thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
[cheers and applause] rachel: heading to a fox news alert, blackout pages of the affidavit used to search mar-a-lago have been released. will: some details we knew but also a whole lot more questions. kevin is live in washington with more. reporter: a lot of questions. let s be clear, last night we said with good reason that the affidavit would be heavily redacted and present uncorroborated allegations presented in such a way as to frame the argument the former president was up to something by having those documents at mar-a-lago and we got a look at the affidavit and there s not a ton of detail because as you said it is really read acted heavily. half the pages were read acted. a lot of sharpy. the fbi believed there might be evidence of obstruction, the criminal investigation began after the national archives sent a referral to the doj in february. president biden insists he is not sure if the former president had the right to declassify all the materials at his home.
democrats wasted no time taking a bow. at last we have arrived and we are elated. every member of my caucus is elated about what happened because we really have changed the world in a way that you rarely get an opportunity to do that. it is going to make a difference to my grandkids. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today. harris: many economists paint a very different picture from he just said calling the inflation reduction act saying it will do exactly the opposite and republicans are warning the legislation will wind up raising taxes on the middle class. they call it the inflation reduction act. the most orwellian name in the senate since i ve been there. people paid 26 paychecks a year, biden policies have consumed four of those 26 paychecks out of every year. that is appalling. it is doubling appalling they would spend more and raise taxes in the middle of a recession while we re in inflation. harris: the spending plan
national review s headline today made me howl. moderate come outs against biden s out of touch, student loan forgiveness. schoo on to quote ohio democrat and senate candidate tim ryan , who claimed yesterday that the biden debtat cancelation sends the wrong messag thee to the millions of ohioans without a degreeor working just as hardking to make ends meet. now, ryan thinks voters are really stupid. wit he voted with pelosi and biden 100% of the time this congress. yeah, and yet now because he s running against a real populist in advance, he s tried to morph into being is one himself. it s all lies. the trutall liesthe trh is , ift ryan , just like allen the other pretend moderates out there will be another sure vote for the biden agenda. and biden s doddering demeanor is so bad thes ise days that democrats who are up for reelection are saying thanks ree but no thanks, joe .ppearanc to any personal appearances by the leader of their owntheir partowy. you can believe it. mark
after being trapped in a truck that had no working air conditioner or water. it was discovered near san antonio where temperatures have been over 100 degrees. 16 survivors including or go children were rushed to nearby hospitals for heatstroke and exhaustion. police detained three people in connection with the incident, but greg abbott is pointing the finger at the president s policies, tweeting these deaths are on biden. we are learning that the administration has quietly signed a five-year lease on an abandoned school to house thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in north carolina. sean, i come to you first on this. the lawmakers have written a letter to the president, saying this contradicts what you said previously about this and comes as a complete surprise to us and our constituencies. they point out that in addition to the lack of transparency, they say it s due to your failure to secure the southern border, every state, including north carolina is now sufferi