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
This is sky news today. The headlines at 10 00. Iran launches the first ever direct attacks on israel where pour than 300 drones and missiles and ies rate says they intercepted 99 . U. S. Military helped repel and the Royal Air Force was involved. Fears about israels possible response means tensions remain high in the region. Joe biden calls it a brazen attack and reaforms americas ironclad commitment to protect israel. He called a meeting of g7 leaders later today to discuss the unfolding crisis. We will have all the latest live throughout the morning here on sky news and we will be assessing what israel will do next. Good morning. We begin with a tense and significant turn of events in the middle east. Overnight, the skies of jerusalem lit up with explosions as iran carried out its first ever direct attack on israel. It comes two weeks after suspected israeli strike in syria that killed two iranian generals. In a moment, we will hear from the Israeli Military on the state of the coun
Political theater. they ve got their own political maneuvering machinations happening and it s all to further their own selfish interests, not caringg o at all about our democracy, our constitution, our freedoms ,the things that they should a be focused on if they were serious about upholdingbo their oath, should shouldn t they really be focused on what where were the security breaches? what can we do better next timec and shouldn t they if they care about violence, be looking into the five hundred and seventy four riots that took place in the summer of 2020 that a02 lot of your democratic colleagues, a lot of people in the media refer to as mostly peaceful? well mostly peaceful resulted in dozens of dead americans. itlt resulted in billions in property damage and with bricks and bottles and molotov cocktails and frozen water bottles. two thousand plus cops were injured during those riotshe in the summer of 2020. shouldn t we be looking for ways to prevent that from