the questions swirling around the commander in chief from supporters, independents and now the media as the president shocks the world once again this week with his own cancer diagnosis, leaving the white house to clean up yet another mess. that s why i and so damn many people i grew up with have cancer and why delaware has the highest cancer rate in the nation. maria: coming up, ben carson on new worries over monkeypox and polio. plus, hook or crook, joe biden claims he will push his climate spending and tax plan through. coming up, california congressman ro khanna on who is taking responsibility for the democrats failed climate change agenda. plus, what biden s record low approval numbers mean for america expect white house now. then, president trump campaigning for kari lake in arizona over the weekend. and look what has happened to our country in less than two years. our country is like a different, like a different place. it s so sad to see. but first, we have to wi
are paying diesel. the president wants to suspend that through september. he needs congressional approval to get it done, however. members of both parties are a bit skeptical. dana: jason chaffetz echoed concerns of republicans who say it won t address the real issue. it s a pure gimmick and does not solve the problem at all. it really doesn t. we have a supply problem and the president has no plan other than to go to the saudis, cut some gas tax, tap into the strategic petroleum reserve, all of which are bad ideas. produce the energy at home and they can solve the problem. that s not what he is doing. bill: what is he doing? peter doocy joins us from the north lawn leading the coverage today. good morning. even if this gas tax holiday gets passed by congress, it is unclear this morning exactly how much help people are going to get. markets don t respond to gimmicks. the administration it is an unserious solution to a serious problem and they are just not takin
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
became the first transgender champion in ncaa division history. in an interview last month, he said that she does plan to keep swimming competitively including, she said, at the olympic trials to try and go after the olympics. the vote, though, by the governing body would ban thomas and other transgender athletes from taking part in women s sports events. mary korean rafferty joins us with more. reporter: hi, eric. the new rules would mean a trans it s e alt heat9 would have to complete their transition before the age of 12. ya thomas, first trans athlete to win a division i swimming title and had also hoped to compete in the olympics, will not be allow to do so. the international body that governs water sports says the move will balance includessivity and insure no one has an unfair advantage. we have to protect the right of all our athletes to compete. but we also have to protect competition fairness at our events, especially women s competition. and also the past reco
and is a soft landing for the u.s. economy still possible, or are we heading toward a recession? let s ask the chairman and ceo of baird company. jason, nice of you here. lots of turmoil in the financial markets. i wonder what you think they re telling us. is this just the end of easy money with higher rates adjustment and the adjustment to that, or is it something deeper in the economy? i think it primarily is an end to easy money, and the fact really is that the fed has obscured what the rate in the markets has been for 13 year. so there s an adjustment period right now. i think most of the decline in stocks thus far has been associated with higher interest rates and an acknowledgment the that inflation is a little bit more structural. what you haven t seen yet and which is somewhat concerning for us is that you haven t seen earnings expectations for, for many companies come down yet. and so right now it would be hard to say that the market is telling you there s going