perhaps veronica escobar, who is discussing the president act of oil. >> the president is juggling historic he inherited a country that was grappling with covid-19 and now the global inflation, decades ago we could've acted far more quickly to transition away from fossil fuels. because of that we are reliant upon gas. and no one should envy the position that president joe biden is in right now. >> senator marshall blackburn is with us. it's great to see you. listening to the congresswoman escobar's explanation, that we did not actually transition to clean energy early enough as to we are not producing more american energy. what does that say to you? >> i say that now they are trying to make it the people's fault, because we did not fall in line with the green new deal and the socialist agenda. and if we had, then we would not be having this problem now, it is just amazing to me. they cannot ever say that joe biden said he was going to end the oil and gas industry and on day number one he talked about taking steps to make that promise come true. with the keystone pipeline, with enron being o

. >> joining us now texas democratic congresswoman veronica escobar. this is just so overwhelmingly sad and incomprehensible. how could this happen? how could they have been in that hallway for 77 minutes? there were almost 400 law enforcement officers with body armor, with long guns. >> you know, i have to repeat once again that el paso stands with uvalde. hearing that gentleman, his rage and his pain, it really does bring back what el paso suffered nearly three years ago. it will be the third anniversary august 3rd coming up pretty soon. so that rage that he feels and that pain is still very present in my own community as well among many people. i think the report is important, but i also think we need to zoom out a little bit, because the leadership void goes far beyond law enforcement. what the report did not touch on, two things, number one, the governor, who is the highest ranking elected official, the chief elected official of the state. and number two, frankly, the state legislature that makes open carry the law of the land in texas so that any