have occurred in the lastey 18 months we ve moved that wasov joe biden s first sit downed interview in one hundred and eighteen days. and despite a flurry of well, nothing but softball questions from a democratic activist pretending to be a late nighted comedian, biden still struggleia to communicate he could barelyy get words out. he had noo answersword for the economic problems we are a lot worset got today. now inflation is up yet again to an all new forty one year high, eight point six percent. the the cost of food is up ten point one percent. o the cost of housing 70%f rent is up in some places as high as 20 percent. household energy bills are up a whopping nineteen point one percent. and meanwhile the average cost for a gallon off gas has nowd more than doubled since biden took over as president. now over five dollars a gallonev nationwide for the first time ever. remember when he first became president on day one you were only paying two dollars and thirty nine cents f
trillions of dollars? go woke start implementing environmental, social governance esg opened the borders to millions of illegal immigrants, prioritize criminals over victimson and go green before green works. perhaps economic catalyst or c fauci. weat just recorded the highest r inflation readingec in forty years 40 years. we did it down. i yeah yeah you did it. congratulations you two don t believe your eyes or your pocketbook. joe s gotn y this .hi millions of americans are o moving up to better jobs and better pay sincece i took office. families are carrying less debt on average in america. they have more savings than they ve had because of the progress america can tackle inflation from a position off strength, a position of o strength that we re in right now. americans p seef right through consumer sentiment plunged again this week, pp dropping fourteen percent . may to a historic new low but of course the whole inflation thing that s not biden s fault. today s
but only on the gun crackdown policieses that he supports instead of trying to find common ground, the president taking the opportunity to bash and blame republicans. but according to a new poll, the majority of americans don t agree with biden. over half don t see schoolng shootings as a guns problem. but that s not stopping biden from trying to strong arm congress into doing what he wants for so many of you at home. i want tonyat be very clear . this is not about taking away anyone s guns. we need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines and if we can t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the aget to purchase them from 18 to 21 . the fact is a majority of the senate republicans don t want any of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote. i find unconscionable. nci believe the majority of youg will act to turn your outrage into making this issueth a centralis to your vote. enough enough is enough. but that s not good enough for some on the left
barnett s headquarters in elizabethtown, pennsylvania, some 90 miles west of philly. alexandra, what can you tell? l allura, things have slowed down just a bit here as a barn headquarters. kathy barnett and her supporters engaged in a prayer circle right now behind me. i and a shortn time ago the crowd in the candidateci, they were engaged in a dancing the macarena. so it s been it s been a night full of hope, especially here the barnett camp because unexpected things have happened in this raceesd, namely garnetta rise in popularity that happenedrn earlier this month and really that came from the supreme court draft opinion leak of roe v. wade as it really points herself to l be the pro-life candidateif. so she thought a lot of momentum there. the question still now, didid that leadn turnout at the polls? th and that is remainsat to be seee but as you mentioned, still a lot of hope in this room right now for volusia county. laura alexandria, thanks for that . and now to brian
Welcome to bbc news. President trump has announced a new travel ban to prevent citizens from a number of predominantly muslim countries entering the united states. Its a revised version of the ban which was blocked by the courts last month. This time iraq is not on the list, and the wording has been changed to try to avert any legal challenges. The us attorney generaljeff sessions claimed all six countries were connected directly or indirectly to terrorism. Our north america correspondent nick bryant has the latest. There was applause when President Trump signed the First Executive order, but it caused anger, chaos and confusion at americas airports as the travel ban on entrants from seven mainly muslim countries was hurriedly put into effect but the us courts blocked it opening the borders, delivering an embarrassing rebuke to President Trump. So today he signed a revised ban with unusually little fanfare. The Washington Press corps not invited to witness it and this photograph taken