to the gas pumps to fill up their cars, look, i drive a little ford and it cost $60 to fill it up the other day. so they are concerned about the cost of gas at pumps and groceries in our stores. i m the daughter of a maid and a janitor. i watched my parents struggle to make ends meet. the youngest of 7 children. so believe me, in my own life experiences, i knew all too well about that. but let me say this. it does not mean that we should ignore people who lie, steal, and cheat to stay in power or make money. so we re not going to do that. but we certainly need to drive down the cost. we ve already reached out to the administration and talked about in terms of gas, let s tap into those reserves, let s look at price gouging to make sure that oil and gas companies are not just taking advantage of a bad situation so we have called for an investigation into that. we re certainly hoping that that legislation will pass. but we re also looking at market manipulation. again, many time
every day to do everything that i can to keep them safe once i m in the u.s. senate. congresswoman demings. good morning, it is willie geist. nice to see you. good morning. marco rubio has it a circus and made for tv event saying the focus should be on things like the price of gas. one could say you could have both of those thoughts in your head at the same time and address both of those problems. so let me ask you about the second one which is the price of gas. the price of groceries. the sticker shock people are seeing every time they go to the store in the state of florida and across the country. we have senator warnock a few minutes ago and asked him the same question, that is front and center for voters come november. what are you proposing to do about inflation. is there anything the government could do about it at this point before election day. well willie, it is great to see you as well. let me say this, i do understand that when people go through
targeting. what is it about this district that has been the scene of so much fierce republican in fighting? yeah, i love the old bloody eighth reference. let s hope this one doesn t get as complicated as that race. that went all the way to a house committee hearing and it took six months to get the winner. that one seated back in 1985. but what makes the first district of south carolina so competitive, it is the most politically competitive district in south carolina. it is the one where democrats could look at, there is a heavily democratic district that jim clyburn represents that republicans don t have a chance in. south carolina is the closest thing there is to a tossup district in the state. it leans republican, but as joe cunningham showed in 2018 under the right circumstances it could be winnable for a democrat. that is because you have charleston, you have some liberal, some very conservative areas here. more typical of the rest of the state. but you ve got some liberal
thing would be one day and the next day would be another issue. i told this stuff that he was shovelled out to the publics with [ bleep ] and the claims of fraud were [ bleep ] and he wassin dig nantz about that. and i try to put this in perspective and very clear terms to the president and i said something to the effect, sir, we ve done dozens of investigations and hundreds of interviews, the major allegations are not supported by the evidence developed. there were so many allegations that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he won t fight us on it, but he would move to another allegation. and that is the whack-a-mole. it is funny, willie and i have talked about whack-a-mole. you get you convince them that one conspiracy theory is wrong. then they move to the other. we re talking about people we know in our own world. donald trump was doing it to
but i m awfully glad that they are testifying and they are cooperating and they re not hiding behind the fifth amendment. because we actually, we re getting this information. so that is something that can t be lost. first of all, i m glad they were saying what they were saying back in the time that all of this was going down and not everybody was in the crazy club. and also, again, it is a good thing that they ve come before the committee and testified. even under subpoena. they could have been noncooperative. but they ve been cooperating. and one of the reasons we have a picture of it is because they have stepped forward and done that. so while we ve been critical of course of why bill barr and some other people haven t said things in a timely manner, well, i m really glad they re all saying it now. we need to know as a country. we need to know the truth.