ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
what could be. in any form but they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you and i don t think that s going to happen. i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. bret: breaking tonight what could be a preview of the battle of the 2024 presidential nomination. former president trump and former vice president pence addressing separate conservative groups today here in washington. senior national correspondent rich edson is at one of them tonight. good evening, rich. former president trump and former vice president mike pence giving two very different speeches in washington today. the former president just wrapped here. he gave a speech, lasted about an hour, hour and a half or so. in doing so, he mentioned a number of typically trump topics when it came to safety, economy. other issues like the january 6th i economy, impeachment, and the 2020 election. i
are paying diesel. the president wants to suspend that through september. he needs congressional approval to get it done, however. members of both parties are a bit skeptical. dana: jason chaffetz echoed concerns of republicans who say it won t address the real issue. it s a pure gimmick and does not solve the problem at all. it really doesn t. we have a supply problem and the president has no plan other than to go to the saudis, cut some gas tax, tap into the strategic petroleum reserve, all of which are bad ideas. produce the energy at home and they can solve the problem. that s not what he is doing. bill: what is he doing? peter doocy joins us from the north lawn leading the coverage today. good morning. even if this gas tax holiday gets passed by congress, it is unclear this morning exactly how much help people are going to get. markets don t respond to gimmicks. the administration it is an unserious solution to a serious problem and they are just not takin
and taiwan in high alert with four american. china set to respond with live fire military drills surrounding taiwan new video showing chinese tanks rolling on its coastline. beijing piling on with the threats and sing america will pay. we will respond and a response will be strong and forceful. nancy pelosi not backing away from this face-off with tran about the white house is refusing to take a firm stance of the trip. nothing has changed about our one china policy. the speaker has a right to travel. she is the speaker of the house. she is a member of the congress. members of congress of both parties have traveled to taiwan even just this year. it s an independent branch of government. we gave her advice and counsel in context and information obviously as is typical we are helping with their transformation. but this is a decision that only she can make and we support and respect that decision. republicans are calling out that the white house are showing weakness and
a republican can win. skipping over competitive and going red. mayra flores won. the first mexican born woman to serve in the house. bill: this is a heavily hispanic district that shares a border 80 miles with mexico. it was created 10 years ago and until now it has been a democratic stronghold. dana: what changed? critics are pointing to president biden s border policies. voters witness the crisis firsthand in donna, texas, thousands were held in squall or. bill: the world s richest man weighing in. elon musk tweets the following. the first time i ever voted republican. massive red wave in 2022. dana: team fox coverage. bill melugin is covering the crisis on the border from texas and we re live in dallas. this is exactly what the national republican party was banking on. it spent a million dollars on television ads alone for the special election in this traditionally democratic district down in south texas. and there is so much to know about this very special candi