easier for noncitizens to access jobs in new york. spray went to new york s governor kathy hochul taking heat after derailing a holocaust education event to make this partisan political attack. watch. i just want to say to the 1.77 jews that call new york their home, thinking for calling new york your home. florida is overrated. i shouldn t say this but look at the governor. i will get in trouble. i have to stay on track. carley: former assemblyman dov hikind, how to get the feel about those comments? i think it was absolutely pathetic. the governor of new york needs to be defeated. you are doing the holocaust event, your own event, and you are busy attacking the governor of florida? who is probably one of the best friends of the jewish people in this great country.
in that you didn t get hurt any more. thank you so much for joining us this morning and we wish you the best of luck. a hard worker. thank you. carley: you are very welcome. governor kathy hochul taking heat for derailing holocaust remembrance event to attack governor ron desantis? i just want to say to the 1.77 that call new york home, florida is over rated. i shouldn t say this, look at the governor, i will get in trouble. speed to the former new york assemblyman joins us with his reaction. griff: plus the fbi raid on president trump s home sending shock waves throughout the g.o.p. republican joe can t off of the incumbent and the heated congressional primary will be here to tell us before the midterms.
how do we go from energy independence to where we are now, policy matters. during the campaign in 2020, president biden and senator sanders, campaign against eliminating fossil fuels as we know it in america pretty basically shut it down, said on the production and the fracking, the me tell you about the oil prices, supply and demand in ths $2.38 a gallon, the price of gasoline, before covid-19 hit and we went into lockdown because we had to know we went to $1.77 nobody was saying, give the oil companies subsidy when it was a dollars 77. and were invited came into opposite way back to 238, what is happened between then and now, the policies you pursued in terms of energy production, have
this morning that pain you are likely feeling at the pump may feel like it s getting worse by the day. gas prices are up, they re now at seven-year highs. joining us is pete muntean live from a gas station in alexandria, virginia. tell us what s behind this right now. what s behind the supply crunch? reporter: well, jim, you know, this is really going to sting for a lot of folks who got used to low prices. gas was about $1.77 a gallon during the depths of the pandemic, $3.15 for a gallon of regular in virginia, which is actually lower than the national average now, which just hit $3.28 a gallon. up eight cents in the last week. and analysts say it s rally the price of crude that is driving this, which just hit $80 a barrel for the first time in seven years. analysts anticipate it will hit $85 or $90 a barrel by the end of this year.
virus fears were spreading across the globe and a major ebola outbreak reach the united states. seven years ago, the last time we saw oil and gas prices like what you will find at your loca pump right now according to aaa the average cost of a gallon of gasoline $3.28 a gallon up from a week ago and that is up from $1.77 for a national average in april of 2020. all of this as critics are warning the proposal from the democrats democrats tax-and-spend lien could push the sky high gas prices even further. foxbusiness anchor joins us now. this is a very very real proble because you combine that with the labor shortage, the trucker shortage, the inability to get people to get those containers off the ships, and then when sh got people in the trucks, if you re lucky enough to be able to supply those workers, it s going to cost you that much mor