with all on this. sandra: a big line-up, but an economy in crisis. americans are looking for solutions to those surging gas prices and the highest inflation in decades. but it has democrats staring down a red wave in november as more and more voters are coming to the conclusion biden administration is not up to the task. hello, and welcome as we begin a brand-new week. sandra smith in new york. john: great to see you back after a long weekend. john roberts in washington, and this is america reports . the price of gasoline setting a record high the tenth day in a row, an average of $5 a gallon. the cost to fill up the tank up 103% since president biden took office. sandra: and people are certainly taking notice. those numbers putting democrats hopes in jeopardy in november, 83% of the american people in a new abc news poll say the economy is the top issue for them heading into the fall. now desperation setting in at the white house as word comes, president biden might
Them. and now unfortunately his staffers are taking the fall as well because he required them to engage in potentially illegal activity, obviously, you know, this is just an indictment right now. he needs to be proven guilty. but the facts in the indictment are pretty damning i think what jack smith is doing is brilliant. he is taking it step by step and giving us a little at a time so we digest that this thing is bigger and more awful than we probably know by the time we get to the january 6th indictments. and i don t want to jump ahead but i think that what you say is right, gene. those paragraphs are devastating and it really goes to who donald trump is. i grew up in south jersey so this guy has been a staple in my life forever. i m old enough to remember seeing him on the inquirer magazines and everything else. this is who he has been forever. he is for lack of a better way to put it a mob boss. he tells you what to do.
Agree. i think that this just goes to show that trump knew he was in the wrong for keeping these documents, when he had no right to hold on to them. and he then put his unfortunately, his staffers are now taking the fall for this as well, because he required them to engage in, potentially, illegal activity. obviously, this is just an indictment right now, and he needs to be proven guilty. but the facts in this indictment are pretty damning. i think what jack smith is doing is brilliant. he is taking it step-by-step, right, jeanne? absolutely. and he s given us a little at the time, so that we digest, that this thing is bigger and by the time we get to the january 6th indictments. and i don t want to jump ahead. but i think that what you say is, right jeanne, those paragraphs are devastating, and it really goes to who donald trump is and i grew up in south jersey. so, this guy has been a staple in my life forever.
Continually having to worry about january 6th indictments, congressional hearings. but here we are. it was a good week in many ways for history. it started badly with the florida standards being set, that you re supposed to talk in these classrooms about the good things that happened to slaves. then it went on with the monument to emmett till. not just to the commemoration of the poor little boy who was killed but the courageous decision of his mother, who was willing to let his face be shown. it fired the conscience of the country, and it fired 100 days later. there was rosa parks sitting in the bus, told to go to the back, and she thought of emmett till and said, no, i m going to stay here. that brings out the bus boycott, brings out martin luther king jr. he comes forward. it was the ripples that changed things. to watch president biden yesterday at the 75th anniversary, truman s thing was hard for him to do. he came from a confederate family. his mother hated lincoln so much, whe
Concerned about the clock and moving things along. he s pretty relentless here. david french, republican hopefuls, people who are running against donald trump, all will be gathered with trump in iowa, save chris christie who won t be there, for events this week to make appeals to voters in iowa. recent history and, frankly, the history of the last eight years, has taught us, despite everything we re talking about this morning, despite everything laid out in these indictments, including a new one yesterday, we re not going to hear full-throated criticism of the former president from any of these candidates. yeah. i mean, look, they re in a difficult situation. because here s one thing absolutely true about republican voters. they don t want to feel bad for voting for donald trump. there s no circumstance under which republican voters, not all of them, but most of them are going to be wanting to feel like they regret it or that trump s critics were correct. you have to understand, fo