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that event in just a few minutes. but, first, breaking tonight, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in this country is soaring past the $5 mark, a figure never before seen in the u.s. wall street took the skyrocketing inflation hard. the dow losing almost 3 percentage points today. the s&p 500 dropping nearly 4. the nasdaq losing four and two thirds. president biden continues to put the blame on others, vladimir putin, oil companies, but an increasing number of americans are blaming president biden, according to the latest poll numbers. that is now leading many democrats to both publicly and anonymously question whether the president should seek a second term. white house correspondent peter doocy leads us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. a quick check of numbers that have changed since president biden s inauguration day, gas prices are now twice as high and the average price, the dow jones industrial average stoc ....
The trust fund that helps pay for inpatient hospital care for Medicare enrollees could run short of money by 2031, and we urged lawmakers to improve its solvency. ....
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On medicare. bret: on the common ground question. i didn t get it out of that answer. what you got is he sees it as a problem. i see it as a problem. all right? medicare i see medicare solvency as a problem. that is why i want us to stop spending twice as much per person on healthcare as any other country on earth. there is a bipartisan agreement currently on gun control legislation, senator sanders, you are not as of yet. is that a common ground issue around the edges that don t deal with everything you want that you all can get to. look, if that bill, you are right, it hasn t been written yet, we have an outline of it. that bill came to the floor would i vote for it? i m quite sure i would. it is a step forward. i think clearly it does not go far enough. so the fact that bernie s. willing, bret, to vote for this is very encouraging to me we will see how it shapes out. bret: senator sanders, senator graham we will have to leave it at that thank you very much. ....
Lowering the cost of saving taxpayers money and putting that into expanding medicare solvency. i am supportive of that idea. let me follow up on one part of this which is people don t understand maybe why there s such a fight here and it is because there are philosophical differences within the democratic caucus, big ones. you say this is going to be paid for. joe manchin doesn t believe it and believes it will add to the debt and the deficit and it will contribute to big government spending. how do you bridge that gap? well 48 let s also back up a little bit and make sure everybody understands. there are 100 members of the united states senate. unfortunately we do not have one republican prepared to take on the pharmaceutical industry, take on the private health insurance companies, not one republican prepared to go forward to deal with the crisis ....