to increase oil production. most experts say biden s plan will make inflation worse. even some democrats don t support it, but apparently no one told joe that. calling on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days through the busy summer season, busy travel season, to the company s 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 are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product. do it now. do it today. i m doing my part. i want the congress and states and industries to do their part as well. biden always using this speech to bash his usual suspects for soaring inflation, republicans and vladimir putin. i know my republican friends claim we re not producing enough oil and i m limiting oil production. quite frankly that s nonsense. for all those republicans in congress criticizing me today for high gas prices in america,
federal reserve is directly contradicting the president about the main driver behind that inflation. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. for now rebate cards are out and the federal gas tax holiday is in. president biden s problem few democrats don t see the point. i fully understand that a gas tax holiday alone is not going to fix the problem. but it will provide families some immediate relief. president biden wants congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days to bring down prices at the pump. but evidently didn t nail down lawmaker support before making the public plea and congress is lukewarm. house speaker nancy pelosi writing: we will see where the consensus lies on a path forward. democrat senator joe manchin indicated the votes may not be there at all telling abc. i m not a yes right now that s for sure. even if congress gets on board, there is nothin
yoga studio. i definitely would have gone to that class and had a blast. you can take your new puppy there, brian. brian: i will take willow. got a third. judge jeanine: i have three. nobody knew that. that s it for us. special report is up next with bret baier. bret: did jesse just say downward dog? jesse: no. no. i did not say that. dana: jesse and i sound a lot a like. bret: see you guys, thanks. judge jeanine: bye. bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden calls for a federal gas tax holiday again blaming vladimir putin for skyrocketing prices and urging oil industry executives along with mom and pop gasoline stations to cut their prices and their profits. the president desperately trying to deal with record gas prices as he struggles with the highest inflation rates in more than 40 years and his own dipping approval ratings. meanwhile, the head of the
majority, polling shows a majority of americans blame the president for the shutdown, that they don t believe the government was worth shutting down over the wall. so i think democrats don t necessarily believe that they have to cave. again, the question is whether they believe the president is negotiating in good faith. and this is sort of the basis of some broader deal that addresses immigration. when you look at the fact they haven t been able to get any sort of deal on immigration, how they would achieve that in the context of this government shutdown. lisa. i think that s exactly right. this is complicated situation and the political pressure is intense, particularly on the president, giving those dipping approval ratings. at the same time, it s crucially important to him. we know when the president and the white house think about politics they re thinking about their base and keeping their base solid will keep the republican party unified. even those in battleground states ca
jon: vermont senator bernie sanders is a democrat who can capitalize on her dipping approval ratings. analysts say he s developing a strategy to transform himself to a more centrist nominee. it will be difficult because his positions are on the far left and he will not be moving. this is not a guy who calibrates. there is a lot of similarities in the way he speaks to the way donald trump speaks. he speaks very directly. that s why he s drawing the pro- the progressive left. i spoke to the sanders campaign, they told me they are not going to go at hillary clinton on the email stuff but they will go