Meeting this hour in ames, iowa. You are looking at live pictures. Hillary clinton has a rally next hour in knoxville, ohio. Iowa, i should say. Knoxville, iowa. The democrats kick off their final sprint to the caucuses in the cnn town hall meeting later tonight, 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Ates chance for the democrats to deliver their closing arguments. Its the last high profile experience. Our senior washington correspondent jeff zelney joining us live from the site of the town hall in des moines. Hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders, martin omalley. They wont be on the stage at the same time, but walk us through the format for the town hall. Wolf, they will be appearing back to back to back here here on the campus of drake university. Martin omalley will be going between his two rivals, senator sanders will start the evening off and will talk for about 30 minutes or so, taking questions from iowa voters and undecided voters followed by martin omalley, and Hillary Clinton will wrap up the evenin
beer to everything else will take a bite out of your wallet because inflation is rising. is it transitory as the biden administration says or is it something more? what is the political impact of that as we head towards 2022? karl cove is here and tell us how he sees it. let s start with jeff flock live at the pumps with what to expect as americans get excited to hit the roads. hi, jeff. hi, martha. hello to you from sunny michigan. i m aabove interstate 94 out here. you can see america coming back to life. a lot more folks out there. take a look at the numbers on what it will cost you. we re up to $3.08 a gallon for a gallon of gasoline. that s three cents more than last week. .6 more than last month. almost a dollar more than it was
jeff zelney, cnn. sir, good evening. thank you. in a weekend interview, vladimir putin laughed at the suggestion that you had called him a killer. is that still your belief, sir, that he is still a killer and i ll continue the trend of asking a second question. do you believe that if he does agree to cooperate, then what kind of a challenge do you find yourself in? how would you truth yourself. ronald reagan said trust but verify. what do you say to vladimir putin? answer to the first question, i m laughing, too. well, look, he s made clear that the answer is i believe
nevada and washington, oregon may be it s best to take a skateboard or something else if you go out there, martha. martha: thanks, jeff. let s go to karl rove. former deputy chief of staff to george w. bush and a fox news contributor. great to see you, karl, this is a crazy cycle. you have trillions of dollars flooding into the economy from these covid relief plans. and then you ve got that driving fewer goods that are available because of covid and you have a serious inflation situation. we do. it s coming from two different directions. you pointed out the reason for some of them. air travel. if you moth ball planes and let pilots and mechanics and engineers take time down, takes awhile to pull them back. there s fewer seats today. so all of these people that want to travel are competing for fewer seats. rent cars. they sold off their fleets. why have the cars on the lots
wealthy. the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession. that would take more demand from the economy and put businesses in a hole. bret: president obama today and president obama in 2009. today he called on one year temporary extension of the tax cut for those making underbe $250,000. a statement released about this saying president obama s response to the bad economic news is a massive tax increase. i just proves again that the president doesn t is a clue how to get america working again and help the middle class. the job report came out friday and they were not what the u.s. wanted to see. you can see 80,000 jobs added, less than predicted. the unemployment rate at 8.2%. talk about the taxes with the all-stars in washington. jeff zelney for the new york