ahead of one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. national average price for gallon of gas is $4.57 now. that s up 5 cents from yesterday. 17 cents from one week ago. and the national shortage of baby formula causing a pair of hospitalizations in this country. the biden administration is defending its policies as criticisms pile up and they re promising more action. in fact, we are getting breaking news at this hour that the administration is going to deploy the defense production act on baby formula. just getting word about this at this hour. correspondent mark meredith is at the white house on the north lawn with the very latest. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. this is the breaking news at this hour that biden is invoking the defense production act which will allow these ingredients that go into baby formula to be prioritized to formula makers the idea is to make sure that the factories that produce baby formula have what they need as quickly as possi
Disinformation board. they variety to be. the department of homeland security now pausing the disinformation board that was being widely criticized by a unof in lawmakers, pundits and the woman chosen to lead it is resigning from her post. nina jankovicz says she going to be stepping down from this post at dhs. she had been accused of political bias because of past commence and tweets but she claims her past as well as the board s efforts were being mischaracterized and the white house said it did not force dhs to go ahead and pause this they still believe it s a noble mission here but again the work is being paused for right now. instead two former government officials are being tasked to come up with a report in the next 57 days detailing how the government can fight disinformation, bret? bret: mark meredith live on the north lawn. go back to the u.s. economy what we are seeing on the markets. let s bring in gary cult balm capital management and fox news contributor. gary, thanks
Unit within the homeland security department. and even mayorkas said on sunday yeah, i probably could have rolled that out a little bit better. then we find out who is in charge of it. this won that s in charge of it, nina jankovicz, whose about 8 and a half months pregnant, so i m not sure how you get a job and then you just you can t do a job for three months. i m not faulting her but i don t know why you would give somebody a job that you think is so important. ainsley: how long has she had this job? ainsley: about two months. i will defend her on that one, brian. she has the right to have a baby and have maternity leave. brian: if you really want to have someone head up an organization. face of the organization. passionate for musical theater and also passionate for disinformation like the steele dossier is accurate. like the hunter biden laptop. ainsley: called that misinformation. ainsley: she is in charge of the disinformation board. yet she thought the hunter laptop
But just, you know, folks who just got together and said, you know what? there is an opportunity here to take all of our commerce, all of our the excitement and positivity that conservative movement and instead of spreading it around to companies and corporations that do not like us, that do not want to hear from us and want to push us into the corners, let s put it all through one credit card where it is seemless, easy, people know it. they have had it their whole life and start to fund some really great conservative causes. brian: got it. so, for more information go to if you are listening on radio coign.com. rob collins, thanks so much. let me know how it goes. love it thank you for having me on. you got it coming up straight ahead. she dismissed the hunter biden laptop story. down played concerns of crt. praised christopher steele so, why is nina jankovicz appointed to the biden disinformation board? shear secretary mayorkas
If they had done things the right way in the past then we could have trusted them. why are they getting involved in this. we do have intelligence officers that are monitoring things that are online. steve: one of the things he said we re not the opinion police. but, so it s not about opinions. but when you say that laptop is from russia, it s russian disinformation. that is not an opinion. that is the department of homeland security has said that thing is from russia. pete: you are exactly right. the same as saying cnn. when they say we north opinion. we are just news. we are only telling you this news over here. steve: and that s our opinion. pete: and the process is clear as day. he mentioned bret baier, you asked a question about nina jankovicz who will be charged with leading this 30-something georgetown graduate has done work on disinformation from one side of the aisle. there is a couple of tweets that may give insight into whether or not as mayorkas said we should not qu