Andrea Mitchell: We need gas prices to go down so we can produce less gas

As President Biden prepares to travel to Arizona to declare a new national monument around The Grand Canyon, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell used her Tuesday show to lament how people’s basic needs to heat their homes and not break their wallets over gas prices have hurt his ability to cut back on fossil fuels. Mitchell and Politico White House editor Sam Stein also insisted that those gas prices have nothing to do with those high gas prices as he’s just a bystander to world events.

Stein and Mitchell also agreed that Biden’s—like former President Barack Obama’s—record on environmental issues isn’t the greatest, with Stein critiquing them from the left, “And you hit the nail on the head, he’s got a relatively mixed record when it comes to land preservation. It’s reminiscent to a degree of what Barack Obama had where there was some drilling that angered environmentalists but there was conservation efforts too.”