 and welcome back to news on gas shortages are on the rise along the east coast after the cyber attack that took place earlier this week and we're now learning that the colonial pipeline has resumed operations but then gas shortages could continue for several more days joining us live now to weigh in on this issue and so much more is CEO and founder the stock swoosh Melissa Armo also with this former Obama campaign director Robin Byron good to see both of you so as we mentioned we're expecting the president to address this issue any minute from now so we will go to him live when that happens but a lot of Americans seeming to panic especially in states like North Carolina and then you have people filling this up and for people that are old enough to remember this starts giving them flashbacks of those Carter years so want to go to that Robin what do you anticipate the president will say and what does he need to say to calm fears to calm fears Miranda he's got to say a couple things he needs to say that that a we don't negotiate with terrorists these were cyber terrorists they wanted a ransom in exchange for not hacking the cyber threat here and we didn't give it to them so look the pipeline did shut down for a few days there is a shortage of gas but it's back up and running please don't hoard the gas and if you do do it safely put it in a safe container please not bags and long laundry baskets like we're seeing on Facebook there needs to be some sanity here because these people are going to win the Darwin Awards Miranda yeah I'm with you on that I think we can all agree on this even though this is a bipartisan panel please do not fill up a plastic bag with gasoline and don't put tie pods in your mouth either that was a crazy while ago never understand that one so so Melissa I'm more serious now there are a lot of Americans are concerned though because we've seen lumber prices going up gas prices that were going up even before this hack again the president expected to address this so what do you anticipate we will hear him say and again same question to you what should he say I have no idea what Biden says but I will say one thing I read this morning in Bloomberg that they did pay the hackers so even though it's reported they did I read in Bloomberg that they did I think this is problematic one thing I think he should say is whether or not the ransom was paid because it's really poor if they did pay it and to get it back on and I think that there's a possibility they did because Bloomberg reported it the fact is that this is really a bad time for gas prices to be going up for consumers why we're headed into the memorial day in two weeks we're headed into the summer vacation season I have friends and my parents right now that are on vacation that have to drive home from Florida all the way back to Pennsylvania and they've got to worry about getting gas or what they're gonna pay for gas this is not a good time of the year for prices to be going up and right now we're seeing actually Chevron stop falling today and so you're seeing a negative reaction across the board really in the market this week and gasoline prices I think people are concerned about inflation and gas is just one of the things that is going up in price all across the board you've seen inflation right many other products and services yeah so going to that part you know Robin to the point that Melissa's making and and you know I know you brought up Bloomberg I always want to make sure that we confirm something but you're right I think the president does need to address that I see Robin I see you nodding your head on that but you know again aside from this cyber attack we do need to have some some protections in place as I mentioned the other day I was a consumer investigative reporter this has been a concern this isn't new this has been around for a long time but what is appearing to be new is you know these these prices that we're seeing when it comes to lumber I mean I'm seeing reports that it's almost doubled since Biden took office and gas prices as I mentioned Robin they were going up inching up before this hack happened so again do you think the president needs to address this because it is a real concern yes these are concerns and lumber prices in some areas are actually tripled right now Miranda so it's it's a concern and it's going to affect new construction and slow down some of the economy now one thing that I've got to say is that this pipeline is privately owned Chevron is one of the companies that owns it actually and it's owned by a lot of pension funds so I think the president and the administration needs to look at the fact of you know were I applauded president Trump former president Trump for a lot of the deregulation but did that did the deregulation maybe maybe make it easier here for this private company to get hacked because this is an infrastructure problem they need to make sure that infrastructure is protected and militarily look I'm a veteran we've been trying to look out for cyber threats for years but we can only do so much against private companies Miranda you bring up an interesting point Melissa would you like to respond to that well I will say one thing Trump would have gotten involved with this days ago if Trump was still president and if he hadn't people would have been on top of him criticizing him every single second on the news so I think the Biden's Biden's administration hands off when this first started was not the right approach and whether they really ended up getting involved in the end to resolve this I don't think that they did so I think that it is okay sometimes for the government to get involved in things like this where you have food gasoline or even people heating their homes remember when they had the thing with the windmills which happened with the ice storms in Texas so it's okay sometimes for the government to get involved with it's going to help resolve the situation I don't think that they took action here and if they did it wasn't fast enough or you wouldn't have people putting gasoline and plastic bags like oh yeah all right so so fair enough interesting perspective there you just heard Melissa just want to say for the record a Republican saying it's okay for the government to get involved even if it's a private entity because of the impact it has on everyone all right so we only have a few minutes remaining in the spot but I do want to get to this because I don't see a lot of people reporting this so as we mentioned earlier in the show President Joe Biden actually resuming construction of the border wall in Texas let me just say that again resuming construction of the wall at the border in Texas this was something Robin he said he was not going to do that was one of his promises we're seeing it happen not a lot of mainstream media outlets reporting this I don't see this going over really well with the progressive part of the Democratic Party oh you were right Miranda this will not go over with my peers on the on the far left and look I'm thank you for having Nick on that was a fantastic guess because he brought up something that I've been saying for years that no one else brings up about Joe Biden voting for the Secure Fence Act and look the real the truth is I call out hypocrisy on the left or the right President Obama built 649 miles of border fencing President Trump built 450 up my party was jumping up and down about that but it's hypocritical to do so because we have always been for secure borders and Joe Biden is not going to suddenly change his course of action he's been for secure borders for years so you know it is what it is we'll have to answer for this possibly in the midterms yeah and I think if memory serves me correctly wasn't it President Obama who used to be referred to as deporter in chief you are exactly correct Miranda just throwing that out there all right Melissa your reaction to this well I'm for the wall I think the wall needs to be there I used to live in Arizona there's a huge problem with with people bringing people across the border illegally they call them coyotes were they actually ransom and take people children many of the women and children across the border and they make their families pay them money to bring them across into these into the U.S. border I think it's a problem I think the wall needs to go up and continue and as far as Biden goes you know he's flip flop on this I'm sorry but he has he is going to take heat from his party on this whether or not now the wall actually continues to be both built or he flip flops on this two or three months from now I don't know overall though any person that lives in this country that's lived through 2020 here with covid should not be for not having the wall I mean why don't we want people coming in here when we're still dealing with the pandemic we have a problem we're trying to cut down on covid cases coming in now these people are getting tested we don't know if they have covid or not all right we're going to have to leave it right there but still to come on this edition we want to have our panel stick around because we were talking about security there and there's actually been more of an influx of people trying to illegally cross our border we're going to talk about that and we talked about cyber security well apparently you know as we mentioned earlier with Nick other people are worried about the security of the United States including around 120 retired military leaders they're actually concerned about the mental health of our president we're going to ask our bipartisan panel to weigh in on that issue also we're going to be talking about Republicans launching an all-out assault on sweeping voting rights legislation rather during a committee hearing that shine to spotlight on the increasingly charged national debate over access to the ballot that's all coming up in this edition of news 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