thank you lydia well joining us for more
on this is louisiana center bill cassidy
is a republican on the senate health
committee and i just want to play for
you sir before we get your reaction the
new white house press secretary answered
a question about this over the weekend
watch here
the president understands the struggle
of moms and dads and parents and
caregivers and making sure
that uh you know making sure that we get
a child has a you know a healthy a
healthy food a healthy way of eating i
don't have a timeline for you yet we
want to
explain you know make sure it goes very
quickly uh because it's so critical and
we know what what families are going
through
i but i don't have an exact timeline
what did you hear over the weekend from
constituents uh constituents are upset
the woman in new orleans three children
can't find formula and she feeds them
three times a day yeah and they're kind
of wondering does the administration
really care not the kind of words they
say but we know that abbott had to start
signaling this three months ago
fda could have had everything lined up
in order to have things here
when
kind of things hit the fan and they
didn't so there's either incompetence or
just kind of a lack of oversight or the
the perceptions they just don't care
the the white house maintains that
they've been working on this since day
one but they won't answer a question
which is when did president biden find
out about you know i'm willing to say
that there should have been a competent
lieutenant that would have taken this on
but the fact is somebody should have
taken it on now since it's really gotten
worse they've been able to move
relatively quickly they could have moved
quickly three months ago and this never
would have happened
the desperation that these moms are
telling the media about the way that
they feel that there was one who said
that she thinks of nothing else but
trying to find the formula for her
children so that is going to continue
for a while so we'll see about that
you have
real concerns about the economy and
especially u.s energy you have 10 ways
that president biden has killed u.s
energy we could pull that up yeah we
talk about this a lot the first on the
first day in the first hour killing the
keystone pipeline but what other things
could they do that could turn this
around to deal with the fact that
americans have record high gas prices
now 14 days in a row first just like on
baby formula they have to show they care
now you would care if you took tangible
steps to lower the cost of energy they
say they're doing this they're doing
that but it's always one step forward
two steps back such as can such as
saying that they want to do more oil and
gas leases and then actually not
approving them at the last correct are
putting in um more and more stringent
regulations which makes it impossible to
happen i've called for an operation warp
speed for energy get them all in a room
okay if you can't do it waiting for this
person to make a decision while we're in
the room so to speak you make the
decision the second person does if
there's an agency which seems to be slow
walking hold them accountable
this is important to lower the car the
price of gasoline the price of your
heating and cooling bill they got to
show they care well does secretary
granholm at the department of energy
have you talked to her does she care you
know i think on one level they do but
they have an environmental left which is
so powerful i think the secretary
personally does but they their
environmental left is kind of pleased
that gasoline is six dollars a gallon
they're kind of pleased that people are
paying so much they see this as if you
will the necessary struggle we have to
go through to get everybody to buy into
renewal how does that play in though to
our competitiveness with china oh my
gosh it increases the cost of production
of goods here in china excuse me in the
united states which gives a company one
more reason to move their manufacturing
plants to china where they use coal
which is cheap and where they don't
enforce the environmental regulations
and their labor standards are really low
one more reason for someone to think
about moving to china that's bad for us
all right so you're here and you're
going to be talking about this to groups
and trying to get the message out on
energy and the china piece it's critical
and that's where the president is
in asia today hopefully talking about it
as well thanks for being here good to
see you in person thank you all right