future of the program remains in jeopardy for hundreds of thousands of people that call america home. we ll talk to one of those dreamers later this hour. we begin with the efforts to bring down the skyrocketing prices we re paying for gas, groceries, and many other items. in a few hours from now the federal reserve is expected to announce its third interest rate hike this year. raising a key interest rate by three quarters of a percent. that s the largest increase since 1994. this comes as president biden looks at other steps to try to reduce the highest priced spikes in more than 40 years. the president sent letters to seven energy companies asking them to explain their record profits, as well as a drop in refining capacity helping to drive up gas prices. he also says he s prepared to use emergency authority to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term. the new york times reporting the president is also considering rolling back some of the tariffs preside
Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
on the one hand we celebrate ten years of daca protections, which have allowed hundreds of thousands of these young people to prosper in america. they ve excelled in school and in the workplace. many are working in jobs that the federal government has deemed essential throughout the covid-19 pandemic. but the tragedy is, congress has failed to act, has failed to codify these protections into federal law, let alone advance more comprehensive modernization of our immigration laws, and to think that so many of these daca resip pents live in limbo, daca has been challenged time and again by republicans and other conservatives, there s pending litigation that will determine whether these young people who have who are completely americans by the way, except for one piece of paper, will be able to continue to live in the united states, contribute to the success of our country, or face a tough decision of whether to go back into the shadows or have
federal judge in texas has decided or at least ruled that daca, defer action on childhood arrivals is unconstitutional and has blocked any new applicants and said it s unconstitutional, it s illegal because it was created by executive order and not by congress. what s this mean for those 700,000 who are here, the daca recipients as they are now in limbo again? those that have received daca provisions will maintain their daca protections right now. this court order was to halt any new applications from happening. however, the administration is going to challenge that decision and it will play its way up to the highest level of our nation s court system. what s important right now is we pass the dream and promise act with bipartisan push out of the
prescription drugs, daca protections among others. mcconnell has basically let it all die. a majority of americans say they improve of congressional democrats push to meechl president trump. this is according to a new cbs news poll. 45% said they do not approve of the probe. when asked about the legally of trump s actions 28% said they were proper, 31% said they were not proper but legal and 41% said his actions were illegal. 63% of americans said they found president trump s encouragement of a foreign leader to investigate his political rival a serious problem according to the latest abc news poll. only 17% said they were surprised that trump encouraged ukraine s president to investigate biden. 83% said they were not. here s the top republican in the house kevin mccarthy trying to defend the president of on 60