of the north channel from northern ireland to scotland. the bit that was hardest for me was the jellyfish. they terrify me. i am more comfortable in the water with sharks, because they move out of your way, whereas jellyfish just bob about. there were some huge lion s mane jellyfish which can deliver quite a nasty sting. did you fall in? yes. i neverfall in. i panicked because i saw a jellyfish and fell in, like you do. a 21.5 mile stretch of water, the record stood at six hours 40 minutes, set three years ago. up to the five hour mark. she smashed it by over an hour and a half. how are your emotions? i cried. to actually stand with people who have achieved amazing things is really humbling to me. i felt very proud to have been a woman to have broken the record and hope it inspires other women
minister described the devastating drought that has put under one third of his country underwater. about one people and damage from the disaster is expected to cost over ten billion dollars. pakistan is suffering terribly from the climate crisis. this is among the ten countries most affected by it. but when you break down the numbers, but pakistan is barely even responsible for this very global problem. since 1959, has pakistan been responsible for 0.4% of the world s historic co2 emissions. the u.s. s contribution, 21.5%. china and the eu were responsible for 16.5, and 15% of global emissions, respectively. so, climate change is a global justice issue, too. which countries like our own pump out massive levels of carbon emissions, while poor countries like pakistan have to pay for it with their crops, their homes, their lives.
but let s look at that primary first. and covenant know my senator mike lee fends off a couple of challengers. it was about 20-25 minutes before the associated press called us for mike lee. he is going for his third term. to navigate the two challengers, the two challengers he had in this race, they said lee was too extreme and was not willing to compromise, to align with former president donald trump. that did not hold water, at least with the republican electorate here. this is a closed primary, meaning only registered republicans got an opportunity to vote, at least in the primary. that sets up a general election. mcmullen ran for president back in 2016, got 21.5% of the vote in this state, the most any third party candidate has gotten in the presidential election, back in the 90s with ross perot. mcmullen is a former cia
the problem? because president biden says it s up to the fed to fix the inflation problem. art, real quick, last thought. yeah, what the fed needs to do is raise interest rates above inflation, like paul volker did january 20, 1981, the prime rate was 21.5%, inflation 15, 16%. this was you have to make it less attractive to borrow money and that s what they have got to do in this, and they just are not doing it. they are trying to do it step-by-step, and that s just not the way to solve it. raise those interest rates right now and get this under control. sandra: that seems to be the plan. your target for gas prices, do they keep going higher? $6 as a national average? look, it s hard because we are going to get relief on international prices but demand goes up. look, they are going to remain an issue, they are not going
loans, mortgage loans. we do see the fed raising rates, percolating through all those kinds of loans. it is worth noting that the market was already expecting this. we already saw some of that priced in. so i don t think we re going to see any big changes overnight. what we see is the fed delivered what they promised, and we re already seeing things like mortgage rates have started to tick up to reflect where the market expects the fed to be. arthur, there s a lot of concern the fed s interest rate hike will push the economy into a recession. do you share those concerns? what might that look like? i don t really share the concern. i don t think the real problem is pushing the economy into a recession. i think these rate hikes are way too small. i mean, if you take me back, if you will, to 1981, when we were running at inflation of 15%, 16%, 14%, paul volcker had raised rates to where the prime interest rate in the u.s. was at 21.5%, about five points above the inflation rate. we ar