ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
A fascinatingly close result. Richard parkerfor labour, 225,000, andy street for the conservatives, 224,000. The majority, despite there being more than half a million votes, wasjust 1508, thats reflected in the percentages. 37. 8 for labour, 37. 5 for the conservatives. One interesting thing to point out is independents 12 , that was a candidate critical of labours policy on gaza. Still didnt stop them winning, just. Have a look at how the rates have changed. The conservative vote went right down. Labours vote went down as well but the fact the conservative vote went down by so much was what got labour over the line. There is the swing. Conservative to labour, 4. 6 . That was the big result from last night but there was another really important result yesterday in the capital, london. Here it is. Sadiq khan comfortably beating the conservative susan hall, 275,000 votes in it this time, a lot more. This is what the swing looked like and is why labour won. A 3. 2 swing from the conserva
wonderland. 2016 has been about getting six impossible things before breakfast every single day and as it gets more and more bizarre and shocking, there s a bandwidth problem. people cannot cope with the stream of peculiar allegations and give them what they demand. i enjoy this conversation. hope you come back. thank you. two american service members were killed in afghanistan today. the two were killed in kunduz province during a train, add adviaddvise and assist mission. names not released yet. there are 8400 u.s. troops currently in afghanistan in a 14 yearlong war, america s longest. we ll be right back. whoa, this is awful, try it. oh no, that looks gross what is that? you gotta try it, it s terrible. i don t wanna try it if it s terrible.
the only reason it s not installed yet we found out today is because of the fcc, there was a bandwidth problem trying to work out. nothing to do with funding and amtrak came out today to say that and still they proceed. still chuck schumer explicit says it is simply a fact that insufficient funding delayed installation of positive train control. no it isn t. it s not a fact. you have misled the american people and, charles, he is going to get away with it. no one will make him draw that back. no one makes him disabuse the people who heard him of that notion. look. the president did the same thing. in a slightly more subtle way saying we don t know i don t know the cause of the accident. he said this very early on and i know we have to invest in infrastructure. this was not a pothole issue. this was not a bent track issue. what this was misjudgment on the part of the conductor and find out exactly why.
state. it has been challenging for a lot of people across the country. there is about 36 of these exchanges that are run by the federal government themselves. but what we re hearing is two-thirds of them are having trouble. what you ll see on the screen is that there are too many visitors, so it seems to be a bandwidth problem, but it has been a bit of a challenge. it could be that a lot of people are trying to do this, maybe more than they expected, but hasn t been going perfectly, i would say, carol. last hour i talked to a man whose company, you know, kind of like set up the software for some of these exchanges and he said expect glitches today. because so many people will be checking it out, and he said, you know, all systems of this magnitude will suffer glitches. we should expect that. reporter: yeah, you know, look, i think that s fair. and, you know, you ve been through open enrollment periods before, carol, i have as well. and open enrollment for this, for this for the o