on plans to overhaul u.s. elections and change the filibuster. attention now turns to washington. the senate math does not sit in the president s favor. members of his own party are still not on board and now we are learning biden will be meeting with senate democrats tomorrow at their caucus lunch to push the issue. hello, welcome, sandra smith in new york. good to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well. john roberts in washington. the president slamming anyone who does not agree with his plans, calling them confederate villians. and now the clock begins to tick on senate democrats. sandra: schumer will bring a vote five days from now, and talk he could do that sooner as early as today. john: will it be successful or end with failure? start off with congressional correspondent aisha, live on capitol hill. over and under on all of this. think about this, the president went all the way to georgia only to have to make a trip down pennsylvania avenue. tomor
george wallace. george wallace? if you tonight pass the laws he wants, you re bull connor. he compared listen to this a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. how profoundly unpresidential. look, i ve known, liked and personally respected joe biden for many years. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. martha: strong words there from senator mcconnell. senators thune and tim scott hear with their reaction. let s begin with senator thune, the number 2 ranking republican. senator, good to have you with us today. i think i m going to remind everybody, the comments that senator mcconnell was referring to yesterday from president biden. let s take a look. i ask every elected official in america, how do you want to be remembered? do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis? martha: comparisons i would ass
Story. thanks, grady. in america s heartland. people in middle america and the midwest know the price of a bushel of corn, wheat. they know it like gasoline by the gallon prices. john: my wife went to the grocery store. he said grocery store shelves empty. i got the last jug of milk. looks like we re in a depression. sandra: thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: thanks, guys president good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the president getting a scathing rebuke from mitch mcconnell after president biden said those that oppose his reforms to the election system were like george wallace and bull connor. that did not sit well with senator mcconnell. watch. yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, you re
Months of 2018. look at that. the previous high was back in 2010 when the u.s. was fighting its way out of a reception. deficits are on the rise. these numbers are pretty big. it means the government is borrowing more to cover costs. hitting the road this summer? you ll probably pay more at the pump. oil prices are rising thanks to production cut bismayor exporters and soon that will translate into higher prices at the pump. highest in four years still gas prices may be rising but they are below the $4 a gallon prices were in 2008. remember that? that was horrible. apple facing panic over its most important product the iphone. apple reports earnings today and investors are worried about slowing iphone sales. demand is looking weak. the stock is down 7% since then. some analysts blame the pricey iphone 10. others say it s new devices look
Ramifications. and the implications of that and in this time can be devastating, could be rising oil prices endanger the economic recovery as slow as it s been? right. that s the big question mark and that s why the timing on this is bad. recovery has been slow and sluggish already. we re not producing any kinds of jobs here necessarily. two years into the recovery, just here and there. this comes at a bad time both for consumers and businesses. we re seeing this $4 a gallon prices just outside of new york. is $5 going to be something that we see? moody s did say that potentially we could see $5 in the summertime, but they re not expecting it to stay at those levels. we re talking $3.50, $had over the course of the summertime in that range. but at $4 a gallon, if it went to $4 a gallon and stayed there a certain period of time, that s when you start to see consumers changes their behaviors. more car pooling, bikes, we saw that in 2008. people started to change their