oil by sending a strongly worded letter to the heads of seven oil companies, oh, boy. threatening to use emergency powers if they don t boost supply after bashing them for turning a profit. it comes as gas prices are have officially top $5 per gallon with no relief in sight. and if you can t afford the sky-high gas prices the white house says just buy an expensive electric car. he filled up your ev by charging and he filled up your gas tank with gasoline and you have the same size tank you would save $60 per fill up by going electric rather than using gasoline. it s very compelling but to your point we want to bring down the price at the point of purchase. she knows money, she has stock in electric vehicles i believe. biden s marks are so low in inflation that even cnn is turning on him. how do you gauge biden s performance read? awful pit all compared to carter, look at the disapproval rate the joe biden has an inflationary now. it s over 70%. carter was not even there
Michael cohen, third day of testimony begins in moments. Well see the former president and expect him to speak before he goes into the courtroom. A former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen, Robert Costello speaking out about the star witness testifying before congress about a ton of things. He believes cohen is lying through his teeth. Costello joins us in 30 minutes. A lot of questions for him. First mark your calendars, folks, biden and trump agree to hold two president ial debates to set the stage for showdowns that could make or break their run for the white house. Good morning. Were in the red, white and blue today here in new york city. Im bill hemmer. Dana im dana perino. It goes by fast. First debate happening june 27th, 131 days before the election. The second debate september 10th. Bill these Debate Developments happened on a lot of bad news for the president. The post putting the high stakes in perspective. Joes fail mary. While his rival sits in a courtroom for hours on end ye
Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
portion of that money all when 8085920400. that s when 8085920400 under biden on trial, the president s son is in a delaware courtroom today for the start of jury selection in his federal gun trial. what we re learning is a number of potential jurors are dismissed from the panel. plus dr. anthony fauci back on capitol hill facing tough questions about the us covid response the question that had fauci overcome with emotion and put me in coach. we re going to talk to a golf fan who went from the crowd to catch patti at the canadian open. canadian open, we re falling these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to get a new central right now de want of jury selection in an hunter biden s federal gun case is moving pretty fast. it s potentially on pace to seat a full panel of jurors by the end of the day-to-day, the judge overseeing the case just indicated that opening statements are expected to begin tomorrow. the president s son has pleaded not gu
jill biden is in the courtroom today as the as the jury selection goes on, gaver gave her son a big hug so i think that there could be some kind of an effect that is look, i feel i feel for this family. look country biden did some bad things and the problem with this trial is that all the tawdry stuff is probably going to come out during the trial. these jurors might also say people need to be held to account. that may be personal that may be their personal experience to is it some people with addiction actually maybe do need to be tough love. that s right. so it could cut both ways here. i do wonder on the political side of this, you have republicans who have argued that there is this two-tiered system of justice. you heard tim scott the other day talking about how the justice system hunts republicans. while protecting democrats what do you think about that? and how they sort