country in crisis. inflation reaching 8.5%, highest in a generation. and that read on consumer prices is reading double digits in some parts of the country. accelerating fears of the r word, recession. hello, and the voice you heard is mr. bill hemmer. good afternoon. our offices are right next to each other, so now we are sitting next to each other, so i always have a track on you and what you are doing. sandra: no secrets here. bill: good to have you along with us. america reports. americans don t agree on much, but inflation is the exception. a new poll shows a whopping 94% of americans are either concerned or upset about the rising prices on just about everything. sandra: everybody is feeling it. the same poll shows nearly 70% of americans disapprove of president biden s handling of this tough situation. high gas prices, skyrocketing food costs, and unreliable supply chain are threatening to sink democrats in november. midterm elections, quickly approaching. f
appears to have bogged down into a protracted conflict. fighting intensified in the country s east. russian missile strikes and shells continuing to fall on ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. where the first u.s. congressional delegation to visit ukraine, met secretly with president zelenskyy in kyiv. this weekend. the group s leader our speaker nancy pelosi, with strong words for russia and its president putin. do not be bullied by bullies. if they are making threats, you can not back down. that is my view of it. we are there for the fight. and we cannot fold to a bully. the democrats will comes as congress considers president biden s request for 33 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. and russia suggests that shipments of western weapons streaming into ukraine are fair game for its military. the latest on russia s more that s coming up. and later, the emotional true story of our nation s first black secret service agent pardoned last week by president biden
started in sedgwick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path, there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. i mean, the video is extraordinary. so far, only a handful of injuries are reported. more on this story in a moment. but first, we re watching new developments over seas in ukraine. ukrainian forces withstanding russia s mercyless shelling in lieu luhansk and donetsk. new video shows a submarine firing cruise missiles at ukrainian targets. this as we re seeing new images showing the devastation at a steel plant in mariupol. it s where a last stand of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are hunkered down, surrounded. and there s also this just in to cnn just moments ago. city officials in mariupol say there may be a possible breakthrough in the evacuation negotiations. for more on that, let s go to scott mcclain live for us in lviv. what are yo
mark meadows. showing hannity pleat lee service to president trump, and his big lie. and then there s new rumblings that musk may have buyers remorse before this twitter sale is even complete. i talked to an analyst that says twitter could bring down the entire musk empire. and then, president biden gives new hints that he is willing to move on with student loan forgiveness. we look at how soon and how much money we are talking, all of that, and big news about moderna this week. asking for authorization for vaccines for kids as young as six months. a potential for game-changer for parents like me with young kids in the covid fight. we have more on that as well. we start with the breaking news coming out of ukraine, where nbc news has confirmed some of the civilians trapped in mariupol have in fact been evacuated. in the capital city of kyiv, as always, cal, it s good to see you on this. they ve tried to get these people safe for quite some time, and they re trapped inside
committee? well, the house panel s chairman says r.j. r.j. is next on the list to go under oath, and that comes amid-the revelation trump considered using martial law as a way to try to basically stage a coup. if you were to invoke martial law for no reason or ill list reasons that would be part of the abuse of military power. to be clear, that didn t happen. i bet we d remember it. but the january 6th committee is focusing on this emerging powers. the president cannot just declare martial law when he chooses without a reason, without a standard. so, the consideration of that is more signs that there was the consideration of coup-like activities. meanwhile, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is under a lot of heat. there s an open question about whether she ll even be legally allowed to run for re-election. that s unusual if american life. there s also something unusual, how she as an incoming congressperson was texting the chief of staff of the outgoing administration as l