sandra, great to have you back. sandra: great to be back. far left protestors dismayed as what they view as an ineffective response to the ruling, saying they are out of step with the mainstream of the party. the president is urging the same protestors to fight after access to abortion bills. claims his hands are tied on further action unless the democrats can pick up more seat in the midterms. all of this as the far left offers bounties on the location of supreme court justices in an effort to harass them like we saw last week with justice brett kavanaugh, forced to leave a steakhouse in washington through a back door. john: the white house refusing to condemn them, saying it is part of democracy as long as it remains peaceful. sandra: rich, a lot of the pushback is coming from the left. it is, sandra, good afternoon. look at what progressives are saying, they say more needs to come from the white house when it comes to abortion, when it comes to gun violence in
still fully engaged. with that as a back drop we begin tonight on the north lawn with rich edson who picks up the story from there. hey, rich, good evening. richard: good evening, bill. job performance to the preferences of democrats and younger voters, a series of tough polling for the president here just a year and a half into his term. this is also a day that the white house held an event on the south lawn to commemorate a rare bipartisan legislative victory. though activists are pushing president biden to be more aggressive. have to do more than that. a gunman murdered manual oliver s son in the park land, florida 2018. this morning he interrupted a presidential speech. as president biden touted the recently passed gun law. this law had been in place years ago, even this last year, lives would have been saved. it matters. this legislation is real progress. more has to be done. with continued mass shootings republican opposition to stricter gun measures and the s
peter doocy has more. the white house sees inflation as a problem but we re in a very good economy. today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving in a better direction. the reason the president says that, he sees a low unemployment rate as top above all. right now wages are not rising as fast as the prices on everything else, which republicans say they see as a blinking red light. the problem is that every single day americans are hurting when they re either putting gas in their tanks, trying to put food on their table or trying to pay rent or energy bills. all of these things are out of the president s control. so white house officials say those are the only things that they believe is hindering their economic agenda. remember, this price increase is due to putin s tax highs, putin s war on ukraine. that s why we have seen the increase of gas prices and food. the press secretary says that we are stronger economically than we have been
prices are rising faster than they have done for a0 years in the uk. the bank of england says the recent increases in energy hills, which are set to be three times more than they were a year ago, will drive inflation the rate at which prices rise even higher, to 13%. uk inflation hit that a0 year high injune, reaching 9.a%. july s figures are released in a few hours and there is a real chance that headline uk inflation could hit double figures. joining me now is liz martins, uk economist, hsbc welcome and it is good to have you on the programme. what do you on the programme. what do you think? do you think we will hit double digits today and if so how significant is that? that is our forecast that we get to exactly 10% year on year injuly and some of our fellow economists don t think it is quite that bad they say nine point 8% perhaps but 9.8, ten, these are incredible figures that even a few months ago we would have found hard to believe. yesterday we had the labour mark
Arab leaders over the siege denying gaza water, food and fuel. Now staying in the region another day as the one possible escape for gazans is not open, despite promises. President biden canceled his scheduled trip to colorado to stay in d. C. , stay at the white house and oversee the crisis. The white house is in touch with iran through back channels, we are told, to hold off any expansion of the war or else. Future u. S. Aid for israel is on hold until the House Republican majority can unite behind a new speaker, with the current frontrunner facing obstacles to securing the gavel. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where the humanitarian crisis in gaza is worsening by the day. Israeli troops are massed at the border. They are not moving into position for an assault. Israel says the number of hostages has increased to 199. Secretary blinken in israel today is extending his diplomacy, pressing to open the crossing to let people out of Gaza To Egypt and let aid in. In the u. S. ,