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This is the Fox News rundown Extra.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The push for electric cars even wind and solar energy

requires critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.

Rare earth elements are essential for both common items we already rely on,

but for the technology we may be reliant upon in the future.

America does have access to some of these key resources, but China continues to dominate

the critical mineral market. After serving as the governor of Texas, Rick Perry served as the

energy secretary during the Trump administration, and we recently spoke with him on the Fox News

rundown from Washington podcast to discuss the importance of these minerals and the need for America

to be the leader in the market. He also discussed not just the need for more critical mineral

mining in America, but why he thinks becoming energy independent is critical to the country's

success and security. We made edits for time, but thought you might like to hear this full

conversation with the former governor and energy secretary. If you haven't already,

please subscribe to the weekday rundown podcast. Now here's Rick Perry on the Fox News rundown Extra.

We want some thoughts on critical minerals, and as you are still up to date on energy,

I wanted to get your thoughts about, I guess, what we need to do, and I think my first

question for you is how significant do you think this fight is going to be for critical

minerals because they go into all of the things that not only that we have right now,

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