on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. sandra: big show coming up. first, america reports with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of kavanaugh s home to protest demonstrations that are prohibited under federal law. the protest and in your face exercise just hours after police arrested a man accused of planning to assassinate the justice. police have charged nicholas roske with attempted murder. he could be indicted as early as today according to a criminal complaint. roske was planning to kidnap and kill kavanaugh when he was arrested early wednesday morning. sandra: republicans point the fingers at democrats rhetoric on abort
approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76. up $0.17 from a week ago, and 1.72 higher than last year. president biden speaking on the may jobs report and acknowledging the toll inflation is taking on american families. the president putting the onous on congress. anita: karl rove in a moment, but first white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn
trey yingst is live in kyiv. what can you tell us? good afternoon. talking about the town, and while ukrainian forces are getting u.s. weapons as we speak, they remained outgunned and outnumbered. we spoke to the u.s. ambassador to the fight for control of the country. we are here to stop this conflict from becoming bigger, because i think if left unchecked, i believe that russia will continue. you ve been very clear in your statements that the goal of the u.s. government is to help ukraine win this war. we have been very clear, absolutely, that the goal we have is to help ukraine defend itself and deter against further russian aggression, and this is important for ukraine, it is also important for the united states. from the perspective of the u.s. government, what does victory for ukraine look like? we have always said that ukrainians will need to
determine that themselves. president zelenskyy has said that this war ultimately will end in negotiation and what we are trying to do now is strengthen ukraine s battle field position which will strengthen its hand at the negotiation table. do you believe this con flibt can be solved through diplomacy? i think all conflicts eventually are resolved one way another through diplomacy, a place at the end for negotiation, and now helping ukraine. massive problem in terms of grain exports from ukraine. something that could affect food prices in the united states, and could affect millions of lives in other parts of the world. what is the united states doing to encourage the russians to release the grain. yesterday there were meetings between turks and russians in
part of the problem that is leading to this is that we have this unprovoked putin war in ukraine, so this is not unique to the united states. the president has released millions of gallons from the strategic reserve, but i m going to talk to you also from my perspective as the descendant of farmers and as a member of congress who has almost 10,000 family farms in my district. ethanol, ethanol. we can have home grown fuel that we blend with gasoline and just like that overnight we can bring down the cost of a gallon of gas by 50 to $0.60 a gallon. the president just approved an executive order that allows for the sale of more ethanol being blended into gasoline. year around, used to be you would have to take a hiatus during the summer months. and so that can lead to bringing down the cost, but sandra: and we are seeing corn prices sky high because of the soaring price of fertilizer.