adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in
They should have seen it. Antiisrael protesting on campuses across america are not so peaceful after all. Explosion of violence and destruction after days of Building Tension and encampments blew its top. Police sweeping in to restore order but many agitators, protestors, students and whoever is there as a big old crowd has vowed they are coming back. So some questions now. How exactly we got here. And to whom do we hold acceptable and how . What about accountability . I can tell you none of it is acceptable. Lets find out who is paying for it. Im harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. A look at the chaos, just last night. The university of california los angeles, lets start there. [shouting] harris Protest Groups are fighting among themselves. People can get killed like this. We all know that. The adults in the room that the left is talking about. They arent out there. Thats for certain. So as that was going on fireworks ignited People Wielding sticks University Leaders calle
Good morning. Bill been a day already, hasnt it . Im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Night of rage from coast to coast continues in some parts at this hour. Police in riot gear responding to chaos at colleges in various parts of the country. You are looking at the University Of Wisconsin In Madison right now. New york citys Mayor Holding a News Conference blaming the outside agitators for driving the violent occupation at places Like Columbia University and also thanking his Police Officers who entered the campus and arrested hundreds of protestors inside. He said job well done. There was a movement to radicalize young people and im not going to wait until it is done and All Of A Sudden acknowledge the existence of it. This is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children. Im not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of new york. Bill lets get to it all. Brandnew hour begin. Jacque heinrich from t
backing up those that we have seen going in over the last 72 hours or so. and what the israeli forces appear to be doing is trying to surround gaza city. they ve gone down the western edge of gaza city. that would be along the coast. they re moving in from the north. we ve also seen reports that they are coming in from the south and east. so it would seem to indicate to us that they intend to surround gaza city and if you like, trap the hamas fighters who are still there both above ground and in those tunnels that we have talked about so much in the meantime, the idf also very happy yesterday to have freed one of their own, an idf soldier who was taken hostage. she has now been reunited with her family, that another small victory bringing the number of hostages still held by hamas down to, we believe, 238 at this point. prime minister netanyahu spoke to the nation once again today and he said he will not support at this point any talk of a cease fire. he says it would be lik
biden s chances for re-election are nose diving and his campaign is getting very nervous. cnn describes the uneasiness can that many democrats feel about a president whose age is twice his approval rating. and this from axios describing how private polls show the same hurdle as public ones, brutally low popularity on the pop partopicsthat matter most to vo. biden getting crushed on handling of crime and inflation. not death by one issue but half a dozen at once. it gets worse, is he even imagining to alienating his strongest voting block, his unwavering support for israel, which has been america s policy for many decades eastern during their bloody counteroffensive turning off a big chunk of both younger voters and also at odds with many african-american voters a recent quinnipiac poll found that 51% of voters under 35 say they disprove of the united states sending weapons and military support to israel. that s a much higher figure than the 28% of americans who oppose such