Consumer s friend. Welcome, everybody. I m neil cavuto, this is your world. What to make of a world where price increases are proving a little bit more than just transitory. They re sticking around awhile. We have you covered from all angles including white house response to this. We re also going to be hearing from lydia hu at an appliance store with real price hikes that she s seeing up close and personal and steve harrigan at assumer market in atlanta. We begin with lydia in new jersey. If you re going into an appliance store like if you re going to a grocery store, you ll pay through the nose. Lydia? yeah, neil. Some of the price increases that we re seeing are upwards of 20 to 30%. Like you mentioned, the consumer price index shows consumers are paying 5. 4% for all goods this year over last year. That is on par with what we saw last month as well showing that inflation is still very hot. One thing to point out is that the monthly increase did slow to half a percent down from. 9%
Each the national past time in the form of baseball s allstar game becomes a hostage to the politics of the day. We will talk with the house minority leader in just a bit. White house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from philadelphia. Good evening, peter. Good evening, bret. The president argued that wednesday made it easier to vote early or boy mail because there was a global pandemic. That was good, but that when republican lawmakers try to limit certain pandemic era provisions, because they say they are concerned about voter fraud, that is historically bad. This is election subversion. It s the most dangerous throat voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Peter: the president s problem is with states hoping to tighten election laws and require voter i. D. Including texas. They want to make it so hard and inconvenient that they hope people don t vote at all. That s what this is about. Texas republicans can t do anything though as long a
You re noticing it at stores or shopping for a car or almost anything. Hopping into a restaurant and try to order anything. Prices are up. Government spending is even even more. Some are worried that is a bad 12 combination. Welcome, everybody. I m neil cavuto, this is your world. What is going on in this world with prices that are not only going up here but going up everywhere. We ll get into that with senator chuck grassley and whether washington has anything to do about it. First, let s get the read from susan li about how far and widespread the price hikes are. Susan? we re paying more these days. Numbers confirming it this morning. Consumer prices rising at the fastest pace in 13 years. Shortages of labor and materials make things more expensive. The consumer price index jumping the fastest since august of 2008. As you mentioned, if you strip out volatile energy and food, the biggest jump since 1992. Gas prices were up by more than 50% from last year. Prices for used cars and truc
And pomp and circumstance, biden even comfortable enough to wear his aviators with the queen. This is the final stop before his meeting with russia s president. As i told him as i was running, when i was elected before i was sworn in that i was going to find out whether or not he did engage in trying to interfere in our election, that i was going the take a look at whether he was involved in the cyber security breach that occurred, et cetera. And if i did, i was going to respond. I did. I checked it out. So i had access to all the intelligence. He was engaged in all of these activities. I did respond, and i made it clear that i would respond again. I want to get to kaitlan collins who is live in brussels for us. It looks like joe biden is going to some length to not jab his finger in the chest of vladimir putin but sort of palmly put him on notice where his positions are at this point? yeah, it s line he has had to balance over the last kefrl weeks as there have been questions about wh
You, craig melvin here. An image meant to inspire confidence and unity on a shaken global stage. That family photo of america and our allies standing shoulder to shoulder, the first day of the g7 summit in the united kingdom just got under way. Right now, president biden meeting with his counterparts there. Like any family, there are differences. But there are also some key issues of agreement this morning. Of course, we can t forget the big meeting on the horizon. President biden and russian president vladimir putin, reporters just asking president biden about it this morning. Mr. President, what s your message to putin? back here at home, we re following big developments on capitol hill, a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, new hurdles with police reform talks and a sharp focus on voting rights. And there s a big new revelation related to the former president s tenure. The new york times thursday headline reads, hunting leaks trump officials focused on democrats in congress. Nbc has