like grocery prices. the egg meter, i go to a deli every morning and buy hard boil eggs. they were 50 cents forever. they went to 75 cents this week. 50% jump. one small item and one small little store. austan, thank you. steve, have a good weekend. see you next friday. sandra: speaking of which nestle the world s biggest food and drink company says another price hike may be on the horizon on top of the 5.2% bump in the first three months of the year. during the call yesterday the ceo said he expects cost to jump further due to the i word, inflation, which has made soursing, manufacturing, packaging and shipping those products more expensive for their more than 2,000 brands. okay. you have the egg meter, i have the milk meter. i bought a gallon of milk. we live in new york and things are higher priced than a lot of
independence. a new a.p. poll shows that 70% of americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, that includes 49% of democrats. that s an increase from last month s poll. on a sunny morning at the white house, jackie heinrich, thank you. bill: james freeman, wall street journal assistant editor with us. a couple of things here on title 42 you have now 11 senators, democrats, you have 16 republicans 16 house members democrats and one democratic governor who is saying hey, we don t need to do this. look at the list. you have gas, border, ukraine, crime, inflation. find some good news for this white house. yeah, it s hard to find and why you see democrats breaking with him. but again it suggests the huge opportunity the president has, if he wants to seize it. this is a moment you have motivated people in his party to solve the border issue. if he wanted to start right now
justice department. as a matter of principal we want to be in a position where it s strongly concluded by the scientists that we need title when 2 we be able to do that. there has been no decision on extending title 42. biden said afterward i want to clarify that in comments at the conclusion of my remarks this morning i was referring to the cdc mask mandate. there is no department of justice action on title 42. even that statement did not answer the original question which was whether the administration is considering postponing lifting title 42. also not changing in all this is the president s playbook on the economy. yesterday he was saying 70% of the cause for march inflation was because of putin. he is advocating for electric vehicles as the path to energy
the state. it doesn t apply to private companies like facebook or twitter. with that power comes accountability. in democracies like ours, at least, the need for some democratic oversight. that begs the question how elon will enact change when facing bipartisan challenges around moderation. first the bid needs to be accepted. right now the ball is in twitter s court. sandra: on a story we ve all been watching and continue to follow. thank you. bill: inflation there average interest rates on the most common u.s. home loan climbing to a 12-year high. just about everything will be more expensive, folks. steve moore worked for donald trump. austan goolsbee worked for president obama. good day to both of you. average cost of a home. median house price 15% jump to $375,000. i don t know where we start,
saying to members on both sides on the hill let s have security, let s have a wall, let s also increase legal migration, i think this is a moment. i know it s an election year but there is an appetite for a solution. they aren t just breaking with him over immigration. they have been breaking with him over his handling of inflation including senator joe manchin and others. it doesn t help in this moment where prices keep going higher, housing becoming a bigger issue. the price of just about everything going up. president biden continues to blame vladimir putin for these price hikes. listen. president biden: make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of putin. big reason for inflation is vladimir putin. the current spike in gas prices is largely the [tpa-lt/] falt of vladimir putin. nothing to do with the american rescue plan.