himsel a pictuf in a taco bell. but just before that, biden tha made an announcement that stunned everyone in washington, washand his and staff. work t o we ve got a lot of work to do. and i m and i m doini g a major preo conference this afternoon,n, so i love you all. but i ask d like to ask you to leave swingtown. it was breaking news.. yeah, that was joe biden announcing he was giving a major press conference tonight. p full now, joe biden s handlers knowfn he isn t capable of holdingerene a major press conference. white he h can barely answer questions on the white house law n. so the white house quickly worked to cover up biden s fake announcementance fak. ke. they said the president misspoke by no noww, biden s own staff have come to expect his gaffes, but they didn t expectnl them from the vice president ,hr kamala harris. shis e was supposed to be the insurance policy. they didn t know.ey didn what e getting. officials in the bidenns administration were probably h
past 11 days in a row. american families forced to spend an average of $5,000 a year on gas compared to $2800 a year ago. interior secretary deb holland refusing to concede it is too big a burden to bear. americans are still recovering from this terrible pandemic and there are a lot of other world events that are making things difficult for all of us. so it sounds like you are unwilling to say that gas prices are too high. we re doing all we can, senator. dana: grady trimble is following the story from chicago. good morning. good morning. gas prices are expected to keep rising this summer so when interior secretary deb holland wouldn t acknowledge in that hearing that gas prices right now are too high, it certainly raised eyebrows. we re doing all we can, senator, production on federal lands is up. it s a 45% increase from 2020. that s new drilling. that s up. but the production is also up. it s at an all-time high. president biden is allowing drilling on federa
laura: good evening, i m laura ingraham on the ingraham angle. joe manchin announced he would not seek reelection in west virginia. joe manchin saw the writing on the wall, he was going to lose and lose big. i made one of the toughest decisions of my life, i will not run for reelection in the united states senate. i will be traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is interest in creating movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. laura: the truth is, over time, voters saw through joe manchin s mask. he couldn t play good old boy in virginia and buddy up to schumer in d.c. democrats had grown tired of him. he has not been a reliable ally to the white house or democrats, i don t know if they shift strategy that we real democrats can play. he s been more reliable than a republican would be, though. better than to not have the seat at all. that is money that can go elsewhere. laura: joe manchin s exit is a huge problem for democrat
tomorrow. you may know him as steve bannon but on monday trump s former campaign manager and chief white house strategist will become federal inmate 056- 3509. having already lost his case and first appeal bannon is expected to report to a federal prison in connecticut on monday morning. s that unless the supreme court intervenes which it could do at any moment. today the department of justice, formerly urged the high court not to intervene here. and to let mr. bannon face accountability for his actions but remarkably, the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today. mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee and it might be regarding steve bannon and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing an amicus grief on his apellate court there in his case. reporter: today speaker of the hou
the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about