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For a long time. >> i think that it should. i actually think the special master would be valuable right now. one of the things a special master could do is just go ahead and sort this material out and return some and to say this stuff is defense material that's legitimate. this stuff is still classified and that stuff is beyond the scope of what was, in my view too broad of a search warrant. >> bret: we will follow it all. jonathan, thank you. >> thank you. >> bret: also breaking tonight, falling consumer prices this july, the comments by the fed chair jerome powell sent markets plummeting and...

Economic priority. it's good news that we've seen gas prices at the pump fall more than 70 cents. the price of gas for a gallon of gas nationwide has fallen to $4.25. that's progress. we need to see more progress on that front and other prices as well, but that's why we are as an administration focusing on prices and focusing on trying to get legislation that would accelerate that process and -- and bring the cost of things like prescription drugs down for a typical family. absolutely. people are feeling it. we understand, that and that's why we're acting on focusing to bring prices down. >> w...

Hear, the reason he wrote this letter is because he wants to hear from these refining entities about why was it, for example, when oil was $120 a barrel in march, and we paid about $4.25 a gallon, but today when oil is the same price on a global market, we're paying over $5 a gallon? what's causing that 75-cent delta? we know that as you noted earlier in the show the capacity has come offline, refining capacity. but even between march and today, we are seeing these massive profit taking on the part of refiners. and so the president is calling both the production oil to increase in the united s...

>> steve: ainsley he's changing people's lives remember? >> ainsley: for the worse. >> steve: this morning he changed a bunch of oil company's lives because they wound up with a letter from the president reading the letter he sent to shell oil he was talking about how oil refiners significantly reduced their capacity during the pandemic which is absolutely true. but he goes on to say, quote, i understand that many factors contributed to the business decisions to reduce refinery capacity which occurred before i took office. of course, there's the donald trump part. but at the time -- at a time ...

Russia, they spiked to $125 a barrel. we're back down to $100 a barrel, but all of it is attributable to the russian invasion. if that hadn't happened, we would be paying maybe $3.25, $3.50 per gallon of gasoline, not $4.25, $4.50. it's about russiana's invasion of ukraine. >> mark zandi, thank you so much. >> sure thing. >> up next, they're software engineers, published authors and now tank operators. meet the young professionals among the ranks of fighters in ukraine. and the power and influence of donald trump is being tested again tonight. stay with us. raise ththe jar to all five layers...