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blackburn, plus brian kilmeade and more in a jam-packed hour. john: busy friday afternoon. begin with president biden s plunging poll numbers, americans take stock how he is handling or not handling inflation. john roberts in washington, good to be with you as we head into the weekend. sandra: i m sandra smith in new york, and this is america reports. president receiving the highest unfavorable rating to date in the latest fox news polling. 57% of american voters say they have a negative view of the president. the new numbers come as the national average for a price of a gallon of gasoline surges past $5, making record after record in recent weeks. john: it hurts just to put the pump in the car these days. president biden pushing forward with his green agenda, amid political pressure to lower gasoline prices. holding a virtual meeting with some largest economies to discuss climate change. sandra: peter doocy is live from the north lawn, kicks things off for us, ....
john: the republican senate in pennsylvania too close to call. oz and mccormick separated by a few thousand votes. it could eventually decide the balance of power in washington. john roberts good to see you here today. gillian: great to be with you, back from coverage the johnny depp trial in fairfax. secretary of state of pennsylvania is saying it s going to be a few days before the republican primary can be called. that race will be sent to a recount if the margin remains within half a percent. john: tv doctor, trump s endorsement, skyrocketing in the last couple of the weeks. but mccormick says he s the best chance to win in november and they are confident he will be the nominee. gillian: we have guy benson to break it down, but first bryan llenas joins us from new hope, pennsylvania. how are both campaigns feeling this hour about where they stand? hey, gillian, the bottom line, two words we keep hearing. optimistic and confident. those are the two words we ....
Canada, the premier of alberta was here a month ago, saying we need the pipeline back again and whatever you do, don t shut down the line 5 pipeline in michigan, that s going to really bottleneck things. ed lawrence was mentioning this, and sandra and i as well, what the net effect will be. idea of a rebate card for gasoline. to help people pay for gasoline at the high prices. a, where do you get the money for that, b, are you inserting artificial market forces into it, and c, the price of oil has dropped a little bit in recent days. if you give people a rebate card, aren t they just going to drive up demand for gas and drive the price back up again? yeah, and also, let me add one more thing on it. how could you be fair with that? give the same rebate card to the person who commutes 15 miles to their job that you give to the person who lives in the american west and has to commute to their job maybe 20 or 30 miles? how are you going to make that equal? how are you going to make it fa ....
Pipeline is safer as well. the decision by the president to kill the keystone pipeline, he allowed the nord stream 2 pipeline to go, russia to germany but killed the one between canada and the united states. gillian: the national security council had the phone call with reporters on the venezuela issue, and they can have the deal go through and sanction the venezuelan leaders cracking down on their own people. is that true, is that a realistic assessment of the foreign policy scenario, can they kind of have their cake and eat it too when it comes to maduro? no, i think it s a mistake, it s wrong thinking and they are trying to do the iran deal as well. why? they want to get iran, energy oil out of iran. this administration is throwing one hail mary pass after another because they are unwilling to allow us to explore for american energy. you know, they are releasing 1 million barrels a day of oil ....
From the strategic petroleum reserve. that is supposed to be there for an emergency but they are drawing that down. if there s a true emergency and a million barrels a day was not enough to stop the increasing price of oil and the price of gasoline. the day joe biden came into office gasoline was 2.38. today it s 4.56. john: a brief amount of time left, jake sullivan is about to take the podium to preview the president s trip to asia, a topic of conversation. you just came back from kyiv, and you were also in stockholm. sweden has not had a military alliance for 200 years. finland, neutral since 1956. this is a big change and how do you think it s going to play with vladimir putin knowing that rather than 200 mile border, now 1,000 mile border with nato. ....