We might be seeing the sequel. Only this time its not John Belushi stirring things up but a harris accusing Food Companies in Grocery Stores of Price Gouging. Or solution price controlling. Force businesses to keep prices lower else. But today we asked the Question Everyone should be asking in this country, or else what. Welcome everybody im neil cavuto. Glad to have you. The Food Fight is on my friends whether we are ready for it or not. Attention this is not just to clean up and ill 7. This is bigger much bigger. Jack in rally North Carolina on the vp letting her rip. Reporter the Vice President s plans have received some mixed reviews. Her proposal to create the firstever federal ban on Price Gouging for groceries prompted Washington Post Opinion columnist to warn of potentially shortages black markets even Hoarding And Jason furman of obamas former economic advisor concur saying its not policy and hopes it doesnt happen and theres no upside and in fact some downside. However, her A
Out of gas. And the prices keep climbing. The national average of regular unleaded gas now at $3. 04 and going up. Jonathan serrie is in georgia where trucks are picking up gas to send out. What does it look like there, jonathan? reporter: hi there, david. We re seeing constant activity right behind me. Just one of the supply depots where trucks have been driving in all morning, taking in supply. All of the major petroleum companies have installations here along the colonial pipeline. Once these trucks are filled, these big tanker trucks, they then drive to area gas stations. As you can imagine, the process does take time and so does the flow of the pipeline. Take a listen. I it moves very slowly, often around 5 miles an hour. As you can imagine or, it s very complex getting the pressure right and making sure that this product is moving safely. So it is taking a matter of days. Reporter: colonial pipeline tweeted, we have returned the system to normal operations delivering millions of
And tyrus, what s on tap? what it is? where s the meat? this time it s not at a arby s, it s in oklahoma. First, the number of major retailers dropping their mask mandates is growing after the cdc announced fully vaccinated americans no long arer e need to wear their masks indoors or outdoors. Disney world and starbucks joining others changing the rules, but home debow, cvs and kroger among others depot, are reviewing policies. Still, many companies are keeping the mandates in place for now like macy s, target and dollar general, and ten states right now are still deciding if they ll change their rules, and that includes blue states like new york, california and michigan. Critics, of course, say the new guidelines have been a long time coming and question the timing of all of this, suggesting that it might have been done to distract people from the politically difficult week for president biden. But dr. Anthony i fauci, the white house s chief medical adviser, doubling down on his clai
and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one of whic
senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. that make