sandra: america s energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports. the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the government billions of dollars in revenue. sandra: former president obama famously called it a gimmick in 2008, and all of this as we expect president biden to pin the blame once again on his favorite bogeyman, vladimir putin. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. hi, jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you. the president is expected to call on congress to extend a federal gas tax holiday, som
brink of a constitutional crisis, at least once. eroded americans faith and democracy and shattered peoples trust in the electoral system. yet, despite all of that, a significant portion of the electorate still believes that he deserves another four years in the white house. trump has made it clear that he s running a campaign of retribution and vengeance, promising to enact hard-line policies that could run afoul of the law and even saying that he wouldn t be a dictator, except for on day one. that s a direct quote. he s already plenty of reports out there about the kinds of draconian plans that trump and his close allies are preparing for a possible second term, including a crackdown on immigration that involves sweeping raids, giant detention camps, along the border, and mass deportations of millions of people each year. trump has made it well known that he intends to weaponize the justice department against his political enemies and critics in an attempt to stifle descen
capitol hill. scalise opposes this but it could still pass. it could still pass. speaker pelosi would basically have to make sure she does not lose four democrats and able to gain at least a couple of republicans to ensure that it passes in the house. but at least on the senate side, john, senators are saying this is on a gliding path as they would call it, it s well on its way to becoming the first major gun legislation to be enacted by congress in nearly three decades, and last night they took a huge step forward in advancing this bill, called the bipartisan safer communities act. it advances with not just ten, but 14 republicans voting yes, and that includes minority leader mitch mcconnell. and lisa murkowski and young, and a handful who are retiring. they say the package sends money to states to build up school safety, mental health services,
months, even years. some of these cycles in the ocean and i m no oceanographer but what we ve heard from dave gallo and others, it can circulate for years, actually. so how are they able to narrow the search field, as karen said, to the size of the state of delaware? well, the search field, first of all, is because of the fact that they ve identified where the debris is but that s not really the primary thing that they use to narrow in on this. what they are looking at is radar data which shows them exactly where the last point of contact was. from there, you can draw a circle based on two scenarios whether or not it was a flat spin type of arrangement or whether it was a gliding path into the area. you can refine the area and see that it s closer than they originally thought because they thought it was a potential that it had drifted off but now with