thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
minimize, we are trying to minimize contact as much as possible where we can, and so that is what the focus is going to be on this trip. this is up to his doctor as we are seeing what s happening. jacqui: well, that plan evidently went out the window when air force one touched down. a line of fist bumps with a full-on handshake with benjamin netanyahu, and then abandoned all together with more handshaking. so, if the white house team is a little more strict about this policy when the president gets to saudi arabia we may not know about it. the white house has not committed to any sort of coverage with the meeting with the saudis and won t be a press conference after the meeting. the president did not take any questions from the travelling press today, the press corps that follows him and questions him all the time. he will, however, have a press