dropping is the price of gasoline. national average hitting $4.40. some states approaching $6 a gallon. dana: that s having a big impact on american families. average household will spend an extra $5,000 this year on gas and groceries alone. bill: stock market dow coming off four straight days of losses amid concerns the federal rate hikes will trigger a recession later this year. dana: yet the president insisting this is not his fault. he is instead pointing the finger at republicans and what he calls their ultramaga tax plan. the architect of that plan calling the attacks a disingenuous attempt to distract. there is nothing that the president said that is in there. what i said is let s get people back to work so they have skin in the game. he was supposed to give his ideas on inflation yesterday. what was the ideas? everybody s else s fault but his. bill: larry kudlow is on deck. first to the white house, edward lawrence has the numbers and reaction there. hotte
republicans who might have settled his policies. good evening. today, the president let up on this, at least until he got in front of electrical union workers, and then, he really went off, talking about the economy and trying to tie the g.o.p. to this. he claimed that a republican-controlled congress would be worse for your wallet, but earlier today, he sent to cotv interviews to american saying that he knows how you feel. april s inflation data is out, worse than expected though slightly better than march. i m a little hesitant to call it good news. consumer prices accelerated 8.3% in april, down 8.5% the month prior. still higher than the 8.1% that was predicted. core inflation stripping out. volatile food and energy costs also higher, 6.2%. acutely aware of these challenges, why he has dispatched his economic team. we are on the case. speaking to farmers in illinois, announcing new plans, doubling funding for domestic fertilizer production and farming tools.
domestic priority on the same day that gas prices hit a new record high. plus, a mixed night for trump-backed candidates in yesterday s primaries. with a win in west virginia, but a loss in nebraska. we ll discuss what this says about the former president s hold on the republican party. and the latest on the war in ukraine. u.s. officials say that vladimir putin is in it for the long haul. thinking he ll be able to wear down western support. we ll hear from the nation s top spy chief. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 11th. i m jonathan lemire. russia claims its forces have made significant gains in eastern ukraine, three weeks after moscow launched renewed offensive there. the russian defense ministry yesterday said its troops have advanced to the border between donetsk and luhansk the two russian-speaking provinces together known as the donbas. the ministry said it now controls more of the region than it did before the war started on f
This is cnn this is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york today on the program is rarely tags deeper into rafah whilst ceasefire talks stall and Russian Troops advance shorts kharkiv in the new offensive i will talk about the state of both wars with General David Portrays who has been described as the most the effective American Military commander since eisenhower then the sixweek long election in the World Largest democracy will soon draw to a close and indias Prime Minister modi has perhaps on the brink of winning or third term but what is his record on the economy and what about fears of democratic dk ill ask the former head of Indias Central Bank and at a time when journalists across the globe are under siege, im joined by Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Christophe. In decades of reporting, hes witnessed the aston worst humanity has to offer ill ask him why he remains stubbornly hopef
Out protesters from its campus. Well show you how it happened and bring you the latest on demonstrations across the nation. Plus, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has more defiant comments on a possible invasion of Southern Gaza ahead of his meeting today with americas topay diplomat. Plus well get expert legal analysis on everything that happened in court yesterday in Donald Trumps ongoing hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to way too early on thisgo wednesday, may 1st. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the nypd clearing a Columbia University building that wasng seized by protesters. Dozens of officers arrived on campus late last nightwearing riot gear. They used a ramp to get inside hamilton hall, the main Academic Building which was occupied by protesters overnight on monday. Video shows special police units entering the building through a second story window. Officers say about 40 people were arrested inside.