refinery maintenance shutdowns ant and opec s latest cuts as retirees will soon get the biggest social security living increase that they ve seen in decades. in a moment we will hear from the wall street journal jon hilsenrath. analysis in moments. arthel: the white house trying to get in front of rising gas prices and inflation among top voter concerns. hey, lucas. lucas: price of regular unleaded gasoline nationwide is 3.91 according to triple a. president biden lashing out against saudi arabia and opec for cutting oil production former secretary of state mike pompeo responded this morning on fox news sunday. the the point the finger at someone else opec and saudis is enormous mistake when america has the capacity to produce energy independence for its own country and provide energy for the world as well. lucas: pompeo also taking issue with biden s comments on armageddon defined last battle between good and evil before day of judgment and called comments reckless and w
reversal on the inflation for sure. eric: fist bump with mbs didn t achieve much over there. let s talk about inflation. what s going to happen on thursday renounce one of the largest increases, the largest for social security, so any of our viewers folks watching, you are going to get a potential 8.7% cost of living increase in your social security check every month. right now there s the average benefit of 1,656 bucks, means you will see extra 144.10. new average that s the good news is 1,800 and 10 cents cents. good news bad news, social security the paychecks are larger and that s because stuff costs more. jon: exactly, eric. the top line on the visual that you just showed told a story. 8.7%. the reason that s going up so much is because social security
of those three, one of them, kushner flew their secretly. we didn t learn about it until after he was back. long after it was over. that was the trip that reportedly included several nights where jared kushner and the crown prince of saudi arabia, muhammad bin sal lan, mbs, jared and mbs reportedly stayed up until 4:00 in the morning swapping stories and planning strategy, end quote. . shortly after jared kushner got back from that trip, the saudi crown prince mbs rounded up nearly hundreds of members of the royal family and rich saudis and jailed them and including torturing them in the ritz carl ton hotel and lots of them were forced to give up billions of dollars and any claims to power they might have. an mbs didn t just have tactic support from the white house for that bizarre crackdown, president trump tweeted his approval of it. and trump also incredibly supported saudi arabia s weird economic blockade of their
decisions. most of that personal treatment. mr. kushner made at least pictures to saudi arabia just during trump s first year in office. is we don t know about all of this. and they flew their secretly. we don t know about until after he was, back long after was over. that was the trip that included several nights where generation and the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin solemn, was by mbs. jaden mbs reportedly stayed up to four in the morning swapping stories and planning strategy. shortly after jared kushner got back from that trip, the saudi crown prince, mbs, rounded up literally hundreds of members of the royal family and other rich saudis and basically jailed them, including torturing some of them. and the ritz-carlton hotel and riyadh until lots of them were forced to give up billions of dollars and any claims the power they might have. and mbs didn t just have tacit
literally hundreds of members of the royal family and other rich saudis and basically jailed them, including torturing some of them. and the ritz-carlton hotel and riyadh until lots of them were forced to give up billions of dollars and any claims the power they might have. and mbs didn t just have tacit support from the trump white house for that bizarre crackdown, president trump explicitly tweeted his approval of it. trump also, incredibly supported saudi arabia s weird economic blockade of their neighbor qatar. even though qatar is a staunch u.s. ally and the host a gigantic u.s. military base that houses 10,000 american troops. saudi arabia launched this big blockade of qatar, and trump said i m on the soggy side. trump even bent over backwards to prevent saudi arabia s crown prince after the murder and dismemberment of washington post journalist khashoggi. an operation the u.s.