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This hour with Breaking News that the white house were any minute now were expecting President Biden to speak at a News Conference with kenyas president william ruto. The two are marking 60 years of diplomatic ties between these two countries. Yesterday, President Biden rolled out the red carpet for Brudos Arrival the First Official state visit of an african leader since 2008. And its happening as both china and russia expand, there fluence in africa cnns mj lee is live for us waiting for President Biden at the white house. And j, what more can you tell us about whats on the agenda today yet b...

Very much for joining us here in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Ill be back later tonight. 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Stay with Cnn Inside Politics with dana bash starts right now welcome to inside hala. Take some dana bash. We start at the Supreme Court where the justices appear deeply divided over one of the biggest abortion cases. Since roe versus says wade was overturned. The issue is whether an idaho abortion ban prevents doctors from performing abortions for women who are having a medical emergency that may not be lifethreatening, but is a threat to her h...

Make sure that americans have the support they need. look, oil companies are gouging consumers right now, we need to get to the bottom of that, we need to pass legislation and i'll make sure to tax the oil companies, so their windfall profits are going back into the pockets of the american people. and not just into the pockets of their shareholders, their ceos. there needs to be an investigation on price gouging, but we also need in congress to pass more help for people, whether that's -- canceling student loan debt from, the president is looking at right now. but also helping people pay for t...

Companies like exxon and chevron, who are reporting record profits, you know, more than $6 billion in the last quarter for exxon, more than -- nearly $6 billion for chevron and yet they're gouging consumers at the pump. so i think the president can send a strong signal that he means business. he sent the letter to the ftc asking them to look for any activity that indicated that they were trying to use means that were perhaps beyond the law to kind of jack of prices and lina khan, the chair, will do a good job looking at that. but you're right in your lead-in. there's only so much a president c...

Downward trajectory. it's not going to have a massive impact, but i think it can have, in fact a leveling off price, and pushing prices down over the long term. but at the end of the day, where the president really can do, is get the u.s. off its oil addiction, so they were not held hostage to the whims of saudi arabia, of russia, of the major oil companies like exxon and chevron who are reporting record profits. more than six billion dollars in the last quarter for exxon, nearly six billion for chevron. and yet, they're gouging consumers at the pump. so i think the president can send a strong...