that inflation was above 6%. for months the white house claimed inflation was transitory and would go away. republican senator ron johnson says democrats need to take responsibility now. this is a democrat s tax on the middle class. this is how they inflate their way through deficit spending. people need to understand that. this is very dangerous. i m concerned we re in an inflationary cycle. people s wages have gone up their wage gains are being wiped out by this inflation and this didn t just happen. this is caused by democrat policies. harris: so it s not just the prices, it is whether you can actually find what you need. look at the picture. seem familiar? #bare shelves biden trending on social media. as americans are fed up over the supply chain crisis that could get even worse thanks to a nationwide labor shortage. fox digital interviewing shoppers to find out what they think. what they are experiencing. no juices, no orange juice. it s like a soviet store durin
kilmeade. the consumer price index just surged by 7%, the biggest jump since the height of the cold war. meantime, americans are flooding social media with photos of empty stores and hashtags bear shelves abide in. some are even drawing comparisons with the soviet union as a grocery store shelves remain empty. it s like a soviets or during 1981. it s horrible. emily: kennedy, this is astonishing, and those people are not wrong. emily: the fall of communism followed a trip to houston that boris yeltsin made in 1989, and he went to just a typical grocery store in houston and it actually brought him to tears because he couldn t believe that anyone in america could walk into a grocery store like this and have a bounty in front of him. he said the potus was so fresh scum of the meat and fish and poultry so abundant, and that s when he realized that communism was alive. and americans have always had abundance and a choice but this is what they are faced with. for those of us
and a look back at the legacy of archbishop desmond tutu. we begin this hour with the growing concern over the rapid spread over the omicron variant in the united states. it s driving daily covid infections to highs not seen since last january. as cases spread, so does the demand for tests. americans are facing a shortage of at-home kits. and this is the scene at testing sites around the country. long lines with people often having to wait hours to get tested. the white house is facing increased criticism over its handling of covid testing. here s what top health expert dr. anthony fauci had to say. we should be using testing, much more extensively than we have. even in a situation where you have people that are vaccinated or boosted. but the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron stirring people to get appropriately concerned and wanting to get tested, as well as the fact of the run-on test through the holiday season. we have to
we begin this hour with the growing concern over the rapid spread of the omicron variant in the united states. it s driving daily covid infections to highs not seen since last january. and as cases spread, so does the demand for tests. americans are facing a shortage of at-home kits. and this is the scene at testing sites across the country. long lines with people often having to wait hours to get tested. the white house is facing increased criticism over its handling of covid testing. here s what top health expert dr. anthony fauci had to say. we should be using testing much more extensively than we have, even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated or boosted. but the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron stirring people to get appropriately concerned and wanting to get tested as well as the fact of the run on tests during the holiday season. we ve obviously got to do better. i think things will improve greatly as we
may be tempting just to tune out, just to watch football or hgtv or the great british baking show. you know, whatever floats your boat. but i m here to tell you, pittsburgh, that tuning out is not an option. sulking and moping, that s not an option. the only way to make everything fair is if we, all of us, fight for it. the only way to save democracy is if we, together, fight for it. and it starts with electing people who know you, who see you, who care about you, who ve stood in your shoes. you did that two years ago when you sent joe biden to the white house. he s fighting for you every day, he s got your back, doing everything he can to put more money in your pockets, to make our streets safer, to bring good-paying jobs here to pennsylvania. now you need to do it again. because while there may be a lot of issues at stake in this election, there is one basic question that you should be asking yourself right now, and that is who will fight for you? that s the choice in this