fights criminal contempt charges. and summer sand and shark infested waters. enhanced technology is on the hunt where sharks have been on the attack. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with breaking news in our politics lead. president biden s approval rating hitting a new low in cnn polling. take a look. only 38% of people approve of the way joe biden is handling his job as president. 62% disapprove. this dismal number comes as president biden returns from his middle east trip. the white house touting the trip a success, saying the president renewed support for the region and set expectations that gas prices could steady in the coming weeks. but those successes in some quarters being overshadowed by this moment, biden fist bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, who the u.s. says is to blame for the slaughter of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi in 2018. biden trying to brush it off from reporters upon his return to the white house.
many where the right to abortion hasn t changed. in new york city and outside the supreme court. we begin with lucas tomlinson outside of the white house where the president spoke before signing into law a new gun legislation piece. that s right, before jetting off to europe, president biden signing the largest gun cell bill in 30 years. and the prepared remarks took about four minutes. president biden called the supreme court decision shocking and answered one question. do you think the supreme court is broken in your view? i think the supreme court has made some terrible decisions. here is what s in the build. funding for red flag laws, enhances background checks for buyers under 21, only as good as the data you put into them according to law enforcement, and choses the boyfriend loophole and clarifies for dealers. and more than 200 in the house voted for the gun bill. liz cheney, adam kinzinger, and others. this doesn t happen if trump didn t put three on the etch
white house and peter doocy in saudi arabia. peter, we ll start things off with you. and here in saudi arabia, the leaders of telling president biden they can help expand their oil production capacity, but only a little bit. so, if president biden came here thinking he was going to get saudi arabia to increase their oil production capacity so much that it might lower gas prices back at home, he s leaving emptyhanded. in this era, announced increase of the level maximum sustainable capacity more than 13 million barrels, beyond that the kingdom will not have any further production capacity. so, what this means, they can expand to 13 million barrels a day max, but they re already at 12 million barrels a day capacity. at most they could add the same number barrels a day the president is selling from the strategic reserve and that s not really lowering prices a ton. so, it s unclear at this point if the president was overselling what he said he squeezed out of the saudis.
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top issues in the 2024 presidential election, border security. this as president biden and former president trump face off on the topic during thursday night s debate. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. anita, hour two. neither neither i m anita vogel. great to be with you. new reaction still coming in to biden s performance in the first presidential debate of the year after he and trump blamed each other for the crisis at the border. c.b. cotton is live with with the very latest developments. hi, c.b. reporter: hi, anita, nice to see you. you know, some of the latest developments are from right outside boston where a haitian migrant, get, this accused of raping a teen girl, was just released on a $500 cash bail. check this out, corey alvarez was brought into the country last year through president biden s mass parole program which allows a certain number of people from specific countries to be granted two years of humanitarian parole. alvarez pleaded not guilty