thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
The nation is barreling towards a selfinflicted calamity, a shutdown coming in fewer than 35 hours, a short term Spending Solution put it down and another shortterm solution in the senate is not likely to get past before saturday at midnight. If that deadline passes without new funding, about 3. 5 million federal workers when i get paid including active duty military. Strachan Alphabet Soup of federal agencies would face closure or a cutback in reductions of services, the iris, sba, fda, osha, snap, headstart amongst many other. Lauren kahl you have breaking developments, a lastminute attempt by mccarthy with the Stopgap Measure was essentially doomed to fail . Yes, more than conservative 20 conservative hardliners voted against the measure, a show that they are not sticking by the speaker, they need to have some kind of republican plan to go to the Negotiating Table with United States senate, working on a bipartisan basis. Our colleagues caught up with Kevin Mccarthy just moments ago
we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. jacqui, good evening to you. jacqui: good evening to you, john. israel leg is not as mired as potential pit falls in saudi arabia, where he will try to bring down prices and oil prices and inflation eventually. because of the saudi record on prices, and they think the crown prince called for the murder of a journalist, and they want to avoid the spectacle, biden would avoid shaking hands for the duration of his time abroad. listen. we are going to try to
attorney, also former prosecutor and said he has a long list of potential pit falls for the president if he ends up talking to investigators. that and much more at the top of the hour. we ll see you then. dana: president of michigan state resigned hours after one of their former employees was sentenced up to 140 years in prison for sexually abusing dozens of former gymnasts. in a letter she denied the school covered up the abuse and said she was the focus of, quote, this anger. larry nasser was sentenced to decades in prison yesterday. more than 150 women accused nasser of sexual abuse. the united states and our nato ally turkey in a standoff over syria. president trump spoke by phone with the turkish president yesterday, urging turkey to scale back attacks on kurdish forces saying much moves threaten the fight against isis in the region. american officials say the battle in syria is winnable. half of the territory of
europe. what are the potential pit falls of this visit? of course, the bottom line is this is not a major strategic ally for the united states. but there are significant similarities between donald trump and the polish government in power. it s why the white house hand-picked this destination. the party here came into power in 2015 on similarly nationalistic and populist platform. in the eyes of some anti-immigrant, anti-eu, frankly. that s one of the concerns for some governments in western europe. what is notable is by coming to poland he is not coming to where presidents typically go to, like the united kingdom and france. here he is expected to have a huge and warm welcome. we looked at some apartmently members here who were offered buses and bussing in constituents tomorrow to the president s remarks. delivering a speesh at kri zin