i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the producer price index up 11.3% over last year. now adding to fears of a recession compounding trouble for americans after yesterday s consumer prices index hit a four-decade high. notice the number on the left for wholesale prices, the goods being made for us, is cooking hotter than the inflation that we re faced with. now how long do you think it will take for them to pass that along to the consumer? will they even have a choice? former trump economic advisor explains it this way. i would like to walk through how you should think about inflation so people understand why. if you start the car at zero and accelerate 10 miles per hour per month after six months you go 60 miles per hour and after 12 months 120 miles per hour. what s my velocity right now is what you care about. we re hiding how big the increase in prices are that are affecting ordinary americans by a very large amount. inflation is startlingly high ri
the president does fully understand the khashoggi situation but just didn t telegraph it. i don t know if it means it will come up. from you just reported it doesn t sound like it. well, if he was going to bring it up and he wanted the world to know he was going to bring it up he could have just said that. we ll see. harris: there you go. my plain speaking colleague peter doocy. thank you. now i m joined by joey jones fox news contributor, fox nation host and retired marine bomb technician and a veteran of both the wars in iraq and afghanistan. we will lean on him mightily for expertise and guidance. always good to have you in focus. you heard the difference between what our president thinks will work, pure diplomacy, and what the prime minister of israel says he knows will work and that s a threat of force. what is your take? i think it s tough to be president biden in israel right