WEBVTT 00:07.000 --> 00:09.730 Good afternoon everybody . 00:12.340 --> 00:15.080 So we're just past 100 days since the 00:15.080 --> 00:17.440 Supreme Court's unconscionable decision 00:17.440 --> 00:20.280 to overturn roe and President biden is 00:20.280 --> 00:22.390 continuing to fight to restore 00:22.390 --> 00:24.390 reproductive rights for millions of 00:24.390 --> 00:27.610 american women because we know what's 00:27.610 --> 00:29.670 at stake right now . Republican 00:29.670 --> 00:31.870 officials in Congress and across the 00:31.870 --> 00:34.870 country are implementing draconian laws 00:34.880 --> 00:37.360 that threaten women's health and 00:37.360 --> 00:39.440 criminalized doctors for doing their 00:39.440 --> 00:42.020 jobs . Senate republicans have 00:42.030 --> 00:45.290 introduced an extreme national abortion 00:45.290 --> 00:47.830 ban . Republican officials across the 00:47.830 --> 00:50.290 country are passing radical statewide 00:50.290 --> 00:52.870 bands with limited exceptions , risking 00:52.880 --> 00:55.370 the lives and health of women who have 00:55.370 --> 00:58.300 serious complications who have survived 00:58.300 --> 01:01.240 rape or incest or who are going through 01:01.240 --> 01:03.740 the heartbreaking experience of 01:03.750 --> 01:06.780 miscarriage In Arizona . Republican 01:06.780 --> 01:09.380 officials are trying to enforce a law 01:09.390 --> 01:13.190 on the books from 1864 . 01:13.200 --> 01:16.500 Let me say that again , 1864 . That's 01:16.510 --> 01:19.300 over 150 years ago . 01:19.970 --> 01:22.137 President Biden believes that role was 01:22.137 --> 01:25.130 rightly decided nearly 50 years ago and 01:25.130 --> 01:27.019 that women should be treated with 01:27.019 --> 01:29.019 compassion , they should be treated 01:29.019 --> 01:31.130 with dignity , they should be treated 01:31.130 --> 01:34.080 with respect and also have the 01:34.080 --> 01:37.550 privacy to make incredibly personal 01:37.560 --> 01:40.530 decisions and often times let's not 01:40.530 --> 01:43.510 forget difficult decisions , decisions 01:43.520 --> 01:46.820 about their own health care . If there 01:46.830 --> 01:49.350 if there are enough votes in Congress , 01:49.360 --> 01:51.460 the first piece of legislation the 01:51.460 --> 01:54.170 president is going to sign or he will 01:54.170 --> 01:56.750 send to the to the hill , I should say 01:56.750 --> 01:58.560 next year in the new in the new 01:58.560 --> 02:01.630 congress will once again make row the 02:01.630 --> 02:05.300 law of the land And he will sign it 02:05.310 --> 02:08.030 into law around the 50th anniversary of 02:08.030 --> 02:11.470 Roe v Wade . The states could not be 02:11.470 --> 02:14.990 higher for women across America and for 02:14.990 --> 02:17.880 the generations of women to come 02:18.840 --> 02:19.610 with that 02:22.330 --> 02:25.010 good two topics . There are reports 02:25.020 --> 02:27.187 that the administration is considering 02:27.187 --> 02:29.020 releasing an additional 10 to 15 02:29.020 --> 02:31.242 million more barrels from the Strategic 02:31.242 --> 02:33.242 Petroleum Reserve . And I wanted to 02:33.242 --> 02:35.464 know if you could confirm those reports 02:35.464 --> 02:37.520 and if so , what impact do you think 02:37.520 --> 02:39.742 that release would have on gas prices ? 02:39.742 --> 02:41.720 So , um , I don't have anything to 02:41.720 --> 02:44.220 announce at this time . We , as you 02:44.220 --> 02:46.442 know , you , you may have heard that we 02:46.442 --> 02:48.331 are going to make an announcement 02:48.331 --> 02:50.053 tomorrow and so I will let the 02:50.053 --> 02:51.831 president speak for himself and 02:51.831 --> 02:55.250 announce , uh , make his announcement 02:55.260 --> 02:57.316 on what he said last week . He would 02:57.316 --> 02:59.482 have more to share on what he is doing 02:59.500 --> 03:01.800 to bring gas prices or what he will 03:01.800 --> 03:04.133 continue to do to bring gas prices down . 03:04.133 --> 03:06.356 But I do want to add a couple of things 03:06.356 --> 03:08.300 here . Gas prices have fallen by a 03:08.300 --> 03:10.300 dollar and 15 sen from their peak , 03:10.300 --> 03:12.830 which was not too long ago . The 98 03:12.830 --> 03:14.886 consecutive day declined this summer 03:14.886 --> 03:16.920 was the fastest in over a decade . 03:16.930 --> 03:19.410 Every month , the typical two driver 03:19.410 --> 03:23.400 family saves about 100 $120 at the pump 03:23.410 --> 03:26.180 compared to where we were in mid june 03:26.190 --> 03:28.660 everyday americans , americans saved 03:28.660 --> 03:32.400 about $420 million at the pump compared 03:32.400 --> 03:36.260 to mid june Now gas prices are falling 03:36.270 --> 03:38.381 again , just to give you a little bit 03:38.381 --> 03:40.490 more of stats there . The average 03:40.490 --> 03:42.630 retail prices down by five cents over 03:42.630 --> 03:45.460 the last week , states that saw cheap , 03:45.470 --> 03:48.290 sharper increases in recent weeks are 03:48.300 --> 03:50.530 also seeing more rapid declines . Just 03:50.530 --> 03:52.641 to give you a few states , California 03:52.641 --> 03:54.730 is down almost 30 cents . Uh , this 03:54.730 --> 03:57.710 week , Wisconsin is down over 20 cents 03:57.720 --> 04:00.300 this week , Oregon is down over 20 04:00.300 --> 04:02.910 cents this week . Michigan is down 04:02.920 --> 04:06.250 about 17 16 cents this week . 04:06.260 --> 04:09.330 Ohio and Indy are down 13 cents this 04:09.330 --> 04:11.930 week . And so those are the few states 04:11.930 --> 04:13.986 that we're seeing the sharp declines 04:13.986 --> 04:16.263 that are not , they're not coming down . 04:16.263 --> 04:18.430 Can you get any sort of preview on the 04:18.430 --> 04:20.486 gas prices as you know , I would get 04:20.486 --> 04:22.708 myself in big trouble if I got ahead of 04:22.708 --> 04:22.460 the president . So I'm not going to do 04:22.460 --> 04:25.230 that today , Kevin McCarthy did an 04:25.240 --> 04:27.184 interview with punishable that was 04:27.184 --> 04:29.240 published this morning , that talked 04:29.240 --> 04:31.407 about Ukraine aid and talked about how 04:31.407 --> 04:33.573 skeptical House republicans will be of 04:33.573 --> 04:35.684 additional Ukraine aid if they are in 04:35.684 --> 04:37.851 the majority . McCarthy said , I think 04:37.851 --> 04:39.851 people are going to be sitting in a 04:39.851 --> 04:39.180 recession and they're not going to 04:39.180 --> 04:41.291 write a blank check to Ukraine , they 04:41.291 --> 04:43.458 just won't do it . So I wanted to know 04:43.458 --> 04:45.569 if the White House is concerned about 04:45.569 --> 04:47.736 the apparent waning bipartisan support 04:47.736 --> 04:49.736 for additional Ukraine aid . And if 04:49.736 --> 04:51.791 that would encourage , if that would 04:51.791 --> 04:53.902 push you guys to get more aid and the 04:53.902 --> 04:56.124 lame duck , even though you just got 12 04:56.124 --> 04:58.291 billion in the cr so as you know , and 04:58.291 --> 04:58.290 you kind of laid it out that United 04:58.290 --> 05:00.870 States has provided Ukraine with robust 05:00.870 --> 05:03.350 bipartisan support as Russia wages . 05:03.360 --> 05:06.650 It's brutal war against Ukraine . So we 05:06.650 --> 05:08.872 will continue to work with Congress and 05:08.872 --> 05:11.094 continue to monitor those conversations 05:11.094 --> 05:13.660 on these efforts and support Ukraine as 05:13.660 --> 05:15.882 long as it takes . We are going to keep 05:15.882 --> 05:17.993 that promise that we're making to the 05:17.993 --> 05:20.216 brave Ukrainians who are fighting every 05:20.216 --> 05:22.160 day to fight for their freedom and 05:22.160 --> 05:24.104 their democracy . We thank leaders 05:24.104 --> 05:26.327 across the House and Senate republicans 05:26.327 --> 05:28.493 and democrats . As I've just said , it 05:28.493 --> 05:30.740 was a bipartisan effort who are working 05:30.740 --> 05:33.135 with us to hold Putin accountable and 05:33.135 --> 05:35.685 support Ukraine to defend itself from 05:35.685 --> 05:37.935 Russia's war crimes and atrocities . So 05:37.935 --> 05:39.935 this is again , we're gonna closely 05:39.935 --> 05:42.157 engage , we're going to closely monitor 05:42.157 --> 05:44.324 these uh , these discussions . I don't 05:44.324 --> 05:47.585 want to get ahead of what what what 05:47.585 --> 05:50.425 congress might look like uh next year . 05:50.435 --> 05:52.657 I don't want to go into hypotheticals . 05:52.657 --> 05:54.824 But again , we're going to continue to 05:54.824 --> 05:57.102 engage with Congress on this . Strange , 05:57.102 --> 05:59.157 why did the president decide to give 05:59.157 --> 06:01.379 today's abortion speech in Washington , 06:01.379 --> 06:03.157 D . C . Instead of a state like 06:03.157 --> 06:05.324 michigan where abortions on the ballot 06:05.324 --> 06:07.350 or in a state Georgia . Ohio , or 06:07.350 --> 06:09.860 pennsylvania with Senate candidate 06:09.860 --> 06:12.082 that's locked in a very tight race . So 06:12.082 --> 06:14.600 he's look for those who who traveled 06:14.600 --> 06:16.660 with us the last of those four days 06:16.660 --> 06:18.716 that we were out west , He mentioned 06:18.716 --> 06:20.604 the national abortion banned , He 06:20.604 --> 06:23.100 mentioned what that could mean to women 06:23.124 --> 06:25.464 across the country if we allowed that 06:25.464 --> 06:27.714 to happen ? If we allowed uh Senator 06:27.724 --> 06:30.114 Graham to to move forward with such an 06:30.114 --> 06:33.264 extreme piece of legislation and how 06:33.274 --> 06:35.385 republicans are taking us backwards . 06:35.385 --> 06:37.552 So he has talked about that every time 06:37.552 --> 06:39.718 he is out there , speaking directly to 06:39.718 --> 06:41.885 the american people to talk about what 06:41.885 --> 06:44.684 is at stake uh for americans . Look , 06:44.694 --> 06:47.524 um , I don't want to talk about , I 06:47.524 --> 06:49.746 can't talk about politics from here . I 06:49.746 --> 06:52.738 don't want to get into into into into 06:52.738 --> 06:54.849 that conversation . As you know , I'm 06:54.849 --> 06:57.016 limited on what I can say . But look , 06:57.016 --> 06:59.127 the president is going to continue to 06:59.127 --> 07:01.294 talk about his longstanding commitment 07:01.294 --> 07:03.516 for reproductive rights . And there's a 07:03.516 --> 07:05.571 clear difference as I just as I just 07:05.571 --> 07:07.682 laid out , there's a clear difference 07:07.682 --> 07:09.905 into the approach . The first bill , as 07:09.905 --> 07:11.905 I just mentioned that the president 07:11.905 --> 07:14.127 will send to Congress is going to be to 07:14.127 --> 07:16.538 codify roe and he will sign that around 07:16.538 --> 07:19.052 the The 15th anniversary of Roe V . 07:19.052 --> 07:21.219 Wade , he is committed to that . He is 07:21.219 --> 07:23.052 committed to making sure that we 07:23.052 --> 07:25.163 protect the rights of women . We have 07:25.163 --> 07:27.274 to understand that the decisions that 07:27.274 --> 07:29.496 women make are incredibly personal when 07:29.496 --> 07:31.441 it comes to their health care . It 07:31.441 --> 07:33.441 should be something that is decided 07:33.441 --> 07:35.496 between a woman and her doctor , her 07:35.496 --> 07:37.608 family , not not politicians and they 07:37.608 --> 07:39.663 should not be stepping in on a right 07:39.663 --> 07:41.774 that existed , a constitutional right 07:41.774 --> 07:43.941 that existed for almost 50 years . And 07:43.941 --> 07:45.996 so the president has talked about it 07:45.996 --> 07:48.486 and will continue to do so that bill to 07:48.486 --> 07:50.806 send it to Congress and to codify roe 07:50.816 --> 07:52.927 is he talking about filibuster reform 07:52.927 --> 07:55.146 in order to make that law ? Well , he 07:55.146 --> 07:58.116 talked about that already . He was very 07:58.116 --> 08:00.283 clear a couple of couple of months ago 08:00.283 --> 08:02.394 about how he would he would approve a 08:02.394 --> 08:04.616 carve out for the filibuster when as it 08:04.616 --> 08:06.894 relates to as it relates to this issue . 08:06.894 --> 08:09.576 So he has already made himself very 08:09.576 --> 08:12.630 clear on that . Um two different topics 08:12.640 --> 08:14.751 just to serve with the speech today . 08:14.751 --> 08:16.862 He twice asked voters to remember how 08:16.862 --> 08:19.060 they felt the day the decision came 08:19.060 --> 08:21.060 down . Is there a sense that people 08:21.060 --> 08:23.004 have forgotten or that perhaps the 08:23.004 --> 08:25.280 energy in the immediate wake of that , 08:25.290 --> 08:27.830 particularly once some democrats has 08:27.830 --> 08:30.715 served to wayne , again , not going to 08:30.715 --> 08:32.826 get into the political climate here . 08:32.826 --> 08:35.685 But what I will say is that it is very 08:35.685 --> 08:38.915 clear that majority of americans uh you 08:38.915 --> 08:40.693 know , support Rome majority of 08:40.693 --> 08:43.725 americans disagreed with the decision 08:43.725 --> 08:46.535 that was made by the Supreme Court uh 08:46.545 --> 08:48.845 just a couple of months ago . And so 08:48.845 --> 08:50.901 I'll just leave it there . You see , 08:50.901 --> 08:52.901 and you see that in polling polling 08:52.901 --> 08:54.956 after polling after polling . And so 08:54.956 --> 08:57.067 the president is going to continue to 08:57.067 --> 08:59.178 talk about the issues that impact the 08:59.178 --> 09:01.900 american people and this one majority 09:01.900 --> 09:04.260 of americans have been very clear where 09:04.260 --> 09:06.980 they stand separately on Ukraine , 09:06.990 --> 09:09.220 given the targeting particularly of 09:09.230 --> 09:13.090 energy infrastructure . I warned that 09:13.100 --> 09:15.211 there's the potential for a spiraling 09:15.211 --> 09:17.267 humanitarian crisis . There's been a 09:17.267 --> 09:19.378 significant amount of US economic aid 09:19.378 --> 09:21.489 that has gone along with the military 09:21.489 --> 09:21.280 assistance . But the administration 09:21.280 --> 09:23.560 considering anything specific now kind 09:23.560 --> 09:25.727 of triage at the moment where this has 09:25.727 --> 09:27.838 become a very acute and real crisis . 09:27.838 --> 09:30.500 So I don't have anything specific to to 09:30.510 --> 09:33.700 to to preview or announced today . I 09:33.710 --> 09:37.320 can say the US has delivered $8.5 09:37.330 --> 09:39.625 billion dollars in economic assistance 09:39.845 --> 09:41.623 since late spring . And we will 09:41.623 --> 09:43.456 continue to work with allies and 09:43.456 --> 09:45.456 partners to support Ukraine . Don't 09:45.456 --> 09:46.512 have anything else 09:51.575 --> 09:53.905 that Iran has promised Russia . 09:58.205 --> 10:00.925 So with that I can't speak to those 10:00.925 --> 10:03.895 specific reports . We've already warned 10:03.895 --> 10:06.980 that Iran was planning to sell uh U . A . 10:06.980 --> 10:09.000 V . S . In particular to Russia and 10:09.000 --> 10:11.056 Russia's plans to import hundreds of 10:11.056 --> 10:13.440 these systems . Uh Jake Sullivan was 10:13.440 --> 10:16.290 here at this podium just months ago 10:16.300 --> 10:18.522 when he made that announcement and made 10:18.522 --> 10:21.270 that , made that , made that very clear . 10:21.280 --> 10:23.170 So we will continue to vigorously 10:23.170 --> 10:25.281 enforce all U . S . Sanctions on both 10:25.281 --> 10:28.810 the Russian and Iranian arms trade . 10:28.820 --> 10:31.340 Make it harder for Iran to sell these 10:31.340 --> 10:33.451 weapons to Russia . And we will stand 10:33.451 --> 10:35.451 with our pa Partners throughout the 10:35.451 --> 10:37.562 region against the Iranian threat and 10:37.562 --> 10:39.673 will continue to search unprecedented 10:39.673 --> 10:41.673 security assistance as we have done 10:41.673 --> 10:44.445 throughout this past year over $17 10:44.445 --> 10:46.612 billion dollars in security assistance 10:46.612 --> 10:48.815 to Ukraine including air defense and 10:48.815 --> 10:51.015 working with allies to enable transfer 10:51.025 --> 10:53.885 of air defense system of their own to 10:53.895 --> 10:56.235 Ukraine . So that is our commitment and 10:56.235 --> 10:58.235 we will be there with the Ukrainian 10:58.235 --> 11:01.850 people . The 11:01.860 --> 11:04.580 threat from these infrastructures for 11:04.590 --> 11:06.479 infrastructure , power stations , 11:06.479 --> 11:08.646 etcetera . Pieces of infrastructure in 11:08.646 --> 11:12.330 Ukraine , Ukraine being demolished must 11:12.330 --> 11:14.690 increase concerned about Ukrainians 11:14.690 --> 11:17.810 ability to have power to have water and 11:17.810 --> 11:21.380 heat . Um to what extent is that 11:21.380 --> 11:23.713 concern the President , the White House . 11:23.713 --> 11:27.080 And now it's a good point . The attacks 11:27.080 --> 11:29.024 that we have seen from Russia into 11:29.024 --> 11:31.024 Ukraine have been very deliberate . 11:31.024 --> 11:32.636 They have been to your point 11:32.636 --> 11:35.800 infrastructure , energy security for 11:35.810 --> 11:37.866 for the people of Ukraine . They are 11:37.866 --> 11:40.850 what what it looks like . Uh we don't 11:40.850 --> 11:43.750 want to get into the head of Putin . He 11:43.750 --> 11:45.910 is trying to make sure that the 11:45.910 --> 11:47.966 Ukrainian people suffer right ? He's 11:47.966 --> 11:50.970 making it very difficult for them and 11:50.980 --> 11:53.180 but what we continue to see day in and 11:53.180 --> 11:55.347 day out for the past several months is 11:55.347 --> 11:57.610 you see that Ukrainians are incredibly 11:57.610 --> 11:59.832 brave and they are going to continue to 11:59.832 --> 12:01.890 fight for their freedom . What I can 12:01.890 --> 12:04.057 say and what we have said and what the 12:04.057 --> 12:06.279 President has said is that we are going 12:06.279 --> 12:07.946 to keep our commitment to the 12:07.946 --> 12:10.112 Ukrainians and we're going to continue 12:10.112 --> 12:12.446 to support them for as long as it takes . 12:12.446 --> 12:14.560 Hey , just just one question um 12:14.570 --> 12:16.792 President biden clearly put the onus on 12:16.792 --> 12:19.400 voters to elect more democrats . Um but 12:19.400 --> 12:21.511 I wonder what happens if november 8th 12:21.511 --> 12:23.678 does not go the way that he he wants . 12:23.678 --> 12:27.360 Like does the White House have further 12:27.360 --> 12:29.740 plans about how it will protect the 12:29.750 --> 12:32.410 access to abortions ? Or is it just the 12:32.420 --> 12:35.550 veto that biden mentioned ? You know , 12:35.550 --> 12:37.550 the president has taken action very 12:37.550 --> 12:39.772 bold action from the from the beginning 12:39.772 --> 12:41.883 of this announcement of the beginning 12:41.883 --> 12:44.930 of the decision Dobbs decision on what 12:44.930 --> 12:47.510 he can do the authorities that he has 12:47.510 --> 12:49.910 from uh the executive branch on how he 12:49.910 --> 12:53.050 can protect uh the women's rights , uh 12:53.230 --> 12:55.770 women's access to reproductive rights , 12:55.780 --> 12:59.640 women's access to abortion . Uh so he 12:59.640 --> 13:01.807 has been very clear about that . We've 13:01.807 --> 13:03.862 laid that out in executive executive 13:03.862 --> 13:06.084 actions . We've heard announcement from 13:06.084 --> 13:09.930 HHS from Doj and so we have done 13:09.940 --> 13:12.162 and will continue to do everything that 13:12.162 --> 13:14.340 we can from here . Look , you know , I 13:14.340 --> 13:16.451 I want to be careful here . I want to 13:16.451 --> 13:18.673 be very careful what I say . Um because 13:18.673 --> 13:21.160 again , we cannot talk about existing 13:21.160 --> 13:23.438 elections that are currently happening . 13:23.438 --> 13:25.549 But the president has been very clear 13:25.549 --> 13:28.070 on this piece , which is the way that 13:28.070 --> 13:30.890 we make grow into law , is to make sure 13:30.890 --> 13:33.112 that we have legislation that we codify 13:33.112 --> 13:35.700 it . And so , you know , that is the 13:35.700 --> 13:38.710 best way to really protect women's 13:38.710 --> 13:40.932 rights . And that's why you continue to 13:40.932 --> 13:43.570 hear that from this president . So , um 13:43.580 --> 13:46.090 it's not gonna stop him from continuing 13:46.090 --> 13:48.540 to have uh to have that conversation to 13:48.540 --> 13:51.070 continuing to make those speeches that 13:51.070 --> 13:53.070 are going to be really important in 13:53.070 --> 13:54.959 making that point to the american 13:54.959 --> 13:57.070 people . But again , that is what the 13:57.070 --> 13:59.292 President is going to continue to say , 13:59.292 --> 14:01.403 which is we have to quantify In order 14:01.403 --> 14:03.181 to protect and get to get those 14:03.181 --> 14:05.348 protections back . And remember , this 14:05.348 --> 14:07.403 is almost 50 years of constitutional 14:07.403 --> 14:09.810 rights that we had that was taken away 14:10.040 --> 14:13.640 by the Supreme Court . Just to be 14:13.640 --> 14:16.020 clear . Does does the White House feel 14:16.020 --> 14:18.187 like it's exhausted all the options of 14:18.187 --> 14:20.298 everything that we can do in the last 14:20.298 --> 14:22.464 the president has been very clear . He 14:22.464 --> 14:24.687 laid out some actions , right executive 14:24.687 --> 14:26.742 authorities that he's able to take . 14:26.742 --> 14:28.909 Again . You've heard from the agencies 14:28.909 --> 14:31.242 that have been involved in this process . 14:31.242 --> 14:33.131 But he's always been clear . He's 14:33.131 --> 14:35.242 always said what people need to do is 14:35.242 --> 14:37.131 to make their voices heard . What 14:37.131 --> 14:39.298 people need to do is to make sure that 14:39.298 --> 14:42.130 we have . We have , you know , the 14:42.130 --> 14:44.890 votes in Congress to codify roe . He 14:44.890 --> 14:46.890 has always made that clear in every 14:46.890 --> 14:49.112 speech that he almost every speech that 14:49.112 --> 14:51.890 he has made about abortion rights . 14:52.240 --> 14:55.050 Thanks Corinne . Going back to the 14:55.050 --> 14:57.106 speech , the President mentioned his 14:57.106 --> 14:59.439 decision on marijuana during the speech . 14:59.439 --> 15:01.494 Why haven't we heard more about that 15:01.494 --> 15:03.661 since then ? And do we plan on hearing 15:03.661 --> 15:05.828 more about that soon ? We'll well , we 15:05.828 --> 15:07.994 laid out our plan . You heard directly 15:07.994 --> 15:10.106 from the President on what his policy 15:10.106 --> 15:12.700 was on marijuana . And you know , 15:12.700 --> 15:14.756 you've heard that from you heard him 15:14.756 --> 15:16.867 mention that today . I don't have any 15:16.867 --> 15:20.760 anymore . You know , events to lay 15:20.760 --> 15:23.910 out about specific specific speeches or 15:23.910 --> 15:25.854 comments about marijuana , but you 15:25.854 --> 15:28.077 heard directly from the president about 15:28.077 --> 15:30.299 what his policy is and uh , and he kept 15:30.299 --> 15:32.354 his promise , his commitment that he 15:32.354 --> 15:34.410 made during the campaign , trying to 15:34.410 --> 15:36.521 get specific how many more votes does 15:36.521 --> 15:38.521 the president think he needs in the 15:38.521 --> 15:41.510 Senate to codify ? 51 52 ? I'm not 15:41.510 --> 15:44.125 going to get ahead of this election or 15:44.125 --> 15:46.685 talk about this election . So I'm gonna 15:46.835 --> 15:48.855 this was a political speech and not 15:48.865 --> 15:50.875 going to weigh into any specific 15:50.875 --> 15:53.165 numbers you did say if there are enough 15:53.165 --> 15:55.387 votes in Congress , the president would 15:55.387 --> 15:58.955 send his first bill 118 Congress bill 15:58.955 --> 16:01.122 to codify roe . You can't say how many 16:01.122 --> 16:04.675 is enough if the country sends to 16:04.675 --> 16:07.970 Congress the House and Senate that are 16:07.970 --> 16:10.280 not interested in codifying roe or 16:10.290 --> 16:12.457 busting the filibuster to do . So what 16:12.457 --> 16:14.401 is the president's top legislative 16:14.401 --> 16:16.401 priority in that case ? If it's say 16:16.401 --> 16:18.346 that one more time , let's say the 16:18.346 --> 16:21.420 House and Senate do not fall into 16:21.630 --> 16:23.750 democrat hands ? Let's let's say that 16:23.760 --> 16:25.982 republicans take the House , what would 16:25.982 --> 16:28.093 be the first bill the president sends 16:28.093 --> 16:28.090 to Congress ? That's a lot of 16:28.090 --> 16:30.090 hypotheticals , let's let's first , 16:30.090 --> 16:33.510 let's first get me . But I know we're 16:33.510 --> 16:35.621 all talking about hypotheticals , but 16:35.621 --> 16:37.732 I've also said , I'm going to be very 16:37.732 --> 16:39.954 careful about what I say from here . So 16:39.954 --> 16:42.066 I've also led with that as well , but 16:42.066 --> 16:44.177 that is like that is a different type 16:44.177 --> 16:46.288 of hypothetic . I'm just not going to 16:46.288 --> 16:48.660 preview from here at this time . So is 16:48.660 --> 16:50.700 it fair to say that abortion rights 16:50.710 --> 16:52.543 currently is the president's top 16:52.543 --> 16:55.040 legislative priority ? What he what the 16:55.040 --> 16:57.520 president has said is he's showing his 16:57.520 --> 17:00.350 commitment how important role is to him , 17:00.350 --> 17:02.406 how important reproductive rights is 17:02.406 --> 17:04.600 because majority of americans believe 17:04.810 --> 17:08.080 that this right needs to stand . Uh and 17:08.080 --> 17:10.630 that they they believe that the 50 17:10.630 --> 17:12.797 years , nearly 50 years of rights that 17:12.797 --> 17:14.797 they had constitutional rights that 17:14.797 --> 17:16.963 they had uh and that was taken away uh 17:16.963 --> 17:19.770 you know is not is going backwards , 17:19.770 --> 17:22.590 not forwards . And so he is going to 17:22.590 --> 17:24.757 continue to talk about issues that are 17:24.757 --> 17:26.868 impact , impact the american people . 17:26.868 --> 17:28.923 And this is one of them by saying by 17:28.923 --> 17:30.979 laying out what he is going to do uh 17:30.979 --> 17:33.400 next year with the 100th anniversary , 17:33.410 --> 17:35.500 uh laying out that he's going to his 17:35.500 --> 17:37.890 first piece of legislation will be on 17:37.890 --> 17:39.890 codifying roe is just showing his 17:39.890 --> 17:41.890 commitment to where a majority of 17:41.890 --> 17:45.520 americans are on 17:45.530 --> 17:48.210 Mexico . The president of Mexico has 17:48.210 --> 17:50.321 said that President biden is going to 17:50.321 --> 17:52.890 be traveling there in december . Would 17:52.890 --> 17:54.668 you be able to say if if that's 17:54.668 --> 17:56.779 accurate , if he's right on that . So 17:56.779 --> 17:58.779 we're still working working through 17:58.779 --> 18:00.668 plans for the next north american 18:00.668 --> 18:02.557 leaders summit and have no travel 18:02.557 --> 18:04.779 announcement to make at this time . And 18:04.779 --> 18:06.946 then he also said that President biden 18:06.946 --> 18:09.112 arranged a phone call with him today . 18:09.112 --> 18:08.760 Is that right ? So the president is 18:08.760 --> 18:10.816 going to speak with the President of 18:10.816 --> 18:13.460 Mexico today on a range of issues from 18:13.460 --> 18:15.682 US . Mexico priorities . And we'll have 18:15.682 --> 18:18.070 a readout as soon as that conversation 18:18.070 --> 18:21.460 is one more on the spr release . Some 18:21.460 --> 18:23.682 White house officials have been talking 18:23.682 --> 18:25.738 for the last few days about the fact 18:25.738 --> 18:27.904 that it's a possibility . Um , can you 18:27.904 --> 18:29.682 explain why with gas prices you 18:29.682 --> 18:31.738 mentioned earlier the gas prices are 18:31.738 --> 18:33.738 going down again ? Why would the US 18:33.738 --> 18:36.330 need another spr release from that 180 18:36.330 --> 18:38.190 million barrels that you already 18:38.190 --> 18:40.412 announced ? Why would you need that now 18:40.412 --> 18:42.357 if prices are already driving ? So 18:42.357 --> 18:44.523 again , I'm not gonna get ahead of the 18:44.523 --> 18:46.746 president . As you know , there's going 18:46.746 --> 18:48.857 to be an announcement tomorrow on the 18:48.857 --> 18:51.530 President's uh , policy . Next move his 18:51.530 --> 18:53.752 next move forward on what he's going to 18:53.752 --> 18:55.752 do to help the american people give 18:55.752 --> 18:57.974 them continue to give them a little bit 18:57.974 --> 18:59.974 of a breathing room . But President 18:59.974 --> 19:01.974 biden has said for months how he is 19:01.974 --> 19:04.086 committed to doing every I think that 19:04.086 --> 19:06.252 he can in his power to address Putin's 19:06.252 --> 19:08.474 price hike . He has said this in almost 19:08.474 --> 19:10.697 every speech that you've heard him talk 19:10.697 --> 19:12.808 about when it comes to gas prices and 19:12.808 --> 19:14.697 what what the american people are 19:14.697 --> 19:16.919 seeing and feeling at the pump and he's 19:16.919 --> 19:19.141 been delivering on that . So you know , 19:19.141 --> 19:21.197 as you know , gas prices have indeed 19:21.197 --> 19:23.308 come down and just listed some of the 19:23.308 --> 19:25.530 states where we had seen a increase and 19:25.530 --> 19:27.586 now we're seeing a decline this past 19:27.586 --> 19:29.641 week . They came down at the fastest 19:29.641 --> 19:31.752 pace in over a decade this summer and 19:31.752 --> 19:33.974 have continued to fall in recent days . 19:33.974 --> 19:36.240 But at the same time , Putin's war 19:36.240 --> 19:39.580 continues , his war on Ukraine , his 19:39.580 --> 19:42.200 unprovoked war buddha war on Ukraine 19:42.200 --> 19:44.650 continues . And so it puts pressure on 19:44.650 --> 19:46.900 our global energy supplies because of 19:46.910 --> 19:48.688 this war . And so he's going to 19:48.688 --> 19:50.910 continue to take action . The President 19:50.910 --> 19:53.132 president biden is going to continue to 19:53.132 --> 19:55.354 take action to make sure that he lowers 19:55.354 --> 19:57.577 costs . Response to those who would say 19:57.577 --> 19:59.466 we're criticizing the White House 19:59.466 --> 20:01.688 saying that the seems like ahead of the 20:01.688 --> 20:03.770 midterms . Look , the President , I 20:03.770 --> 20:06.210 would say this to to folks , um , 20:06.220 --> 20:08.387 should the president not do everything 20:08.387 --> 20:10.460 that he can to lower prices , uh , 20:10.470 --> 20:12.414 should he not continue to keep his 20:12.414 --> 20:14.770 prime promise to give american people a 20:14.770 --> 20:17.103 little bit of breathing room ? You know , 20:17.103 --> 20:19.103 that's the promise that he's made . 20:19.103 --> 20:21.214 Should he not do that ? And so that's 20:21.214 --> 20:23.214 what you're seeing right now . Uh , 20:23.214 --> 20:25.159 this is something that he has done 20:25.159 --> 20:27.214 throughout the summer . Uh , this is 20:27.214 --> 20:29.326 something that he has done to address 20:29.326 --> 20:31.437 Putin's price hike . Uh , and this is 20:31.437 --> 20:33.603 something that he has done to meet the 20:33.603 --> 20:35.770 global challenges that are in front of 20:35.770 --> 20:38.280 us . Um , it's been eight months since 20:38.280 --> 20:40.360 Brittney Griner became a detainee of 20:40.370 --> 20:43.420 the Russians . She turned 32 years old 20:43.430 --> 20:45.541 today . A statement that was released 20:45.541 --> 20:47.763 through her representative said , thank 20:47.763 --> 20:49.819 you everyone for fighting so hard to 20:49.819 --> 20:51.986 get me home ? All the support and love 20:51.986 --> 20:54.041 are definitely helping me . My first 20:54.041 --> 20:53.890 quest as it relates to Brittney Griner , 20:53.890 --> 20:56.560 as has the US had any consular access 20:56.630 --> 20:58.797 to Brittney Griner since the beginning 20:58.797 --> 21:00.852 of august as of last week . They had 21:00.852 --> 21:02.963 not had the in the course of the last 21:02.963 --> 21:04.963 week . So , I want to be very clear 21:04.963 --> 21:07.074 here because this is important . This 21:07.074 --> 21:09.297 is important to the President . This is 21:09.297 --> 21:09.040 important to this administration . 21:09.270 --> 21:12.330 Getting Brittany home . Getting paul , 21:12.330 --> 21:14.274 Whelan home is a priority for this 21:14.274 --> 21:16.540 administration . They are wrongfully 21:16.540 --> 21:19.280 detained and they should be home today . 21:19.280 --> 21:21.280 And so the President , his National 21:21.280 --> 21:23.613 Security Council , the State Department , 21:23.613 --> 21:25.724 is going to do everything that we can 21:25.724 --> 21:27.840 to get them home ? I don't have 21:27.840 --> 21:29.840 anything else to preview for you at 21:29.840 --> 21:32.200 this time or to update you . But it is 21:32.210 --> 21:35.850 a it is a it is continues continues 21:35.920 --> 21:37.364 to be a priority for this 21:37.364 --> 21:39.476 administration frustration about this 21:39.500 --> 21:41.500 in the last week , there's been any 21:41.500 --> 21:43.667 access to her . Right . So we're going 21:43.667 --> 21:45.889 to continue to work through our channel 21:45.889 --> 21:48.210 that we have with Russia on getting her 21:48.220 --> 21:51.330 home getting paul home . We can't we 21:51.340 --> 21:53.700 presently can't say how do we how do we 21:53.710 --> 21:55.932 how do we tell the american people ? Do 21:55.932 --> 21:58.154 we know that she is ? Well , do we know 21:58.154 --> 22:00.321 that her condition as well right now . 22:00.321 --> 21:59.750 When's the last time we got some 21:59.750 --> 22:01.917 indication of her circumstances ? It's 22:01.917 --> 22:04.139 a very good question . I don't have any 22:04.139 --> 22:06.361 don't have any update on you for you on 22:06.361 --> 22:08.361 that piece . What I can say it is a 22:08.361 --> 22:10.639 priority . You've heard this President , 22:10.639 --> 22:12.583 you heard from Secretary Blinken . 22:12.583 --> 22:14.806 You've heard from the national security 22:14.806 --> 22:16.972 adviser . And we are going to continue 22:16.972 --> 22:19.194 to talk through our channels until this 22:19.194 --> 22:21.250 moves from a priority to a reality . 22:21.250 --> 22:23.361 We've had success as you know , peter 22:23.361 --> 22:25.250 with bringing americans home from 22:25.250 --> 22:27.083 Russia , from Afghanistan , from 22:27.083 --> 22:29.083 Venezuela , from Burma , from Haiti 22:29.083 --> 22:31.083 West africa and more so we have had 22:31.083 --> 22:33.250 success in doing this . We're going to 22:33.250 --> 22:35.290 keep we're going to be steadfast on 22:35.300 --> 22:37.710 breaking sure that Brittany and Paul 22:37.720 --> 22:39.664 come home quick follow up . I know 22:39.664 --> 22:41.664 we're gonna hear from the President 22:41.664 --> 22:43.498 more detail as it relates to the 22:43.498 --> 22:43.230 questions my colleagues have asked 22:43.240 --> 22:45.296 about oil specifically , but can you 22:45.296 --> 22:48.920 today rule out an export ban 22:49.070 --> 22:52.750 that oil overseas ? I am not going to 22:52.750 --> 22:54.861 get ahead of this President . I'm not 22:54.861 --> 22:56.917 going to be president . Address that 22:56.917 --> 22:59.139 specifically . I'm not going to lay out 22:59.139 --> 23:01.250 or preview what the President's going 23:01.250 --> 23:03.361 to address or not address . Not going 23:03.361 --> 23:03.190 to get ahead of him . Well , let him 23:03.200 --> 23:05.200 make the announcement tomorrow . If 23:05.200 --> 23:07.367 you're not going to get ahead of him , 23:07.367 --> 23:09.533 that means that's an issue about which 23:09.533 --> 23:11.700 he'll be speaking . That is not what I 23:11.700 --> 23:15.250 said . That specific question . I'm 23:15.250 --> 23:17.194 answering that specific question . 23:17.194 --> 23:19.361 Which is I'm not going to get ahead of 23:19.361 --> 23:21.528 the President . He's going to make his 23:21.528 --> 23:23.639 announcement tomorrow . Thanks thanks 23:23.639 --> 23:23.450 Corinne . Following up on something 23:23.460 --> 23:25.700 steve was asking , what is President 23:25.700 --> 23:28.160 biden's top domestic priority now ? Is 23:28.160 --> 23:30.330 it inflation or is it abortion ? 23:31.870 --> 23:33.926 The president's going to continue to 23:33.926 --> 23:35.981 talk about issues that matter to the 23:35.981 --> 23:38.590 american people and abortion is one of 23:38.590 --> 23:40.700 the majority of the american people 23:40.710 --> 23:44.220 disagree with the decision that uh that 23:44.220 --> 23:46.331 the Supreme Court made the decision . 23:46.331 --> 23:49.160 That is a majority of the people uh 23:49.170 --> 23:51.226 disagreed with that when it comes to 23:51.226 --> 23:53.281 the the president has made it very , 23:53.281 --> 23:55.503 very clear when it comes to inflation . 23:55.503 --> 23:57.781 It is his number one economic priority . 23:57.781 --> 23:59.948 And he is doing everything that he can 23:59.948 --> 24:02.080 to make sure that we lower prices . 24:02.690 --> 24:04.912 It's his number one economic priority . 24:04.912 --> 24:07.134 We've heard the president say inflation 24:07.134 --> 24:09.820 is his top domestic priority , but now 24:09.820 --> 24:13.740 he's saying Come next year , his first 24:13.750 --> 24:16.300 bill would be abortion related . So is 24:16.300 --> 24:18.330 his number one domestic priority 24:18.340 --> 24:20.800 abortion or is it inflation ? I forget 24:20.800 --> 24:23.022 what the president has done the last 19 24:23.022 --> 24:25.078 months . He has made the economy his 24:25.078 --> 24:26.911 top priority . He has passed the 24:26.911 --> 24:29.078 American rescue plan . By the way , as 24:29.078 --> 24:31.022 you heard me say all the time , no 24:31.022 --> 24:33.300 Republicans voted for that in Congress . 24:33.300 --> 24:35.356 And it was a plan that helped us get 24:35.356 --> 24:37.522 back on our feet with the economy that 24:37.522 --> 24:40.860 helped us gain or create 10 million 24:40.860 --> 24:43.970 jobs that we had lost . It also put 24:43.970 --> 24:46.710 money in people's pockets and also make 24:46.710 --> 24:50.530 sure that businesses were able to open 24:50.530 --> 24:52.530 up , schools were able to open up , 24:52.530 --> 24:54.697 people were able to go back into their 24:54.697 --> 24:56.863 homes , save their homes . And so that 24:56.863 --> 24:59.030 was the american rescue plan . There's 24:59.030 --> 25:00.697 the bipartisan infrastructure 25:00.697 --> 25:02.808 legislation which was again to invest 25:02.808 --> 25:05.090 in ports , invest in the infrastructure 25:05.090 --> 25:07.820 that was dwindling . And so that is 25:07.820 --> 25:09.820 something that he did the inflation 25:09.820 --> 25:12.170 reduction act that is lowering cost for 25:12.170 --> 25:14.281 the american people . He's working on 25:14.281 --> 25:16.003 the economy every day . I just 25:16.003 --> 25:17.726 announced yesterday or we just 25:17.726 --> 25:19.892 announced yesterday , hearing aid , 30 25:19.892 --> 25:21.892 million people are going to benefit 25:21.892 --> 25:24.114 from hearing AIDS , saving thousands of 25:24.114 --> 25:26.226 dollars a year . So that's working on 25:26.226 --> 25:28.281 the economy every day . So he said , 25:28.281 --> 25:30.448 he's been working on the economy every 25:30.448 --> 25:32.337 day for 19 months now , Bloomberg 25:32.337 --> 25:35.770 economists are forecasting a 100% 25:35.770 --> 25:37.980 chance of a recession . So how is it 25:37.980 --> 25:40.610 that we can be barreling towards a 25:40.610 --> 25:43.640 recession ? And the economy is as the 25:43.650 --> 25:46.630 president says , strong as hell . So 25:46.630 --> 25:48.797 here's the thing about the economy and 25:48.797 --> 25:50.741 I've said this many times , you've 25:50.741 --> 25:52.686 heard this from Secretary Yellen , 25:52.686 --> 25:54.852 you've heard this from BRian Deese who 25:54.852 --> 25:56.852 runs our Economic Council , is that 25:56.852 --> 25:59.074 what we are seeing right now is the job 25:59.074 --> 26:01.186 market is strong , The labor force is 26:01.186 --> 26:03.540 strong and that is not what we see 26:03.540 --> 26:07.030 usually before , uh before a recession . 26:07.240 --> 26:10.400 And so the and a lot of that is because 26:10.410 --> 26:12.410 of the work that this President has 26:12.410 --> 26:14.521 done . We were seeing an economy that 26:14.521 --> 26:17.370 is resilient . We are seeing an economy 26:17.380 --> 26:19.158 that is going through to into a 26:19.158 --> 26:21.500 transition with more stable growth , 26:21.500 --> 26:24.070 more steady growth . And that is 26:24.070 --> 26:26.292 because of the work that this President 26:26.292 --> 26:28.181 has done . That is because of the 26:28.181 --> 26:30.514 economic policy that he has put forward . 26:30.514 --> 26:32.459 And let me remind you the economic 26:32.459 --> 26:34.570 policy that he's put forward is about 26:34.570 --> 26:36.792 building the economy from the bottom to 26:36.792 --> 26:38.737 from the bottom to the top and the 26:38.737 --> 26:40.848 middle out . And that is so important 26:40.848 --> 26:42.959 because it means that we leave no one 26:42.959 --> 26:45.070 behind . It means that there's equity 26:45.070 --> 26:47.181 and everything that he puts forward . 26:47.181 --> 26:49.181 And so again , you're going to hear 26:49.181 --> 26:49.060 from the president about gas prices . 26:49.060 --> 26:51.171 That's again trying to make sure that 26:51.171 --> 26:53.338 we continue to keep prices low for the 26:53.338 --> 26:55.560 american people just if President biden 26:55.560 --> 26:57.671 keeps going to the petroleum reserves 26:57.671 --> 26:59.838 when there are energy problems . Is he 26:59.838 --> 27:02.060 giving up on his campaign pledge to end 27:02.060 --> 27:04.116 fossil fuel ? So , I want to be very 27:04.116 --> 27:06.470 clear on that piece . Um you know , 27:06.490 --> 27:08.960 there is no shortage of opportunity or 27:08.960 --> 27:11.127 incentive for oil companies to ramp up 27:11.127 --> 27:13.460 production . We've made that clear oil 27:13.460 --> 27:15.682 companies are ranking in record profits 27:15.682 --> 27:17.793 as we have seen , They have showed it 27:17.793 --> 27:19.849 themselves , we've seen it ourselves 27:19.849 --> 27:22.260 while more than 9000 approved drilling 27:22.260 --> 27:24.220 permits remain untapped by the oil 27:24.220 --> 27:26.720 industry at the same time U . S . Oil 27:26.720 --> 27:29.170 production is up and on track to reach 27:29.180 --> 27:31.980 a record high this year again a record 27:31.980 --> 27:34.090 high , in fact the United States has 27:34.090 --> 27:36.550 produced more oil in President Biden's 27:36.550 --> 27:39.010 first year than under the trump 27:39.010 --> 27:40.954 administration's first year . Okay 27:40.954 --> 27:43.121 we're gonna move on to the question of 27:43.121 --> 27:45.730 Haiti . The U . S . Is trying to work 27:45.730 --> 27:48.070 on a resolution that would get the 27:48.070 --> 27:50.620 Security Council to sort of support 27:50.630 --> 27:52.908 something that they call the non U . N . 27:52.908 --> 27:54.820 Security mission led by a partner 27:54.830 --> 27:56.970 country . Can you tell us what that 27:56.970 --> 27:59.081 would look like and talking about the 27:59.081 --> 28:01.270 US specific , does that possibly 28:01.270 --> 28:04.000 include actual U . S . Troops or would 28:04.000 --> 28:06.200 that be logistical support ? Financial 28:06.200 --> 28:08.690 support ? So um as as you heard from 28:08.690 --> 28:10.523 the ambassador ambassador thomas 28:10.523 --> 28:12.690 Greenfield yesterday , she laid out in 28:12.690 --> 28:14.690 her remarks at the U . N . Security 28:14.690 --> 28:16.857 Council . The United States and Mexico 28:16.857 --> 28:19.079 are working on a draft U . N . Security 28:19.079 --> 28:21.301 Council resolution that would authorize 28:21.301 --> 28:23.190 a non to your point a non U . N . 28:23.200 --> 28:25.089 International security assistance 28:25.089 --> 28:26.880 mission to help improve the the 28:26.880 --> 28:29.460 security situation in Haiti . As she 28:29.460 --> 28:31.680 noted , the resolution would outline a 28:31.680 --> 28:33.590 mission led by a U . S . Partner 28:33.590 --> 28:35.880 country with deep experience and it 28:35.880 --> 28:38.310 would be limited and carefully scoped . 28:38.320 --> 28:40.640 Uh that is what the what that is . What 28:40.640 --> 28:42.751 we laid out yesterday , conversations 28:42.751 --> 28:44.473 are ongoing with partners with 28:44.473 --> 28:46.640 necessary experience to have expressed 28:46.640 --> 28:49.520 the interest of leading that effort in 28:49.520 --> 28:52.430 contributing to a non U . N . Mission 28:52.430 --> 28:55.190 and playing leading or central roles in 28:55.190 --> 28:57.301 the effort as well . As I just stated 28:57.301 --> 28:59.357 the United States is considering the 28:59.357 --> 29:01.690 most effective ways to directly support , 29:01.690 --> 29:03.746 enable and resource such an effort . 29:03.746 --> 29:06.200 Again , they are conversations are 29:06.210 --> 29:08.590 ongoing on how to move this process 29:08.590 --> 29:10.701 forward . There's still a possibility 29:10.701 --> 29:12.870 or consideration for possible U . S . 29:12.870 --> 29:15.450 Troops or is that off the table ? Again , 29:15.460 --> 29:17.760 it is ongoing conversations on how to 29:17.760 --> 29:19.780 move forward . I'm not going to lay 29:19.780 --> 29:21.002 those out right now . 29:21.970 --> 29:25.690 Thank you . 29:25.810 --> 29:27.977 I have two questions , one is domestic 29:27.977 --> 29:30.370 and one foreign and domestic . The New 29:30.370 --> 29:32.481 York Times poll showed yesterday that 29:32.481 --> 29:35.280 more than a third of independent voters 29:35.290 --> 29:38.040 and a smaller but a small contingent of 29:38.050 --> 29:40.106 Democrats said that they are open to 29:40.106 --> 29:42.310 supporting candidates who reject the 29:42.310 --> 29:45.460 legitimacy of the 2020 election . So 29:45.470 --> 29:47.359 while you highlighting the motion 29:47.359 --> 29:49.248 issues , obviously the voters are 29:49.248 --> 29:53.240 focusing on recession , inflation and 29:53.240 --> 29:55.407 the economy , how worried is the White 29:55.407 --> 29:57.680 House considering uh this whole that 29:57.680 --> 29:59.791 was published by the new york Times , 29:59.791 --> 30:01.958 can you say ? Can you say it again the 30:01.958 --> 30:04.069 beginning of ? Sure . The poll showed 30:04.069 --> 30:06.520 that more than a third of independent 30:06.520 --> 30:09.580 voters and a small contingent of 30:09.580 --> 30:13.220 democrats said they are open To vote or 30:13.220 --> 30:15.790 to support candidates who reject the 30:15.790 --> 30:19.010 legitimacy of 2020 election . Look , 30:19.020 --> 30:21.430 you know , we've spoken about that many 30:21.430 --> 30:25.220 times about uh 30:25.230 --> 30:27.720 about those about those who voted and I 30:27.720 --> 30:29.776 want to be careful . Well , it's the 30:29.776 --> 30:32.200 past election of 2020 and how they Uh 30:32.200 --> 30:35.820 and the legitimacy of 2020 look um when 30:35.820 --> 30:37.820 the president came into office , he 30:37.820 --> 30:41.680 understood uh the importance of um his 30:41.680 --> 30:43.902 election , the importance of the moment 30:43.902 --> 30:46.013 that he was in , uh the importance of 30:46.013 --> 30:48.780 bringing people together . Uh and so , 30:48.790 --> 30:50.846 you know , we are aware of that . We 30:50.846 --> 30:53.180 are aware of how people may feel about 30:53.180 --> 30:55.870 the last election , but the president's 30:55.870 --> 30:58.092 going to stay steadfast on the american 30:58.092 --> 31:00.092 people . He's gonna , he has always 31:00.092 --> 31:02.037 said he is , he is a president for 31:02.037 --> 31:04.203 people who voted for him or people who 31:04.203 --> 31:06.370 didn't vote for him . He's a president 31:06.370 --> 31:08.481 for people who live in red states and 31:08.481 --> 31:10.759 blue states . It doesn't matter to him , 31:10.759 --> 31:12.870 but also , um , you know , that's why 31:12.870 --> 31:15.037 you hear him talk about the importance 31:15.037 --> 31:17.148 of democracy , uh , the important the 31:17.148 --> 31:19.037 importance of making sure that we 31:19.037 --> 31:21.148 protect and fight for our democracy . 31:21.148 --> 31:23.500 You heard him give a very powerful , 31:23.500 --> 31:25.930 thoughtful speech not too long ago in 31:25.930 --> 31:28.890 pennsylvania about this very issue . Uh , 31:28.900 --> 31:31.280 and so he's going to uh , certainly 31:31.290 --> 31:33.590 you'll continue to hear from him how 31:33.590 --> 31:35.760 important it is to make sure that we 31:35.760 --> 31:39.280 live up to our , to our , you know , to 31:39.280 --> 31:41.520 who we are as a country . And also on 31:41.520 --> 31:44.220 foreign policy , President Zelensky 31:44.230 --> 31:47.730 thang The Saudis Forgiven $400 million 31:47.730 --> 31:50.820 dollars in humanitarian aid . You 31:50.820 --> 31:53.840 welcome this and considering your 31:53.840 --> 31:57.150 grievances against plus that whatever 31:57.150 --> 32:00.310 they did was indirectly helping the 32:00.310 --> 32:04.190 Russians . So look , the decisions that 32:04.200 --> 32:07.630 opec plus made . Um , just last week , 32:07.640 --> 32:11.150 uh , is uh , was we believe 32:11.160 --> 32:13.850 sided with the Russians and was against 32:13.850 --> 32:15.906 the interests of the american people 32:15.906 --> 32:18.072 and the families around the world . We 32:18.072 --> 32:20.239 believe that decision is going to hurt 32:20.239 --> 32:23.180 and harm low , you know , low lower 32:23.180 --> 32:27.170 income economies . And and it is 32:27.170 --> 32:29.990 a it was a misguided and it was a 32:29.990 --> 32:32.101 mistake and a shortsighted decision . 32:32.101 --> 32:34.212 And so look , we've talked about what 32:34.212 --> 32:36.434 the president's going to do next . He's 32:36.434 --> 32:38.790 going to re evaluate his relationship 32:38.800 --> 32:40.633 with with Saudi Arabia . This is 32:40.633 --> 32:42.578 something that he has talked about 32:42.578 --> 32:44.133 since the beginning of this 32:44.133 --> 32:46.356 administration . He wants to do it in a 32:46.356 --> 32:48.411 bipartisan way , which is the way it 32:48.411 --> 32:50.244 has been done for the last eight 32:50.244 --> 32:52.078 decades . When we talk about our 32:52.078 --> 32:54.244 relationship with Saudi Arabia . So he 32:54.244 --> 32:56.467 is going to do this in a methodical way 32:56.467 --> 32:58.689 in a strategic way . Uh And he is going 32:58.689 --> 33:00.856 to certainly get input from members of 33:00.856 --> 33:03.189 both parties , but it doesn't take away , 33:03.189 --> 33:03.170 I know what you just laid out the 33:03.170 --> 33:05.226 assistant , but it doesn't take away 33:05.226 --> 33:09.170 what Opec's plus did that decision was 33:09.170 --> 33:11.337 a mistake . And so again , we're going 33:11.337 --> 33:13.392 to re evaluate that relationship and 33:13.392 --> 33:15.559 we'll have more to share . Thank you . 33:16.110 --> 33:20.000 Thanks very much , 33:20.010 --> 33:21.954 sort of following up on that . Are 33:22.100 --> 33:24.322 administration officials planning to go 33:24.322 --> 33:26.322 to the Future Investment Initiative 33:26.322 --> 33:28.322 conference in Riyadh . Saudi Arabia 33:28.322 --> 33:30.156 later this month . We don't have 33:30.156 --> 33:30.060 anything to preview announced at this 33:30.060 --> 33:32.227 time on any travel . Do you think it's 33:32.227 --> 33:34.060 appropriate for us businesses to 33:34.060 --> 33:36.282 continue their engagement or investment 33:36.282 --> 33:38.060 in the kingdom in light of what 33:38.060 --> 33:40.116 happened recently . So as they do in 33:40.116 --> 33:42.060 every part of the world , american 33:42.060 --> 33:44.282 companies will make their own decisions 33:44.282 --> 33:46.171 about their presence and where to 33:46.171 --> 33:48.393 invest , taking into account a range of 33:48.393 --> 33:50.504 factors including legal constraints , 33:50.550 --> 33:52.161 the business environment and 33:52.161 --> 33:55.150 reputational concerns that can arise 33:55.150 --> 33:58.080 from public policy choices made by host 33:58.080 --> 34:00.630 countries . Want to follow up on the 34:00.630 --> 34:02.574 Saudi Arabia question and then ask 34:02.574 --> 34:04.408 about student loans . One of the 34:04.408 --> 34:06.408 arguments Saudi Arabia is making to 34:06.408 --> 34:08.574 justify their decision to increase our 34:08.574 --> 34:10.741 production is that the price of oil is 34:10.741 --> 34:12.797 about the same as what it was before 34:12.797 --> 34:14.908 Russia invaded Ukraine . What's wrong 34:14.908 --> 34:17.074 with that argument ? Look , we've made 34:17.074 --> 34:19.297 it , we've made it very clear uh , that 34:19.297 --> 34:21.408 in the time of what's going on , what 34:21.408 --> 34:23.574 we're seeing with the global markets . 34:23.574 --> 34:25.830 Uh the decision that they made the opec 34:25.840 --> 34:28.370 opec plus decision , it was a mistake . 34:28.380 --> 34:30.580 It was shortsighted . We've been very 34:30.580 --> 34:34.150 clear about that . And you know , 34:34.160 --> 34:37.300 again , the way that we see it , it was 34:37.310 --> 34:39.710 they decided with Russia on this and 34:39.710 --> 34:41.910 it's going to hurt american , the 34:41.910 --> 34:43.743 american people is going to hurt 34:43.743 --> 34:45.799 families across across the country . 34:45.980 --> 34:48.490 And we will have more to share on how 34:48.500 --> 34:50.667 our relationship is going to look like 34:50.667 --> 34:54.540 moving forward . I'm sorry , 34:54.550 --> 34:56.606 I'm sorry , I'm sorry yesterday . So 34:56.606 --> 34:58.050 mary Cardone has said the 34:58.050 --> 35:00.106 administration is working on ways to 35:00.106 --> 35:02.106 forgive them privately held student 35:02.106 --> 35:04.161 loans . Um can you say how confident 35:04.161 --> 35:06.161 you are , that that will happen and 35:06.161 --> 35:07.939 whether borrowers can expect an 35:07.939 --> 35:07.370 announcement on that before they have 35:07.370 --> 35:09.426 to resend payments , I'm gonna leave 35:09.426 --> 35:11.537 that to the Department of Education , 35:11.537 --> 35:13.592 like you said , Secretary Cardona is 35:13.592 --> 35:15.537 working on that . So we don't have 35:15.537 --> 35:17.648 anything to share at this time . Uh , 35:17.648 --> 35:19.814 clearly it is a priority and something 35:19.814 --> 35:21.926 that is an important , uh , important 35:21.926 --> 35:23.981 for this administration to make sure 35:23.981 --> 35:26.203 that private borrowers are also have an 35:26.203 --> 35:25.930 opportunity here . 35:32.740 --> 35:34.629 The administration had any recent 35:34.629 --> 35:38.140 communications with Russia about these 35:38.140 --> 35:40.120 cases in an attempt to win 35:43.190 --> 35:46.280 as well . As we said before , we try to 35:46.280 --> 35:49.670 keep these negotiations private 35:49.680 --> 35:51.900 and just don't have anything to share 35:51.900 --> 35:54.067 on any recent conversations , but this 35:54.067 --> 35:56.178 is a priority . And then just went on 35:56.178 --> 35:58.830 the pipeline police in Denmark said 35:59.000 --> 36:01.510 that their preliminary investigation 36:01.510 --> 36:03.890 into beliefs and which we wanted to , 36:04.390 --> 36:06.612 they said it was caused by a powerful , 36:06.770 --> 36:09.440 powerful explosion that's in line with 36:09.450 --> 36:12.270 what Sweden has said earlier . Does the 36:12.270 --> 36:14.880 administration have any reaction to 36:14.880 --> 36:16.769 these new findings ? And does the 36:16.769 --> 36:18.658 President believe that Russia was 36:18.658 --> 36:20.491 behind this alleged , well , the 36:20.491 --> 36:22.602 President has been very clear that it 36:22.602 --> 36:24.824 was clearly a sabotage when it comes to 36:24.824 --> 36:26.824 the pipeline . We've also said , we 36:26.824 --> 36:28.824 know this investigation is going to 36:28.824 --> 36:30.936 take some time and it's going to be a 36:30.936 --> 36:33.047 long process before we get to the end 36:33.047 --> 36:35.213 of it . So , I don't want to get ahead 36:35.213 --> 36:38.530 of ahead of the investigation . Thanks . 36:38.540 --> 36:40.990 I wanted to follow up on some of the 36:41.000 --> 36:42.944 questions from yesterday about the 36:42.944 --> 36:45.111 midterms and I understand you have the 36:45.111 --> 36:47.278 hatch act to consider . But what I was 36:47.278 --> 36:49.500 curious is even though we're seeing the 36:49.500 --> 36:51.611 president out there , he's been doing 36:51.611 --> 36:51.360 these smaller events with smaller 36:51.360 --> 36:53.582 audiences . He's been doing closed door 36:53.582 --> 36:55.804 fundraisers with no photographers . Why 36:55.804 --> 36:57.916 aren't we seeing big campaign rallies 36:57.916 --> 36:59.971 or anything on the schedule with the 36:59.971 --> 37:02.082 election less than three weeks away ? 37:02.082 --> 37:04.082 Look , I can't answer that question 37:04.082 --> 37:07.520 from here . Uh it is uh a election 37:07.530 --> 37:09.697 election that's currently happening at 37:09.697 --> 37:11.919 this time . So I'm very limited to what 37:11.919 --> 37:13.863 I can say from the podium from the 37:13.863 --> 37:16.770 White House . What I can say is that 37:16.780 --> 37:19.002 the president has been on the road , he 37:19.002 --> 37:22.890 will continue to be on the road . Um uh , 37:22.900 --> 37:25.390 I just can't say more than that . You 37:25.390 --> 37:27.334 have seen him , he was in Portland 37:27.334 --> 37:30.000 Oregon , uh doing events , he was in 37:30.000 --> 37:32.920 California doing events . Uh , and he 37:32.920 --> 37:35.570 was in Colorado doing events . Um , I 37:35.570 --> 37:38.570 will say that uh they were all pretty 37:38.570 --> 37:40.903 well attended , but I'll leave it there . 37:40.903 --> 37:43.130 Also just follow up , he has been doing 37:43.130 --> 37:45.186 less travel than for example what we 37:45.186 --> 37:48.380 saw President Obama do in the first in 37:48.380 --> 37:51.440 october of 2010 . Can you give anything 37:51.440 --> 37:53.607 about the schedule ? Anything that may 37:53.607 --> 37:55.718 be coming up and he stops , he may be 37:55.718 --> 37:57.884 doing Well , we announced that he's as 37:57.884 --> 37:57.730 you know , he's gonna go to 37:57.730 --> 37:59.841 Pennsylvania on Thursday , he's gonna 37:59.841 --> 38:01.952 go to Florida on November one , there 38:01.952 --> 38:04.174 will be more travel to come , certainly 38:04.174 --> 38:05.841 not going to get ahead of any 38:05.841 --> 38:07.786 announcements from here ? Uh , but 38:07.786 --> 38:09.897 again , the president , as you know , 38:09.897 --> 38:12.230 and we have said this many times before , 38:12.230 --> 38:14.452 he enjoys getting out there . He enjoys 38:14.452 --> 38:16.563 talking to the American people . This 38:16.563 --> 38:16.120 is something that he wants to continue 38:16.120 --> 38:18.231 to do . And we have something to talk 38:18.231 --> 38:20.509 about , right ? We have some successes , 38:20.509 --> 38:22.900 some wins to talk about . And I just 38:22.900 --> 38:25.122 laid them out , the inflation reduction 38:25.122 --> 38:27.830 act and the lower cost uh for uh for 38:27.830 --> 38:30.052 healthcare costs for american people is 38:30.052 --> 38:32.163 gonna lower costs for seniors . As we 38:32.163 --> 38:34.163 talk about Medicare , it's going to 38:34.163 --> 38:36.163 lower energy costs . These are real 38:36.163 --> 38:38.380 winds uh , that we have delivered for 38:38.380 --> 38:40.547 the american people that congressional 38:40.547 --> 38:42.380 democrats have delivered for the 38:42.380 --> 38:44.491 american people ? Where republicans , 38:44.491 --> 38:46.713 their plan , their plan is to take that 38:46.713 --> 38:48.936 away . They want they want to take away 38:48.936 --> 38:50.991 lowering costs on health care , They 38:50.991 --> 38:52.991 want to take away lowering costs on 38:52.991 --> 38:55.047 energy . And so what the president's 38:55.047 --> 38:57.158 going to continue to do is figure out 38:57.158 --> 38:59.102 how he's going to deliver for what 38:59.102 --> 39:00.991 matters the most for the american 39:00.991 --> 39:04.160 people . Thank you Karine . The 39:04.170 --> 39:06.226 President promised to send a bill to 39:06.226 --> 39:08.900 Congress to codify roe earlier today , 39:08.910 --> 39:11.243 I've got two basic questions about that . 39:11.243 --> 39:13.710 Number one , would that bill simply 39:13.710 --> 39:16.950 codify roe or would it go farther and 39:16.950 --> 39:19.410 overturn individual state abortion 39:19.410 --> 39:21.730 restrictions ? And then number two , 39:21.740 --> 39:24.250 are there any abortion restrictions at 39:24.260 --> 39:26.316 all that the president would support 39:26.350 --> 39:28.650 what the president is going to do and 39:28.650 --> 39:30.706 wants to do and believes in doing is 39:30.706 --> 39:34.650 codifying roe he believes that is what 39:34.650 --> 39:37.070 it was the law of the land , the 39:37.070 --> 39:39.014 constitutional right for almost 50 39:39.014 --> 39:41.420 years . And he believes in its specific 39:41.420 --> 39:44.250 provisions was rightly decided . He has 39:44.250 --> 39:46.480 said this regularly , including right 39:46.490 --> 39:49.550 after a Dobbs and that has not changed . 39:50.200 --> 39:52.478 But that didn't answer either question . 39:52.478 --> 39:54.311 There's first of all , there are 39:54.311 --> 39:56.144 individual state restrictions on 39:56.144 --> 39:58.320 abortion in the books currently around 39:58.320 --> 40:00.540 the country . Some of those existed 40:00.550 --> 40:02.570 before the Dobbs case before the 40:02.570 --> 40:04.850 overturn roe with the press resident 40:04.860 --> 40:07.230 with this bill to codify roe . Does he 40:07.230 --> 40:09.286 want that bill to go farther ? And I 40:09.286 --> 40:11.341 just I just answered that question , 40:11.341 --> 40:13.674 believes he just answered that question . 40:13.674 --> 40:16.260 He believes in row and how it stood 40:16.270 --> 40:19.700 before the Dobbs decision on the 40:19.710 --> 40:21.930 individual or are there any 40:21.930 --> 40:23.763 restrictions whatsoever that the 40:23.763 --> 40:25.874 president would support when it comes 40:25.874 --> 40:28.170 to abortion ? Again , he believes in 40:28.180 --> 40:31.230 the provision that Rowe had . Um , and 40:31.240 --> 40:33.073 that's where he stands . I would 40:33.073 --> 40:35.184 suggest you reading it . So you get a 40:35.184 --> 40:37.351 sense of what the president stands and 40:37.351 --> 40:39.407 what he wants to see , shifting to a 40:39.407 --> 40:41.629 different topic , then ? Um , why is it 40:41.629 --> 40:43.684 that the President was talking about 40:43.684 --> 40:45.851 nuclear Armageddon behind closed doors 40:45.851 --> 40:47.851 to political donors two weeks ago , 40:48.000 --> 40:50.250 rather than speaking directly with the 40:50.250 --> 40:52.417 american people about that . There was 40:52.417 --> 40:54.472 press your colleagues . There were a 40:54.472 --> 40:56.694 few of your colleagues that were in the 40:56.694 --> 40:58.750 room . Well , given the severity and 40:58.750 --> 41:00.972 the significance of that threat . Isn't 41:00.972 --> 41:00.080 that something the President should 41:00.420 --> 41:04.360 perhaps we've talked about ? I 41:04.370 --> 41:06.426 mean , but there was there was again 41:06.426 --> 41:08.592 there was press in the room . It's not 41:08.592 --> 41:10.814 like he was saying he was not saying it 41:10.814 --> 41:10.520 in secret . He knew that the press was 41:10.520 --> 41:12.520 in the room at the time when he was 41:12.520 --> 41:14.353 making the comments . Look , the 41:14.353 --> 41:16.464 President , we've talked about this , 41:16.464 --> 41:18.798 this is like two weeks ago conversation , 41:18.798 --> 41:20.798 we we we've talked about this in in 41:20.798 --> 41:23.900 detail about how seriously we take uh 41:23.910 --> 41:26.600 Putin's saber rattling uh Putin's 41:26.600 --> 41:28.656 comments about nuclear using nuclear 41:28.656 --> 41:30.656 weapons . That is something that we 41:30.656 --> 41:32.822 take seriously . Do we see anything at 41:32.822 --> 41:35.380 this time that uh that causes us to 41:35.380 --> 41:38.180 move our our strategic positioning ? No . 41:38.190 --> 41:41.700 Not at this time , but it matters that 41:41.980 --> 41:44.220 that rhetoric is being used . And so 41:44.220 --> 41:46.370 the President has spoken to this , I 41:46.370 --> 41:48.314 have spoken to this , the National 41:48.314 --> 41:50.314 Security Advisor has spoken to this 41:50.314 --> 41:52.259 again , it was not in secret . The 41:52.259 --> 41:54.481 reason why you know that it happened is 41:54.481 --> 41:56.537 because there were reporters there . 41:56.537 --> 41:58.648 Thank you . Follow up on the first of 41:58.648 --> 42:01.810 the questions just now , is there any 42:01.820 --> 42:05.080 chance that he may put out the whatever 42:05.080 --> 42:08.770 this legislative proposal is before , 42:08.780 --> 42:12.150 say a democratic majority on january 42:12.160 --> 42:15.730 3rd of next year , that people can see 42:15.730 --> 42:18.050 exactly what the legislative language 42:18.060 --> 42:20.171 is that that is being proposed here ? 42:20.171 --> 42:23.100 Because the bill that they voted on on 42:23.110 --> 42:25.166 capitol Hill a couple of times , the 42:25.166 --> 42:27.930 women Women's Health Protection act was 42:27.940 --> 42:30.630 broader than what I believe you're 42:30.630 --> 42:32.519 talking about now . Well , as the 42:32.519 --> 42:34.686 president said that he would send this 42:34.686 --> 42:37.270 piece of legislation to Congress and he 42:37.270 --> 42:39.080 believes roe and its specific 42:39.090 --> 42:41.640 provisions should stand . That's what 42:41.650 --> 42:43.872 this piece of legislation that he would 42:43.872 --> 42:45.928 write that he would send to Congress 42:45.928 --> 42:48.280 would look like . And he's been very , 42:48.280 --> 42:50.370 very clear about this . He made that 42:50.380 --> 42:53.820 statement when the decision was decided 42:53.830 --> 42:57.310 in june . He is very , very clear that 42:57.320 --> 43:00.660 the rose decision was rightly when roe 43:00.660 --> 43:02.882 was first put into place . That was the 43:02.882 --> 43:05.700 in its in its form was rightly decided 43:05.710 --> 43:07.940 and that's what he wants to see and 43:07.940 --> 43:09.996 that's what you're going to see . He 43:09.996 --> 43:12.260 pushed forward in the next Congress 43:12.440 --> 43:14.607 follow up on the student loan question 43:14.607 --> 43:16.900 that was asked a little earlier too . 43:18.190 --> 43:20.820 The president yesterday , for those of 43:20.820 --> 43:22.542 us who were in the South Court 43:22.542 --> 43:25.020 auditorium mentioned the concerns about 43:25.020 --> 43:27.550 the legal challenges . Is there a 43:27.560 --> 43:30.240 message to the people with the tens of 43:30.240 --> 43:32.351 millions of americans who are signing 43:32.351 --> 43:35.940 up for this forgiveness right now , who 43:35.950 --> 43:38.117 may be eager to see it actually coming 43:38.117 --> 43:41.460 to their , their accounts , who may 43:41.460 --> 43:43.627 face the possibility that at least for 43:43.627 --> 43:45.404 a while there's a federal judge 43:45.404 --> 43:47.360 somewhere stops it . Look , the 43:47.360 --> 43:50.170 president is committed to this , right . 43:50.180 --> 43:52.236 This is a policy that he put forward 43:52.236 --> 43:54.402 because he wanted to give a little bit 43:54.402 --> 43:56.291 of breathing room to the american 43:56.291 --> 43:58.347 people to the middle class . This is 43:58.347 --> 44:00.513 also a campaign promise that he wanted 44:00.513 --> 44:02.624 to keep because he knew how important 44:02.624 --> 44:04.847 it was to . So many people were talking 44:04.847 --> 44:06.958 about almost four , 40 million people 44:06.958 --> 44:09.124 who are going to get borrowers who are 44:09.124 --> 44:11.291 going to get the , who are going to be 44:11.291 --> 44:13.569 able to get the effects of this policy . 44:13.569 --> 44:15.513 23 million people are going to see 44:15.513 --> 44:17.736 their debt , their college debt already 44:17.736 --> 44:20.180 wiped away . That matters . That 44:20.180 --> 44:22.236 matters . We're talking about 90% of 44:22.236 --> 44:24.291 the folks who are going to be of the 44:24.291 --> 44:26.402 borrowers who are going to be getting 44:26.402 --> 44:28.569 this relief are making under $75,000 . 44:28.569 --> 44:30.530 So he's committed to this and he's 44:30.530 --> 44:32.641 going to make sure do everything that 44:32.641 --> 44:34.752 we can to make this an easy process . 44:34.752 --> 44:36.808 And we've seen that already from the 44:36.808 --> 44:38.919 website and the thing to remember . I 44:38.919 --> 44:41.086 think the question to ask or the thing 44:41.086 --> 44:43.252 to actually really think about here is 44:43.252 --> 44:45.252 what republicans are trying to do . 44:45.252 --> 44:47.419 When you look at these lawsuits across 44:47.419 --> 44:49.308 the country , they're coming from 44:49.308 --> 44:51.308 republicans and republicans want to 44:51.308 --> 44:54.500 take away this essential need That 44:54.500 --> 44:56.680 folks . Again , 90% of these folks are 44:56.680 --> 44:59.290 making 70 , less than $75,000 , who 44:59.290 --> 45:01.401 need a little bit more of a breathing 45:01.401 --> 45:03.860 room who need an opportunity to put 45:03.860 --> 45:05.860 money down on a house , who need an 45:05.860 --> 45:07.971 opportunity to get a family started , 45:07.971 --> 45:10.410 who need an opportunity to just live 45:10.410 --> 45:12.880 their lives in a little , a little bit 45:12.890 --> 45:15.440 easier way ? And so that's the question 45:15.440 --> 45:17.384 to be asking , why are Republicans 45:17.384 --> 45:17.980 doing this ?