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what to do to curb it. if you look at this they ve been doing this poll-driven drive against corporate america saying it s greed that is increasing the numbers when i actually think it is a lot deeper than that and inflation pressures are coming from all the money thrown at covid and other things in the last couple of years. bill: the thing is you can go to georgia and talk about voting rights but this cannot hide. talk about gas prices and food prices and everybody feels it and now it is playing out in a way that unfortunately the economists predicted. we haven t seen numbers like this since the early 1980s, dana. dana: we ll talk about it a lot this morning and have good he personal for you as well. numbers on inflation are colliding with supply chain issues and staff shortages. pictures of empty store shelves across the nation are going viral. honestly i looked for march 2020 when everybody was stockpiling and the shelves were bare. pretty much all produce is g ....
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. ....
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. susan li has more on what s driving the inflation surge. susan? charles, that s right, get used to the higher prices. they ll be here for a while. you re paying the highest price jump in 40 years in december. consumer prices as you mentioned rising 7% last month. that is the highest year over year increase since the summer of 1982. prices rising almost twice as much as wages were last month. so there s still sticker shock at the stores. food prices were up 6%. filling up your gas tanks cost more than a year ago and used cars are fetching premium pricing. the white house is sticking to the promise of eating pricing. the president said the report underscores that we still have more work to do with price increases still too high and squeezing family budgets. the white house trying to calm household concerns. the latest fox business poll shows a third of americans are worried about higher prices. in fact, it s the overwhelming top ....
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 wou ....
czar admiral giroir is our guest later this hour. sandra: president biden and vice president harris visiting atlanta to push voting rights legislation to overhaul the election. it s an issue democrats feel is critical to their chances in the fall midterm elections and beyond. i m sandra smith in new york. trace, welcome. great to see you. i m in for john roberts. the president will endorse changes for a key senate rule to pass the bill but the republicans say it s nothing more than a power grab and a way to nationalize elections and a system to help democrats. sandra: steve is in atlanta with the latest. so, this trip seems to be under attack before it has even happened. that s right, sandra, under attack and from the left as well. mainly democrats right now who are doing the criticism. the president and vice president will make their first stop at the crypt of slain civil rights leader, reverend martin luther king, jr., lay a wreath there and then ebenezer ba ....