john: another fox news alert to kick off america reports for this thursday. biden administration cancelling a massive oil and gas lease sale in alaska and the gulf of mexico. scrapping the potential to give drivers desperately needed relief at the pump. hi, i m john roberts in washington. gillian, good to see you again. gillian: great to be with you, i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. so, america s economic woes are continuing to mount. one red flag economists are pointing to now today, april wholesale prices. up 11% from a year ago. one part of the overall inflation problem. consumer prices up 8.3% from a year ago, a slight drop from march but still hovering near a 40-year high. john: filling your tank could drain your wallet. the national average of gas prices a record high, costing 4.41 a gallon. look at where it is compared to a year ago, gillian. gillian: tremendous pressure on the biden administration. americans are skyrocketing with the cost of everyday
not democrat or republican, so this campaign is let s look at each other as americans. let s have some gratitude that we were born in this country, it s an honor, let s show some compassion for each other, healing, forgiveness, some grace, so that we can move forward and i think that s the only way we are going to do it. we have to heal, see each others americans and kick china s rear end. john: congressman, good to have you on. we ll follow your campaign. thank you. thank you so much. gillian: fox news alert, the department of justice says attorney general garland has directed u.s. marshals to keep supreme court justices safe. mike is here in our washington newsroom. mike, what do they hope to see? gillian, a stronger federal law enforcement response. today the senate republican leader called out merrick garland saying garland should get it. one would think a d.o.j. run
inflation. and here is what a washington post editorial said about the president today. biden s magical thinking on inflation continues while the white house looks to culprits to blame for inflation it has struggled to articulate any sort of plan. mr. biden needs to do more than blame someone else for high prices . do you agree, does the president need to do more than blame other people for inflation? i do. i think there is some corporate responsibility here, corporations are making a lot of money and need to make sure the consumers are not getting gouged. i ve been calling on the administration and anybody else who will listen to bring an immediate tax cut to the congress for us to pass. earned income tax cut, the child tax cut we had in last year advanced this, and then a general tax cut for workers and maybe small businesses to put money in their pockets. no one did anything wrong, pandemic economic collapse, war with an oil producing country
else. i will not raise taxes, but do i want you to get back to work, that s what i ran on for governor let s get to work, and that s what i believe. get people back to work. safe to say if republicans were to take control of the senate and mitch mcconnell is in control of what legislation hits the senate floor, that this plan won t go to the floor? here is this is just my ideas, i ve told everybody. my ideas. let s have a fight over ideas. but when we win in november, i believe we will, let s do something. we have to rescue this country. 11% p.p.i., 8.3% c.p.i., g.d.p. is going down, stock market is going down, trillion dollar deficits, this cannot keep going on. we have to change things. and it s going to take dramatic change. it doesn t have to be my ideas, let come up with ideas how we are going to fix the country. in in this country, i grew up in this country. john: all of those things
affording gas for their car. 52% of americans are finding it difficult to pay their grocery bill. the greatest increase in difficulty was among independent voters. and take a look at this. how many people think the country is on the right track, 18%. 79% say wrong track, 85% of independents say wrong track. larry, i can t remember numbers like that. larry: you are right, john. i agree. i m not poll driven, i m policy driven. but you know what, the polls have taken on a degree president biden is, after all, a long time professional politician. so if you understand the game of professional politics, when the country is moving away from you and away, and radically, rejecting his transformational