hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w
13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
but that actually probably helps the show a little bit. the set staff is pleased because greg and i share the same size booster seat and the same size shoe. all right, look, for anyone battling addictions or lots of big problems if their lives the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem and that s not easy to do. then you have to accept that you have to get up off your did you have and commit to making things better. that s right i said duff and that s the kind of salty language you will get from dana perino after dark. so here s what you do. you make a plan, you tackle the issue, you try to change your circumstances, you get better results and solve your problem. you can t just sit back blame others and expect everything to be okay. or can you? let s see how the leader of the free world is approaching his set of problems. he s setting records all over the place. record inflation, record gas prices, record increases in crime which has led to record low poll num
problem. it s a joe biden problem. a communications problem is when his mic doesn t work. a joe biden problem is when it does. [cheers and applause]. dana: the white house press office doesn t have much to work with. they aren t making new policies. watch here. we understand these gas prices including food prices in particular, those two things as we look at inflation and trying to make sure that we re fighting inflation in every way that we can, is hurting families. it s hurting families especially as they sit around their kitchen table. but we re going to continue to do everything that we can. i don t have anything to preview for you. dana: they re also living with the consequences of biden s policies. we all are. and we re reminded of it left and right. gas, groceries, baby formula, the list goes on. how hard is it to figure out that you can t message inflation