reporting, but overnight they reported a stunning update claiming the woman behind the allegations is also the mother of one of walker s children. the daily beast explains why they held details about her, the woman, who is a registered democrat and years-long relationship with walker continued after the abortion told the daily beast the chief concern with revealing her name is because she wanted to protect her family s privacy address best she could. walker says he doesn t even know who the woman could be. the anonymous woman has now also alleged she had a child by you. your response? i say the same thing i said, that, you know, i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me that and it s totally untrue. i m not sure why that would be told. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion and so they can keep coming at me like that. they are doing it because they want to distract people. for national republicans the response has not been to run away fr
strategically is releasing more oil from the emergency reserves, these underground salt caverns located in texas andlessless. they already released or plan to release up to 180 million bar barrels, the republicans are pointing that they re at a 40-year low. they say they will utilize it and draw down more of it if they need to. it comes against the framework of the global economic issues and ceos around the world are predicting some sort of recession. what could that mean for americans who are already struggling with things like food and gas prices? it could mean a lot less security. a lot of americans have been looking at the stock market and seeing it slowly move downward throughout the course of this year. they re feeling uncertain about their 401(k)s, retirement, the interest rate they see on their houses. but there s one piece of the
symbolic than anything else. biden needs to show that he cares about people s concerns about prices, particularly gas prices. everybody s been calling on him to release barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve so that s what he s doing. let me pull up a little bit of information on the strategic petroleum reserve because i think it s good for context. so, there are 600 million barrels of emergency crude reserve in there. they re stored in these underground salt caverns in louisiana and texas. it was used by president obama during the arab spring in 2011. it was used by president trump after hurricane harvey in 2017. it was used by president biden after hurricane ida. so, didn t did any of those, when previous presidents did it, help? i think that those instances sh it did help on the margins. what s interesting is that the 2011 example during the arab spring, that was the last time, until today, that there was a coordinated international effort, and that does pack a bi
blustery and wet and cold day across the northeast. t.j., back up to you. rob, we appreciate you as always. gas prices on the rise. up 34 cents in two weeks according to aaa. the price for a gallon of regular is $3.51 on average. president obama certainly feeling some of the pressure to do something about the spike in gas prices, but realistically what can he do? christine romans joins us. some of the calls to lift more restrictions on drilling, perhaps tap into our strategic oil reserves. how likely or helpful are these scenarios? timothy geithner said if things got difficult for the global economy they would consider it. it is an option always on the table. what is the strategic pe toll yum reserve? it is 727 million barrels of crude oil in underground salt