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bill: national average of gas now 4.31 a gallon. highest average gas price in american history. mostly due to the ongoing war in ukraine, the white house would argue. you ve got newly announced ban on russian oil imports. you have inflation, high demand contributing factors. we also know what this administration s policy on energy when they took the white house in january 2021. all factoring to the blue line that goes up and up on your screen. 20 past the hour. dana: have to get a bigger screen. inflation hitting a new 40-year high. inflation jumped 7.9% over the year. out paced wages. farmers also feeling the impact which in turn is expected to push grocery bills even higher. garrett tenney is live at a farm in legrange, indiana. garrett. good morning to you.
bill: terrific analysis. we ll be in contact by the day. gillian. gillian: great interview. president biden set to speak to the nation in moments laying out the administration s next moves to counter putin. we re told the president is prepared to turn up the economic pressure tighter on putin and cronies. we ll take his comments live as he comes and the nation s top intelligence officials are warning how big a threat russia poses in cyberspace. their strategy has american infrastructure and energy companies right in its crosshairs. our adversaries engage us daily on the battlefield of information. they infiltrate our schools to steal research and laboratories to steal our science and enter computers the take our data and companies to take our industries. and get up to $60,000 or more. we called and got $96,602. that s more than ever.
identify in u.s. critical structures several times since the war has begun from government to i.t. to energy, manufacturing, tell us about the danger of ransomeware attacks? we ve been seeing russian ransomeware attacks for quite some time. the colonial pipeline attack that shut down fuel to the east coast. we see an attack on hospitals and software companies and food supplies. it has been unabated even prior to the war and continued since then. we have not yet seen a major escalation. the levels of activity we re seeing are the same as they were before the war. i think we re still in for some tough times ahead as the russians really start focusing on us as soon as they get the situation in ukraine more under control. gillian: i guess the question is you sort of touched on it there at the end how russia looks at the cyber war,
the wto with harsher consequences on russian exports. it won t take effect until congress passes legislation. that s not likely an issue after we ve heard the bipartisan calls from lawmakers to target russia s trade relations. sources say biden will take additional steps against russian oligarchs and imports as welcoming on the heels of prices rising 7.9% since last year. the third month in a row with inflation at a 4-year high as the white house shifts blame for the rising inflation on russia. in a statement, they say, quote, a large contributor to inflation this month was an increase in gas and energy prices as markets reacted to putin s aggressive actions. drawing swift criticism from mitch mcconnell. the biden administration has tried to invent some laugh out loud revisionist history and want to blame 14 months of gas