happening on the border no closer than griff jenkins in mexico right now and their side of the border, thanks are things are getting worse and rampant there. we re in mexico and witnessed multiple times this morning of smugglers moving the migrants across. i want to you see this, by the way, this is a rope that you can see that literally been tied together for the migrants in the dark hours to take into the water to go across and this over here is the u.s. side. that s where we have seen groups for the last 24 hours we ve been here crossing all day, every day. a smuggler tells me that the border is quote, open, and he also says that to cross this river about 500 to $1500 u.s. dollars, but then if you want to be picked up and taken to san antonio or houston, upwards of 9 to $10,000. let me show you a drone shot, some footage of the group that crossed right at this location several hours ago. our drone on the u.s. side eagle pass was able to get a shot of that. this is part
going to cause a 08 style crash in real estate as a solution to this problem? the oil countries are siding with russia. we re not in opec plus, russia is, i don t blame them for doing that. if they re going to threaten to cut demand supply, we ought to cut demand. that s the only way. talking cut higher production and keep the markets come calm that it s in the future. and no one wants to hear that raise the gas tax $1 if they cut production, they ll not cut production because the price will plunge like in covid. we have to play the game. they re the supplier, we have to threaten to cut back demand and should do it possibly with taxes if not a gas tax then a payroll tax increase temporarily. we can t just do interest rates because we re going to cause a serious financial panic and the way we re doing now. the government is doing
and benefits vladimir putin, it does not necessarily benefit joe biden of course for that matter any western country worth its proverbial salt. so the impact and what we re expecting from that impact to address that is anyone s guess. jacqui heinrich from washington with more. jacqui: hey, neil. yeah, this week we got a look inside the diplomatic efforts from this white house to stop opec plus from moving forward with oil production cuts, but didn t come out because the administration wanted it to. after days of u.s. officials painting the cuts as siding with russia in the war, saudis shot back in a lengthy statement revealing the white house asked them to delay the cuts for a month, suggesting the president wanted to pass off bad news until after the midterms. u.s. officials strongly denied that, saying they presented data showing the cuts are unnecessary and to the contrary, would actually hurt markets, and asked opec plus to delay any decision just until their next meeting. they als