plus russia meeting with allies in vienna and may announce up to 2 million barrels a day production cut. bad news for you and president biden. dana: the president visited saudi arabia this summer in hopes of convincing the kingdom to increase its oil output. that strategy now appears to have fallen flat. the white house is in damage control. when the president went to saudi arabia, he said i m doing all i can to increase the supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. what happened? you know, his trip to the middle east was not about oil. it was about america s position. as i just mentioned, he took action these past several months. every day in the summer you saw prices tick down at the pump. bill: james freeman on deck with analysis. jacque heinrich is live at the white house where we begin this brand-new hour. good morning. good morning, bill. we re seeing the first reports of these cuts could be much deeper than expected between 1.5 and 2
that was a fast three hours. it really was. everyone, three hours with brian on the radio right after this. it will be exciting. see you tomorrow. bill: so much for the lower gas prices. the president s fuel strategy appears to be backfiring. experts warn it will get a whole lot worse as we say hello. good news to start, right? i m bill hemmer live in new york. team is back together today. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. enter these aren t the numbers the administration wanted. they might have been the ones they anticipated. the average price for a gallon of gas topping $3.83 nationwide. that s expected to keep going up. one of the driving factors is opec. bill: the mideast oil cartel