this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned
bill: the court will decide its biggest gun case in more than a decade. at issue here a new york law that restricts conceal carry outside the home. a decision to overturn it could have a domino effect on several other blue states with similar laws. dana: religious liberty is on the docket. court taking up the case of a high school football coach fired for praying on the field. justices will decide whether that prayer is protected under the first amendment. bill: the most anticipated of all is dobbs versus jackson. that s the ruling on mississippi s 15 week abortion ban that could potentially overturn roe v. wade which would end nearly 50 years of precedent. a leaked draft in the month of may suggesting the court is ready to do just that. dana: that was ignited a wave of protests. some escalating into threats and intimidation. activists continue to march outside justice s home after an assassination attempt against brett kavanaugh. bill: inspiring dozens of attacks o
bill: the mayor is calling for accountability for those responsible. here is one witness describing what he heard and saw last night. he was screaming for his mom and it is hurtful to hear that, man. no one was able to help him. to see him go is like it bothers me seeing this. i don t think i would come outside for nothing else ever in d.c. shots rang out. i was next to a cop. he proceeded on. we were trying to enjoy ourselves, crowds kept running back and forth. dana: mark meredith is live in washington with the details. good morning. police are trying to figure out what sparked the shooting that left a 15-year-old boy dead. latest incident spotlighting the issue of rising crime here in major u.s. cities. sunday s shooting was tied to a juneteenth celebration but organizers did not have a proper mitt and police were trying to break up the event because of previous chaos. they heard the teenage victim call for his mom when the shots rang out. he was killed and other
the gains since biden took office. bill: the biggest rate hike in three decades. new york post, it s looking grizzly. dana: adding to the concerns is the producer price index for may out just moments ago showing wholesale prices up 11% year-over-year. all of that gets passed right onto you, the consumer. bill: it does. the price of gas holding steady, record $5 a gallon all threatening to overwhelm a white house in crisis. we begin with griff jenkins on the north lawn. good morning. that s ppi number which increased month over month is not welcome news at the white house because it rose and it is rising is an indication that inflation may not yet have peaked. that number, by the way, without going into the weeds represents what companies pay to make the things we buy and that cost gets passed on to us. by the way, bill, i doubt the president wanted to wake up feeling grizzly this morning. a bear market occurs when an index like the s&p falls 20% off a recent high. i
dana: incredible. i m glad to be back with all of you. let me tell you the world over they are amazing and we appreciate you very much. the national average soaring to an all time high of $4.86 a gallon up 25 cents from last week and $2 from a year ago. bill: americans say it will be one of the deciding issues how they vote in november and also concerned about the economy and inflation and crime. the president is under water on the big three issues when it comes to your wallet. dana: i ve been dying to talk about all of this. let s start with peter doocy reporting from the north lawn this morning. hi, peter. good morning. welcome back. white house officials aren t just saying they think things are going well. they are saying they think thing are going well because of them. i have reporters calling me when delta hit, omicron hit, putin went into ukraine saying is that it? will that derail the recovery? and so far you ve seen resilience. that has a lot to do with the