of his top priorities. the news are will coordinate agencies to help find and exterminate the city s problematic pests. john so there s that, um, this morning, democratic senator dianne feinstein is asking to be temporarily replaced on the senate judiciary committee as she recovers from shingles. but the 89 year old is now facing calls to resign from congress after missing dozens of senate votes this year. cnn s lauren fox is following all of this for us, lauren. my bed is it s not so simple as senator feinstein saying replace me temporarily on the judiciary committee, is it yeah. i mean, there really isn t a playbook for this. john this is not something that happens every day on capitol hill. but like you, noted senator dianne feinstein, facing calls from house democrats to resign. here s ro khanna on why he thinks that s what the senator should do. it has become painfully obvious to many of us in california that she is no
we re only here for one more week, and they have no plan coming before us but to spend more money. and it s not just republicans warned about the american rescue plan. steve ratner, a democrat, he calls it the original sin where inflation began. larry summers warned them before they passed it. maria: wow. the secretary of the treasury, a democrat, they all knew what they were going to do and now they try to deny it? and remember, that bill passed without one republican vote. maria: and it s not just the issues around bad policy. there s also corruption in plain sight. why is it that nancy pelosi s husband keeps getting so, quote-unquote, lucky by buying companies that are getting impact by the legislation that nancy pelosi is directing? okay, now we understand that paul pelosi bought shares in nvidia. this is a chip company, and he did it right before a congressional vote on related chip subsidy legislation. the legislation i was just talking about the with ro khanna.
also next week the federal reserve is meeting on tuesday and wednesday, and we are expecting the fed to to raise interest rates by another 75 basis points making borrowing more expensive on top of enrace in. in washington, it is the final week in session before the august reaccess as democrat lawmakers are trying to push through more spending and higher taxes. joining me now with the a look at the week ahead is gop leader, california congressman kevin kevin mccarthy. congressman, it s good to see you. thanks very much for being here. thanks for having me on the show, maria. maria: what s most important to the american people, your reaction from what you just heard from are your colleague, ro khanna, with regard to this climate change emergency that he s calling for. well, this is the problem in washington, the problem with democrats. the thing ro khanna did not tell you,ing he said he was opposed to sending oil to china, he voted against the ability to temperature stop that just la
making enough things in america. look at the shipping costs. look at the costs for importing all these goods. if we had an industrialization policy, if we made more things in america, we would lower costs. and i d rather we be making the solar panels, the electric vehicles, the wind turbines in america than china. why would we want china to have the lead in batteries and the new energy of the 21st sent century? i want america to to lead in that. maria: yeah. i want to take a break, but with all due respect, congressman, we know that the inflation rate was at 1.4% when joe biden walked into the white house. then he signed the covid relief package into law at almost $2 trillion, and that was beginning of the stoking of inflation. we can talk about that after the break. ro khanna, california congressman, we await more economic data in the week ahead. we ll be right back. some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of
chinese state global media, the global times was threatening they weren t going to send those prescription elements, so you re right on. we appreciate your leadership in this area, congressman. thanks very much for john joining me this morning. thank you. maria: ro khanna. quick break and new york gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin fights off a madman who was trying to stab a him, and the man was back on the streets the next day. and then, biden s approval ratings at the lowest we have ever seen, 31%, with new polls showing democrats and republicans still in a dead heat. the polls, the policies and the midterm election.