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
it was 8.5% in march. however, that is negligible as we re stuck in record territory. prices for most everything are still well above pre-pandemic levels and nearly 6% higher than when president biden took office. here is the president hitting all of his alleged culprits, including senator rick scott, who called the president incapacitated and called for him to resign. president biden: the first cause of inflation is a once in a century pandemic and the second cause mr. putin s war in ukraine. what s the congressional republican plan? they don t want to they want to raise taxes and lower. senate rick scott laid it out in a plan. the ultra maga agenda. harris: rick scott is from florida, not wisconsin. senator, he is also governor hard to forget. republicans like senator john thune say they are finished with president biden s finger pointing. president biden is flailing around swinging blindly hoping that something will land. and his latest target, of course, is rick s
jenna: well, noon eastern time, and we re just hours away from the first vice presidential debate, first and only, by the way. the running mates are ready to rumble, and welcome to happening now. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. all eyes on tonight s high stakes debate as vice president joe biden faces paul ryan, the republican who wants to take his job. it promises to be one of the closest presidential elections in recent history. biden and ryan square off for their first, their only debate. it takes place tonight on the campus of center college in danville, kentucky. mr. biden is hoping to put the brakes on the campaign after governor romney s strong showing in the first presidential debate. president obama saying yesterday that joe just needs to be joe. for mr. ryan, this will be his first nationally-televised debate. the up and comer knows biden is a veteran politician with more experience at these events, but he says biden cannot run from president obama s record. a fox news p