LET’S GET MORE ON THAT RIGHT
NOW.
MADISON, THANK YOU.
I DO WANT TO BRING IN SOUTH
CAROLINA REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY MACE.
CONGRESSWOMAN THERE IS A LOT ON
YOUR PLATE TODAY.
FIRST I WANT TO GET YOUR
THOUGHTS ON THESE TWO BILLS, NOT
JUST ONE, BUT TWO BILLS.
IN PARTICULAR THIS SECOND BILL,
THE SECOND VOTE THAT WOULD GIVE
SEVEN DAYS OF PAID SICK LEAVE TO
THE WORKERS.
A LOT OF PROGRESS SERVES, AS YOU
KNOW, ARE PUSHING FOR THIS.
YOU’VE GOT BERNIE SANDERS ON THE
SENATE SIDE SAYING HE, IT HAS,
IT HAS TO BE SICK LEAVE.
JOSH HAWLEY SAYS THE WORKERS
HAVE TO SUPPORT THIS.
THERE IS PUSH BACK ON ANY TYPE
OF VOTE.
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US RIGHT NOW?
>> CERTAINLY A LOT OF PUSHBACK
ON THE SECOND BILL.
NANCY PELOSI LIED TO CONGRESS
THERE WOULD BE ONE BILL, ONE
VOTE, AT LAST MINUTE PEPPERED IN
THIS SECOND BILL TO PLACATE TO
THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALISTS IN
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THERE WILL NOT BE SUPPORT FROM
REPUBLICANS ON THAT SECOND VOTE.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU THERE WILL
BE A LOT OF BLAME PLACED ON
PRESIDENT BIDEN.
THERE IS PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO
AROUND BUT WHEN YOU LOOK WHY
THIS IS HAPPENING THE LABOR
UNIONS ARE HOLDING THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND OUR ECONOMY HOSTAGE
RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS AND
THAT’S WHERE THE BLAME NEEDS TO
BE WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. WHY THIS VOTE IS EVEN OCCURRING
WHY THIS VOTE IS EVEN OCCURRING
THIS IS PRIVATE SECTOR
CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT.
CONGRESS SHOULD NOT VOTE ON THIS
ANY DAY, OR THE NEXT SEVERAL
DAYS.
CHERYL: I WANT TO GET INTO THE
SIX LEAVE ISSUE BECAUSE THIS IS
THE STICKING POINT.
REMIND OUR VIEWERS HERE, FOUR OF
THE UNIONS REJECTED THE BADEN
BROKERED DEAL.
GO BACK IN HISTORY HERE FOR A
SECOND.
MARIA MADE A COMMENT THIS
MORNING BUT I HAVE TO BRING IT
UP AGAIN, MARIA BARTIROMO, I
THOUGHT THIS WAS AMTRAK JOE,
UNION JOE?
LOOKS LIKE THE PRESIDENT HAS
REALLY FAILED COMPLETELY IN
HELPING A CLASS OF WORKERS, A
CLASS OF AMERICANS THAT HE VOWED
HE WOULD ALWAYS REPRESENT.
YOUR TAKE HERE?
>> RIGHT.
RAILROAD JOE FAILED.
HE LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
ABOUT THIS DEAL THAT HE SAID WAS
DONE.
TURNS OUT IT’S NOT DONE AND I
UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEED FOR
SICK LEAVE AND THAT BEING
IMPORTANT BUT WE’RE ALSO TALKING
ABOUT A 24% PAY HIKE THAT’S
RETROACTIVE.
I CAN’T IMAGINE ANY OTHER
INDUSTRY THAT GIVES THAT KIND OF
A PAY HIKE WHERE THE AVERAGE
WAGE WILL BE ABOUT $160,000.
THAT IS AN ENORMOUS EXPENSE ON
THE BACKS OF HARD-WORKING
AMERICANS THAT WILL HAVE TO PROP
THIS UP.
THEY WILL PROP IT UP BY HIGHER
PRICES IN EVERYTHING THAT IS,
THAT TRAVELS BY RAIL INCLUDING
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE AS YOUR
REPORTERS JUST MENTIONED.
SO IT WILL BE AN ENORMOUS
EXPENSE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS
ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
AGAIN BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY
THESE LABOR UNIONS WHO PUT THIS,
PUT THIS FORTH AND WHO ALSO
FAILED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
CHERYL: LET’S TALK A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT, I WANT TO DIG INTO THIS
BECAUSE I WAS READING INTO THE
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
RAILROADS ABOUT THE SICK LEAVE.
WHERE WE’RE STUCK HERE, OKAY?
BECAUSE I THINK THIS WILL COME
UP AMONG YOU AND YOUR
COLLEAGUES.
I THINK, LIKE I SAID THE
PROGRESSIVES WANT, THEY WANT
SEVEN DAYS OF PAID SICK LEAVE.
THAT IS THE SECOND BILL.
WE’LL SEE THE FATE OF THAT ON
THE FLOOR TODAY.
BUT THEY DO GET PAID SICK LEAVE,
OKAY?
THEY GET ADDITIONAL PAID SICK
DAYS AS WELL.
AND THEY CAN USE THAT SICK LEAVE
AS DAYS OFF WITH NOTICE.
I MEAN, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE
SEMANTICS ARE BEING LOST HERE IN
THE FACT THAT RAIL WORKERS ARE
GETTING A 24% PAY RAISE
RETROACTIVE, THEY DO GET
5000-DOLLAR BONUSES, THEY DO
HAVE PAID SICK LEAVE.
NOT LIKE THEY’RE BEING LEFT
WITHOUT THAT AT ALL.
BUT AGAIN I GO BACK TO THE FACT
THAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
HAVE TO KIND OF DEBATE THIS.
DO YOU GET A SENSE HOW THIS VOTE
IS GOING TO GO?
>> WELL, YOU’RE RIGHT, THEY HAVE
GREAT SALARIES, THEY HAVE GREAT
BENEFITS.
THE NEED TO NEGOTIATE AN EVEN
BETTER DEAL SHOULD BE DONE NOT
VIA CONGRESS, NOT VIA THIS VOTE.
BY AND LARGE, I THINK
REPUBLICANS MAY OR MAY NOT VOTE
IN FAVOR OF THE FIRST BILL.
THAT WAS DEBATE WE HAD IN
CONFERENCE THIS MORNING BUT THE
SECOND BILL BY AND LARK, THEY’RE
NOT GOING TO GET REPUBLICAN
SUPPORT.
THAT IS EVERYTHING AND THE
KITCHEN SINK THAT NANCY PELOSI
PUT TOGETHER IN A BILL TO
SATISFY THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS
IN HER PARTY.
WE WERE TOLD AND PROMISED ONE
VOTE, ONE BILL AS IS AND THAT IS
NOT THE CASE.
SO NANCY PELOSI LIED TO CONGRESS
IN PART OF NEGOTIATING THIS VOTE
AND NEGOTIATING THE COMPONENTS
TO THE BILL AND THAT IS WHERE
YOU’RE GOING TO SEE REPUBLICANS
BY AND LARGE, THE VAST MAJORITY
OF US IF NOT ALL OF US WILL PUSH
BACK ON THE SECOND VOTE, THE
SENSE I’M SEEING UP HERE ON THE
HILL TODAY.
CHERYL: OKAY,MANY WE’LL
OBVIOUSLY, ALL EYES WILL BE ON
YOU.
I DO WANT TO MOVE ONTO SOMETHING
ELSE THAT IS BANTERED ABOUT
TODAY, THIS ISSUE OF CHEVRON.
WE’RE LEARNING FROM CHEVRON,
THEY WILL GET THE FIRST OIL
SHIPMENT SEND IT FROM VENEZUELA
TO THE U.S., END OF THIS YEAR.
WHY IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION,
FIRST OFF, WHY DO YOU THINK
THEY’RE WORKING WITH VENEZUELA A
SOCIALIST REGIME?
WHY WON’T THEY FIX ENERGY ISSUES
HERE AT HOME?
LOVES I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT,
WE’RE ALSO GETTING REPORTS, NOW
SEEING THE REPORTS NOT JUST
VENEZUELA BUT IRAN, THEY’RE
SENDING OUT ILLEGAL ESTIMATE
SHIPMENTS DESPITE U.S.
SANCTIONS, ILLEGAL SHIPS OF
CRUDE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
GUESS WHERE SOME OF IT IS GOING,
NANCY?
CHINA.
>> WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.
JOE BIDEN AND THE ADMINISTRATION
ARE TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD
LOOKING FOR OIL AND GAS HE HAVE
WHERE BUT HERE AT HOME.
UNDER THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION WE WERE NET
EXPORTERS OF OIL AND GAS.
UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
WE’VE BECOME NET IMPORTERS.
WE HAVE SO MUCH NATURAL GAS HERE
AT HOME.
IF YOU LOOK AT FOR EXAMPLE, THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, ENOUGH
NATURAL GAS TO POWER ALL OF
EUROPE FOR THE NEXT 150 YEARS.
THERE IS NO REASON.
SO WE TRANSITIONED TO A GREEN
ENERGY EFFICIENT ELECTRIC
ECONOMY THAT IN THE YEARS UNTIL
THEN UNTIL WE CAN TRANSITION TO
THAT WE CAN’T USE OUR NATURAL
RESOURCES HERE AT HOME AND BE
LESS DEPENDENT ON FOLKS WHO ARE
NOT WITH US, ON SOCIALIST
REGIMES AROUND THE WORLD.
WE HAVE RESOURCES HERE AT HOME.
WE SHOULD BE USING RESOURCES TO
BEEF UP OUR ECONOMY, MORE ENERGY
I, HELP US HERE AT HOME, IT
HELPS THE ECONOMY, REDUCES THE
IMPACT OF INFLATION ON OUR
ECONOMY.
I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND THE
STRATEGY OF THE ADMINISTRATION
AT THIS JUNCTURE ON THIS ISSUE
WHAT THEY’RE DOING AROUND THE
WORLD.
CHERYL: THEY WOULD RATHER GO TO
OPEC PLUS AND BEG THE SAUDIS AND
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, EVEN THE
RUSSIANS IN SOME SENSE TO GET
OIL.
I KNOW WE’RE NOT GETTING RUSSIAN
OIL BUT AT THE SAME TIME OPEC
PLUS DOES INCLUDE RUSSIA AND
THERE NEEDS TO BE A, I THINK
SERIOUS CONVERSATION ABOUT
ENERGY PRODUCTION IN THIS
COUNTRY.
CONGRESSWOMAN, GREAT TO SEE YOU.
WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS AT THE
FIRST OF THE YEAR WHEN
REPUBLICANS TAKE CONTROL OF THE