republican congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers on gas prices hitting $5 a gallon for the first time in the history, and bill barr on something he told january 6th committee and with our very own lucas tomlinson at white house on a president fending off attacks, it s that 70 # inflation show all over again, and he is the not too happy star. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. happy weekend to you. let s go first to my buddy lucas on how the administration is handling all this bad news on prices. reporter: well, neil, the labor department issuing a brutal report yesterday saying that inflation is getting worse, not better. the average cost of goods up 8.6% over a year ago. now, president biden speaking in los angeles in addition to blaming putin, he s blaming exxon for the skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill. they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one. and number two
every american, and that is the economy, gas prices hit another record high today. we are very close to $5 a gallon as a national average. the biden administration, they just want you to suck it up and buy an electric car. how is that going to work out for you? because it s absolutely, according to them, nothing they re willing to do to bring down cost except for energy independence. when we have clean energy. one is that going to happen? first tonight with joe biden obviously cognitively impaired and struggling to communicate, the white house just rolled out a popular actor to help with the messaging surrounding gun violence. today uvalde native matthew mcconaughey, the actor, gave a very emotional speech about the horrific shooting in his own town. take a look. in the reality of what happened that day in the town i was born in set in. so the next morning, mark, camilla and myself set out. when we arrived a few hours later, i got to tell you, even from the inside of our ve
wanting to raise the taxes on working families by an average of 1,500 a year. put medicare and social security, medicaid social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. every five years they will no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with everyone who has real solutions and real savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. now, the other element i like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends the republicans like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded rising every year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year by 1.7 trillion. hear me now? this year by 1.7 trillion. that s a fact. the largest decline in
the country after he certified the 2020 election results for president biden. they held dueling rallies last night. that s why we re in the fight for the soul of our state. we re doing this for a reason. we got more wood to chop. let s bring this home. i m asking for your vote and your help and your support. this has been a race of people versus politicians. you see pence coming in and all the other governors, the rhino establishment politicians, career politicians coming to georgia to make their case. we ve taken our message to the people. i m running against an incumbent governor struggling to get to 50%. harris: the winner takes on unopposed democrat stacey abrams and it could mean a rematch with governor kemp who won in 2018. abrams is still hearing it from angry voters after she called georgia the worst state to live in. i wouldn t say it s the worst place to live in. i lived in chicago and i think it s a lot more expensive and a lot more dangerous to live in.
Antiisrael protests continued at colleges across the country this week as the growing Campus Unrest threatens to complicate joe bidens reelection bid. The president is scrambling to shore up support among his progressive base with a focus on abortion rights, Student Loan Forgiveness and climate change, but his handling of the israelhamas if war is being closely watched by Younger Voters and arabamericans in key swing states. Both President Biden and former President Donald Trump weighed in on the protests this week. I condemn the antisemitic protests, thats why ive set up a program dealing with that the. I also condemn voters who dont understand whats going on with the palestinians. Whats gown on at the College Level at these colleges, column ya, nyu and others is a disclass, and its a its really on biden. He has the wrong signal, hes got the wrong tone, hes got the wrong words. He doesnt know who hes backing, and its a mess. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists and Fox Ne