d.v.r. and watch it back later today. begin today with a new challenge in the red hot housing market as the average interest rate for america's most common home loan, a high not seen in more than a decade. hello, john roberts in washington, good friday to you. >> thanks for having me, john. i'm jacqui heinrich. 30 year fixed rate mortgage is 5%, up from 4.27 last week, the average just over 3% a year ago. mortgage lending giant says the goal of home ownership is the most expensive in a generation. >> john: and economic woes for the biden administration saddled with 40 year high inflation, and the president placing the blame for increased prices on russian president vladimir putin and voters are not buying it. his approval rating all time lows with the midterms months away. peter doocy kicks us off this afternoon. live on the north lawn. peter. >> the first one of the polls you mentioned looks at the president's overall approval rating and it is down. all the way down to 33%, according to quinnipiac, and that has more than half the adults polled, 54% disapproving. as republican critics say the reason for this is the "i" word, inflation. >> approval numbers are quite low and here in iowa, everyone is feeling the pinch of inflation, feeling the pinch of empty store shelves, not having goods, whether it's in the manufacturing sector or agriculture sector, even the healthcare sector. >> another poll by gallup finds the president in trouble with young voters. tanking with generation z, born between 1997 and 2004, 60% -- gave him a 60% approval when he came to the white house last year, now he's down to 39%. that is down 21 points. so, what do you do to try to claw back support with younger voters? this white house is thinking one way to cancel student debt. >> between now and august 31st, either extended or make a decision as ron referenced about cancelling student debt. now, it is also true that the president's preference has been from the beginning legislative action and a bill. you know why, bills are more permanent. >> the president is not here today, he is at camp david with his family for the easter weekend as staff here on the white house grounds prepare for monday's easter egg roll. first one of those they have had since before the pandemic. john. >> john: looking forward to that later this weekend, thank you so much. >> twitter responded to the buy-out offer from elon musk. twitter tried to block the takeover attempt, musk says nothing to do with making money but instead preserving free speech around the world. charles payne is standing by, but kelly o'grady live in los angeles. >> the big news is the poison pill is now in play. so, twitter announced the board has unanimously voted to adopt a shareholders rights plan. it's in direct response to the hostile takeover bid. ok, in a press release, twitter stated the rights will be exerciseable if a person, entity or group acquires ownership of 15% or more in the transaction not approved by the board. poison pill activated but not implemented. like the cyanide pill put in the hands of the spy but they have not taken it yet. that's because elon has not crossed the 15% threshold, he's about 9% now. if he does, all other shareholders would immediately be able to purchase shares at a discounted price. that would result in his shares diluted so much they are devalued. it could ruin the company financially so shows how desperate twitter is to keep elon out. he has yet to respond to the specific development. however, he has been using his twitter influence to rally support, to bring the offer to shareholders in response to a tweet on a poison pill plan, musk warned of titanic liability if the board breaches the fiduciary, and the board will have to prove why his offer is not good. and elon hinted a plan b, but also reconsider the shareholder position. so, i'm wondering if musk dumps the twitter stock, what happens them? >> john: more perspective on all this, fox business host charles payne. the left is losing its mind over this notion of elon musk taking over twitter. some guy described as a journalist professor in new york came close to comparing elon musk to hitler. this is a guy, a darling to the left when he invented the best electric car around and now suddenly the devil's spawn? >> he would allow someone like a donald trump to come back to the public square and have a voice, and that's hypocrisy of it all. we have had billionaire after billionaire after billionaire over the last two years buy their own personal media companies, right. so, jeff bezos buying "washington post," and then the post saying this could be cataclysmic, you know, "time" magazine, "the atlantic," and as long as ultra liberals are buying them it's ok. elon musk, he's not saying it to only put in right wing talking points, the irony here. the other publications, the other giant media publications all promote left wing at the expense of right wing. so, it's -- the hypocrisy is amazing, the ironic is delicious, but it is dangerous, too, and i think that's the most important thing. we are in an interesting time here. we were already a fractured nation. this is revealing the fractures and making them worse and i don't see anyone with real power stepping up to say time out, maybe we need to look at this differently. instead, it's game on, war on. >> john: as it is with most issues these days. take a second, charles, and sit back and watch how some of our competitors covered this. let's listen. >> it's troubling enough that private companies control the key communication platforms around the world, maybe it's worse to have a rich person take it private. >> real and devastating consequences for using the platform to lie. >> massive life and globe altering consequences for letting people run wild on the thing. >> john: a lot of people are already running wild on the thing, and take a look at the comment section of my twitter feed. but what he's looking for here is just to have a fair and balanced perspective, that everybody has something to say can say it without being censored. >> absolutely. and maybe examples of censoring, the hunter biden story or when the virus came and broke out and anyone who would dare say come from china or the wuhan virus they were shut down. i have not heard any of these people. i don't think they came out and said it's absolutely wrong. so maybe they, you know, again, it's just so frustrating. i'm hoping the masses, somewhat a political when it comes to some things but believe in right and wrong, the ethos of fairness, i'm happy elon musk is doing this, i think he will succeed and i hope at some point -- you just can't have it both ways. you can't shut down the ideology and the beliefs of an entire half your nation and think that you are ok with that and that they are not going to somehow push back and fight back. >> john: he's been pretty successful with most of the things he's put his hand to, see how he does here. charles, i want to talk about another big economic story, the 30-year fixed rate for mortgages hit 5%. what is that going to do to the housing market and then you know, is the 30-year fix goes up, arms as well, what does that do to the people on variable rate mortgages? >> devastating consequences. the housing market was looking pretty shakey, we have had the huge boom, which has been phenomenal, but it's a boom a lot of people were shut out, part of the boom was supply constraints, and that's changing. but even during the boom, i have to tell you, john, if you look at the federal reserve data, most of the homes were sold with higher fico scores. now you take away all, hardly any starter homes out there, you cannot get one if you don't have the pristine fico score, and now mortgage rates at 5%. a whole generation of people shut out, pushed to the point they are going to live in apartments or rent for the rest of their lives and that only is more exacerbated as the mortgage rates go higher. >> john: we'll see if it's temporary as the who us says or longer lived. charles, great to see you. have a great weekend. are you a homeowner yet? >> no, i felt he was talking directly to me. living in new york you think it's never going to be affordable. and d.c., maybe one day. now i want to close my eyes and wake me up when i can afford to buy. >> john: in los angeles, a woman chased down and hit by a car. thieves then making off with her watch. hundreds of crimes like this in l.a., the police are warning the gangs could be targeting residents. we'll tell you how they are deciding which victims to target next, coming up. >> also, a third bus carrying migrants from texas arriving in d.c. as governor greg abbott keeps true to his promise to bring biden's border crisis to his own doorstep. sounds off against critics who say it's a political stunt. up next. >> no plan to combat the overwhelming surge, but par for the course for this administration. you never know what opportunities life will send your way. but if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis, enbrel can help you say i'm in for what's next. ready to create a bigger world? 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>> jacqui: i can't answer that. out of control. what's also out of control, the crisis at the border. another bus load of migrants from the southern border arriving in d.c., more than two dozen migrants dropped off on capitol hill as part of the plan to raise awareness about the severity of the crisis, abbott says will get worse. next month the government is dropping title 42. here is texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. first of all, is this having the impact that you all in texas had hoped? how many more of these are coming? >> we don't know how many more are coming but surely the step in the right direction. we are doing a multi-facetted plan to try and stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border. one is sending busses back to get attention in washington hopefully create a constitutional crisis with the federal government that they cannot stand by and ignore the law, they cannot allow texas and america to be invaded, our founding fathers never thought we would have a president to allow the country to be invaded and back to the supreme court to say states have a right to protect our own citizens which we do. we protect the life, liberty and welfare of our citizens and the biden administration is usurping that by the open border policy. send them on the busses to washington. secondly, another prong of the plan, stop truck traffic across the border which we have done the last week or so and now the state is negotiating with all the governors on the mexican side of the border say they will help slow down those that are coming across the border because they know we will stop their commerce if they continue to help people cross the border into our country. >> jacqui: and i'm sure that's the kind of involvement you are hoping for from the federal government, your earlier point of the legality of this, supreme court case in 2012 stating the states cannot make their own immigration policy, wondering how we ended up with sanctuary cities and states, i'm no lawyer but have you had any legal push back on this process? >> well, when i became lieutenant governor, one of the first bills i passed to end sanctuary cities and we have not had that overturned. so prevailed there. but controlling the border is the real issue and paint a picture for everyone in america to understand the numbers. we have 1254 miles of border with mexico in texas. to put that in perspective, boston to jacksonville, florida. that's what we have to protect and they are not letting us protect. and last week i said on fox by the end of the biden administration, about 20% potentially of all people living in america will be here illegally, if you look at the border statistics from 1990 through 2021 and project out the biden administration, we'll be nearly 60 million people here illegally. that's -- we cannot be invaded in that scale. impact on our education system, healthcare system, prime. so, we in texas will do the job. we can do the job. the federal government needs to get out of the way or do their job. that's what we are attempting to do, and thousands of troopers on the border and thousands of national guard. >> jacqui: the white house initially dismissed it as a publicity stunt, they didn't believe greg abbott would follow through with this but he did, and your reaction to what jen psaki said to me in the briefing room earlier this week. >> these are all migrants processed by c.b.p. and free to travel, it's nice the state of texas is helping them get to their final destination and they are all in immigration proceedings. >> jacqui: it's nice. >> she's a joke, and the administration is a joke. people are dying, sex trafficking, and fentanyl coming into the country. under the first full four years of the biden administration, it's possible he will allow more people in the country than live in texas today, 29 million? i've had it with her, i've had it with him, the vice president, their secretary of i.c.e. and homeland security, because they are doing nothing. they have not pushed back one out of five could be here illegally by 2024, they make a joke of it. people are dying, getting killed, our country is being lost, and they sit there and smirk and make jokes. i don't have any time for her. these are not serious people, they don't know what they are talking about, never been to the border and texas will stand tall will do everything we can and i hope we can get back to the supreme court where they will say under the new court we have a right to protect our citizens and american citizens beyond the texas border. >> jacqui: and one other thing, the truck inspection. the white house press secretary implied this was potentially impacting inflation, said that these unnecessary inspections were contributing to rising prices and supply chain disruptions. what is your reaction to critics who say it's making it worse. >> the biden administration is fully 100% responsible for inflation by flooding the market with money, by their policies, give away, and giving away cell phones to immigrants. they try to blame it on putin, the oil and gas, home builders, everyone. it's their fault, it's their inflation. it's not our fault. we have to put pressure, if the biden administration is not going to secure the border we have to put pressure where we can put pressure and by stopping these trucks across the border, it did not take long for the governors in mexico to say wait a minute, you are killing our commerce. we can't get our fruits and vegetable across, can't get our products across, and now they have come to the table, we'll see if they live up to it. but they have come to the table, ok, we'll help, we'll help. this is what trump did in his final couple of years in office, he put pressure on mexico economically if you don't slow down border traffic we are going to penalize you, tariffs on your projects and the last year of trump we had control of the border. under biden, we had over a million and a half people in the first 15 months he's in office. if he repeals title 42, the projection is 18,000 people a day. >> jacqui: and he's going to, the end of next month. >> mr. president, you need not to repeal that order. you are going to destroy your country even further. you need to stay with title 42 and allow texas to secure the border. we'll get it done because you are not. >> jacqui: texas lieutenant governor dan patrick, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. >> john: i was interested to see some democratic sentences step up 42, sinema said you rescinded the mask mandate. >> jacqui: mark kelly went to the border his fifth trip, saying i care about this. the justice department is settling four cases involving 2020 demonstrations that destroyed property after the death of george floyd. is the d.o.j. getting soft. >> john: and the race to prepare for the battle of donbas is on. russia shifting troops and other materials to the eastern region of ukraine and warning the u.s. and nato not to send ukraine "sensitive weapons to help them." general keith kellogg joins me at the big board on putin's next moves ahead, stay with us. >> we are going to try to give the ukrainians every advantage on the battlefield we can so they can prevent the donbas and the other part of the country from falling to complete occupation by the russians. i had been giving koli kibble. it never looked like real food. with the farmer's dog you can see the pieces of turkey. it smells like actual food. as he's aged, he's still quite energetic and youthful. i really attribute that to diet. get started at longlivedogs.com this is... ♪♪ this is iowa. we just haven't been properly introduced. say hello to the place where rolling hills meets low bills. where our fields, inside and out, are always growing. and where the fun is just getting started. this is iowa. so, when are you coming to see us? 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>> yeah, john, thanks for having me. first of all, these troops have been fighting 50 days. any time you fight this long you need to refit and rearm. i don't think the ukrainians are that dumb to fall into the trap. they are trying to trap along the line to bring them in there and destroy them. i don't think zelenskyy is willing to do that. i'll fight here, but i bet he's going to fight somewhere else, will throw the russians off guard. >> john: interesting, the wider map them, and now we are in a race for time. ukrainians have to also bring weapons towards this area. this is going to be the ultimate battle. >> this is the great news we have finally delivered. it took us time to bring in the howitsers, this is the fight the russians will have more advantage than the ukrainians will. i believe the ukrainians are going to do something different and i hope they do. if you look in the south, this is a counter attack. they continue that counter attack and goes this way, they cut off the crimea. there is only a four-mile stretch of land, and if they do that, it forces the russians to look elsewhere. and then what happens potentially negotiations, you want to break republics, fine, i'm going to keep crimea. not saying it's going to happen, but the way the ukrainians are fighting, asymmetrically, i would not be surprised if they do something like that. >> john: putin sounds like he has his back against the wall, there was a cable saying don't arm ukraine with the most sensitive weapons, it may bring unpredictable consequences. >> i think it's a bluff. he's going to lose, surrenders. we need to keep pushing that stuff forward to them. make ukraine an unsinkable aircraft carrier. give them 500 155s, the tanks from poland, and the mig 29. make it a conventional fight the russians have been fighting for 50 days and they may lose it. it's a chance to change the battlefield. >> john: huge embarrassment for russia, the moskva is at the bottom of the black sea now and russia -- vladimir putin is left to tell the russian people, we lost one of our flagships. it just spontaneously exploded. >> yeah, right, looks like it was hit with two neptune missiles, ukrainian anti-ship missiles, about 300 pound warhead, less than our harpoon missile does. >> john: show where it would have hit. >> in this area in here, if it hit any of the missiles, huge secondaries and this vessel was gone as soon as they hit. and the missiles will hit right about here, right above the sea level. but here is what is really important about this. you go back to the other map, i'll show you, what this has done, it forces -- it forces them to withdraw all of their ships back in here and frees up odesa, because by forcing them away from here, if they have the anti-ship missiles and fire inland, 16 miles inland. a range of about 160 miles. the amphibious attack against odesa will not happen, that's huge. that means odesa holds, another win for them. the black sea does not have a flagship, and command and control visit. it has hurt them. >> john: and combine with the counter offensive, you are opening that back up again. quickly go to the big map here. is is the future of nato, which includes finland and sweden? they are not members of nato right now but are talking about it and now dmitri medvedev, used to be the president of russia, has said if you go with nato we can no longer keep this area here, this is the baltic sea. we can no longer keep this area here nuclear weapons free. russia is going to reserve the right to put nuclear weapons. now some think this is already an armory, with nuclear weapons so the idea of the baltic nuclear free is b.s. >> he brought it on himself, putin did. i think the weapons are there. and if they feel threatened and they believe nato is a defensive alliance, which it is, expand to 32 countries and maybe 33 down there, that's ok. he started this fight, it's not going to end well for him. it's all on himself. >> john: when you take a look at this, right now the border between nato and russia is there, right. but it could extend all the way up here and if as you say one day ukraine is a nato nation, add the section in there. this could backfire on putin. >> i think it already has. >> john: like he never imagined. always great to see you. have a great weekend. >> jacqui: the supreme court is expected to make a decision on the case of a virginia high school and whetherhe equity-based admissions policies is discriminatory against asian americans. >> john: and freakout over elon musk's intent to buy twitter. wasn't it the same folks in favor of jeff bezos buying "the washington post" when he was the richest in the world? 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>> well this will be a big deal in some affirmative action litigation going on right now. basically thomas jefferson high school in alexandria is a very, very highly ranked high school in the nation. and it had a large percentage of asian students. there were 73% before all this happened, 73% of its student body was asian, and there were complaints that the student body was not equitably distributed enough. so, the school changed its policy and after it changed its policy the percentage of asians in the student body went down from 73% to 54%. the percentage of black students in the student body went up from 1% to 7%, and hispanic students from 3% to 11%. now, a conservative group sued the school, said this was unconstitutional, racial balancing, and at the district court level they won. and then the issue became an appeals court said the school can keep its policy, its new policy in place while this is litigated and what we are going to see now is whether the supreme court will allow that stay or whether it will force it to not use its new policy anymore. >> jacqui: what does it tell you that the percentage of different groups and their representation changed so much, i mean, these are big jumps in numbers. asian americans down from 73 to 54, hispanics going up from 3 to 11 and then black students up from 1 to 7%. what does that tell you from the old system versus the new system and on top of that, because the selection for the incoming freshman year is underway, how does this, the timing of this impact soon to be students? >> well, for your second question, that's a big deal for the court right now, which is that the process is underway and is the court going to throw it out and make them return to the other process, that's a big deal whether the court would want to just disrupt what's going on. you know, as far as the percentage of ethnic groups, there is one coming to the supreme court in which the percentage of asian students at harvard will be at issue here, and a lot of cases in which asian students who were overrepresented, according to their numbers, do very, very well on admissions tests and get in school and make up a large portion of the student body. and you've had protests about this, you've had changes in policy like you had at thomas jefferson high school. the question is, was the old way an admissions test, was that really fair or is the new way, with no admissions test and all sorts of decisions by school board officials, is that more fair. clearly the district court judge here said the new system, which resulted in almost 20-point drop in asian students was unconstitutional racial balancing. >> jacqui: to your last point, schools across the country are changing admissions standards and eliminating honors courses in the name of equity. i want to pull up a map that shows different states with districts eliminating honors courses as the argument that they say is when you segregate students based on ability that it has an outcome that is -- that reflects different socioeconomic factors, your race. what do you think is the undercurrent here and where this ends up going. is this a sign that there was just such stark, you know, differences between opportunities that kids were having because of their socioeconomic status, their race and playing out in where they got placed in school or are they trying to force this issue? >> it's going to result in lots and lots of litigation. advance placement courses, honors courses are very big for the parents of high school students. they help the students get in better colleges, which can mean a better career and more earnings over the course of their lifetime. these are extremely important to parents. and throwing them out has caused an enormous amount of anger in groups of parents around the country. remember, the whole last two years, because of the pandemic, a lot of parents have gotten a much closer look at how their children are taught and it's resulted in litigation and changes in the way that schools operate. >> jacqui: we will be watching it. appreciate your time. john, these honors courses allow students to earn college credit when they are in high school, it makes a big difference for a lot of families. >> john: it does, and when a merit school like thomas jefferson, not far from here, ranked number one in the nation is no longer a merit-based school because of mandated racial balancing by the school board, takes away from the reputation of the school as a magnet of where people want to go. we'll see where it goes in the court case. you can't call yourself a merit school if you are not a merit school and let the people with the highest test scores in, simple as that. the windy city set to be a possible windfall for some chicagoans. free money, test a universal basic income program. will it just discourage people from working? 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story ahead. john roberts in washington. good to spend another hour with you. >> jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. the full story new this hour on "america reports." but begin with a presidency in peril and president accused of passing the buck. >> john: first another faux pas for president biden and this one critics say perfectly sums up a presidency that has come up empty on accomplishments. >> jacqui: president biden looking to shake a hand after the speech on the economy, but all he got was thin air. >> john: republicans call it fitting for a president who has failed to pass most of his agenda. americans are in creasingly fed up shelling out more on everything from gasoline to groceries. >> jacqui: and costs keep going up. add interest rates to the list. >> john: the president points fingers to everyone, vladimir putin, big oil, and everyone else. brian kilmeade in a moment. >> jacqui: peter doocy is he white house. >> and officials here at the biden white house are talking seriously now about a plan to cancel student loan debt right before the midterms. >> between now and august 31st, extended or we are going to make a decision as ron referenced about cancelling student debt. now, it is also true that the president's preference has been from the beginning legislative action and a bill. you know why, bills are more permanent. >> as the communications pros here argue they could cancel student loan debt because the economy is bad, the president is out with a new statement today arguing the economy is great. he says americans are getting back to work in every corner of the country in record numbers. this was not an accident, the direct result of my economic plan to grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. the president admitted in north carolina yesterday he knows high fuel costs and inflation are problems right now. but a trump-era economic advisor says if you think this is bad, you have not seen anything yet. >> it's my view that right about now we are entering a recession, and when that happens, and you know, basically with this high inflation, the fed tightens, then people get extremely wary of buying homes and you see home prices collapse sometimes. >> president biden is trying to get more stuff built in the united states, trying to invest more taxpayer dollars in r and d, with innovation bill but there's no information coming from officials here that either of those things would rapidly bring prices down for american families. jacqui. >> jacqui: the remarks were far-reaching, to say the least. peter doocy at the white house for us, thank you. >> john: brian kilmeade, "fox and friends" co-host, and "fox nation." >> brian: go to break and -- what's going on with you? >> john: take a look at where the president stands as they talk about cancelling student debt. quinnipiac poll, overall approval rating, 33% among independent voters, 26%. 26% among hispanic voters and thinking of cancelling student debt, voters 18 to 34, 21% support. brian, is he buying votes? >> in a way, but also ticking off people 35 to 65, went out of their way to pay off loans and it was not easy. you want a conversation, should college be $75,000 like georgetown or georgetown university, but you erase it for a bracket, i can remember not being able to pay my loan for about a year and i got an extension, had to go to the bank and explain it and then pay more when i got the book back. so the images of taking the pride to do it, bribing people to vote for you perhaps, but as you both know, 18 to 25 don't vote a lot, you know, especially in the midterm elections. so the president's instincts are good here. he did not want to do it. a.o.c. wants to do this. she's trying to win over queens. he's trying to win over a country. >> jacqui: we always knew the president would likely keep the ace card in his back pocket a time like this when he said he was going to send it to a commission to study whether it was possible. same thing with court packing, by the way. but i want to ask you, brian, the white house said this week they believe inflation is going to come down this year. how can they say that and also blame inflation on putin when we have, you know, the chairman of the joint chiefs telling lawmakers this war could continue for years. how do they make both arguments? >> brian: they can't. and jacqui, every president has expertise. george bush 41 dismissive of the economy, he was a foreign policy guy, and even though we were in a recession he would be dismissive. john, you were probably covering that at the time. and john mccain the same way, big on foreign policy. joe biden is not big on the economy. evidently good at foreign policy, we'll discuss that another time. he needs janet yellen next to him, where is his larry kudlow. janet yellen was at the fed. i need an economic plan, i don't need slogans. slogans are for the communication division. there is a time you are in creative writing and a time you are in math class. i want the best math students to help our economy out and don't need rhetoric because we are beyond rhetoric, we make our judgment about the price of gas, when it went up, the price of eggs, especially now with easter, 48 hours away, we are all making our own judgments. i find it almost insulting that he's coming out with these phrases. i mean, where is susan rice, where are the people making the decisions. why is he always alone looking for somebody's hand to shake. >> john: inflation versus wages here, brian alluded to the fact i covered the h. w. bush administration, his way of saying i'm old. but 8.5% year over year march to march, wages had gone up 5.6%. so every month that goes by, day that goes by, consumers are losing buying power and that is going to impact in so many ways. if it's where it is now, that disparity in march, where is it going to be in november. >> brian: it's going to be up. and study some of this from the 1970s and 1980s, and what ronald reagan tried to do, cut taxes, make the dollar worth more. right now we are adding toner to the printer. we printed 6.7 trillion worth of money and put into the system unearned. we have to find a way to pull it back responsibly, at the same time you cut taxes, at the same time you cut spending. and let's get that dollar worth more. ronald reagan came out with the dollar and said we have to make this worth more, and that's how i plan to do it. not talking down to the american people but saying we have a plan to attack 20% interest rates and inflation that was in double figures. things look glum and the things did not work initially. but as you know, reagan's economy took off and even though we did build up the debt, people will take that sense of american growth again. we just had it two years ago. >> john: and for the record, i did not cover the reagan administration. >> brian: jacqui, can you double check that? >> jacqui: what you said about inflation, the biden administration keeps blaming 70% of the inflation from the march report on energy prices and the putin price hike. i asked them to explain how they got to that number. they did give me some background. but if so much of this inflation has to do with energy prices and what has the biden administration done to bring those down. releasing e-15 gas only available in less than 2% of the country's gas stations, putting barrels from the strategic reserve on the market, but it's not making a dent in the prices. clearly there is a common sense solution that they really don't want to embrace. is it time for them to embrace it? >> yes, and i know you know that by the questions you ask at the briefing. because this they just wanted to get things done, as opposed to alienating the electorate, they are already alienated, how much to put for another refinery or national gas to europe and the word from the global market, as soon as they get the go sign for a supportive regulation pipelines and others, you don't have to get out the ratchet, just the promise from the president to do it will affect prices because they know it's coming next. the president will alienate his entire green agenda. john kerry will have to take off his wet suit and put on his regular suit and explain to the allies, and the president, at 78 years old does not have the guts to say caution to the wind, let's do the right thing for the country, instead of the party and that's frustrating. and i would say the same thing for a republican if they had their agenda. >> john: always great to be with you. and watch him tomorrow night at 8:00, "one nation." you are a great friend, love you. >> brian: back at you, jacqui and john, thank you. >> john: losing their mind over elon musk's bid to buy twitter. >> it's troubling enough the private companies control the platforms around the world. maybe worse to have the world's richest person trying to buy one and take it private. >> real and devastating consequences for using that platform to lie. >> 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bezos buying "the washington post." business insider happens to be one of those publications. what they said about elon musk in a tweet. his attempt to buy twitter represents a chilling new threat. billionaire trolls taking over social media, compare that with with what they wrote about bezos on august 5, 2015. billionaire jeff bezos "washington post" buy marks a fascinating cultural transition in america. your turn. >> charlie it's truly incredible. the hypocrisy knows no bounds here. and you know, it's especially interesting when you consider how important twitter has been from the beginning for the media, and obviously the reason that most of us or many of us, rather, got into this business in the first place is because we believe in free speech and the power of free speech. we believe in the power of the pen and we believe that, you know, our mission to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable through free speech is the greatest way to bring freedom to the most number of people, and to get to a spot where we are today where you have so many people from our profession who are in -- who use this platform because of -- because of its power, mainly among us. it really doesn't, you know, most normal americans are not on twitter, but for them to shed all allegiance. >> john: that's for sure. >> anthem to shed all allegiance to the principles that supposedly got us into the business is astonishing. now you have a guy, elon musk, obviously he's a bad boy, he's a businessman, though, but he has more allegiance to the concept of free speech than many of us who are charged with okay on the front line of protecting free speech. it's really astonishing. >> jacqui: charlie, how much of the media melt down is rooted in the chance that donald trump gets his twitter account back if elon musk owns the platform? >> i think that is about 97% of it. the animating factor here, even that is representative of something larger. i've always believed donald trump was actually representative of something larger. it was not just this sort of swatch buckling vulgarian who crashed the gates of washington. the real problem with donald trump, he was talking about things nobody in washington was talking about and things politicians in both parties had abandoned for decades, and so he is that the real threat to i think both people in the media and people in the press, i mean, people in politics from a guy like donald trump, he's talking about things. and elon musk is the same kind of guy. he's a realist, he knows what matters to people. he's going to allow -- he wants to talk about things that actually matter to people instead of weird debates we had inside washington a long time now. >> john: some members of the media seem they are ready to run to their safe space. max boot says he's frightened of the prospect, impact on society if elon musk takes over twitter. anything goes, for democracy to survive we need more content moderation, not less. something almost 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but according to the pentagon, a couple of neptune missiles probably went about the middle of the ship causing secondary explosions, and it sunk. how big of a blow to russia? >> good afternoon, john. this is a major blow at many levels. one, it is their flagship. usually if any ship is highly protected, you protect the flagship. second of all, what it did is it provided command and control for that area of operations and if they were amphibious operations and the rest of the ships in the black sea, so they have the ability to conduct command and control, and air defense umbrella, so now they are exposed and you can see the results of that, the russians have had to pull the remaining ships away from the shore because they block the umbrella of protection. >> john: according to general keith kellogg may give the ukrainian forces outside of mykolaiv the chance to push the forces back toward crimea. let me ask you what may come in the days ahead. northeast of kharkiv is belgorod, and 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>> jacqui: and i would not want my kids going there either. terrible. the number two in texas is sounding off as the white house tries to put blame on governor greg abbott for adding to the nation's supply chain crisis. >> the whole administration is a joke. people are dying, children and women are being sex trafficked. it's possible that biden will allow more people in the country than live in texas today, 29 million. >> jacqui: bring in former acting i.c.e. director tom homan. first what is your reaction to the busses of migrants that keep coming, do you think it will push the administration to give more support at the border? >> you know, i'm hoping it does, i'm hoping that it's going to be more on the news. fox is the only one covering this issue and a lot of people don't think a crisis on the border, the other networks are not talking about it. i'm hoping releasing migrants in d.c. will bring the attention to network tv cover it. they are backing up biden and not talking about the crisis he t border. i think it's a good movement. i would rather have them released insect mayorkas' neighborhood or joe biden's neighborhood, congress has not done a damn thing to secure the border. i applaud governor abbott. he's done more to bring the crisis to noteworthy news than this administration has. he should be the secretary of homeland security. he's done more than mayorkas has done to secure the border. >> jacqui: the white house called it a publicity stunt and spoke out against another stunt, they see it as, increased checks of trucks coming across the border to texas. white house saying unnecessary inspections at the border were snarling the supply chains and were contributing to rising prices for american families. listen to what press secretary jen psaki said earlier this week. >> there's over $1 million in trade crossing over the u.s. and mexico border every minute. actions are impacting jobs and livelihoods of hard working people across the country. it's a statement of fact. and what we are seeing with the unnecessary inspections of trucks transmitting ports of entry between texas and mexico are significant delays. >> jacqui: after the texas governor gets it in place, he has agreements with at least two governors of mexican states to increase patrols on the mexican side and ease some inspections in order to lessen the problem on the road there. but wouldn't you expect that kind of maneuvering to be happening from the federal level? 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