trump administration and its policies, our dream team standing by to debate. also breaking tragedy on the streets of new york city as a woman pushing a stroller on the upper east side is shot dead in what appears to be a targeted attack. mayor eric adams is on the scene and police say they are on the hunt for the shooter. the baby in that stroller we re told is fine. a young woman describing the horrific scene tonight. i realized that, oh, no, this was serious and there was a gunshot and it really frightened me because i was right there at the park playing and i would have never have thought ever that this would have happened. meanwhile crime up in california, the city council in west hollywood goes to defund the police, at least in part. a report from los angeles and in portland. a a pro life demonstration turns destructive over the weekend. the lightning round with jason rants is coming up later but we begin with the growing push back with some of tuesday s testimony fr
griff: anita, great to see you. let s kick things off with lucas tomlinson from the white house. the labor department issuing a brutal report saying inflation is getting worse not better. in los angeles president biden says it s not just putin that s responsible, but exxon as well for skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill, they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one and number two the reason they re not drilling, they re buying back their own stock. exxon made more money than god this year. when president biden was sworn into office he had a 57% approval rating, gas was just 2.39 a gallon. today s approval rating was presume plummeted to 39%, some lower in some polls. and gas nationwide soared across the country and the president s popularity has gone down. president obama once told him his popularity was tied to the price of gasoline and it s happening once again toda
manufacturing of solar panels other forms of clean energy. plan lower energy costs eventually for average americans. the critics point out the move opens for china to corner the solar panel market and again avoid unleashing all domestic possibilities. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich begins our coverage live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. that s right. the president is invoking that war time law to try to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels. one manufacturer says it is a waste of taxpayer money and falls far short of delivering a policy to sustain the industry. and there is even more blow back over his decision to lift tariffs on some imports. in a new clean energy push, president biden is pausing tariffs on solar panel imports from four scioto eastern companies. southeastern companies. whether they stalled projects in the u.s. how is this not a gift to chinese solar manufacturers to many of whom operate with forced labor and are subsidized
that said, we still, what we don t have is a full picture of why the response seemed to take so long that a number of anguished parents on the scene were reduced to begging police to take action while others demand they be allowed to go in themselves to rescue their children. earlier today, bodies of all 19 kids released to funeral homes and we learn more of their names so we want to start tonight telling you little bit about them. eliana garcia, known as ellie was about to turn 10, loved basketball and cheer leading, according to grandparents, dreamed of one day becoming a teacher herself. annabelle guadalupe rodriguez on the honor roll, ten years old, in the same classroom as her cousin jacqueline cazares, her father one trying to get into the school. her friend, also saving up for a trip to disney world, her sister said she loved tiktok dances, ariana grande and the houston astros, eliana also ten years old, was to play her last softball game tuesday and waiting to hear if
15,000 people and so many of the people we talked to have connections to the victims. tess maria mata was 10 years old, she was saving every dollar hoping to go to disney world. nevaeh bravo also 10 has been remembered as a young girl who put a smile on everyone s face. these are the stories that you will hear this morning. a fourth grade teacher who sacrificed herself protecting the children, a grieving father who found out his daughter died trying to save her classmates. we have learned that by tonight all of the victims their bodies will be released to funeral homes for arrangements. and some new reporting this morning about the excruciating moments outside of the school during the shooting. one parent telling the washington post, quote, there were five or six of us fathers hearing the gunshots and police officers were telling us to move back. we didn t care about us, we wanted to storm the building. we were saying let s go because that is how worried we were and we wa