unleaded gas, 24 cents per gallon of diesel. the national average for regular unleaded hovering around $5 a gallon. lawmakers in both parties say they aren t really certain this would make much of a dent. south carolina senator tim scott is skeptical. unfortunately the way that gas is ticking up every single week, that reduction in price is eliminated in about 12 days. what we need is to have certainty and predictability so that those energy producers feel like they can invest billions of dollars to extract the energy from the soil so that we can use it in our tanks. all we re doing is playing a game of moving things around but not actually impacting the marketplace long term. harris: that s why i question does it help biden s politics more? americans are changing travel and commuting plans to save on gas. while the president is busy fighting with the head of a major oil company. wait a minute. which direction does he want to go in here? does he really want to help us? bi
transportation fund. he says he s reduced the deficit by 1.6 trillion, so there s room. to the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump, this is a time of war. global peril. ukraine. these are not normal times. bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product. do it now. do it today. the president not changing any of his policies. the votes may not be in congress to do what he wants. i m willing to embrace his proposals for a gas tax holiday. i don t know whether we ll get the votes it needs here in the senate. i m talking to my colleagues. nancy pelosi has in the past criticized a gas tax holiday. the senior policy director for the committee for responsible federal budget is concerned that the $10 billion hole would grow as pressure would keep the gas stacks suspension even longer than three months. listen. at best, this will reduce the inflation rate by 0.1%. as soon as the holiday is ove
showing pence and his family in hiding inside the capitol as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pence s daughter on the left side. his wife on the right pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. pence has good reason to be hiding. some of the rioters brought a gallows to the capitol while chanting for pence to be hanged. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. this is pence s former chief of staff will not testify in person tomorrow but clips from his video deposition are expected to be played. tonight, in an exclusive interview, short telling our very own wolf blitzer who he believes is responsible for the january 6th violence. i want to be clear, do you blame those surrounding the president for giving him bad advise or blame the then president himself? i think the buck stops with the president. he has responsibility to listen to advice or discard advice. i also think there were people around the president wh
and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabia s de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president biden heralding a, quote, terrific jobs report while also acknowledging record high prices are causing serious problems for far too many american families. there was good news in the jobs report released this morning. u.s. employers added 390,000 new jobs. unemployment stayed at a near record low of 3.6%, and 96% of the jobs lost during the pandemic erupted are back, but none of that will immediately help lower the sky-high costs of everyday goods such as groceries or gasoline. the current rate of
the gas prices soaring another 5 cents overnight, adding to the strain on americans wallets. we ll talk about what the white house is doing about it. this morning in uvalde, texas, a grief-stricken community continues to lay loved ones to rest after last week s school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. today, seven separate services will be held for victims of this tragic shooting. next hour, a funeral for irma garcia, a teacher at robb elementary and her husband joe. irma was killed while protecting her students during the shooting. her grieving husband died thursday after delivering flowers to his wife s memorial. doctors describe his death as a possible example of broken heart syndrome. irma and joe were high school sweethearts. they would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary later this month. they leave behind four children. this afternoon 10-year-old jose manuel flores jr. will be laid to rest. he was honored for his good grades