vice president, there s an old axiom that you need to follow. the first report is always wrong. it s not surprising. sandra, very candidly, it was a debacle in afghanistan. something happened that shouldn t have happened. we shouldn t have been put in that position as the united states. biden put us in that position. i think he got good advice that he didn t follow and we ended up losing 13 great americans and hundreds of civilians as well. sandra: you joined us throughout that time. thanks for joining us. thank you, sir. thanks, sandra. sandra: okay. to arlington, virginia now. a judge temporarily blocking glenn youngkin s mask order there. he issued a mandate making masks optional as you remember. we ll have more on that as we get it. to a major storm putting flights
there s the correlation between concentration and elevated price levels. the president intends to try to bring those down on behalf of the american people. sandra: okay. i appreciate the discussion. i hope you come back on. my pleasure. thank you. sandra: a quick look at the corner of wall and broad. all the major averages closing higher with investors able to shake off worries about inflation and those expected rate hikes that will result. some volatility in the tech sector involving facebook and more. we ll be watching for that. now that we know what russia is planning, what is china plotting? as these two team up, why general keith kellogg says we have to do more to take these threats down. and none of it helping the price of oil. now topping $92 a barrel. pump prices at a seven-year high. is there any relief in sight? one major airline making a move
oil production in this country today? by the day we re becoming more reclient on foreign nations for their oil when we were very recently energy independent in this country. oil is a global price. a few months ago, the president released 50 million gallons from the strategic reserve. certainly that helped matters. if that s sandra: how did that help? oil and gasoline prices have only gone up. prices fell 10% a gallon sandra: they re above that level. yes. gas prices are going to go up and down as they always were. this is a global price. what we can do is make sure that the american worker has the best earnings opportunities that they ve had in generations. that is sandra: i think people hear no plan. that s worrisome. again, with due respect, i don t mean to cut you off but i asked a simple question. what is the white house planning to bring oil and gasoline prices down for the american consumer?
rocketing home heating bills and energy prices. they re paying more to fill their gas tank and more at the grocery store. explain this. why is the president touting this strong economic growth and a jump in wages as you see there, hourly earnings up 5. 7% when inflation is up 7%? it s not keeping pace with that. so you can make the case that real wages are actually down. it s precisely the way the president is talking about this that will get us out of this mess. he s pointing out that we have to do two things. this is a walk and chew gum moment. we have to maintain the tightest job market in history with a job gains that we haven t seen in any first year of any president at the same time, the same time that we do everything we can to ease price pressures. you talked about let me give you a number you didn t cite.
leading a group of senators saying we want to ban natural gas experts to keep prices low here. sandra: we had a conversation the other day amount the amount of oil that we could have be bringing down from canada through the xl pipeline and the building of it was cancelled would be about the same from the amount of oil that we re now buying from russia. which is significantly more than we re buying a few years ago. i m out of time. we ll continue the conversation. thank you. thank you. sandra: a lot of pain for consumers. president joe biden riding a wave of big wins this week. how does lee carter see this play out. why flight attendants are worried. limu emu and doug. we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast.