nearly died from the virus himself and he enjoyed popular support after surviving an attack of covid, but his politics started t eed to disine from there. there was a widespread sense his party doesn t have a grip. after the 2019 election, to think he was the conservative majority was so strong, it was almost bulletproof. freddie gray, good to have you on. thanks so much. thank you. still ahead, the average gas price in this country jumped another 5 cents overnight, on track to hit $5 a gallon on average soon. how broader inflation is compounding this issue for american consumers. that s coming up. your record label is taking off.
that. because it is front and center. and it is an issue. people don t vote on foreign policy as we know. particularly not down the road. donors and establishment people pay attention. donald trump, trump jr., desantis, pence is doing the same dance, i don t know if we re talking about him today, but he s just as bad as her. they wanted t eed to hang him a he s, like, don t talk bad about the insurrectionists. okay. i don t know what voters choose every time, but they care about strength and weakness relatively speaking. and when they see mike pence all of a sudden excusing the people who wanted to hang him, when they say nikki haley, see nikki haley, one of her strengths was being strong, being so forward, she s now saying, you know what, if i run for president, i m going to call donald trump first, and ask permission there. that doesn t impress me as strength. it is not my favorite look. this is the thing, i think there is a difference of degree with her and pence and other
in him. was it appropriate for whitaker to say he has been briefed by t eed about the muel? it was an off the cuff remark. it goes against the policy about the fbi and doj policy of not commenting oni ongoing investigations. the acting attorney general says something. everybody says, well, is he telling truth? did he mean what he says? i think it speaks to the difficult situation that he has gotten himself into, not just as o overseeing the mueller investigation, but doing the important parts of the job that has nothing to do with russia. you can see we shot video of whitaker. he seemed to be sweating. as he should. barr is a pro. whitaker is an amateur. he made a fundamental mistake. take politics aside. owe just put his boss in a box. his boss, the incoming attorney
earlier today, when harvey weinstein surrendered himself. to authorities in new york city charged with multiple sex crimes. if convicted he could spend decades in prison. the moment came after months of allegations against weinstein that launched t eed the me to movement. kristin dalgren has the report. harvey, are you sorry? reporter: it was a day many thought they d never see. harvey weinstein in handcuffs, turning himself in to face charges of rape and criminal sex acts. this defendant used his position, money, and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually. reporter: the three counts involve two different women lucia evans who says weinstein forced her to perform a sex act in 2004, and a still unidentified woman prosecutors say was raped by weinstein in this manhattan hotel in 2013. today weinstein was ordered to stay away from her. he s now out of jail after posting a million dollars bail
case there is obstruction of justice going on here. this is president trump s opportunity to tell his side of the story. if he doesn t want to avail himself of it, it seems robert mueller had sufficient evidence to go forward with the charge. very likely this did not come from the mueller team. this came from people who had been briefed wi t eed by the no who are were the president s lawyers or related to that side of the case. how does it relate to the fact that john dowd resigned at some point for these questions were specified? that s really intriguing. i would love to ask matt that question and i know he won t tell us the answer. it seems unlikely this came from robert mueller s camp. he has his reputation for being tight lipped. i don t see how it advances his