past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020. that s new drilling. that s up. but the production is also up. it s at an all-time high. president biden is allowing drilling on federa
for the fed. they feel it could trigger a recession. john: gasoline prices record for the 10th straight day. average price now 4.58. and the cover the new york post summing it up, a picture of president biden riding a train right off the rails next to the words joe s train wreck. bret baier and larry kudlow will join us to break down the economic head winds facing the white house. gillian: jackie will join us in a moment, but first aishah hasnie at the white house. what is the messaging on the economy. we are waiting to find out, the president departed to east asia, and ten days in a row we have broken a record for gas. every state is spending more than $4 a gallon. households spend $5,000 a year. it could get worse. prices will surpass $6 nationwide by august. and get this, a gas station chain called 76 reprogramming pumps in washington state to sell gas at $10 a gallon. that s unbelievable. the white house responding to all of this by saying it s already released oil
cawthorn who faced multiple scandals leading up to the primary. newt gingrich on trump s influence on the gop. there is no question that whether you like trump or dislike trump as a matter of just history, no modern political leader has dominated his party outside of office on the scale that trump has. and he has a following in the republican party and has brought in an entire generation of people who were not republicans six or seven years ago who now are part of the republican party. harris: let s go to the senate squeaker in pennsylvania. mehmet oz holds a slight edge over david mccormick and it is considered too close to call. and whoever wins that race will face lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is far to the left. he crushed moderate congressman conor lamb last night in the democrat s senate primary. here is dr. oz to his supporters. when all the votes are tallied i m confident we will win. [cheering and applause] we are making a ferocious charge but when it
the assailant twice, he had on a bullet proof vest and he lost his life in the process. no one understands more than all of you here today the pain and anguish those families in buffalo feel. when it happens, at least in my experience, it feels like you re pulled into a black hole inside your chest, and everything everything. you can t. it s hard. but you know you are part of a special community, because the firefighters and police officers will always be there for you. i know it s a small consolation, but they will always be there for you. and your family and children and grandchildren and the whole family. to talk about law enforcement being a family, and firefighters being a family, it s a real. just like being a military family, it s unbreakable. there is a headstone in a cemetery in ireland that reads, death leaves a heartache no one can heal. love leaves a memory that no one can steal. families of the fallen, no one can ever steal the memory of your loved one. i hop
food prices too have gone up. nothing s being done about it. it s going to kill the people, these diesel prices. they have no i have no choice but to fill up my tank. there s no other choice. definitely too much. and it has to change, hopefully soon. neil: it is the story of the week, and right now it is hitting americans hard. i m talking about inflation, and it is still out of control. here s how bad things are getting. we re grateful if the rise isn t as dramatic as we had experienced in just the prior month. that is the state of things now with prices spiking at near 40-year highs. the last time we saw that is when jimmy carter was president. concerns that we re seeing the same thing roll out now and rolling around hoping for relief. good luck on that front. but kelly o grady on how customers and you are feeling. kelly. reporter: hi, neil. well, week we saw new inflation data with april s consumer price index out. the 8.3% year-over-year number was worse than ex