so your first concern would be the price of diesel fuelir diesel fuel is what makes transportation possible in this country. virtually everything you buy in america arrived by diesel engine. our entire trucking fleet runsng on diesel. so doesuy every single freight locomotive in the united states. so diesel prices get too high. transportation secretary, transport stops the price ofth nearly everything becomes unaffordablein. af so inflation is directly connected to transportation and transportation requires diesel. it turns out the dieseltoat fuel prices are the key to a lot of the american economy. and you would know that your second concern if you were we transportation secretary would be domestic air travel. this is a huge country. it s far too big a country not to have reliable commercial flights from one place to another. businesses depend on the airlines and so the families for generations they ve been able to depend on the airlines. america has had the most efficient a
nationwide failed in the senate. we will explain what happens next to turn roe v. wade into law. and where the supreme court stands right now, as justices prepare to meet for the first time since that leaked draft opinion. and the latest from ukraine, talk of another russia annexation, but first, a war crimes trial and the u.s. works to limit intel sharing. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this thursday, may 12th. i m jonathan lemire. as expected, a senate bill that would expand abortion projections nationwide fell to a republican filibuster and failed to get majority support after democratic senator joe manchin joined all 50 republicans in voting against it. the west virginia democrat said we support a clean bill that codifies roe v. wade into federal law, but not the bill that was put on the senate floor yesterday. i was hopeful that the democratic party had control of the agenda with a piece of legislation that would codify roe v. wade. 70% of the ameri
Significant development this evening. We heard from the Israel Defence forces spokesperson making a significant announcement, twofold, first, that the Ground Forces are expanding their operations tonight. Secondly Erica Intensification Of Airstrikes from israel into gaza. We have a number of live feeds, live cameras, pictures coming into us here at the building, there are three of them, lets start with this one. The darkness of gaza, you will know that fuel is in such short suppty, know that fuel is in such short supply, electricity, power, the light effectively there coming from the explosions of the strikes. Over the explosions of the strikes. Over the last couple of hours we have seen a real intensification of these airstrikes. With that comes things like a lack of communications in gaza. Weve heard from the head of the World Health Organization saying he has lost touch with his team, communications are down there in gaza. Next, lets go to the United Nations in new york, a significa
This morning. Less than two weeks after hamas Terror Attacks sent israel plunging into a new weir, President Joe Biden is now in that country to show solidarity with our middle eastern ally. The president touched down in tel aviv about an hour ago when he was greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two men as you see shared an embrace. The two are set to hold talks throughout the day as tensions in the war start to spill outside israel and gaza. Last night propalestinian protesters clashed with police in parts of the west bank, lebanon, turkey, and jordan all in response to a deadly blast at a hospital in gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says more than 200 people were killed there, but israeli and gaza officials are both blaming the other side for the deadly violence. That blast has already forced changes to the president s schedule. Just as biden was departing for israel yesterday the king of jordan canceled a planned summit between himself, biden, the Pal
Well, the vote for the position likely wont be until next week. But in the meantime, a temporary speaker is serving in mccarthys place. Patrick mchenry, a republican representative from North Carolina has taken the gavel, he topped a confidential list of interim leaders named by Kevin Mccarthy when he got the job. Until mccarthys replacement is elected, no progress can be made on a long term Spending Bill to keep the government Open Past Mid November or a new aid package for ukraine. Catie edmondson is a congressional reporter with the new york times. She told us why a leaderless house could mean more chaos in the weeks to come. You have a Republican Party at odds with itself right now, at least in the house, but we have again a Stopgap Funding Bill that is going to run out in the middle of november and negotiations really should start as soon as possible in order to make sure the Us Government does not shut down next month. And you also have the house floor currently paralysed, becaus