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Reality. the president touring the scene today, amidst some bad faith and immediate attacks from the right. the facts are that president biden already won $27 billion for bridges from congress. mainly with the support of democrats and several dozen republicans who backed it when it became clear it would pass. now today, amidst all of this, the fox host seized on the bridge emergency to falsely claim that the funding was not bipartisan or also that it didn't happen. >> there could have been multiple casualties. so thank god nobody was killed. but honestly, a bridge collapsing right before he's ...

And if the circumstances as we all know were slightly different, i mean, this is a black lives matter guy who shot apparently a jewish american democratic candidate for office we would be talking about racism, we would be talking about anti-semitism. instead we're talking about bail. >> dana: i want to ask you about this. the bail money, the $100,000, that was paid for by crowd funding. but the canadian truckers who were supported by crowd funding, they have had their funds basically seized or bank accounts seized. the unfairness of that is really striking. i will give you the last word on tha...

And coach operators. the rac says it would welcome a cut in fuel duty or vat but that a vat reduction might have a bigger impact. we desperately need the chancellor to take action to help drivers and businesses up and down the country. that's probably most likely going to be by fuel duty, but cutting vat would also be extremely beneficial. vat, of course, is very much a tax on a tax, because it's charged at the end of the transaction at the forecourt, on top of 58p per litre fuel duty which in turn brings in 27 billion for the government. vat then is added at the end on top of delivery, compou...

Making record profits. a watchdog report found last year as gas prices summered, 24 of the world's largest oil companies made $127 billion in profits. >> americans are paying more at the pump, and executives were getting richer by the day. >> when your ability to sell your product is more than double what your cost are to produce oil, you're going to experience massive profits. that's exactly what we're seeing right now. >> reporter: democratic senators are now proposing a windfall profits tax for the oil industry which would compare their new profit to the years before covid and tax half of t...

Because we can't afford to. >> reporter: economists say price hikes are the expected result of oil supply and surging demand. while that squeezes people like carissa, oil companies are making record profits. a watch dog report found last year as gas prices surged, 24 of the world's largest oil coils made $127 billion in profits. >> americans were. >> reporter: paying more at the pump and executives are getting richer by the day. >> when your ability to sell your product is more than double what your costs are to produce oil, you're going to experience massive profits. that's exactly what we're...