inflation running rampant, price of gasoline return to seven-year high it reached in november, that is when the president taps into america s oil reserve to push prices lower. now more than 60 days later, right back where we started on that number. dana: we ll hear from the president later this morning on new numbers after the white house really tamped down expectations. the president is expected to deliver remarks from the white house 10:45 eastern and we find peter doocy there at his second home, the white house. hi, peter. peter: good morning. officials for days have been setting expectations for this report, very, very low, suggesting that they thought it was going to be bad because of covid. but this would be situation where they are happy to have been wrong. press sect. psaki: the month s job report may show losses because workers were out sick from omicron at point it was peaking. fu are not at work because of the omicron variant, you are not going to be counte
spenders, let them know, almost $2 trillion in deficit reduction. i don t want to hear anymore of these lies are reckless spending. we re changing peoples lives. maria: our lives are certainly changing. coming up former secretary of state mike pompeo on the number one threat to today and the mistakes that got us here from foreign policy to economics. as joe biden claims it is bizarre to blame him even as the president s approval rating plummets with key voting blocks abandoning him, minorities, independents and business. these are treacherous times. frankly the lack of leadership in washington is discouraging. for the president of the united states not once, not once, say i made a mistake, this is my fault, if you look every single thing that happened negative, the devil made me do it or somebody else. when is he going to show leadership including belly-up to the bar say this one s on me? maria: coming up the former president of the kansas city federal reserve, tom hoenig a
became the first transgender champion in ncaa division history. in an interview last month, he said that she does plan to keep swimming competitively including, she said, at the olympic trials to try and go after the olympics. the vote, though, by the governing body would ban thomas and other transgender athletes from taking part in women s sports events. mary korean rafferty joins us with more. reporter: hi, eric. the new rules would mean a trans it s e alt heat9 would have to complete their transition before the age of 12. ya thomas, first trans athlete to win a division i swimming title and had also hoped to compete in the olympics, will not be allow to do so. the international body that governs water sports says the move will balance includessivity and insure no one has an unfair advantage. we have to protect the right of all our athletes to compete. but we also have to protect competition fairness at our events, especially women s competition. and also the past reco