will face some tough questioning over the murders of these two americans. john: our senior national correspondent william la jeunesse has been following the stories has latest breaking details from our los angeles newsroom, two deadwood foreign total what about the others? john, folks found live tv a mcgee alive in a small house outside of moaned a morose and eric williams who had a serious wound in his left leg. they are friends of zindel brown woodward were found dead in a field nearby. we found a convoy of mexican ambulances and suvs headed arriving in brownsville, texas, where the four friends will or reached brought to a hospital we are told, met mexican president says one suspect is in custody d they are expecting for others. on capitol hill some lawmakers want the u.s. military to get actively involved in hunting and dismantling the cartels with or without mexico s permission, moments ago attorney general merrick garland spoke without addressing eight military esca
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
the briefing there but you heard earlier karine jean-pierre was offering her condolences to the family members of those who were killed in matamoros we expect we would get questions about about the briefing s ongoing metrics and very meanwhile they are set to brief after americans were kidnapped in the cartel violence we will monitor that for any breaking and president biden set to unveil a new budget this week that he says will keep medicare solving another generation we heard karine jean-pierre talk about that all while he falsely claims republicans want to get rid of medicare. florida senator rick scott has been the scapegoat many of these attacks we would get his response coming up plus bret baier, will cain, and a whole lot more coming up as america reports roles on. i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say, that guy made this place a special place to come to school
maga republicans say the wealthy will hopefully pay their fair share. the president is presupposing to do the phone. increase the medicare tax rate on income above $40,000, close loopholes $400,000, close loopholes with more prescription drugs. the present would not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000. $400,000 a year. he will not cut benefits for any seniors but he will make sure medicare is there for people who earned it through their work. hard work. also as you saw this morning we announced that president biden and first lady joe biden will host president and first lady of the republic of korea for a state visit in the united states. the visit will include a state dinner, we will be the second state visit of the biden administration, the biden harrison demonstration under under present biden we have
we have imposed powerful new sanctions against cartel organizations in recent weeks. we remain committed to applying the full weight of our efforts and resources to counter them. right now our immediate concerns are for the safe return of our citizens, the health and well-being of those who survived this attack, and the support which must be rendered to the families of those who need it. now, i want to move on to the news we put out this morning. as you know, president biden put forward his plan to protect and strengthen medicare by extending it for another generation. the president s budget does this without cutting any benefits. in fact, he lowers costs for seniors with lower out-of-pocket costs for drugs, a $2 cap on cost-sharing for generic drugs for chronic conditions and lower behavioral health care costs as well. instead of cutting benefits as