good to be with you, i m kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didn t know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and it s expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapon sites and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. i ll know the answer to that question this week when we actually get briefed on the decision making process about when and how to take down the balloon. there s an awful lot of people like me coming to absolutely rock solid conclusions based on very few facts. none of us know what the decision making process
take about $70 to fill up. before, used to be 40, 45. this is insane. almost $100 to full my tank up. another 1 1/2 months before it really breaks me. i thought it was going down but now it s the same price as my coffee. my fun could go elsewhere. i m trying to live in my travels. go from work to home. biden can do so much. so i appreciate anything and everything that he tries to do. with the influx of gas prices also suggest is that president biden is going to have a similar legacy as jimmy carter. martha: president biden blaming putin again today, about an hour ago, pandemic and the newly coined ultra maga republicans for the prices that we re seeing. former vice president pence had plenty to say about that, the supreme court, elon musk and twitter and a lot more. we begin with john barrasso, the number 3 senate republican leader. good to have you with us. thanks very much. there s no better barometer to go different places than the country. those were from
china perceives him, in their words a weak leader. they re doing that on the back drop of the united states. the biden administration will likely keep the focus on jobs, on the economy, on the things they were able to accomplish for the last two years in congress when they held both the house and senate. we are watching republicans try it make this an inflection point moment on the world stage around president biden. you re also seeing democrats saying they want more information on this. it s about to be briefing season on capitol hill as lawmakers come back to town this week. the gang of 8, so far their staff have been briefed. they re clamoring for more information. we re expect to go see hearings being announced on this. senator jon tester of montana said last week, he was expecting not just to be briefed but potentially put forward a hearing to get more information into the public view about how this came to be.
but right now, if you re middle class, let alone struggling, in san francisco, you can t afford to buy a home in this city. more and more people are leaving. let me just take us back a little bit, because pretty much between 2010 and 2015, when we were starting to see significant rise in the tech industry in our city and providing tax incentives and other things to do so. ..we created eight newjobs for every one new unit of housing. and i think that the focus on jobs, the focus on the economy and not on infrastructure, transportation, housing.have really put us in a very challenging situation. it was already unaffordable to live in san francisco, but it s gotten worse, which is why my push has been aggressive in terms of building housing in the city, almost by any means necessary. but it s not happening, madam mayor. i mean, if one looks at the planning procedures in this city, it is clear