sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som
the justice tonight to condemn the recent string of attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers as a radical pro-abortion group declares open season goes good on them. president biden signing tonight what many said is long security bill that will increase protections for super import justices and their family. all this as we await the high court ruling on abortion. former prosecutor for that apartment justice joins us live to weigh in. and we have new information tonight about the ambush and the shooter and the deaths of two suburban los angeles police officers. and why many flame whole tragic situation on the progressive policies of los angeles district attorney george gascon. present abiding telling the associative president biden: that americans are really, really down after struggling with the pandemic, the economy, insurgent gas prices and that a recession is not inevitable. white house correspond kevin corke tracks the state of the economy tonight. the president con
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supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and top ranking senate republicans demanded to know why the justice department has yet to arrest or prosecute any demonstrators. anger tonight is the biden administration is set to punish those horseback border patrol agents were falsely accused of whipping migrants as they illegally crossed into del rio last year, they have been cleared of any wrongdoing but our bill melugin is at the border and is going to explain. the first state in the country to decriminalize drugs is turning into a disaster pickle fentanyl deaths are up and drug-related crime is soaring. we begin tonight with the white house blame game over the record high gas prices you are finding every single time you go to fill up. kevin corke, i think even posted a tweet about it today, good to see you. the president as you probably heard right now at with the speaker the house nancy pelosi along with senate majority leader chuck schumer, that meeting is meant to unpack the i
the studio. thank you for jumping into the chair like the true professional that you are. we have a lot of serious news to get to. start with this. we know the gang member accused of murdering two california cops this week should have been behind bars. that deceased suspect was a freeman thankeds to george gascon s soft on crime policy. he had a previous strike conviction and was only sentenced to probation for felon in possession of firearm charge. ashley: if flores would have been prosecuted in february of 2021, he may have been sentenced for up to three years in prison. george gascon s office is standing by the light sentencing, his office saying the sentence he received in the firearm case was consistent for this type of offense. given his criminal history at the time the court sentenced him, mr. flores did not have a documented history of violence. george gascon office lost a top aid and the group working to recall him said they reached 650,000 signature to trigger a r