have occurred in the lastey 18 months we ve moved that wasov joe biden s first sit downed interview in one hundred and eighteen days. and despite a flurry of well, nothing but softball questions from a democratic activist pretending to be a late nighted comedian, biden still struggleia to communicate he could barelyy get words out. he had noo answersword for the economic problems we are a lot worset got today. now inflation is up yet again to an all new forty one year high, eight point six percent. the the cost of food is up ten point one percent. o the cost of housing 70%f rent is up in some places as high as 20 percent. household energy bills are up a whopping nineteen point one percent. and meanwhile the average cost for a gallon off gas has nowd more than doubled since biden took over as president. now over five dollars a gallonev nationwide for the first time ever. remember when he first became president on day one you were only paying two dollars and thirty nine cents f
tonight we are spotlighting a heroic story of how a decorated green beret ufc fighter assisted in rescue efforts for our colleague, our friend fox newsr reporter he wasn hall after severely injured in ukraine. the injuries happened after an explosion while he was reporting in kyiv in an attack that also took the lives of two other journalists working for fox news. jo w a groupedy started it s called savee our allies and the group has conducted rescue operations in ukraine and afghanistan following w biden s disastrous withdrawal and surrender to the talibanr tr of course, he abandoned our fellow americans, many trapped behindy enemy lines. by the way, today is three hundred day three hundreda since he abandoned them. now this isnd a story, though, f heroism a, of selflessness.ss and of course we continue to pray foror benjamin hall and his family hearing great report reports is making incredible
progress. here to explain more isn the author of scarsmo and strips save our allies, co-founder tim tandy s with us. tim, first u of all, thanks for being with us. do. s for all you i love that you were a ufc fighter, a big fan. ec you were a special forces m master sergeant sniper. so your group saved 12 people. i understand, and had rescued 12000 other people. that s true . yeah, there s 12 of us on the ground in afghanistan. four people went forward into afghanistan, myself and three others. and in the 10 days tay that we s on the groundd, we moved a total of 12000 people out of afghanistan out of hq, out of kabul. we weree fighting them. so we moved them to multiple places all over the country and over the world before we w finally moved them out of out of harm s way. letay me talk about our friend and colleague. we did lose two fox journalists
and they want more of that .he but we re the only firewall marijuana for not knowing if they had their shot last night and that is just the kimmell. we have a communication problem. what you re notblem you re not communicating well enough. five dollar a gallon gasolineenu and a forty one year high of inflation. a i think the american peopleme se it for themselves and they see it and are reminded of it every day. i have to let you both go. greatt commentariat tami, thank thank you. when we come back , you don t want to miss us . the founder of a group called save our allies, his name is tim kennedy. he will tell us aboutth the organization and the heroic story about how his team rescued our colleague, our friend benjamin hall whentr he was injured in ukraine. that s straight ahead. free speech is under attack. for over 20 years, fire has defended free expression on college campuses standing with students and faculty when