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 both. appreciate it. >>> still ahead, that bipartisan infrastructure law is signed, sealed and set to deliver a trillion dollars to rebuild america. i'll talk with two mayors who were at the white house signing ceremony for the law. how this money will impact their cities and the people who live there. >>> plus, a big trial i

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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

but the bigger sales job, and you mentioned we're going to see pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary shortly at the briefing. it's going to be much more from the rest of the cabinet, than the president himself. i just learned from a white house official sort of how they're envisioning this sales pitch, and that's going to include pete buttigieg hitting the roads, talking about roads and bridges. it's going to include the interior secretary talking about climate provisions. it's going to include the energy secretary talking about the energy grid. we could go on and on. this is really to the white house, when this matters. because they knew this was going to be a lot of talk, sausage making, difficult inside baseball stuff. but biden from his experience as the president, when he oversaw the implementation of the recovery act, thought that they needed to do much more to message what that piece of legislation was doing for the american people, and didn't think frankly, that the obama administration took the victory lap that it should have. that's what they're going to be doing now. so wh

i'll speak to transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the infrastructure bill. we will bring you that live as soon as it gets under way. >>> a long night to capitol hill and house speaker nancy pelosi was having none of the disrespect from republicans. listen to the moment in which she discusses how the bigger build back better deal that hasn't been voted on yet won't increase the national debt, but have the opposite effect. >> all the while contributing to reducing the national debt. making everyone pay their fair share. did i hear a laugh over there? did i hear a laugh from those who added $2 trillion in tax cuts for the richest people in america? 1%? 83% going to the top 1%? this is paid for and more than paid for. >> word to the wise. don't laugh at nancy pelosi. don't laugh at nancy pelosi while be a hypocrite of the national debt. that is for you gop members who voted to increase the national debt a lot. e the national de abt lot the best things america makes are the things america makes out here. the history she writes in her clear blue skies. the legends

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

secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. thank you for being here, secretary pete. on the show and i told you you were lucky because you got the trains job. i love trains. you got more than that. you wound up with a pretty cool deal here. this is over a trillion dollars in, you know, bipartisan bill to really rebuild the country. the big question now is how quickly does it get started, how much can be done in the next year because let's just talk about raw politics, the more people see, the more they will understand that it was the biden administration that did it. >> that's right and, you know, this is a day i've been waiting for for as long as i've been secretary of transportation. people who care about transportation in this country have been waiting for years, even for decades. a lot of people along the way questioning whether it could be done. we're here at this moment and of course, the pressure is on to deliver. i should say this bill includes near and long term efforts. some things will happen very quickly because we're taking grant programs that already exi

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

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

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

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

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

we'll have pete buttigieg on i'm going to ask about joe and pe nanc pe penelopi i'm joe my wife is penelopi. anything >> no. >>> targeting a market valuation as high as $56 billion in rivian's new i.p.o they plan to price shares between 57 and $62 at the high end of the range rivian would bring in roughly $96 million in the market debut. they plan to list next week. it's developing a commercial last mile delivery fan for amazon and it beat rivals, tesla, gm and ford to the market with an electric pickup truck. amazon disclosed last week it has a 20% stake in rivian. this is amazing, 60 billion, 55, that's near honda. honda has some pretty great cars, right? i see a lot of them out there, same market cap. does that -- i think it has to do -- >> it has to do with the amazon involvement, right >> i've been wrong about all this, but at the end of the day, isn't there just going to be one car market and if you actually were to just subtract out -- do you have to believe that honda goes to zero for this to all work out >> or do you have to think -- >> besides tesla which represents basically ever

also buzz around transportation secretary beet buttigieg. -- pete buttigieg. 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 wr

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

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

the one who's going to have to work on this, transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. ame 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 improve

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 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

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

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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 infr

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.

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. >> that was transportation secretary pete buttigieg in the last hour.ing a road show for the newly-passed traditional infrastructure bill that is sitting on president biden's desk. biden and top surrogates will fan out across the country to celebrate a major achievement of his presidency, delivering one of the largest investments in generations to restore crumbling u.s. roads, bridges, and other physical infrastructure including broadband. and he got it done with a bipartisan vote. now, democrats are hoping that momentum around the bill will translate into political gains, with the 2022 midterm elections exactly one year from today. and as president biden's approval rating tumbles to 38%, that's from a new "usa today" poll. joining me now, nbc news correspondent mike memoli, punchbowl news reporter john bresnahan, and playbook co-author eugene daniels. my read is that an awful lot of folks running for reelection next year think this is awfully good news for them because there's jockeying to see who can be there at the signing and have their picture take

they had to do similar propping up of diversity cabinet pick pete buttigieg it took two months off during a crisis. he such a lightweight the administration had to form in former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu to oversee the spending of their infrastructure bill because when i think of new orleans i think of smart budget priorities, low-energy secretary jennifer grandhall needs to buy a vowel on gas prices. >> the president is all over this, he's looking at the limited tools he has, nothing to announce on this but he's looking at evaluating all his options, limited though they may be in the united states. >> looking into the oatmeal bowl, what is he looking into, go to the gas pump, don't look into it, export $75 a gallon. blinken at the state department looks like upon in the spotlight who lost his mother and let's not forgot john kerry, in a position, ready, willing and able to give china whatever you wants for vague assurances on climate goals. then general mark millie, secretary of defense austin, still bumbling about looking for extremists in our own ranks, that is our biggest thre

pete buttigieg, after this. up to one million dollars. that's how much university of phoenix is committing to create 400 scholarships this month alone. if you're committed to earning your degree, we're committed to making it accessible. because we believe everybody deserves a chance. and sometimes one chance is all it takes to change everything. see what scholarship opportunities you may qualify for at phoenix.edu neil: all right, the president making it official, that it did, this is a big win in the house last night, by a vote of 228-20 # with 13 republicans voting yes and six democrats largely progressives voting no, we got done, the infrastructure-only plan got done, welcome news to the next guest, transportation secretary of the united states, pete buttigieg. secretary, good to see you. >> good morning, nice to be with you. neil: i do want to get into that whole thing, but i was concerned about your son, i know he came home from the hospital yesterday after what, three weeks under medical care. i know some days on a ventilator how is

kamala harris, whose approval is now at 28%, and in the overhead said corner is pete buttigieg whoseution to high gas prices is to buy a tesla. tom cotton, what is the early chatter about our harris/buttigieg ticket in 2024? tell 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 a

i never understood why joe biden didn't pete buttigieg in the first place.hought he had tremendous ability and is a hoosier, i gave him my crew, i've never vote for him but i do like him stephen l miller. [laughter] >> biden kind of screwed his party up a little bit by picking somebody who had to drop out before iowa. criticisms are that she's not a very good politician and they've found themselves in this conundrum from the worst kept secret among media circles, everyone knows joe biden is 99%, probably a one term president whether he knows it or not. as soon as he swivels around in the office chair and says he's going to run again, they will say joe, you need to tell him we can't do this sweetheart. that leaves them with an open primary in 2024 and i don't think it would a judge or harris and that's when you get us youngest cassio cortez throwing her head in the rink. kennedy: i have an air runner, i think that would be fantastic. a phenomenal plan. i always thought harris -- >> be careful what you wish for. kennedy: seriously. >> she's almost as likable a

it would be nice if pete buttigieg stops focusing on this issue of what they call equity talk about hows going to get the infrastructure bill put in place and get the project done for disenfranchised communities. for example, how will he work with the epa to make sure the environmental regulations on the books don't clog up bill for 20 years from now? part of infrastructure not getting done in this country for three decades isn't simply just because republicans and democrats couldn't find something to agree on to spend a ton of money, the environmental regulations we have don't allow for us to build anything. there's no way today we could build the hoover dam, we have a hard time fixing anything because of the enormous number of the burdensome environmental relations not to say you can't be cautious of that. kennedy: try building a house in the middle of the county. >> exactly, that's going to be part of the problem here. kennedy: harold, there certainly were projects that were built on the backs of brown and black people and immigrants in this country and we do have a painful past that

let's discuss with transportation secretary pete buttigieg. mr.out of the cabinet meeting with president biden. tell us about the individual that's going to be in charge of the money. tell us more about that. >> so i know that will be announced soon. the president laid out his clear and very high expectations. now that congress has authorized this major investment for us to use every penny of those tax dollars wisely and effectively. he was in charge of seeing to that in the obama/biden administration. he's very proud of the exceptionally low rate of waste and abuse that happened with the hundreds of billions of dollars of stimulus money that went out then, and he's made clear that he expects us to meet that same very, very high standard. a lot of responsibility on the agencies like mine but also the white house will be leading and coordinating on that accountability as they have with the american rescue plan. we take that responsibility very seriously. even before the signing has happened on monday, already real focus on that implementation, that

check out the solution from transportation secretary pete buttigieg for soaring gas prices. >> families gas prices again. people who stand to benefit most from owning an e vehicle are often rural residents who have the longest distance to drive and burn the most gas and underserved urban residents in areas where there are high gas prices and lower income. >> greg: emily, i'm aware you have a crush on him, he's not going to return the favor. but set aside the infatuation and tell me, what do you think make sense? >> emily: i think this makes sense in a vacuum and that's a problem, that's am a medic of this administration. op-ed in the cloud and nowhere near reality or what normal americans are thinking about and care about and it pete buttigieg to me is like a dog with a java complaint on the airport, like so excited for a job. so he's earnest and he means it. the problem is, instead of the $55,000 average cost of an electric car, people want to for the gas for the car they have now. they want to afford the products of the store, the trucking losses, and everything. he gets an "a" for ef

pete buttigieg. mayor pete. the last time pete was on the show, i asked him to end this, and he said he'd see what he could do. you know what he did? he did nothing. he did nothing at all. but now i'm hopeful because pete buttigieg has 2-month-old twins now. now, maybe he'll understand what a nightmare this is. save us penelope and gus! those are the babies' names. even history's worst man, donald j.o. trump, supports not supporting it. "making daylight saving time permanent is ok with me!" this is back when he was allowed to. this is a bipartisan issue. let's get a hashtag going to encourage our secretary of transportation to move on this. so we don't have to go through it again next year. #givedaylightsavingthebuttigieg good luck spelling it. forget it. the pickleball is in your court, pete. get this done, you'll be carried through the streets of washington on the exhausted yet thankful shoulders of this nation's parents. please, get this done. thank you. i've had enough. well, it only took about three weeks,

todd: transportation secretary pete buttigieg doubling down on his stance that some roads and bridgesintentions. listen. >> what we're doing is we are reconnecting people who may have been disconnected or decid -- divided by discriminatory decisions in the past. the point is to make america better. if transportation was used to divide, we have a responsibility to fix it. todd: buttigieg says he believes there are injustices in the country's infrastructure. critics slamming the secretary 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 mo

this will not be solved, supply chain 22023 per pete buttigieg himself.nflation, check at the headline from the new york post, new york city 1 dollar pizza staggering inflation" in the article says y single ingredient, every single item, we use flour, cheese, tomatoes, paper goods, napkins, everything, labor is definitely up as well. when charlie is in new york city has to pay $20 for a cocktail and if he has too many cocktails and wants to buy 99 cents pizza that cost more than 99 cents. charlie: somewhere jimmy carter is kicking himself that he didn't take a break in the supply chain he invented stagflation in joe biden has managed to break something that i don't even think that we knew that could be broken. if the ripple effects with every aspect of the economy. i think it's intentional. i think it is part of this unden economy. one of the biggest drivers of inflation is gas prices, they want people to not to afford gas so the combustion engines. if you want to see with the green new deal looks like now al good idea of where this administrations polici

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

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

. >> neil: but it is pete buttigieg getting the administration's attention.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 numbers that are low for the president, even lower for the vice president. but it is showing in the frustration with the vice president. what is going on? >> well, i think you nailed it right there. this is a classic palace intrigue story where you have staffers in the white house and staffers over in the eisenhower office building of the vice president sort of voicing their frustrations behind closed doors to a reporter

turns to implementing this bill and selling it and when it comes to the transportation secretary pete buttigieg the briefing room telling us that the transportation department will have staff up because it is hundreds of billion dollars of new federal aid going to the projects that jessica was talking about and that is going to require coordinating within the departments not just the transportation department but several others as well. and the other big aspect is selling the bill and making sure the public knows what jessica just said what is in there and how it will change lives and here is what pete buttigieg said about that in briefing. >> that will be led by the president traveling to show where the need is and where the action is. but i'm certainly eager to be part of that effort. i mean, look i a lot of this sells itself because communities never needed to be persuaded that their bridge needed to be fix or their airport needed an upgrade or their port needed investment. >> reporter: now the president has said he believes you could start to see the effects of the bill within two to three

they are going to replace kamala harris with pete buttigieg?uld've done that in the first place. they should've taken the person was most qualified for the job and that's who should've been the vice presidential nominee. it's not going to end well. she's not going to be president. she has not resonated not only with independent and republican voters, she doesn't resonate within her own party. 20% approval rating. >> kayleigh: now the knives are out. coming up, as inflation has people struggling to pay for basic everyday needs, some in the media see an opportune time to make -- mocking the concerns facing americans. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hi, my name is sam davis and i'm going to tell you about exciting medicare advantage plans that can provide broad coverage, and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription drugs. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits. but you have to meet a deductible for each, and then you're still responsible for 20% of the cost. next, let's look at a medicare supplement plan. a

the well-to-do as pete buttigieg pointed out has been extremely well-to-do. we're seeing record highs in command of the stock market. we know that income equality is growing at a record clip. it's happening all over the world but particularly bad in the united states. you think back to previous administrations like the eisenhowers, 50% is not that bad. we live in states where that is common that can go up to 60%. we'll -- >> neil: back in the eisenhower years, jessica -- just to be clear, we make much of the high tax rate, 70 to 90% during that time. but the fact of the matter is 80 plus percent of all americans paid something in taxes. i'm not excusing the fact that those poor shouldn't pay the top rate but they should pay something. everybody has to have skin in the game, don't they? >> i think they do. i don't think that americans who are earning the lowest amounts out there would say otherwise. they're willing -- >> neil: won't you support something if you know you're not paying for it? >> won't i support -- no. but i'm not a cheater pumpkin eater. i don'

pete buttigieg deciding a reason for spreading historians have debunked that sort watch the transportatione 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 would have been in new york was designed to low for it to pass by for that office and reflects races and that went into those design choices. elizabeth: the bridge over pastor is not a fact, it is not obvious he has referencing robert caro's book about robert moses he was made racist comments pretty made it harder for people of color to visit properties. historians looked at this. purposely built bridges that were already in use that it overpasses that were low. it was about aesthetics, it was about cost and about much more. historians have roundly debunked this print transportation secretary reporting at if it is a fact, it is not. >> what is amazing to me here is the secretary of transportation must have an argument about racist bridges at a time when

when i raised the subject with the transportation secretary pete buttigieg, he said the overall top ratehere. the congressman from texas, house, ways-and-means committee member, on what he makes of that. good to see you. a top rate of 57.4%, depending on state, can easily get over 60%, very wealthy will pay that top rate but it is now in fair share category according to pete buttigieg. what do you think? >> yes, i think that's not the case. i think the very definition of socialism is when the government has the greater claim over your earnings than you do and unfortunately, under these tax rates that's exactly what happens. many of these taxes land on owners of small businesses or what we call pass through businesses. so invariably that goes on to the job traders in america. and, you know, u.s. has one of the most progressive tax code among the developed world and have had for quite some time. the rich are paying a bigger share after the republican tax cuts than they did before. so i think bottom line is, this is tax policy by villain. they just like to punish certain companies and certa

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 of