dana: incredible. i m glad to be back with all of you. let me tell you the world over they are amazing and we appreciate you very much. the national average soaring to an all time high of $4.86 a gallon up 25 cents from last week and $2 from a year ago. bill: americans say it will be one of the deciding issues how they vote in november and also concerned about the economy and inflation and crime. the president is under water on the big three issues when it comes to your wallet. dana: i ve been dying to talk about all of this. let s start with peter doocy reporting from the north lawn this morning. hi, peter. good morning. welcome back. white house officials aren t just saying they think things are going well. they are saying they think thing are going well because of them. i have reporters calling me when delta hit, omicron hit, putin went into ukraine saying is that it? will that derail the recovery? and so far you ve seen resilience.
is they are targeting anywhere between 55 and 50 districts. some of them were optimist particulars trending toward the 50 number. rational ones are saying 35 is more realistic. dana: there aren t that many competitive districts. there will be more especially in new york this year. these numbers might change a little bit but looks like the republicans will be taking the house. steve scalise, congressman from louisiana was on fox news sunday talking about how crime fits into this calculation. if you look at what happened in those cities you see a lot of things with the defund the police movement. letting people out. no cash bail. making it easier for people to commit crimes. look at the smash and grab crimes. do you think it will end if they think they can get away from crime? dana: you can t get away from getting away from crime. gun control isn t the crime
reduce the deficit. that s a plan that has republicans scratching their heads. the president has come out with his plan to fight inflation. it is not a plan. it is an embarrassment. if a high school kid turned it in as an economics paper they would get a d minus. white house officials hope to improving their marks. they booked the president an in studio interview with jimmie kimmel when the president heads to california for a summit there. dana: stay tuned for that later. bill: marc thiessen, all the way down to the bottom crime is only 38%. these are not good numbers in any category. jimmie kimmel will get to the bottom of all this i m
for travel back and forth to volunteer when i m not getting paid. i need some compensation now. inflation really biting. ceos in europe having the same warnings about the global economy as well as possible recession. bill: edward lawrence from the white house today. nice to see you. thanks. 14 past. ] gunfire] dana: gunfire on the streets of philadelphia one of several deadly shootings this weekend. we ll hear from a mayor urging congress to act. bill: the sentencing of a hit and run driver running into a mother and baby. how the controversial prosecutor is now reversing course on a claim. dana: the moment of truth for another progressive d.a. will soft on crime policies cost him his job? we re about to find that out.
not there to physically harm these jurists but it is making judges more and more concerned about themselves and their family when their houses are targeted. and this is the really the most extreme concern of all, that a former party or defendant is going to search you out and mete out his own form of retribution. we have to really look at this as a country. we have to look at it in terms of protecting judges and justices, but we also have to look at it in terms of contributing to the rage that now characterizes our politics. dana: when you were at that conference i m curious about this. they were talking about the need. did they have any suggestions for the how? no. we talked a lot about that. there are obviously constitutional protections. people are allowed to protest. there is a federal law that makes it a crime to do so if