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The mets game when they're not trying to win. >> commentary by brian kilmeade. >> coming up later, football, good story, super bowl champs mario manningham of the new york giants will be here on the couch. >> and the fastest man in the world, karl lewis will be here, too. >> i don't know if he still is. it's time for stuart and here's the topic today, americans are still feeling the pain at the pump. the price for a gallon of gas is, as you can see, $3.76. >> and now 70 democratic members of congress are calling for federal regulators to curb oil speculation but is this really the way to ease ...

You don't have to redeem the coupons the same week they come in the paper. coupons usually expire in three months. so you can play your coupons like a card shark. but does teri have more game? >> not afraid. >> reporter: her total before savings comes out to a whopping $209.50. and now with the in-store sales and coupons? >> okay. this is just sick. >> reporter: teri's new total? $90.01. she saved almost $120. savings of nearly 60%. >> oh, look at that. >> reporter: well, teri might have knocked me out this time, but using her tips we can all be winners. >> way to go. way to save money. >> yep...

He laid out just how stark the country's income inequality is. >> look at the statistics. in the last few decades the average income of the top 1% has gone up by more than 250%. to $1.2 million per year for the top 0.01 of 1%, the average is now $27 million per year. the typical ceo who used to earn about 30 times more than his or her worker, now earns 110 times more. and yet over the last decade the incomes of most americans have actually fallen by about 6%. now, this kind of inequality, a level we haven't seen since the great depression, hurts us all.

For every man, woman and child in america. >> $100,000 per person? >> that's right. and nothing for the middle class. >> i want to walk through this slowly so people understand this. these banks were getting these huge bailouts, according to this bloomberg report, first payment like $1.2 trillion, while they were still fighting regulations. so they were having it both ways. getting bailed out while they were keeping their levels down in terms of deregulation? >> they call them loans but they took the worst assets, the garbage assets there on the books of institutions like citibank and pushed t...

The confusion and the complexity is the $0.01 part. there's a lot of americans and a lot of companies like g.e. that don't pay $0.01. so on this tax day, people are saying where are we going? what have we done to ourselves? >> people out there are saying we need to have a fair tax or flat tax or something like that and there's some of the confusing tax codes, look at that. an estimated 579 changes this past year alone. >> 6.1 billion hours filing taxes. >> to show you how complex it is, here's a statement from the director. i.r.s., he was asked do you file your own taxes or use a preparer? i u...