rather have, they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have the coal plants. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. my dad was a coal miner and my grand grandfather was a mining engineer. my dad was in sales. there was no work. we left to go to delaware where the oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolly in scranton going out north washington and adams avenue. within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood. the most prestigious neighborhood in the region in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people live. there was you d go by a wall that my recollection is was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. it went from essentially a city block. you can see the coal piled up to the very top of the wall from i
in jim spreeman, a fox news contributor. connell mcshane with us as well. fox business chief national correspondent. gentlemen, great to have you with us. let s just jump in here. what can the president do? they re about to take action. what can he do through executive action? sounds like he has that intention. i think that s the question people are asking. if he has the authority to do all of these things, why has he been asking congress for the last year and change for it. he got denied. it s a question of whether he s declaring an emergency and wants to use the national emergency act of 1976 which will allow him, if legal, to use more power to thwart fossil fuel drilling, production, the export of oil potentially and to pay for green energy. this looks like a completely questionable or illegal move. this is not an emergency in the
movement. thank you, thank you. may god bless you all and may good protect our troops. thank you. martha: all right. somerset in massachusetts as the president makes his way down the steps there wrapping up his remarks as he really has continued to hit a lot of walls with his agenda. he was just talking about a wall that he used to drive by as a child. the latest one is climate change. after senator joe manchin blocked the latest attempt at closing a deal, progressives now want to see him in what they re calling executive action beast mode. did we just see executive action beast mode? here s what we watched moments ago. this is an emergency. an emergency. and i will look at it that way. i said last week and i ll say it again loud and clear, as president, i ll use my executive powers to combat the climate crisis in the absence of congressional action. martha: with that, we bring