republican congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers on gas prices hitting $5 a gallon for the first time in the history, and bill barr on something he told january 6th committee and with our very own lucas tomlinson at white house on a president fending off attacks, it s that 70 # inflation show all over again, and he is the not too happy star. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. happy weekend to you. let s go first to my buddy lucas on how the administration is handling all this bad news on prices. reporter: well, neil, the labor department issuing a brutal report yesterday saying that inflation is getting worse, not better. the average cost of goods up 8.6% over a year ago. now, president biden speaking in los angeles in addition to blaming putin, he s blaming exxon for the skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill. they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one. and number two
what do you think? no, absolutely, i can see it catching on, certainly. and there is a problem getting employees now all over the country and of course, some cases all over the world where there s an employee shortage, so, yeah, they re going to have to think of doing something, but i m personally with elon musk. if you don t want to work a 40-hour work week then pretend to work somewhere else. neil: you are cruel. i don t get it. [laughter] lydia. takes one to know one. neil: listen to you. and a 60-hour work week, and everything is going, and diminishing return, but you don t think that necessarily under 40 is the way to go, if it comes to that. yeah, no, i have a lot of concerns about, you know, reducing the 40-hour work week. i understand the argument that employers are are putting forth. we have a problem with recruiting problem, a problem with retaining people coming out of the pandemic. employees have an expectation of greater flexibility and benefits and trying to recru
same four days, not the exact four days. that solves that problem, doesn t it? well, i think it does in the world that lydia just described, right? you have a service industry, i can flip burgers on monday and lydia on tuesday. it doesn t work where there s long-term projects and institutional knowledge. i m not going to be able to get from lydia if i m working on a project or you don t think that lydia would share that with you? she s not going to be in the office, i don t want to bother her on the day off. neil: and that s whether it s four or five days. i can see you doing that. [laughter] i found out that other anchors are paid, infuriated me. my point is, do do you think this has traction? a lot of companies do work with flex schedules, particularly post covid. a lot of them work with workers coming from home and doing their work from home. it seems to be working, not for everybody, but for a good many.