for the fed. they feel it could trigger a recession. john: gasoline prices record for the 10th straight day. average price now 4.58. and the cover the new york post summing it up, a picture of president biden riding a train right off the rails next to the words joe s train wreck. bret baier and larry kudlow will join us to break down the economic head winds facing the white house. gillian: jackie will join us in a moment, but first aishah hasnie at the white house. what is the messaging on the economy. we are waiting to find out, the president departed to east asia, and ten days in a row we have broken a record for gas. every state is spending more than $4 a gallon. households spend $5,000 a year. it could get worse. prices will surpass $6 nationwide by august. and get this, a gas station chain called 76 reprogramming pumps in washington state to sell gas at $10 a gallon. that s unbelievable. the white house responding to all of this by saying it s already released oil
border countries, these eastern european countries can t bear all of the burden. some of the kind of old europe, france, germany, united kingdom, spain and others, need to step up and help, and just look on the aid piece, i know it s controversial in some corners, i just wrote an op-ed on our border, we have to take care of our board and go on offense against the cartels destabilizing, we have 2 million a year coming across our border. john: we have a report from bill coming up on that. time is short, quickly. you and congresswoman young kim submitted legislation which would look at what s happening with inflation, something the white house would be doing, part of what the legislation does, measures impact of the cost of living, and how inflation impacts wages, considers american competitiveness, and other things. point i guess i m making here is this is about to bite us really, really hard. look, we are seeing it in the
them when they are committed. russia s assault on ukraine is intensifying. this is kharkiv in the east of ukraine, and president zelensky is clear on what we are seeing. translation: russian forces have brutally fired on kharkiv from rocket artillery. it is clearly a war crime. if civilians were targeted, that would be a war crime. and otherfootage raises questions about russia s conduct. this attack may have been a cluster bomb. they are banned by many countries, although not by russia or ukraine, but borisjohnson is clear on what we are seeing. vladimir putin is prepared to use barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians. other russian attacks include this, in the north east town of okhtyrka. ukraine says 70 soldiers died and makes this claim.
the russians have significant artillery firepower, like these multiple rocket launchers seen here on a russian pre exercise in belarus, just before the invasion. devastating unguided weapons, which are now targeting urban areas. this was the effect of those rocket launchers on the city of kharkiv yesterday, when it came under russian attack. there is also reports the russians are using cluster munitions, banned by many countries including the uk. this looks like them being used in a car park, again in kharkiv yesterday. and this is a reminder of what the russian military is capable of doing, with indiscriminate air strikes and artillery, reducing the city of aleppo in syria to rubble. showing scant concern for civilian life.
technology that was left over from the soviet union. but he also said that russia would do absolutely everything he could to stop ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons. this tells us a lot about one of russia s big aimes here. one of the aims potentially behind the war in ukraine. and that is we know that vladimir putin does not like nato and he does not like it s eastward expansion and he is concerned about ukraine wanting to join nato. during the speech mr lavrov also said that russia deemed it unacceptable that american nuclear weapons are in european countries. as you know, countries like germany host those weapons under those nato obligation said it was on those countries gave the nuclear weapons back to the us. bear in mind, this is a foreign minister of a country which currently has its nuclear deterrent forces on a special state of alert. this is one of the big issues that we must bear in mind