thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall in come down. police weren t going to help. and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow. over and over again. finally one official told him simply, moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basements at a furnace shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations
plagued the president in lots of different ways. we re going to see what happens next here. there was a delegation of diplomats set to meet with the national security adviser today, this afternoon, to talk about the hostages that are from their countries. we also know that there was a delegation slated to go to the middle east next week as well to engage in some more talks and conversations around a deal coming together, and so the administration still has this very robust presence in trying to make this happen, and we ll be looking to see whether there s a response to any degree from hamas in the days to come. aaron gilchrist, thank you for that. claire mccaskill, i want to go to you. i want to talk about the president s statements, they were forceful but brief on donald trump s trial and conviction. you spent many years in the senate. if i m remembering correctly, you were on the armed services committee, homeland security committee. this is an area of the world that yo
members of congress and child tax credits. and call it a presidential booster shot. all four living presidents, except for drunk, just out with a new psa encouraging vaccinations. this vaccine means hope. i am getting vaccinates because we want this pandemic to end as soon as possible. we are all doing our part. this is our shot. our reporters are spread out for our special coverage of covid one year later. i am hallie jackson. monica alba is outside the white house. gabe gutierrez is in new york and dr. john torres. we have many reporters we want to get to for our special coverage. monica, let me start with you and what we expect to hear from president biden tonight, a day before he signs the coronavirus bill into law. reporter: the president is going to acknowledge everything that this country has been through over the last year, while also trying to talk about and hint at the hope that on the horizon, more vaccine become available, we will talk about his americ
Increasingly under scrutiny for his past statements on islam and other issues, Stephen Bannon whospower is writing within the new white house, Andrea Mitchell reports. Reporter hes at the president s side at nearly every photo op. Chief white house strategist steve bannon aside from the family, first among equals in President Trumps power circle. What bannon wants . Nothing short of a revolution. A Pop Lift Revolution in the united states. Republican in name but trump in style. Reporter his influence stretching from politics to foreign policy. Now on the National Security Council Principles committee. Hes got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape. Surprisingly a retired
general who served both president bush and obama. How unusual is it that steve bannon has a seat at the table . I think its unprecedented. Bannon described as brilliant but his power alarming critics. His warning to the media to keep its mouth shut. That extreme vetting order. Listen to