issues in this country is nobody will work. i have guest workers on my farm, 30 right now that i provide housing and transportation and fuel for and there is really no sense me having to bring that many people from a foreign country just to get my work done so i can help feed this nation. it is ridiculous. julie: the cost of food prices and they are astronomical. eggs, milk, everything you are paying so much for. all the prices are up a lot and people can t afford it with inflation. it is a sad thing. brooks barnes, we wish you all the luck. keep it in there and hopefully things get better. thank you so much. bill: he is up against it. the u.s. reaching a grim new milestone for deadly drug overdoses. what will the feds do to change this american epidemic? plus an f.b.i. wrist will blower saying the f.b.i. used terrorism jim jordan is our
birds. where do you get that from? unclear. okay. andrew ross sorkin. let s start with the story in the new york times on how disney has become such a political punching bag. here s the thing both sides hate them. both sides hate em, but brooks barnes has a fabulous piece about this. what s happened in the past week and a half, which has changed the dynamic. you ve talked a lot about the brand that is disney. you now have specifically republicans in the state of florida talking about revoking some of the tax credits and tax benefits and the way disney world operates in that state, in addition to that on a federal level, you now have some politicians threatening the possible copy right over mickey mouse, which comes up in 2024. they ve been granted an extension, year after year after year. in 24, they re going to say, we need an extension again on mickey mouse. congress has given them that before. and now you have some people who are saying i mean, people in
going up at a rate that i ve never seen in my career. while ukrainian farmers fight, their ports are closed and countries boycott russia, the winner is the u.s. farmer looking at prices they haven t seen in a lifetime as there is no capacity or inventory to make up the difference. brooks barnes grows wheat in north carolina. we are in the $6 and now a chance to sell double digit wheat. it has never happened before. so for u.s. consumers expect higher prices showing up probably in grocery and restaurants in several weeks. harder hit, dana, are the poor countries like pakistan, bangladesh and turkey which get half their wheat from russia or ukraine. dana: we ll watch it closely. thank you. bill: white house so far defending its decision to keep buying russian oil and gas to keep it flowing to the u.s. in order to keep prices from rising higher. is this the right call?