NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: This week, President Bush unveils his energy policy, one that aides say provides a series of long-term solutions to a pressing domestic problem. The plan is expected to call for more domestic drilling and the construction of new power plants and less reliance on oil from outside the U.S. CNN's senior White House correspondent John King is with us now -- John.</s>JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Natalie, one of the ways to sell a long-term policy, of course, is to build a political base. And the administration seeking what some might consider some unlikely allies this afternoon, the heads of several major labor unions due here at the White House in just a little bit, including James P. Hoffa, the president of the Teamster's Union. Now, why are they being brought in to discuss energy? Because it is the view of this administration that are there tens thousands of jobs, union jobs, if the Congress approves the president's plan to build new power plants, build new oil refineries, and explore for oil and natural gas in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now, environmentalists are opposed to that, drilling in environmentally sensitive lands. But the Teamsters Union president says he's in favor of the plan because he believes just the Alaskan portion of the president's plan would create more than 25,000 new jobs for Teamsters in the drilling and building the pipeline and transporting supplies to and from the refuge. So the administration, if you will, trying to divide the Democratic coalition today, trying to win labor support for an energy plan that the environmental community has already made clear it will vehemently oppose, not only by lobbying members of Congress, but also by running television and other political advertisements as well, Natalie.</s>ALLEN: John King, thank you.
Bush to Unveil Energy Policy