a huge issue. could be the reason why a recent poll shows one-third of americans are satisfied with the economy. steve forbes, chairman and editor in chief has been focused

now. i've heard you ask where the one-third based on the prices of everything? but let's start with a tardy president right now and what the numbers today really mean? >> what they mean is this is an economy that wants to heal if the administration would get out of the way in terms of putting up artificial obstacles, we would have a better jobs report. in put us up 1 million jobs in january, not just the regular corporations of the economy wants to heal but unfortunately in this administration is stoking inflation both on the energy side which is raising prices and also the federal reserve what they are doing with the interest rates flooding the economy with cash this year and next year so the government got out of the way, you would see wonderful jobs report is coming and you would have a much happier population but they won't leave it alone and that the obstacle. the government and the

federal reserve. >> harris: so the federal reserve is expected to move interest rates a little bit higher, talk to me about that and we may only be just a few seconds away from the president stepping up to the lectern on the white house to talk about this but i want to get that answer from you. >> the federal reserve shouldn't be manipulating interest rates, the fed is also sitting on one and a half trillion dollars of cash ready to flood into the economy and so they believe the prosperity caused inflation so they were slow to respond to inflation and what they may do is overreact to inflation so again, government problem, not the american people. >> harris: we are inside of a two-minute warning, gas prices now tied for a seven year high. up from $2.44 a year ago. what is driving this and look in the administration do that it's not doing? >> with the administration should do is stop waging war on

the fossil fuel industry. they've already artificially suppressed production in this country by equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil a day. >> harris: we will bring you back on another day, the president of the united states, let's watch. >> president biden: i want to talk about the extraordinary resilience and the grit of the american people and american capitalism. our country is taking everything that covid has thrown at us and we have come back stronger. i am pleased to report this morning and many of you already know that america's job machine is going stronger than ever. fueling a strong recovery and opportunity for hardworking women and men all across this great country. america is back to work. today, we learned in january our economy created 467,000 jobs, and that's not all. it job growth in november and december over last year was revised up by more than 700,000 jobs. on top of that, 400,000 jobs on

top of the 400,000 previously reported. this morning caps off my first year as president. over that. mack our economy created its .6 million jobs. .6 million jobs. he can't remember another year when so many people went to work in this country, there's a reason, it never happened. take a look at the chart. looking all the way back to president reagan, look how many jobs we've created on average per month. this has never happened before. and history has been made here. it comes alongside the largest drop in unemployment rate in a single year on record. the largest reduction in childhood poverty ever reported in a single year and the strongest economic growth this country has seen in nearly 40 years.

historic economic progress. i am proud of the role the administration played in this economic plan and has played in the recovery. when the rescue plan the democrats pass to get the economy going again, bipartisan infrastructure law starting to get underway rebuilding, there is so much more we are doing as well and my decision at the outset of our administration buy american. always been the lawn very seldom followed. now it's reality. i made clear that when the federal government spends taxpayer dollars amount we buy american products, american products made in america including all the component parts of that product with very few exceptions. with the support of the american private sector, our workers and union leaders have all come together like never before in my days in washington.

i know it hasn't been easy. i know january was a very hard month for many americans. i know after almost two years, the physical and emotional weight of the pandemic has been incredibly difficult to bear for so many people. it but here's the good news, we have the tools to save lives and keep businesses open and keep schools open, keep workers on the job and sustain this historic economic comeback. vaccination and boosters have proven incredibly effective. this past month, we started mailing out tens of millions of at-home test to deliver to your home for free so you can determine whether or not you have covid. that's in addition to the 20,000 sites across america where you can get a test in person for free to determine whether or not you have covid. and we have more treatments today to keep people out of the hospital including life-saving antiviral pills which we purchased millions of now we are

seeing a difference. look at what's happened just in the past three weeks, today's extraordinary job report data was collected, the covid crisis has been cut in half in just three weeks. still too many cases, still we have to be on alert, but to be clear, this is a dramatic decline. i want to be clear. in even with this historic progress we've made, we still have a lot of work to do making sure every american has a job and a great start but it's not the finish. for many americans, wages are up this year. in january, wage increases were strong across the board and that's good and we have to continue to keep wages growing. we need even more high-paying jobs. jobs you can raise a family on and have some breathing room. two weeks ago, the ceo of intel

came to the white house to announce a brand-new $20 billion semiconductor factory, they called it the campus outside of columbus, ohio. it's going to grade 7,000 jobs stripping this facility and 3,000 permanent jobs running the facility with an average salary of $135,000. these semiconductors are microchips that power virtually everything in our everyday lives from cell phones to automobiles to refrigerators, the internet, the electric grid. without semiconductors, these things do not function. in so the spin-off of this is going to great thousands of of additional jobs as well. helping us build more american products and manufacturing automobiles, appliances, and so much more. it's going to create jobs. it's going to help inflation.

one of the reasons why automobiles cost so much money these days when are responsible for one-third of all the inflation calculated in the market is because they lack the semiconductors to build vehicles. intel's announcement helps fix that problem. last week, i called a meeting of ceos from general motors, ward, microsoft, and other major corporations. the chairman of the board, the ceo, i should say announced a $7 billion investment in a michigan manufacturing plant to manufacture electric vehicles. it's going to create 4,000 new quality jobs. that's on top of the announcement last year made by ford's ceo to invest $11 billion to make electric vehicles creating 11,000 new good paying jobs. last friday, i went to

pittsburgh where the union pacific railroad announced the largest purchase of american battery and electric locomotives in history. built by american manufacturing workers creating even more good paying jobs and again the spin-off from that, these locomotives are just going to be purchased in america. countries around the world to be the best product, good paying jobs. we all know we are in competition with the world, these announcements are the drumbeat of a job or surgeons. unlike anything we've seen in our history and it didn't happen by chance. it's a result of the economic plan i put into action on day one when i said we're going to buy american. i am delighted to keep it going and expand what we've done

because we have a great opportunity ahead of us to further progress and make progress beyond what we've already made. the house of representatives just passed a few minutes ago before i walked over here to provide $90 billion, $90 billion for research and development, manufacturing and all of those elements of the supply chain needed to produce products right here in america. so we can keep delivering more announcements like the one we've had these past few weeks. another way we are boosting our economy is by promoting competition. hamburger is up four times, fourfold almost in many places. processing, meat processors, shipping, railroads are dominated by a few giant companies that control the market they operate in.

and over the years, this domination of the market by a smaller number of companies come about four in the meat-packing area has reduced competition. squeezed out small businesses and farmers and increased prices for consumers. i am a capitalist, but capitalism without repetition is not capitalism, it is exploitation. some going to continue to do everything in my power to make our capitalist system work better to provide more competition and lower prices for american consumers. and they're still going to do well. but that's not going to be enough. we still need to ease the burden on working families by making everyday things more affordable and accessible. average people are getting clobbered. in gas prices at the pump are up. we are working to bring t