happening in iraq. you re close to $4 in new york and illinois and other big-population states. you re already very close to half the country, half the population paying $4 a gallon and it s rising. keep in mind when president obama took office i believe it was $1.85 a gallon. that is correct. nothing has really happened. we haven t slowed down. the barrels haven t stopped. this is all projected impact. it s fear of what s going to happen in the future. you ve got this oil refinery taken over by the jihaddists. you ve got pressure on the iraqi oil fields coming from iran. that means you ve got the expectation of a cutoff in supplies, so the expectation that prices will rise some more. so they do. that s what you ve got. now the president announced, apparently, according to cbs, apparently, the president is thinking about boots on the ground maybe to help protect the oil refineries. june, prices ordinarily go down. prices go down but not
leo gaithersburg leo gabriel joins us with breaking details. iraq is under syria. islamic extremists moving to the country with an eye on baghdad. the latest turmoil, two cities being taken overnight, this after militants take control of a former military base in tikrit. president obama pressed for answers saying the u.s. is willing to do what it takes to stop this jihaddist movement. i don t rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihaddists are not getting a permanent foot hold in either iraq or syria. the administration caught off guard recently returned soldiers? not so much.
years, especially the lawyers in the administration, volunteered their services to the enemy precisely to do things like try to close down gitmo and get the jihaddists there free. those are the people who are now making counterterrorism policy. it s not surprising, now that the president doesn t have any more elections to worry about, that they re make policy that s geared toward the objectives they ve always had. real quick, is there anything we can do now to stop the drip, drip on the 130 left in gitmo. we have to sit there and watch that? congress can cut the money. congress can enact a law today that says that no more transfers out of gitmo. we will not fund them. all right. the book really covers the topics in the newspapers today. thanks so much. thanks. 19 minutes after the hour. the story is unbelievable. a dna breakthrough saved a boy s life in 48 hours. it s like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the good news is it s all true. then should interns get paid? the c
the pool in qatar and sipping lemonade, they ll be planning and a year from now, they ll be pulling something off? they will be back. it s not a question of if. it s when. these are the worst jihaddists on the planet. these are people that brought afghanistan back to the 7th century, conducted a genocide against the people. completely stripped all women of all rights in the country. they had no mercy for anyone and literally at least one or two have been charged by the united nations for human rights violations and were wanted by the u.n. so they have been sprung, although they re in detention for a year in qatar. this is all brought about because the united states government did something that, to the best of my knowledge, i can t remember us negotiating with terrorists before. is that what we did here? you know, we have a saying when you do a hostage
so they have rights. mr. siblani, the police have a right to surveil people who they believe may be a threat. whether they are drug dealers, child molesters or jihaddists. you are basically siding with de blasio who says, you know what? we don t really care. we ll let them attack first, then we ll do something about it. that s insane. i am siding with the constitution. oh o, yes. everybody hides behind the constitution, mr. seblani. on the face of this earth. i m siding with the constitution of the best constitution on the fails of this earth. the u.s. constitution. the police were not violating anybody s constitutional rights by surveying people. of course you are when you are surveying an entire muslim population, you are violating their rice. mr. seblani there were 11 guys in the.