this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned
to be repeeled in new york. former donald trump steve bannon could be his way to yale. he first to face that kind of conviction 1974. and if i go to jail i go to jail. i will never back off. for trump and constitution. i am not backing on one inch. with press biden cooperative makes virtual appearance. speak to nation on gas prices. and makes victory lap for recent declines. no responsible for surge in first place. have you seen this caught on camera disney as magic kingdom what you are learning about what started fight in fancy land. what happened after. first, man accused attacking congressman charged with felony and then let go. correspondent jeff fall joins us now with more about the suspect and what congressman is saying about it all. jeff? yes. he was middle of a speech when he was attacked it was all captured on camera but before we show you that moment keep in mind as you are watching that man accused trying hurt congressman is already out of jail. . and there on
the studio. thank you for jumping into the chair like the true professional that you are. we have a lot of serious news to get to. start with this. we know the gang member accused of murdering two california cops this week should have been behind bars. that deceased suspect was a freeman thankeds to george gascon s soft on crime policy. he had a previous strike conviction and was only sentenced to probation for felon in possession of firearm charge. ashley: if flores would have been prosecuted in february of 2021, he may have been sentenced for up to three years in prison. george gascon s office is standing by the light sentencing, his office saying the sentence he received in the firearm case was consistent for this type of offense. given his criminal history at the time the court sentenced him, mr. flores did not have a documented history of violence. george gascon office lost a top aid and the group working to recall him said they reached 650,000 signature to trigger a r
this administration has failed. the far left pro abortion group is now reportedly clairing, quote, open season on pro life americans. it s been a week and joe biden still has not condemned the attempted murder of a sitting supreme court justice. mayra flores flipping the district in texas. the democratic party has gone so far left and they don t represent our values. a little bright thing to wake you up. there s someone running. there s some people surfing right now. that s where everyone in south carolina goes to surf. the cameraman didn t follow them. what happened to that? like he was just there. still running. i think he s looking for something. i don t think that s exercise. they re getting a high of 85 today and if you look at the forecast, there s one big sunshine. there s not a cloud over it. that s what you want for the summer. last time we were in the neck of the woods, we were south of there. . i had shrimp and grits every meal. they act
policies on capitol hill this week. telling lawmakers the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan contributed only modestly to higher prices even as she acknowledged inflation levels are unacceptably high. 8% inflation is an unacceptable inflation rate in the united states and it is president biden s number one objected to get that out. paul: let s bring in cabot former chairman of the council of economic advisers at the white house and distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution. welcome kevin. so peak inflation. everyone has said it has picked it has picked looks like it is peaking or that peaking keeps going to higher peaks. what is everybody missing in the markets? everybody really isn t everybody. if you look at google searches for inflation then my friend joe sullivan did a really interesting piece where he correlated google search for inflation with the inflation rate. right now americans are searching at the rate they would do if inflation were 9% which is