the e.u. cutting off 90% of russian oil imports. bill: check out the gas station in l.a. near hollywood. that s not a movie. that s $8.05 a gallon. julie: we need a new word for sticker shock. when you drive up and see that. making matters worse is the nationwide labor shortage. now we are anticipating brand-new numbers out this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. the numbers are expected to show 11 1/2 million job openings in this country. that is nearly twice as many jobs as there are people looking for work. bill: the president repeatedly insisting inflation was transitory. during his administration it has continued to climb and climb higher surging to 8.3% under his watch, which is as we know now, a 40-year high. white house has tried to paint a rosie picture of all this. you saw the president s piece published this week. one member of the president s team is now appearing to admit some fault in all of this. i was wrong then about the path of inflation would tak
gone. she was hysterical saying they shot her best friend, they killed her best friend, she was not breathing, and she was trying to kill the cops, and i asked the little girl the name, and she told me she said amerie. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mommy and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. like, i just want to know what she did to be a victim. fellow classmate, matae rodriguez also just 10 years old will be laid to rest later today. at sacred heart church, where the funeral is taking place, there are 21 crosses, one for each of the 19 children and two teachers killed a week ago today, and funerals for 12 of the victims will be held there. cnn s nick valencia joins us from uvalde, tell us what happens happening as this little girl s funeral is starting. reporter: amerie s funeral is reportedly being attended by many people wearing the color pur
begin this week as the justice department opens an investigation to the police department. and the president vowing to meet with members of congress about enacting new gun legislation. we ve been i have dealt with more mass shooting aftermaths than any president in american history. it s just so much of much of it is preventible. in a moment, senator rowan gutierrez has this message for my potential school shooters in his county. we re going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come to a campus shooting at our children or shooting at us. we re with jeff paul with more. good afternoon. yeah, trace. the first of many funerals getting underway today as the memorial here in the city of uvalde grows. this is the beginning for the city as they say good-bye to the 21 that were killed and will continue on the next few weeks. if you look at the schedule of these memorials and funerals and visitations, there will be one until mid june almost every day for this city. one of
even though the president was face-to-face with the fed chair today, he says he s still staying hands off. my plan is simple, respect the fed, respect its independence which i will continue to do. even though biden wanted interest rates raised is not an economic cure without its own side effects. put jerome powell in a box. they have to raise interest rates. when they raise interest rates, it makes it harder to buy a home, usually make the stock market go down as we ve seen. and that will affect people s 401(k)s. jerome powell doesn t have a lot of options. republicans say the best option to get inflation under control is to get government spending under control. the white house today is not second guessing any past spending. do you think that any part of inflagrants this year is because of president biden s spending plan or is it all putin s fault? brian just spoke to this. we re at a historic place when it comes to the economy. now we re going to a place where i
u.s. policy. basically diplomatic chaos this afternoon. ending with paper statement from the white house in an attempt at clarifying from the defense secretary. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president starts us off tonight tuesday morning from tokyo. good morning, peter. peter: good morning, bret. president biden spent months explaining the u.s. was never going to fight russia in ukraine. he was very clear about that. and when it comes to fighting china in taiwan, he was very clear about that, too. he just wasn t on the same page as his staff. the future of the 21st century economy is going to be largely written in indo-pacific. the president planned to talk about confronting china economically but wound up talking about confronting china on the battlefield. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. but what the president says the u.s. would help t