On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry commented on the Biden administration granting new drilling leases by stating that he's fine with additional fossil fuel production if it's "geared to be able to deal with the need for economic stability in order to be able to make the transitions that we need," and he views the move "as a temporary measure to try to relieve the price pressure, which is essential to keeping the population committed to moving in these directions," and that President Biden "knows that many of these leases that have been granted are simply not going to be drilled in."