oil by sending a strongly worded letter to the heads of seven oil companies, oh, boy. threatening to use emergency powers if they don t boost supply after bashing them for turning a profit. it comes as gas prices are have officially top $5 per gallon with no relief in sight. and if you can t afford the sky-high gas prices the white house says just buy an expensive electric car. he filled up your ev by charging and he filled up your gas tank with gasoline and you have the same size tank you would save $60 per fill up by going electric rather than using gasoline. it s very compelling but to your point we want to bring down the price at the point of purchase. she knows money, she has stock in electric vehicles i believe. biden s marks are so low in inflation that even cnn is turning on him. how do you gauge biden s performance read? awful pit all compared to carter, look at the disapproval rate the joe biden has an inflationary now. it s over 70%. carter was not even there
Years ago to normalize relations between the u. S. , israel and the united arab emirates. Former secretary of state mike pompeo, former ambassador Robert Obrien and others will join the Nixon Foundation live at 18 eastern on our free video app cspan now. Were joined next by kirk bado, the managing editor of of the hotline, the National Journal newsletter focusing on politics. Kirk bado welcome to washington journal. Happy to be a spur it is a sprint now as you as a sn day. Its really nine weeks from tomorrow. What ise your take on where the electoral landscape stands for lets just talk particularly about the house races. House races has narrowed significantly from the beginning of the summer until knepper thats in thanks in part to the Dobbs Decision that overturned the production to an roe v. Wade andnd jimmy carter feel empowered. Their bases in her judge. Theyei cut a string of victories in a few special elections recently and they are fired up. The field is much more narrow in the
congress. he was in a real tough primary fight. there was a lot of optimism on the behalf of republicans, unsuccessful in texas, 28th tonight. this is texas 34. maia florez born in mexico, won a special election about three months ago. taken down by vicente gonzalez tonight however and down in the galveston shore. that s not galveston, that s corpus christi. you know it better than anyone. exactly right about that. i apologize. what i find. think about how many stories we ve done in the border. it s been two years but how many people cross the border? 2 million? this is mcallen crossing and should be right over here in this district and that s where we ve had reporters.
here. the texas-mexican border. it s a bit of a stunner. henry cuellar is going to win reelection. big disappointment for cassie garcia. republic giddens feel good about de la cruz. this is maia florez, she had the special election a couple of months ago. she s trailing by eight points. texas 34 down here in galveston. if i can do one more, guys come up there are ten republicans in the house who have voted to impeach donald trump. there are two who still have a job today. one is dan newhouse, appear in in the state of washington. look at that. he s been confirmed, he ll go back to washington. in that district of the state of washington and down here as the a new district for david wealmost had it here, guys.
by democrats for more than a century. take a listen to the message that resonated with those voters. the liberal policy from washington are tearing the community apart. in the life of the border control agent i pray for safety now more than ever. we must secure our borders to keep our families safe. under president trump we did not have the spirit that comes as democrats are accused of playing with fire. their new strategy for the midterms liberal are spending millions of dollars meddling in g.o.p. contests come up backing my guy candidates to set up but they think are more favorable matchups in november. maia florez, 151 years, the first time that district has flipped to a republican a republican. what an accomplishment for a hispanic woman.