in south korea. president biden will tour a samsung facility. president biden said i m on my first trip to asia as president to strengthen alliances and partnerships and working with fellow democracy to shape the rules of the road for the 21st century. the president lands as soaring gas prices hit a new daily record high. new numbers released $4.59 for gallon of regular gas, that is up 1 cent from yesterday. the house voted thursday to prevent price gouging. members want to place the blame on russia. you can think the activity of vladamir putin for invading ukraine and pulling oh, nonsense. with all due respect, that is utter nonsense. griff: others refusing to believe the pain being felt at the pump. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events making things difficult. you are unwilling to say gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. griff: not the only mounting crisis the president left
Hello and welcome to Business Live. Chinese president xijinping is in russia for talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin today. Trade is set to be top of the agenda ahead of the 620 meeting of Global Leaders later this month. The visit will be xis sixth tour to russia since taking office in 2012. And their meetings seem to be bearing fruit according to china, trade between the two increased by over 26 in the first four months of the year, reaching nearly 25 billion. Cooperation is increasing too. Russia will be a key component of chinas belt and Road Initiative an ambitious multi trillion Dollar Project that will link europe and asia via the historic silk road. As part of the project and as a symbol of this close relationship beijing has even agreed to help finance a High Speed Rail Link within russia itself Linking Moscow to the city of kazan. Joining me now is dr yujie, head of china foresight, at lse ideas. Thank you for coming in to doctor us. Thank you for coming in to doctor us
see this, go to data stories, you see a live map of what is happening across global commerce. shopify has millions of stores, 10% of ecommerce goes through it. at 6:30 in the morning est, 3 million shoppers shopping across shopify shotores. there s a lot of attention. obviously the big conversation about the economy every day is inflation and the concerns that people have and the poor economic outlook that so many americans have. is that not reflected in what you see in the shopping habits from consumers today? i actually, i heard this on your show wednesday. you folks were talking about the consumer sentiment index, so it was expected to be 54.9 points, wednesday was reported 57.8 points.
country. people are not into anything that joe biden or the democrats have done. they know they have lost a lot in their voter base, so perhaps they just want people to pour into america. maybe that s the plan. they never intended on actually addressing the problem state of emergency that s going to happen in his border community and it s not just going to be his, lara. border communities throughout our nation. they don t even have an ability to quantify how bad it s going to get and that is frightening. meantime, want to get your thoughts on this. g.o.p. primary election turnout is suggesting a red wave in november midterms while democrats own polling reveals generic republicans leading generic democrats by 8 points in battleground districts. look at these numbers. republican voters 54.9% of the voter turnout there if dems can t get their hard core base to show up in the primaries, what chance could they have of mobilizing the rest of the electorate come november, lara? yeah it doe
braten, ray kelly, involved in policing in the 1990s led a historic decrease in crime. 1993 and 1998 in new york city, overall crime went down 49.3%. murders went down 69.3%. shootings were down, 66.3%. robberies down 54.9%. auto theft down, 59.3%. you have proven, commissioner safer, that it s possible to lower crime in a crime-ridden city. how do we now get back to where we were in 1998? we have to give the mandate back to the people who know how to reduce crime. and that s police. when i was police commissioner, reduced homicides by 38%, reduced overall crime by over 40% and did it by using stop question and frisk, by putting plain clothes units on the