thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
hello and welcome we start in saudi arabia where president biden has been meeting with the country s de facto leader. despite earlier indicating that he would not value one on one time with him. this is the moment when two leaders bumped this shortly after mr biden flew intojeddah, the us president abandoning any plans because of saudi arabia s record on human rights. mr biden also held talks and we will discuss the details. they have made it clear that his historic visit will come when he attends another summit with other leaders of the gulf. and also how to respond to the gulf. and also how to respond to the high cost of fuel. for more details here is our middle eastern correspondent. it was only four weeks ago thatjoe biden said that he was not coming here to meet crown prince mohammed bin salam. this is a summit tomorrow, he said that he would see him there but he was there to see lots of other leaders. and then in the last 24 hour is on the white house confirmed today s
Emphasis was placed on Saudi Arabia s supportive role in Pakistan s economy and the mutual desire to strengthen trade and investment ties, according to the joint statement.
he was not coming here to meet crown prince mohammed bin salam. this is a summit tomorrow, he said that he would see him there but he was there to see lots of other leaders. and then in the last 24 hour is on the white house confirmed today s schedule saw that one to one meeting, working meeting that was pencilled in withjoe biden and the crown prince. and nowjust in the last hour or so the release of those pictures of the two men fist bumping. this is a real departure from joe biden s election campaign when he talked about saudi arabia as being a pariah state. particularly in relation to human rights abuses her and notably to the murder of the saudi journalist who was killed in istanbul in 2018, and who the cia said was killed in an operation had been approved by the crown prince. so a real change from those frosty relations ofjoe biden s early presidency day to this really warm, it appears, meeting that has