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the transportation department undersecretary buttigieg has -- under secretary buttigieg has taken a large interest in refunds. just this week, the government settled a case involving air canada for 4.5 million dollars, including a $2 million fine, over government allocations that air canada had delayed thousands of refunds for u.s.-bound and departing flights. and the government has active investigations ongoing into numerous other airlines over delayed airline refunds during the pandemic. so my advice to you would be, if you have not gotten satisfaction from the airline, i would send their customer service people another letter, and then you can file a complaint with the u.s. department of transportation. those complaints do get reviewed. someone is going to read that. that might be one way to try to get a refund, if the airline did act improperly in denying them. host: last call. this is pete out of pennsylvania. caller: i understand we are talking about the government deciding whether people that travel into this country or out of it should have a vaccination against this pandemic viru

also buzz around transportation secretary beet buttigieg. -- pete buttigieg.a harris, buttigieg ticket has this tweeted this. why can't the left be normal and grounded in reality? joe concha not convinced by the combination, either. >> all sizzle, no steak, all hat, no cattle. any ticket with kamala harris on it would be a nightmare. performance on the border has been horrific. handlers keep her under the political version of lock and key. buttigieg has yet to visit an actual port. long beach, los angeles, savannah. his solution is to pass the president's build back better bill. >> harris: power panel. america rising pac and former communication at rnc. kevin walling former biden surrogate. cassie, i will start and get your top line thoughts. >> great to be with you, harris. this reads like a wanna be episode of the west wing or veep. you have the liberal elites what a dream ticket to look like to get biden off the ticket. they know they are in trouble with voters and know what they are doing is unpopular no matter which we they go. they get the prescription w

leaving that aside, clearly buttigieg now has a chance because of the way that transportation dollars in particular are generally doled out by the federal government in grants to states or in big chunks where states and individual projects are given money at the discretion of the transportation secretary and his department. that makes pete buttigieg quite a power broker for the next several months with more than $125 billion to get to dole out. the other thing we're seeing pete buttigieg do that's so interesting, you know, i covered his presidential campaign for two years. he struggled all of that time with african-american voters. he has been making very clear in his public comments since this infrastructure deal passed that a big portion of this is designed to try to effectuate change in communities where highways have dissected communities, marparticularly communities of color over the years, and there is a more broad social justice effort that can be taken through the build back better agenda and through the infrastructure spending the u.s. is now about to undertake. >> thank you

transportation secretary pete buttigieg is set to speak. infrastructure is the real deal now. the $1.2 infrastructure bill passing both chambers of congress with bipartisan support. joining us now is cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju and cnn's senior white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the biden administration really needed this win. what does it mean for the american people, anded what are we looking forward to hear from serkt buttigieg in. >> it's significant for the administration for any number of reasons but i think what you'll here from secretary buttigieg and really white house officials over the course of the next several days and weeks is a focus on what's actually inside the proposal. $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal, and it has real tangible meaning for average american people. $110 billion for roads, bridges and major projects. $55 billion for water infrastructure. you kind of go up and down the list, whether it's tens of billions of dollars for public transit. $15 billion for electric vehicles and charging stations. these are the t

now, buttigieg, as you heard there, really tried to tamp down the idea of any type of rivalry.vice president have expressed some frustration with how she is being used in the administration and also the way that they see the administration buttigieg over some of the instances where harris, they felt, that they needed to come to her defense. now, take a listen to vice president harris kind of knocking down those ideas that there is any tension about her role in the white house. >> we're getting things done, and we're doing it together. >> so you don't feel misused or underused? >> no, i don't. i am very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished. but i am also absolutely, absolutely clear-eyed that there is a lot more to do. >> now, harris also says that she hasn't spoken with president biden about his plans for 2024, but the president has said that he does plan on running in the coming years. but, of course, the speculation about buttigieg and harris, they both have high-profile positions in the administration, and they are people who once thought they could be pres

buttigieg is a visible advocate for the top legislative achievement. with the trouble areas. in other words, she's in trouble. you're not. what do you make of that? >> i think that's totally wrong. she's been prepared to take on and lead in so many areas. i admire her. i'm proud to work with her. i'm proud to be part of this team that is so focused on actually delivering for the american people. >> neil: but it is pete buttigieg getting the administration's attention. they put him out there on everything from infrastructure in which he play as key part to other white house initiatives. kamala harris seems to be fading in the background. that's in the eyes of the beholder and things can change and tensions in the number 2 are not unique to this administration. phil wegman is watching this one with real clear politics. there's something going on here. you know, we're now resorting to reading body language. that's always risky. you heard the same comments again and again. maybe it's the frustration with the low poll numbers for the administration, poll nu

buttigieg joins me later in the show. president biden is expected to speak in the 9:00 hour. we will carry that live. >>> the coup attempt of january 6th did not succeed. how the insurrection is moving in slow motion across the country now. >>> and georgia's former republican secretary of state is here to tell us what it was like to stand up against the big lie. why he considered trump's call to find him more votes to be a threat and what was unleashed on him when he refused. >>> a genuine breakthrough. the tool used to fight the vaccines. "velshi" starts now. good morning. it is saturday, november 6th. i'm ali velshi. it has been exactly ten months to the day since the violent mob of the ex-president supporters attacked the capitol. just look at how difficult it is to hold any one related to the plot to overthrow democracy accountable. take jeffrey clark. the former senior doj official to validate the twice impeached ex-president's lies about the election results. making him someone who congressional investigators want to hear from. he did show up for his scheduled depositio

buttigieg says the recently passed one 0.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill will fix some of thesecluding texas congressman louie gohmert say that's not going to speed up the delivery of products. this holiday season. the global club supply chain crisis could last well into february the biden administration recently announced the ports of los angeles and long beach will operate 24 7 to help alleviate supply chain. bottlenecks. but the port of la tells me when ships arrive. there's no place to take the cargo saying in a statement we have reached the limit of warehouse capacity due to a lack of available space and a shortage of warehouse workers. >> president biden will visit the port of baltimore on wednesday to celebrate the infrastructure bill and how us ports will benefit from the legislation for now in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. back to you. >> coming up, a bear tries to hibernate under a couple's home in colorado. how officials were able to the furry giants. and a warning this afternoon from san jose police about a phone scam. we'll tell you who the call when a truck hit m

joining me is president biden's transportation secretary pete buttigieg.come back to the show. >> good morning. good to be back. >> i want to talk with you about the president's agenda, but the mandate for vaccines for federal workers goes into effect tomorrow. i know tsa, while a part of our transportation infrastructure is technically under homeland security, but there have been some concerns that we're not going to have enough tsa agents meeting the vaccine requirement. it kicks in tomorrow. i know there's reassurances about travel this week. how concerned are you about a low rate of vaccination among tsa agents? >> i have seen no indication that vaccine requirements are going to impact travel in any way, certainly in terms of our ability as a federal administration to provide the services that are needed. i can tell you my agency, we see numbers approaching 99% of the people have gotten in their information per the requirements, either they're vaccinated, in the process, or have put in a request for an exemption. i expect the numbers are similar across

fresh off parental leave, secretary pete buttigieg has a bill to implement. he joins me next. this is what secretary buttigieg told me back in july because we've been talking about this for that long. >> it's in washington that there seems to be a problem. early on in this debate, if you remember a few month it is ago if you rely on human infrastructure. child care is great, building better hospitals it's great, we don't think it's infrastructure, it should be in a different package. fine. now it's in a different package. let's see if they'll vote for it now. there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ as someone who resembles someone else, i appreciate that liberty mutual to unveil them to the world. knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ ferry horn honks ] i mean just cause you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, [ chuckles ] or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication.

get some of that momentum they had in august back in their favor, and it really starts with pete buttigieg who as you remember from your time on the campaign trail was seen as one of the most effective messengers for the democratic party, one of the rising stars for the democratic party. why was he getting transportation as a cabinet post? the biden administration, that is probably one of the most marquee positions you can get, and he's leading the charge you. >> and one of the only administration officials comfortable going on fox news and talking to right-leaning voters about what they're doing. his salesmanship could be really important. we saw another new poll out from cnn that had the president's approval rating at 48%. so there is a ton of noise here about the political implications of this. we'll get to that a little bit more in a minute. but leigh ann, i want to ask you, we've now seen the completion of track one of the two-track strategy in congress that we've talked so much about. what's the latest on track two? it seems like we could be headed to a real traffic jam in congress a

the one who's going to have to work on this, transportation secretary, pete buttigieg.came a dad. congratulations. >> thank you. it's turned our life upside down, but it's been a beautiful thing. >> well, you've got a lot of work ahead of you. once this hard infrastructure bill gets signed, how soon can we see things start to happen? shovels in ground. and what's it going to be? >> some things will happen right away. >> like what? >> this week, i'm going through applications for a grant program that funds improvements in roads, bridges, and more. but we've got about a 10-1 ratio in terms of the applications that come in versus the funding that we have to give out. that changes the moment this bill passes. and we'll be able to find far more projects. we're talking about immediate support to so many worthy efforts that are going on in terms of everything, from roads to ports, and i'm glad that you're covering ports in a hands-on way. let me be clear. some of these things are longer term. infrastructure by its nature is longer term. so when we talk about some of the improv

buttigieg may be trying to prepare for the future.hat it's going to be really hard to overcome, and connecting with a larger group of democrats that didn't vote for him last time around. >> sandra: really interesting analysis on that, josh. thank you. >> john: sandra, how serious is the threat from the omicron variant really connect public health officials say it will be several weeks before we know if the vaccines will hold up against it. but pfizer and moderna are not waiting. we will have a live report on that. >> sandra: plus, the story that captivated the nation. the prosecutors say it was all a hoax. now jussie smollett is heading to trial for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself. jonathan turley will take that up. he is our guest next hour. all that, plus our panel. a big hour coming up. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ veteran homeowners- looking to improve your home? borrow up to 100% of your home's value with the newday 100 va loan and take out up to $60,000 or more. veteran homeowners- have you been spending more time at home? ima

let's get more on this now from transportation secretary pete buttigieg. secretary buttigieg, thanks for joining us this morning. let's pick up where cecilia just left off. we know that speaker pelosi is hoping for a vote on tuesday. are you confident you have the votes? >> we're very optimistic. the president put forward this framework because he believes that it will pass the house and the senate, and can get to his desk, and as soon as it does, it's going to make such a difference in the lives of americans. you know, one of the reasons we have such a sense of urgency about this is that the american people are impatient to see the pro-family policies that are in that build back better plan, to make sure we make child care more affordable in this country, to expand 3 and 4-year-old access to preschool, to get millions of americans needed tax cuts in the expansion of the child tax credit, and i was just telling you about the family parts of the bill. obviously huge and urgently needed action on climate change, and of course, that work on transportation inf

the t buttigieg, the scuttlebutt on the street is that he will be the plan b.ley: the biden administration is saying on the racist road front that communities of color have been cut off from highways and cities because of racism, by people who are racist that built the infrastructure many, many years ago. should money be allocated towards that issue? >> i just don't know how much money you would need to -- because the question was around deconstructing all these roads deemed to be racist. so you're talking about what you're going to start tearing down bridges now, particularly around places where the bridge may be the main way in and out. then what do you do with traffic in the meantime? i mean, when you talk about the swath of roads apparently in april ryan's argument and others on the left, citing the work, the architects of the roads years ago, we're talking many more than billions of dollars and upsetting traffic which is already horrible around many metropolitan areas, if you start deconstructing this stuff and reconstructing it. it sounds good on paper if

buttigieg was asked about this earlier today, and this is what he said. >> she and i are part of a team's obsessing the commentators. we're too busy with a job to do. she was the leader in this administration, with her leadership role and i in the present and everybody else in the cabinet and across the administration are laser focused on getting the job done. >> all right. so he underscores there is a team and there is no jockeying for position, you know, with 2024 in mind is this a problem for the white house that this kind of discussion or response has to be had? >> i mean, look, they don't want joe biden to look like a lame duck president so naturally they want to shut this sort of tuck down and that's why you saw buttigieg sort of dodge there, but the reality is, look, president biden just turned 79. there's a lot of questions among democrats about whether he'll have the stamina to run. pretty much everyone i talked to doesn't think that he will so even though you saw reports -- the "the washington post" had a story over the weekend how president biden and his top advise remembers

pete buttigieg does not think that will be the case.peak at the white house on where things stand with the whole supply chain issue and everything else, he says having nothing to do with spending measures, either the infrastructure-only one that was assed by the houseal -- passed by the house on friday, and the big one they're cooking up right now that could be more than $2 trillion. again, he does not think either of those are inflationary in and of themselves. hillary vaughn following these fast moving developments on capitol hill. >> hi, neil, the white house is, obviously, taking a victory lap for getting one part of president biden's agenda through a congress this gridlock, that bipartisan infrastructure deal. but members of the squad like alexandria ocasio-cortez who didn't vote for it say the bill got republican votes because it has, quote, a lot of bad sufficient in it. and so the president's messaging about it is misleading voters saying this, quote: we can and should message this, that's the infrastructure bill, as a step, but

you have pete buttigieg talking about racist roadways. this will have consequences politically. >> it's already happening for the president. look at those numbers. >> exactly. i talked to a man taking off a biden bumper stick at the gas pump and he said look at the prices. >> the assignment is to govern. color plays into this. the color of my dress is green. >> it sure does. that's where people are feeling the pinch. let's say the secretary went to the energy secretary and said what is our plan? the problem is we don't have a plan. our plan in the future you will have wind mills and solar power and electric cars and cleaner air and no pipelines and everyone will be better. get prepared for a cold wirnt. -- winter. joe biden said we are heading into a dark winter because of covid. prices are going up. nothing we can do except beg opec or lend from our oil reserves which donald trump refilled. there is no plan other than we are more virtuous than the previous administration because we want to rejoin the paris climate accord. that doesn't ch

pete buttigieg talked about lowering the age to become a truck driver. here he is. >> we've got to be very careful about safety. it's a mentorship, apprenticeship initiative that tries to manage the potential for there to be a safety trade-off. we want as many people to be well if i drivers as possible. but never at the expense of safety. we've got to make truck driving a better job. truck drivers, there's a reason the turnover is so high. the way they are compensated, they are often not compensated for their time means that their time is wasted freely sometimes that -- sometimes when they are waiting for a load. it truckers do not have the option to work from home on zoom. they are the absolute backbone of our supply chain. we need to respect and in my view compass at them -- compensate them better than we have. host: paul, you are on the air with dave heller. caller: good morning. i want to say god bless all of my brothers and sisters out there driving. i was a day driver for 30 years. i am retired. i ended up my last year making about $75,000 before i

people talking about pete buttigieg.esting. pete buttigieg is in what would typically be a backwater cabinet position. transportation secretary is where the democratic president will put a republican or republican president will put a democrat. not a typically important position compared to the other cabinet postings like secretary of state for example but it just so happens that pete buttigieg aligned himself in a place where the policy that this administration is pushing, infrastructure, the heart of that is in transportation. because of that he has become the spokesperson for this infrastructure bill, bipartisan infrastructure bill that is popular and he gets to go on the road and sell this bill and he gets to be on late night tv. he is on the "today" show getting warm fuzzy interviews. on the view. he is everywhere getting all this amazing press like nothing you've seen from a transportation secretary before. it also helps that, you know, he has a pact and he has infrastructure waiting for him and he is able to conti

we're exploring that with the transportation secretary of the united states pete buttigieg. he is big about bringing down inflation over 10 years and the 10-year plan will do that and bringing down all the supply chain disruptions. that is why that is the case a little later on in the show. the president, virtual meeting with his counterpart in china, xi xinping. that could get to be a rocky talk here now. the position of strength seems to be in the chinese leaders hands right now, but, but, we should emphasize, whatever our difficult recognizes we're both in the same pickle with rising prices inflation. that makes for kindred souls with that regard. what we can expect out of meeting with jacqui heinrich from the white house. reporter: neil, good afternoon to you. the meeting is expected to last several hours according to a senior administration official but the white house did not give any sort of preview what they would be discussing as it pertains especially to the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. and that is despite president xi resisting global pressure to cooperate

with that, we'll will turn it over to secretary buttigieg. this isn't his first time at the podium, i think this might be his third time. but it's his first time joining us as a father. so on a personal note, congratulations to you on the birth of gus and penelope. we thought that was great news. with that, i'm happy to introduce you. >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. thanks for the chance to address you. we are so thrilled and excited. we are excited with the next formation point about what we are going to be able to deliver. we are so thankful to everybody who has played a role in this, things to members of congress on both sides of the aisle, president biden's historic bipartisan infrastructure deal now become the law of the land. it couldn't come at a more urgent time. in the 10 months that i've job'e country and seen the state of our infrastructure firsthand. i saw mesh nets hung under bridges to catch pieces of concrete that fall off from time to time. century-old tunnels corroded by seawater that thousands of people depend on ev

tom cotton, what is the early chatter about our harris/buttigieg ticket in 2024?l you the state of the democrat party. >> these -- the democrat parties in disarray and the washington democrats know they are heading for historic defeat in next year's election in 2024 if they don't change their ways. there trying to spend $4 trillion at a time when inflation is the highest it has been in 30 years, $4 a gallon for gasoline, can't find their kids christmas presents, too expensive to get all of them and crisis at the southern border and supply chain crisis to top it off and who they look to, the person biden put in charge of the border, kamala harris and in charge of the supply chain, pete buttigieg. if that's the best the democrats can do then it is going to be a very bad election for the next year. laura: the democrats are also making up for lackluster solutions urging senator cotton to lash out more at republican saying a number of senior advisors including chief of staff ron claim, more partisan political combat and, republicans when needed. how exactly will that g

transportation secretary pete buttigieg. thank you for coming on.t question is how soon do you think money will start going out the door, and the american people will start feeling the effects of what's in the bill? >> well, i'll tell you. the moment the president's ink is dry and his signature, we'll get down to work. we've been preparing for weeks and months to make sure that we're getting these dollars out efficiently and effectively. there are ports 'bridges waiting for years, often decades for the kinds of investments we're going to be able to do. presidents, administrations, congresses, have sought to do this, tried to do this, wanted to do this for literally as long as i've been alive. it's finally happening. we have some programs right now, they already exist. my department set them up, discretionary grants. we have more dollars to work with. those are the first things to flow. we have to stand up whole new programs like the safety program, the safe streets for all program created by this bill or the protect initiative. that's about resilien

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pete buttigieg saying they need to construct a formula to allow them to distribute 40% to privileged get the notion that this is designed to reconstruct on the basis of power politics and this is something that -- the other aspect is -- the reporter mentioned that she's oppose today widening of roads. well, if widening roads is what will leave you to a per se definition of racism, we have a real problem now in terms of what actual infrastructure is. are we able going to do roads and bridges. maybe that explains why roads and bridges is such a small percentage to have package. it gets to the fundamentals of what this administration's agenda is. dagen: it does. i'm sorry, i didn't hear that last part that you were saying. you were saying it gets to the fundamentals of what this administration is doing. what is that before we go? >> yeah, very simply that an infrastructure package that only has about 10% for roads and bridges, it gets -- if you dig deeper it's because animated by this woke agenda that doesn't really want to do roads and bridges. it wants to do do something else. it want

i guess at the time i didn't hear the irony in that where transportation secretary buttigieg said, istalled, wasn't it? i guess he's assuming thinking the positive in saying the momentum has been going, but the way i could interpret it, this has been embarrassing for speaker pelosi and i think for president biden to some extent to say we have a framework, when i don't really know whether he had everyone on board, do you think your colleague senator man c manchin is still negotiating >> i hope he is negotiating and thinks the package is too big. i hope he is evaluating what's in it. we haven't had a chance as the minority party in both houses to see what's in it and we're looking forward to understanding it better. >> yes >> you think, i mane, when you hear it's not linked you hear it is linked, defacto it's linked? the two are linked, are they not? >> i parapparently they are in e mind of the caucus in the house. the democrats seem to be pushing back on what they consider that small price tag, senator manchin early on said it was 1 trillion 500 billion. think about that as a top line

transportation secretary pete buttigieg says there's a sense of urgency to get the scaled back social and climate change legislation across the finish line. >> we know speaker pelosi is hoping for a vote on tuesday. are you confident you have the votes? >> we're very optimistic. >> buttigieg says it is the most transformative bill of his lifetime. >>> jen psaki is in quarantine after testing positive for covid-19. she is not in europe with the president. she is vaccinated and tested negative four times last week before a test on sunday came back positive. her last meeting with president biden was last tuesday. psaki says they were socially distanced and wearing masks. she says she's experiencing mild symptoms. >>> turning to a tragedy in brazil. nine firefighters died after the roof of a cave collapsed during a training exercise. at least 27 firefighters were inside the cave when it collapsed. several are injured. one is still hospitalized but expected to make a full recovery. rain and threat of another collapse hampers rescue efforts. >>> also overseas, japan is coming to grips with

if they are inanimate objects, that seems obvious but pete buttigieg didn't know it. case, here's how he responded. >> i'm still surprised that some people were surprised when i pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and puerto rican kids to a beach dozier would have been in new york, designed to loafer to pass by, that beasley reflects racism that went into those design choices. >> tucker: here we have news, according to the department transportation, the secretary, in new york were designed to keep black in paris can kids from getting to the beach. here's the amazing part. if those very same overpasses somehow allowed white kids to get through. how does that work? it's possible that the overpasses that he referred to are actually drawbridge is manned by vigilant bigots with binoculars. here comes the puerto rican bus, lower the overpass! you may laugh but in a systemically racist country it's entirely possible. maybe come to

billion dollar boondoggle. >> buttigieg. >> it's his. >> what a bounceback. usually it's six months. >> he's on the treadmill. >> the one treadmill they couldn't get. >> i was about to make a joke, and i am editing myself because it would get me off, into so much trouble. straight ahead on "the five," democrats not learning their lesson. they can't stop smearing parents. ♪♪ >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me... with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ kids can change minds. they can even change the world around us. packed with protein plus 21 vitamins and minerals we nourish them with carnation breakfast essentials. because today could change everything. ♪ >> ignore those school board moms. they are still not getting the message on why they got their butts kicked in virginia. why parents revolted in the old dominion. >> it's not in the curriculum in virginia. >> here, let me just read you a few thin

and the person in charge of the supply chain, pete buttigieg.that's the best the democrats can do, then it's going to be a very, very bad election for them next year paid >> laura: the democrats are also kind of making up for these lackluster . by now urging biden i guess to lash out more at republicans. politico is saying the number of senior advisors in the west wing, including chief of staff ron klain, have urged biden for more partisan political. senator, how is not going to work out? >> if joe biden wants to lay blames for america's problems all he has to do is look in the mirror in the morning. we've had this pandemic for two years. i'll remember inflation or supply chain shortages or labor shortages that we have seen this year the first year of the pandemic. what changed? joe biden and the democrats to power in january. it's the direct result of their reckless spending, higher taxes, more regulations in their war on things like fossil fuels that the american people are facing these challenges. it's not to blame on opec or big business or

pete buttigieg things the $1.2 trillion -- trillion. i said that. doesn't shock people anymore. he thinks the bill will solve everything. i highly doubt that. small businesses suffering the most, gas prices are skyrocketing, stores and shelves are empty. instead of marking people, does present biden have a plan to turn the crisis around? what really struck me here is the president shows he's been living in a bubble for about 50 years. he hasn't run a business, he hasn't had to look over his own books or get supplies to manufacture i think to sell up to people. he's never had his own personal supply chain threatened or interrupted as small business owners and they actually understand perfectly what the crisis means. your thoughts? >> a lot of it is basic. conceal with the naked eye whether you are at the chesapeake bay or los angeles, you can see mom lines of container ships trying to unload and there are things administration can do right now to free that up whether to deregulate aspects a lot of these containers to move away from the docks and free

todd: buttigieg says he believes there are injustices in the country's infrastructure.cretary after he said biden's infrastructure bill would address racism in highways. carley: top oil producing countries are reportedly considering pausing planned effort to ramp up planned production after president biden's decision to release 50 million barrels of crude from the u.s. strategic reserve. tim stewart, president of the u.s. oil and gas association joins me now. tim, explain what's happening here. why would russia and saudi arabia be changing their tune after the president president releases this 50 million barrels and what does this ultimately mean for gas prices. >> good morning, carley. it's monday, it means we can look forward to another strange week of administration policy announcements. and call it reckless. you can't call it policy. you can't call it 1973 all over again. we're starting to feel like that. where are we this week? opec will meet to review the deal they put together earlier this year to boost output, in july they executed a plan to put 400,000 barrels

todd: many criticizing pete buttigieg for ignoring the high cost of electric cars.th a proposed tax rebate of about 13,000 bucks, electric cars are still about twice as much as a gas powered compact. there you have it. the woke coming from kyle rittenhouse. university students demanding the school quote protect them from a quote blood violent thirsty murderer even though he was acquitted on all charges. carley: joining us now is tomi lahren. asu group for socialism want him kicked out of school. todd spoke to an asu graduate with perspective on this situation. prison to what he had to say? >> these students want nothing more than to remove any believes or ideas that they disagree with from their campus. this is unamerican. it's undemocratic and the university has to step in because this is wrong. >> i guess toirges the concern is just like every other ceo and college president that has caved before that these put enough pressure on the college campus and then kyle rittenhouse won't be able go. >> you are definitely right. this sad effort by a grouch misfit cry babie

it's just that it's still not keeping up with the demand transportation secretary pete buttigieg says investment will improve outdated supply chain infrastructure. the port itself is kind like a landlord. >> they got the terminal operators and you've got the truckers and all of them are interacting with competing shipping company spread to try to efficiently move these containers buttigieg stresses. the plan also looks beyond the economy by working to cut emissions from ships trucks and equipment. the neighborhoods that are close to them. >> feel that impact including an increased asthma rates and put our by the disproportionately black and latino neighborhoods. but for now the effects of covid-19 continue to ripple through the global supply chain the best way to end a pandemic-related shortage. is that the pandemic. >> now president biden will be making a lot of the same comments later this afternoon. but republicans who voted against the legislation argue it's not going to fix an immediate problem which is speeding up the delivery of goods this holiday season live in washington. i'm

they had to prop up pete buttigieg who took 2 months off during a crisis. the administration had to pull in the former new orleans mayor on oversee the infrastructure bill. and senator who wants to buy a vowel on gas prices. >> the president is looking at evaluating all of his options limits as they may be in the united states. >> laura: looking into oatmeal bowl? go to the gas bump. one incompetent after another. blinken looks like a fawn in the spotlight who lost his mother. and john kerry who is now in a position of out-sized authority really to give china whatever it wants for vague assurances on the climb. and milley and aunt. -- austin. they are looking for extremists in our own ranks. still no accountability for 13 dead americans or the 120,000 unvetted afghans flooding our communities after the withdrawal from afghanistan. and secretary mayorkas and homeland security have no intention of stopping the flow of illegals swarming the border. the overrun border is the biden administration's policy. janet yellen is making stuff up. >> the pandemic is call

there is also rumor that secretary pete buttigieg is eyeing a run.azing but she has said a thousand ways to christmas that she is not running. >> as of right now, joe biden is running. joe biden doesn't have a history of lying to the american people, so we should take it as though he's running. in the event that joe biden does not run, i want to be very, very clear to my fellow democrats, kamala harris should be the presumptive democratic nominee. it would be wildly disrespectful to somehow circumvent the sitting vice president when this administration hasn't, quote, unquote, done anything wrong. perhaps they haven't sold some of their ambitious plans with as much vigor as we would like to see. but president biden picked kamala harris to be a part of the administration. and that's not to put down pete buttigieg who has a bright future ahead of him. we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the sitting vice president who should be the presumptive nominee. >> it wouldn't be a sunday without you guys, thank you so much, safe travels if you're out and about ge

joining a secretary of transportation pete buttigieg, mr.ecretary president biden went to capitol hill on thursday and he told house democrats this, i don't think it hyperbole to say the house and senate majorities in my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week. the immediate response, house democrats cannot muster the majority to pass as infrastructure bill, can you guarantee the house democrats as just your party will pass either of these bills this week and there is talk right now that they may try to pass both on tuesday. >> what i know where the closest we've ever been and it looks like were teed up for major action soon. the president is sounding that no emergency not is because the president needs it but because the country needs it you look at the need for action on climate before it's too late. you look at the need to support economy for the long run and make it more competitive. to deal with issues like inflation which will benefit, we will have better tools for fighting inflation if we pass this economic pack

pete buttigieg didn't know it. maybe he did know it but afraid to say it. >> harris: twitter on fire after a reporter asked buttigieg about the racism built into the u.s. infrastructure. you have to see it. plus wrong border. vice president kamala harris jetting off to discuss migrant issues in europe. and rolling like a baller with a 20-car motorcade, a climate summit. you know will cain has a lot to say. what's strong with me? what's strong with me? what's strong with me? what's strong with me? what's strong with me? me? with me! we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way o

pris priscilla, thank you. >>> joining me is transportation secretary pete buttigieg.e coming by air, which puts them under your jurisdiction. how important is this day? >> it is incredible important. families, people who haven't been able to see loved ones for a long time. we're talking business opportunity. as it happens, i'm getting ready to get on a plane for the uk for the climate talks. i love the thought that the plane is going to come back to the united states filled with travelers who have been waiting a long time for this opportunity. now, this is day one. there's a lot of pent-up demand. so folks can expect there will be long lines as this new system gets into gear. i think a lot of people will arrive in the u.s. with full hearts, knowing they have that opportunity that has been made unavailable by the pandemic for so long. >> there are plenty of critics who suggest they wait longer than the science dictated they had to. . >> you know, you can't mess around with something as deadly as this pandemic. we have always been led by the science, carefully weighing

buttigieg has yet to visit an actual port.'s build back better bill. michael bloomberg got more del gates than mayor -- delegates during the primary. go giants. todd: when you put people that don't work together problem don't go away. giants won, jets won, bears won, good weekend. carley: still ahead, wall street suffering a massive black friday selloff as investors panic over the omicron variant. cheryl casone is breaking down what we can expect to see today. cheryl. ♪ mom, hurry! our show's gonna start soon! i promised i wouldn't miss the show and mommy always keeps her promises. oh, no! seriously? hmm! it's not the same if she's not here. oh. -what the. oh my goodness! i don't suppose you can sing, can you? ♪ the snow's comin' down ♪ -mommy? ♪ i'm watching it fall ♪ watch the full story at www.xfinity.com/sing2 look, if your wireless carrier was a guy, you'd leave him tomorrow. not very flexible. not great at saving. you deserve better—xfinity mobile. now, they have unlimited for just $30 a month. $30. and they're number 1

some were surprised when buttigieg got named transportation secretary.ansportation is probably the marqise -- marquis issue. they want to turn from the messy sausage making, which isn't over and what they'll do for average americans in red states, blue states, urban and rural areas as well. they'll talk about broadband access and lead pipes. when president biden was vice president, he wanted to do more of a road show, a victory lap as it were. as he put it in conversations with me over the years, president obama was too modest, didn't want to be seen as showboating, and he had so many priorities to move onto. the biden white house knows the important of translating tangible results into political results for them as well, and now we're less than a year away from midterms. this is something you're going to see, the cabinet, president, vice president, with a lot of them touts the benefits of the bipartisan infrastructure plan. >> they said they expect the travel schedule to pick up. they said it before, and they haven't always followed through. >> that's r

it sounds like supporters of transportation secretary pete buttigieg see an opportunity with an agingd getting to sell infrastructure and warm fuzzy interviews. late night tv, daytime tv, selling what is a popular piece of legislation. a key house democrat told me oats too soon to be talking about another democrat in 2024. >> when you start to have these conversations you are indicating you may not have faith in the president. i have faith in the president. i don't believe there is anybody that i will pit against him. i believe he is going to get the job done. >> leading house republican says this buzz should be sounding alarms at the white house. >> 2024 if that's what he wants to do but he will lose. it is not a good sign. never a good sign when members of your own party are literally talking about who is going to replace you and you haven't been in the job for a full year yet. >> some have suggested talking about buttigieg when kamala harris is vice president is disrespectful to her but buttigieg is down playing any talk of arrive allry. >> no, she and i are part of a team that is

people ran before like pete buttigieg gets amazing good amount of press in the wakes of infrastructureimplementing. she wants to obviously carve out her own political per sown no but not do anything as furthering her own agenda. that is quick way to lois lerner from the president's confidence. you know that, joe biden had same dilemma eight years under barack obama. neil: tough job being number two. howie kurtz, "mediabuzz" host. catch minimum this weekend. thank you, my friend, very much. a couple other things we're following very closely, is bitcoin. it is not just a full, wide, cryptocurrency selloff. it seems to be concentrated in bitcoin in and out of the 60,000-dollar a coin level. why isn't it carrying over throughout the whole sphere though? we're on that after this. when i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture, i waited to get treated. thought surgery was my only option. but then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. it was a total game changer. learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com [swords clashing] - had enough? - no... arthritis. here. new aspercreme ar

>> what about buttigieg staying home on parental leave.ou imagine getting a job in the white house and staying home? >>er time there is a problem, these people go in the opposite direction. kamala was supposed to be in charge of the border. she is in vietnam. same thing when afghanistan fell. biden was in delaware in his house. buttigieg was on patent leave. when you have d. the democrats abandon their posts. judge jeanine: the quad said nothing about winsome sears, the first black female to be elected to to state office. larry elder is a white supremacist even though he's african-american. they call people names like children. >> they called her a racist which is pretty incredible. the fact that the new attorney general of the state is latina. instead of that they call them all racist. they say the racist tendencies that stem out of the republican party. americans won't buy the nonsense. they got clobbered tuesday. you wait how that sets up 2022 and 2024. judge jeanine: the mainstream media is paying know attention to the fact that john d

is that about pete buttigieg? >> it is about him.f you specifically remember in september when it became public buttigieg had taken paternity leave, he was attacked by fox news, by a lot of right-wing twitter trolls. and the white house leapt to his defense. now, why did they leap to his defense? number one, there's nothing wrong with taking paternity leave. number two, they are trying to get paternity leave through congress. but it speaks to the sense of this frantic panic that is among the harris loyalists where they look at this and say, oh, so you'll back up pete buttigieg, what about when we need cover? there is a time where harris has created problems for herself and there are times when she's been attacked in completely ridiculous ways. when she was in france last week, she said "the plan." and suddenly it was like she was making a fake french accent. >> i personally did not understand that, and i thought it was one of the goofiest controversies that we've spoken about. >> i've taken a lot of french classes in my life. that fa

that's one of the reasons why we had secretary buttigieg here. you all are writing about this and people are watching and we want to make sure the hear directly from us. reporter: you have fellow democrats who say, they want the president to be more vocal out there and explaining. you are talking about big pieces of legislation. you still have the second piece of it. -- in a more bust way? ms. jean-pierre: the president is out tomorrow. he's going to be in baltimore. he will continue to do more. i would argue that he has been out there. any time i have traveled with him, many of you have been part of the pool where he talks about the infrastructure bill and the build back better act. he has been in multiple states doing that over the past several months. it is going to continue. when he wants to make sure is to get this signed having all the parties on the republican side and the democratic side who are very instrumental in getting this done. then, we will continue making sure we are selling this, talking to the american people. this is a complex

last week i sat down with transportation secretary pete buttigieg in baltimore.