feel any significant relief at the grocery store or gas pump. fuel costs just hit another new high, $4.40 a gallon on average for the first time ever. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is traveling with the president. jeremy, the president gave a speech about inflation yesterday. today it s supposed to be more about food supply. what can we expect? reporter: yeah, victor, but inflation will still be very much top of mind for the president as he addresses this dueling issue of rising food prices, as well as this global food shortage. part of it sparked by the war in ukraine. ukraine/russia, key suppliers of wheat around the world. we ll hear the president address both of those. and the fact that he s talking about inflation for the second day in a row, a reflection of the extent to which he s facing serious political pressure on this issue, a top issue for voters heading into the midterms. today we ll hear the president announce several new steps to help farmers
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Joe johns is outside. Were half an hour from this trial getting under way. What are we expecting today . I think at first were expecting more of the game. Gates was on the stand for about 45 minutes before they wrapped up late last night. Hell continue on direct testimony answer questions of the prosecution about what the government alleges is a whole pattern of illegal conduct that stretched out over years and years and years. Rick gates became his Deputy Campaign manager. Its important to remind people who this guy is. Gates was a long time personal confidante, if you will, of paul
manafort and is believed to know basically all of the Inner Workings of the manafort organization. I think its extremely important to point out that the allegations against mr. Manafort include dealings in ukraine with hidden Bank Accounts and gates is alleged to know everything about that, poppy. And i mean i was reading that i
he didn t do well and maybe the facts weren t necessarily on his side. i think she was given too much credit for what she did. it wasn t that outstanding. and i think poobl he was hit harder than he should have been hit. all right. so is the president worried about kamala harris? he definitely should be. senator harris has proven time and again that she is the only candidate on the democratic side that can prosecute a case against donald trump. donald trump is out of touch and out of step especially when it comes to the issue of race and economic inequalities for african-americans and hispanic americans and the wealth gap of the african-american community and the gap with gender. so, no. list listen, he has no authority to talk about this issue in a credible way. all right. so, should he be concerned about
rather than being at an important campaign event if iowa, he was at a more important family event in delaware. i would frankly expect the average voter to question his priorities if he had missed his daughter s high school graduation at an event where he would speak five minutes. i think it s important he has been campaigning vigorously. he has been to each of the critical early primary states already. he has been doing events all over the countries respect his campaign launched in philadelphia, i thought laid out a positive and clear path forward for his candidacy. i couldn t disagree more with both the substance and the strategy of donald trump of rolling out all these middle school nicknames against his most feared opponent joe binden. finally i want to play something the vice president said today in iowa to his crowd. list listen. i promise you, if i m elected
let s get the president s reaction to this. joe, the president when presented with inconvenient information or information he doesn t like will shout fake news. how is the president responding to this story? as you might expect, jim, the president is issuing a blanket response, blanket denial, also getting in some of his favorite digs at the news media. just a few minutes ago the president tweeting the new york times reporting is false, they are a true enemy of the people. and yesterday the president asked about this reporting, got in another dig at the news media issuing yet another denial. list listen. did you ask acting attorney general matthew whitaker to change the leadership of the investigation of your former personal attorney michael cohen? not at all. i don t know who gave you that. that s more fake news. there s a lot of fake news out