session fears. this hour i ll be joined by dr. anthony fauci to discuss the biden administration s response to monkey pox. the public health emergency and the impact of the most recent covid variant spreading across the u.s. we begin with the new u.s./china tensions. joining us now are nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander cohost of weekend today and the former nato supreme allied commander. peter, tensions you have been tracking so closely between two major powers, the two remaining super powers, clearly es-kating. i cannot recall any time between the u.s. and china where the military behavior by china has been at this fever pitch. i think you re right. the escalation has increased in recent days with these live fire missile tests in the taiwan strait in taiwan s territorial waters there. so much so that just yesterday nbc news has now confirmed with white house officials the white house summoned china s ambassador to the united states to the white house fo
gas prices under president biden. the peak more than $5 per gallon. it has been a tough run and continues to be for americans. the white house, though, insists that this trip goes far beyond oil. to a host of other national security issues. critics say the real objective of president biden s trip is to try to convince the world s largest exporter of oil to ramp up production to drive down those prices for us. while americans are suffering from high gas prices and crippling inflation, he goes there. i ve said he is begging for oil. others call it something else like the white house says they are trying to have energy security, okay. house minority leader kevin mccarthy calling out the president. let s be honest. the only reason president biden is going to saudi arabia is to beg for them to produce more oil. he travels all the way to saudi arabia to beg them to go against everything he said in the campaign simply because his policies from day one have denied america to be ene
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
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being set online and what we are in the middle of, really, within this country. without democracy, the economy won t matter, right? inflation won t matter. none of these things are actually gonna matter without democracy in this country. yeah, i think we have seen a real divide, i believe, that, you know, not most of the republicans, but certainly several of the republican leaders yesterday. you know, they made sure to put out statements, tweet things out, you know, to basically say that violence is not acceptable. but a lot of them were silent. we saw glenn youngkin, the governor of virginia, republican governor of virginia, you, know sort of have a throwaway line, that violence is not acceptable. but he said he wanted to send and see pelosi back home to be with her husband. there is the level of, you know, the level of bozo jack donkey-ness that the people who are condoning this are possibly