can, their inflation rate is much lower than ours. in the case of saudi arabia, about a quarter of what ours is. we could go on and show other examples of g7 countries and, indeed, if you go to brazil, argentina, a whole lot worse. but the bottom line is in most nations it s a whole lot better. what s going on here? it s going to be a big, big subject in the midterm elections. jessica francesca chambers joins us. good to see you again. that is top of mind for most americans in all these surveys. not surprising. and when you look at the u.s. inflation rate, gas prices are a large burden. the white house has said that the elevated inflation that you re seeing is out of date because if it s year-over-year, and that doesn t reflect all the incoming data. but when you look at gas prices, neil, they are going down, but they still remain significantly elevated where they were even
chairs. bret: immigration with the president and the president of mexico. the border is very important, that s a big, big subject. we called out the military, we are calling out the military and it s a very, very powerful subject. if your recent statements of the results of frustration due to domestic policy issues, to your laws or to your economy, it s to them you should turn to, not the mexicans. bret: chocolate, governors along the border states, three of them so far have come forward with hundreds of national guard troops. it s a chitinous crisis atm. i see this as election-year politics. it s a huge issue for president trump and his base.
seriously retaliate against the russians. the these tech firms could be helpful in having us giving us a way to do that. i am i am not in a hurry to regulate big tech because i don t think we know what we re doing, but i would like some serious minds to look at it. people like leon panetta, condoleezza rice, would you support a 9/11 sort of commission that looks at the national security implications, not the russia attack, that s mr. mueller s job, he s doing a good job, but the broader issue of encryption and whether or not they are working with our national security. i don t know if we need some special entity to do it or not. we have committees, we have people interested in doing this. it certainly would help if the ceos were willing to testify, but i think the big, big subject with a lot of national security implications and a lot of first amendment concerns as well, this is a tough area, trying to figure out how to balance
didn t they? and if i can just raise one more thing about bannon s comme comments. the reference to deutsche bank is very significant. because it s not just jared kushner who had hundreds of millions of dollars of dealings with deutsche bank. it was donald trump, as well. a lot of the bigger banks, the citi banks, the chase banks, by this decade, wanted nothing more to do with donald trump. so it was deutsche bank that donald trump dealt with a lot. and if the mueller prosecutors are looking at deutsche bank, boy, that is a big, big subject. i certainly don t know if there s any criminal activity to be disclosed there, but that is sympathetic that will certainly give the trump people a lot of pau pause. and we have fusion gps, which is the firm that commissioned this dossier and was working with christopher steele and just penned this op-ed in the new