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Opec, part of the cartel. the president has been -- and other -- some of our other members of our foreign policy team have been pressuring opec to increase production. in fact, a few weeks ago they talked about doing precisely that for july and august, increasing production 50%. this is very much part of that effort. >> let's talk about the domestic agenda and what happened this week. senator manchin backed out of negotiations on parts of that plan. the climate crisis, corporate tax increases. president biden said that the senate should pass the scaled down plan to extend obamacare subsidies, ...

What prompted this? >> reporter: our colleague who covers the pentagon and who has been all over this story today reports that president trump, according to her sources, was upset over this narrative that defense secretary jim mattis, the outgoing defense secretary, was seen as the last adult in the room, this notion that jim mattis was the last member of the cabinet standing who could reign in some of donald trump's more combative and isolationist impulses. this decision also follows the angry tweet from last night where he says when president obama fired jim mattis, i gave him a second chanc...

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