welcome to fox news live i am arthel neville eric sean is off today but we have two other stories were following at this hour. thousands of protesters gathering at the nation s capitol and across the country to push for gun control laws after the rash of recent mass shootings. president biden signing a joint declaration with central and latin america nations to take on the migrant crisis as the search continues at the southern border we have live box team coverage coast-to-coast. bill melugin is in texas, alexandria hawk is in washington from march our lives rally. at alexis make out as the new york city on the soaring gas prices. first we are starting with lucas donaldson but he is life at the white house, hey lucas ricketts hey arthel after the labor department issued the scathing report on inflation saying it s getting worse not better moments ago in los angeles before departing for new mexico president biden continued to blame russian president vladimir putin for the sk
they ve been borrowing and spending money we did not have not with inflation 8.6% the highest it has been since december of 1981 and core inflation at 6%. so what you need to do. arthel: before you go on, hey jon, hang on for second or so we can file you along the way you said we are spending more money than we have more than we need to what you re talking about there so we know what you are referencing? i m talking up a six and half trillion dollars that were spent during covid for example 1.9 trillion that was spent during the first parts of the biden ministration that is money we do not have. that is money chasing fewer and fewer goods while we are raising costs on energy. energy just is not paying at the pump, arthel energy goes into everything we make from meat to metal not just transporting up but processing and as well. not to mention plastics and packaging birds of energy is involved in everything we do. when you reduce the amount of
arthel: more sticker shock for american drivers as a national average for gallon of gas climbs to $5. aaa says it is the first time it has gone that high since they began tracking the data 22 years ago. it comes as american households are feeling the squeeze from the steepest inflation for decades for the latest consumer price index reports on the price for everyday goods went up last month 8.6% rate that was from one year ago. any relief in sight question rick let s bring in economy jon norton. jon let s start right here. it is the perfect storm for skyhigh gas prices and inflation. how can we get out of this cycle and how soon? well, arthel the laws of economic are very much like gravity. if you ignore them it is going to hurt. that is clearly what the biden ministration is done here and constraining american oil and gas production which they have done.
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between immigrant unlicense r licensed drivers and general unlicensed drivers and let s be fair, immigrants don t have licenses because they re bad drivers and a failed test but because the law does not permit them as illegal immigrants to have license. sue: so we re going to advocate we re going to i d indicate abdicate the law because they re here illegally? i don t want to get started down that road. jon let s get to the crux of the question. that s what some are claiming, that this bill is antiimmigrant because by their very nature, illegal immigrants cannot get driver s licenses and according to some they re beinggan officially picked on if they get their car yanked away because they don t have a driver s license. fred makes a good point but at the end of the day we have to look at the uniformity of the law and even application of t i m not suggesting if you re unlicensed you should be permitted to drive. unlicensed drivers, unite, drive if you will, but what