lowest level in almost four decades. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. the president is saying he wants to increase american energy production without delaying the transition to green energy and clean energy. officials are calling the move a bridge but now we know it s a bridge that leaves the strategic reserve to its lowest level since 1984. strategic petroleum reserve is more than half full. peter: still too low for critics concerned with national security. it s strategic petroleum reserve. it s not the political petroleum reserve. it s really for a time of war that we need the energy. peter: that i it s not politically motivated at all. 400 million barrels of oil that s more than any energy drawdown. peter: still blaming on russia. putin s war caused price hikes. calling on companies to pass savings on to customers. ramp up at ease. my administration has no
rehoboth beach, where they ll get top star treatment, maybe joe has a spare room or two to house them. biden doesn t sound worried about it. listen. they re sending migrants to delaware. do you have a comment or response to that? come visit. we have a beautiful shoreline. ron des desantis, not backing down, taking shots at the media while firing back at a texas sheriff for opening a criminal probe into last week s migrant flights to the vineyard. i haven t heard a peep about all the people that have been told by biden you can just come in and they re going, they re being abused by the cartels, they re drowning in the rio grande. you had 50 that died in some shed in texas. i heard no outrage about any of that. i haven t heard outrage about all the fentanyl hats across the border, killing americans in record numbers. the only thing i hear them getting upset about is you have 50 that end up in martha s vineyard, then they get upset. this comes as president biden s bord
the average american feeling the pain on groceries to gas but president biden is blaming covid vladimir putin and oil companies. will voters hold democrats accountable at the ballot box? congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers and cara hay are joining us coming up. we begin with the senate debate. i m sandra smith. john great to kick off another show with you. great to be on wednesday hump day. dr. oz and fetterman despite early voting well underway in the keystone state. democratic senate candidate struggled at times with his answers. in new york state, the crime crisis taking center stage. looking to oust kathy hochul. brian is live in harrisburg pa, what has been the reaction to fetterman s performance? lots of speculation what it could mean for john fetterman the fact there are renew questions about his fitness to serve when you look at exchange like this one about his evolving stance on fraccing. he said in 2018 he didn t and never has. i absolutely support
i m not the governor who attacked walt disney world because they expressed their point of view. i m not the governor who attacked the cruise industry because they wanted to make sure they weren t sick before they got on the boat. you re the most ant-business governor i have seen. a baseball team for send ago tweet saying that they were sorry that children were gunned down in uvalde, suddenly the governor of florida decided to actually penalize a baseball team for expressing sympathy with the parents of dead children. culture wars were a major topic in last night s debate between the two candidates for governor of florida. we re going to have more from that show down this morning, including the big question ron desantis would not answer. plus, the latest from eastern europe as there are growing fears that vladimir putin is planning a new type of attack as a justification for escalating the war with ukraine. also ahead, adidas finally appears to be taking action on its
martha: both candidates are here to answer questions from their state. bret: this is the ohio town hall. [cheers and applause] martha: good crowd. bret: welcome to columbus, ohio. i m bret baier with a great crowd. martha: we have great crowd here tone. i m martha mccallum. bret: welcome to a special edition from special report limited commercial interruptions tunnel 2 towers. we are coming to you tonight live from the fives event venue. mash march tim ryan and j.d. vance will both join us live here in a moment. both nominees will have equal time and our audience of republicans and democrats and independents will be asking them questions throughout. bret: first, we want to give you a look at some of the other headlines today. the latest fox news power ranks shows republicans with 49 possible seats in the senate after next week s midterms. those are the projections. democrats 47. four races we call toss-ups. we have shifted two contests towards republican c