out, not the top down. when we do it that way everybody does well. everybody wins. even though we created a record number of jobs, we know, i know this job is not finished. we need to do more to get prices under control. putin's invasion of ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. to help deal with that yesterday i authorized the release of 1 million gallons a month from our strategic petroleum reserve. the largest release in our history. it is a war-time bridge to increase our oil supply as we work with our u.s. oil producers to ramp up their production to get us through this period. i have coordinated this release with partners and allies around the world. this morning over 30 countries from across the world convened

in a meeting and agreed to the release of tens of millions of additional barrels of oil onto the market. hundreds of hours of meeting with key allies keeping them together is paying off. nations are coming together to deny putin the ability to weaponize his energy resources against american families not only american families but families in europe and around the world. i've also made it pry tore a federal budget definite went up every year under my predecessor. as i committed when i was running and got here we'll turn it around. last year in 2021 we cut the federal deficit by more than $350 billion. this year in 2022, we're on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion. 1.3 trillion. that would be the largest one-year reduction in a deficit

of u.s. history. it is particularly important now as it works to reduce pressures on inflation. that's what happens when you reduce the deficit. here are the facts. it was the previous administration whose reckless policies and mismanagement led to the record budget deficits. in my administration us getting the deficit under control. i released my budget this week and shows going forward we can cut the deficit by another $1 trillion over the next decade while still making prudent investments in economic growth, climate and other economic decisions. to do that, we have to be willing to do something previous administrations and republicans today refuse to do. we need to make sure corporations and the super wealthy begin to pay their fair share. here is one example. right now billionaires, not a whole lot of them in the country, maybe -- i won't give a number because i don't know for sure. they average less than 1%.

my point is billionaires pay an average rate of only 8% on their total income. a family led by a firefighters and teacher can pay double that income tax rate, double what a billionaire pays. double the 8%. so my budget has a billionaire minimum tax of 20% minimum tax that applies only to the 100th of 1% of american households. billionaire minimum tax is fair. here is the deal. it raises $360 billion that can be used to lower costs for families and cut the deficit. it would -- i would add nobody making less than $400,000 a year will pay a single penny more in federal taxes. i've said in the past i'm a capitalist and no problem with people making as much money as they are capable of making.

but i'm asking you one simple thing, just pay your fair share. pay your fair share, that's all. that's it. just your fair share. no one can argue that 20% for a billionaire is unfair. here is what this adds up to. we'll continue to create jobs. put down the cost for families and rein in deficits left by my predecessors. all important steps to continue our historic progress to build a better america. i said from the outset the only country in the world who comes out of crises than when we go into it. we'll have plenty of time to answer questions about other items about the jobs report next week. thank you. appreciate it. >> what about inflation? we're in inflation. it's outpassing wages. >> harris: so much going on

with our economy, relations in the world. a war in ukraine. we'll have to wait until next week the president says before we can ask any questions of him about any topics including the one he just talked about. we're hearing the president talk about the march jobs report. the numbers falling slightly below expectations as president biden faces a laundry list of economic problems. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". yesterday the president unveiled a new scheme to lower gas prices and he took this time just a moment ago to talk all about that and he called it a war-time bridge. well, it's the type of thing we haven't seen since 2011 when all of the i.e. members released 60 million barrels in response to disruptions in libya. in other words, it takes an emergency like this. but remember, the price of oil was going up far before the war on ukraine. the president announced he will release 180 million barrels over six months from the oil

reserves suggesting it could lower gas prices by up to 35 cents. well, they've gone up exponentially more than that. remember, prices at the pump have gone up nearly $2 since he took office, per gallon. critics are calling the plan nothing more than a band-aid that wouldn't hold and even the president admitted it could take awhile before we see any changes. >> president biden: my guess is we'll continue to see it come down but how far down i don't think anyone can tell. there will be a slight delay because if you go out there and you are a gas station and you purchased x amount of gas at a certain price, you are not going to lower the price at the pump until you are able to get back what you invested. >> harris: you caught the word he use. he guesses that's where we'll be. he just made the largest draw on our oil reserves in america in our history and he guesses it is going to get us around 35 cent discount on that expensive

gas. senator tom cotton says it's a temporary fix for sure. let's watch. >> i would call what joe biden proposed is gimmick but worse, dangerous. the strategic petroleum reserves is for emergency. the only emergency i see is the polling numbers and we have a mid-term in seven months. if we release this oil from the strategic petroleum reserve every day for the next six months we only treat the symptoms, not the cause. the cause is the war that joe biden is waging on oil and gas production in america. >> harris: "new york post" op-ed. biden's latest gas price band-aid is barely gas lighting. steve forbes, editor in chief of forbes media. great to have you. let's start with the announcement a few moments ago from the president of the united states about jobs.

>> what we have -- what he said it's a decent jobs report. the reason it is getting better is because the country was covering from covid. government programs have ended that keep people unemployed. covid is down. number of retirees returning to the workforce. they retired early an want to get back in the workforce. the questions shouted to him about inflation he ignored. wages areing up, but prices are going up faster and avoided rising fuel prices because his administration is waging war on oil and gas. you can't build the pipelines and then he blames putin. he is part of it but he is a bigger part of it, biden. >> harris: the war is 37 days in. we saw $1.92 hike before the war started during his presidency and he has only been

in office a little more than a year. you can do basic calendar and math and figure out it couldn't all be putin, right? what the numbers mean at this point. because in february we had 11.3 million jobs open. the previous time period we had 11.4. people have had what they call the great resignation. is the market creating jobs really what it could be, should be, show us about where the market's health is? >> i think you would have a greater job creation if businesses didn't hesitate to invest because of the uncertainty especially the massive tax increases that the president is proposing. you don't get the kind of vigorous investment that makes job creation in the future and enables people to move up the wage scale. it is basic economics. he is putting barriers in the way. he is not letting the economy heal as fast as it normally would from the covid shutdowns of 2020 and 2021.

>> harris: when he talks about what he is doing with oil reserves and flooding the market with our own oil but we can't produce more, we can't -- right? did you lose me? is he still there? >> yes. i can hear you now, yes. >> harris: when the president talks about this being americans don't pay attention to what anybody else says about it, this is good news. i am looking and maybe one of the other things that triggered this oil reserve is the ruble is bouncing back. and it all has to do with oil and energy and russia's ability to sustain itself through the sanctions. i want to get your response to that. >> the fact of the matter is the administration is not doing all it can to enable ukraine to win this war. ukraine properly armed would win this war militarily and in terms of depriving russia the means to fight against ukraine, we still haven't put on full sanctions. we still allow the energy of russia to go out. the russian central bank is doing a lot of maneuvers to

prop up the ruble. a free market would be in a free fall. why don't we sanction all the oil? there is a proposal by a lot of exports if you want to buy oil and gas from russia the money goes to an escrow account. putin won't shut down his oil fields and gas fields. we did the same thing of the iranians. the russians have the choice. get the money if they stop the war in ukraine or the money stays in escrow. why don't we do things like that? this administration, harris, is always one step behind or more than one step needed to be done. we have a chance for a huge victory for freedom in ukraine and this administration i think in a more reprehensible way won't put on all the economic weapons to bring russia to stop what they are doing in ukraine or give them all the weapons. absolutely outrageous. >> harris: morally reprehensible. we'll move to this. it is more pain for americans because you touched on

inflation. americans are also facing the highest food prices that we have in decades. the overall price of food went up 7.9% from february of 2021 to now according to the u.s. department of agriculture. and it predicts it will go up even more. as much as 5.5% on top of that. pretty much everything we touch at the grocery store is more expensive. beef up 16%, pork up 14%, eggs up 11%. fresh fruit up 10%. that drives your bill to cause some people to say wait a minute, maybe i can do more with less. maybe i'll have to by less and get by longer. we're going backwards in time by decades at this point. >> that's right in terms of the cost of living. again, it is nice to have nominal wages going up but if the cost goes up even more you have a big problem. you will also have a big

problem in the mortgage market. most mortgages are floating rates. 30 year a little over a year ago was 2 1/2%, now approaching 5%. it will hit budgets as well. food front. prices are going up for food is because fertilizer prices are going up. fuel prices that are necessary to grow food are going up. tractors need fuel and the like and guess what? that kind of inflation as you pointed out was rising well before putin began his war in ukraine. so you have those pressures on food and ukraine itself is the bread basket of europe. very hard to plant seeds when bombs are falling on you. you have that pressure as well. >> harris: you talk about that pressure being from a moral standpoint, too. this is as well. if you sit in the high house, the white house, the one that we the people own and you don't see the people suffering, that's morally reprehensible as well and they are and will be if we don't get this right.

steve forbes, thank you very much. the white house again is ducking questions on hunter biden's sketchy business dealings while defending president biden. let's watch. >> you are saying it's the president's view as he looks at all hunter biden's business dealings with his uncle that neither hunter or james biden committed any crimes? >> i don't have anything additional to add from this podium. >> harris: the white house appearing to dodge. critics are laying into the media for avoiding the laptop story by and large even after two major news outlets confirmed it is true months after the story broke. it is his laptop and everything on it is his laptop. there is no guessing on that. then there is this. >> coming in right now it's being fired from a few kilometers away. russian-backed separatists identified there were a lot of people in that position and

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blame ukraine. it could complicate negotiations between russia and ukraine. ukrainians are bracing for more russian air strikes continuing to try to get out civilians and aid in. ukraine's defense ministry reports 148 children have been killed since the war began. i don't know how hard the numbers are. when we report those because we aren't on the ground the way we had been. alex hogan is there for us lviv, ukraine. alex. >> hi, that number you mentioned is just a devastating number of how many children have now died but meanwhile looking just on the northeastern outskirts of the country in a town 30 miles outside of ukraine where russia says two ukrainian helicopters blew up an oil depot and injured two people. it is worth noting there hasn't been any confirmation of this by the ukrainian government. the kremlin says, however, the strike will not help the latest

negotiations between russia and ukraine which will take place today. now, remember just this week russia has blown up two ukrainian oil depots on the western side of ukraine alone. russian forces are ramping up strikes on the eastern cities of kharkiv and mariupol cutting off their lifeline. just yesterday when mass evacuations were set to take place in mariupol only 600 people made it out by private car. russian troops confiscated 14 tons of humanitarian aid. on the western side of the country a funeral this morning to honor one of the many innocent civilians killed by shelling after five weeks of war, the anger is as palpable as the grief. >> there cannot be any peace with russians. i will never forgive them for the death of my father. there will be no place for them in the world and ukraine. >> back on the ground some

changes that we're seeing. russian troops have left the chernobyl power plant in the northern part of the country. new today ukrainian official saying that some of the russian troops have remained in the exclusion zone which is the highest radioactive contamination area where people are currently banned. harris. >> harris: thank you very much. trey yingst fox news foreign correspondent has been in the ground on ukraine in kyiv the capital city under siege for weeks now and he brings us coverage of putin's bloody war and risking his own life to do so. you just told me moments ago that you will go back. you want to go back. let's start with the children in this report of 148. there are places that we have seen through your reporting and others where they were no longer looking for victims of huge apartment buildings taken out by russian forces. so the numbers, that's why i

say we cannot independently confirmed the numbers. >> they're preliminary numbers. we don't know how bad it is in certain parts of the country. there are areas controlled now by russian forces that were hit very heavily early on in the conflict. so the children and civilians that are in threes places if they were killed or injured ukrainian military or government can't give an accurate depiction of what life is like there now. that's the situation of the ground in mariupol. we get some of the images out in terms of mass graves and maternity hospital hit. the sheer devastation and destruction on the ground in ukraine you still can't wrap your mind around it. the information is not out there. >> harris: there is no list of who is missing for them to go by in the middle of a war right now. they're taking care of people in areas taken over. they can't care for themselves. >> absolutely. the russians are trying to hide their own casualty rate. they don't want the world to know how many of their troops

were lost in this war so far. it's day 37 but the front lines are moving constantly. some areas outside the capital of kyiv that have been recaptured by ukrainian forces. this conflict is ongoing. it is developing and changing every day. the highest price is paid by the ukrainian civilians. millions who left the country but those who don't have the resources to leave have to stay and oftentimes they face their cities on fire, blood in the streets of ukraine as their soldiers and civilians who have volunteered to fight back against the russians do just that. >> harris: i want to get to a snapshot of your reporting and we'll come back and talk more because you have been if ukraine for weeks as i mentioned in and around kyiv. let's watch. >> i see where armed forces ready for this seen aereo. >> they're fired hundred of artillery shells.

fierce fighting erupted between the ukrainian army and russian forces in the streets of kyiv. this truck is riddled with bullet holes. a russian missile slammed into the building. a sense of the destruction these weapons can cause. people are trying to flee. each hour it's moving. >> i will tell the war is a disaster. >> evacuation for these people have become much more difficult as the russians fire mortar shells at this position. right now we're deep inside the town partially controlled by russian forces and they are shelling different ukraine positions in the distance. on the front lines here russian forces are flattening neighborhoods. this is part of a scorched earth campaign used by the russians to kill civilians. >> harris: trey, i never like to put too much focus on all of us doing our jobs who have been to those impossible places but i want to focus a bit on who

we've lost. this started with the first american journalist lost three weeks ago and touched our fox family and others around the world. many of you know so many people in other countries you've worked alongside. >> we lost two of our own. pierre, the best photo journalist i ever worked with and a 24-year-old ukrainian producers sasha with benjamin hall trying to show the world what was happening on the ground in ukraine. i think that gives an idea who these people were willing to risk their lives to make sure the world knew what has happen to the ukrainian people. it is a tragic incident that took place but we'll continue to tell stories not only in ukraine but around the world in their honor. >> harris: how do we tell the stories when we aren't on the ground? what do you want people to know about this? you say you want to go back. >> people should know this is not a movie. this is real life for millions

of humans, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, athletes, musicians. people with dreams and hopes feel fear, love, anger and they are currently facing a massive invasion into a sovereign country. into their home. i think it's important to keep that in mind and what we hear these numbers 4 million ukrainians leaving the country. 4 million individuals who had to leave everything behind. they don't know if they'll ever return. >> harris: you met somebody who you worry about every day. this is the type of journey that you -- that keeps you up at night. tell me about him. >> a blind man we met in the town of urpine. we were there as the russians controlled part of this town outside the capital of kyiv. we don't know what happened to him. he didn't have the resources to get to safety and his future is uncertain. >> harris: trey yingst, thank you for being our eyes and ears

on the ground. most importantly for being our soul and heart. we know who we are in america and we are praying and hopefully going to take some kind of action. thank you very much. border towns bracing for even more chaos. this is us, this is the united states right now. 18,000 illegal immigrants a day. chaos as the biden administration is sent to end a trump-era restriction on illegal immigrants. and this. >> we take our kids to disney world for family vacation, not indoctrination. disney for a long time they've attacked american values. >> harris: the height of hypocrisy. critics calling out disney's woke gender agenda at home while it expands business in countries which ban homosexuality. tammy bruce is in "focus" next.

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>> harris: critics are calling out disney's hypocrisy. they pushed a woke leftist gender agenda at home but at the same time they are expanding business in 10 anti-game countries and regions around the world. saudi arabia, egypt, where homosexuality is against the law. this comes after disney launched a fierce fight against florida's new parental rights bill. governor ron desantis calling out the so-called most magical place on earth and hinting at punitive action. >> they are treated on a pedestal. one corporation is treated differently than anybody else. at the end of the day i think disney has gotten over its skis on this. there are policy disputes and that's fine. this wokeness will destroy this country if we let it run unabated. the end of the day i don't believe in special treatment for any corporation. >> harris: william la jeunesse

live in burbank, california. you have disneyland out there. william. >> we do. the mouse house right there. so the dispute is in florida but people around the country are taking sides. you have governor desantis and republican lawmakers up against the largest entertainment company in the world. of course, the largest private employer in florida. the latest. after governor desantis signed the bill on monday banning the teaching of gender identity, sexual orientation to 4 and 8-year-olds, disney said in a statement its goal is to get that law repealed or defeated in the courts. so now florida lawmakers are considering repealing disney's special tax status that allows it to operate as its essentially own city. one lawmaker writing on twitter if disney wants to embrace woke ideology it seems fitting they should be regulated by orange county. governor desantis supports the bill.

>> when you are trying to impose a woke ideology on our state we view that as a significant threat. this wokeness will destroy this country if we let it run unabated. so in florida we take a very big stand against that. >> now there is a new leaked video with executives wanting to increase 50% of disney characters be gay or come from underrepresented minorities. here you have the production coordinator saying he is committed to exploring queer and non-conforming by sexual characters. >> so kind of the only way to have these like trans characters and buy sexual characters is to give them stories where they can be their whole selves. >> this morning a group called human rights campaign held their own zoom call with the press. they too said they will join the fight against the law.

>> policy in effect it is a stain on the state of florida and on unwarranted attack on vulnerable people who did nothing to deserve it. >> critics say it's hypocritical with disney promoting this situation or agenda here in this country while opening disney plus in 10 countries or regions where homosexuality is considered illegal. >> harris: thank you very much. tammy bruce, fox news contributor, host of get tammy bruce on fox nation. great to have you in "focus" today. you joined us on outnumbered earlier this week. a ramp up on this topic is what we're seeing having to do with the fact that kindergarten to third grade. our youngest school age kids are caught up in politics and everything else. you have some definite thoughts on our kids. >> there is a simple thing that all of us can relate to across the board. this trans ends politics.

let children be children, right? this is really an effort to project and to put onto children adult issues ruining the innocence of that period of time. you are looking at toddlers to some degree. somebody becoming 5 years old, finally becoming aware of the world, and they are hearing things that don't make sense or that they just don't -- look, the idea of gender is a concept. the brain isn't developed enough to understand concepts. it's a high brain functioning dynamic that doesn't happen for years. there are no hormones moving through them. it's about the innocence of childhood. they are children, there are no gay or straight. this is what we all certainly understand no matter who you are, what your party or your sexual preference. >> harris: i want to get so something you sat down with. you said that there are so many people now that the politicians

are missing out on. they don't understand where the public is. why do you say that? >> i think they think that the country is twitter. they think the country is a news -- the nation is not on twitter. the overwhelming number of americans are not on twitter. that who is on television the most is not necessarily all of america, right? i have opinions, you do, and then there is all the rest of america who take what we have perhaps and then add it into their tool box of information and see what works for them in their own lives. but as an example there is a poll. these are the numbers. people know what the florida bill says. overall when you know what's in the florida bill, for people who know gay and lesbian people and transgender people. 28% against, 61% to 26% and 53%

of biden voters support the bill. this isn't politics. it is a small marginal extremist group, the loudest voice in the room. other people and now some disney employees are saying this. the majority afraid to stand up because they don't want to be called bigoted. it's shutting people down and casting gays and lesbians in a manner untrue with what they want to do with children and in the meantime we aren't speaking to each other. you see the loudest voices on twitter, politicians, look, this is a public opinion poll it's on twitter, it's everywhere. and you can see the numbers. it is remarkable. it is what you would expect all of us to agree on because we all do agree on this. and this is the kind of message that we all must hear. >> harris: i have a quick personal question. you've opened up about this week. how does what's happening with disney hurt you? >> you know, i grew up in

southern california. i'm a native of los angeles. i love disney. i had a difficult childhood. disney for many of us an american institution, child entertainment, the freedom of that. it was for me television and disney and the cartoons, it was mickey mouse going to disney was an escape for the rare time when we could go. it is heartbreaking. it is heartbreaking for all americans. this company is a great company and deserves to be saved and to not let the marginals who are hostile take over this dynamic with malignant narcissism that projects on all of us. these kids today deserve what i had as an escape. as something that gives them the imagination. that's what is heartbreaking. >> harris: then there is hypocrisy part with disney. it is confounding. >> you laid that out very well.

president biden with a very rough week in the rearview mirror. a few minutes ago live on the "focus" he said i'm not taking any more questions. i'll talk to you next week. "politico" calling it his sophomore slump. he has been around for 50 years as a politician. i think he graduated many times. plus this. >> the media mob, weren't they interested if there was any trump/russia collusion that turned out to be a big conspiracy theory lie? why aren't they interested in this? >> harris: oh, the white house still dodging questions on hunter biden's business dealings as the mainstream media finally at least a couple of them, "the new york times," i was watching jake tapper on cnn do a segment. starting to acknowledge the laptop. they once dismissed and where were they 18 months ago? power panel next.

>> harris: getting new video in illustrating biden's border crisis in the most alarming ways. the texas department of public safety has released images of this huge human smuggling bust they made in texas late yesterday. 76 illegal immigrants crammed

inside what appears to be a gravel trailer. the driver is a honduran national in this country illegally. he had methamphetamine on him and has a previous criminal history of drug and weapons charges. authorities arrested him on charges of human smuggling. look at all the people in the back of that. how did they think they would get into this country and no one would know. maybe they've done it before. wow. remember we're on track. a million people. >> vice president biden was asked if there was anything inappropriate or unethical about his son's relationship, business dealings with china and ukraine. does the white house stand by that comment? >> we absolutely stand by the comment. as you know i don't speak for hunter biden. there is not more i can say on that. >> harris: the hunter biden headache keeps getting worse for the white house and this is the comment in question. >> there have been questions

about the work your son has done in china and for ukrainian energy company when you were vice president. in retrospect was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical? >> president biden: nothing was unethical. my son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about, china. >> harris: that was 2020. the white house still insisting hunter biden's dealings were legitimate even as we learn more about the millions of dollars with accounts linked to him received from a chinese energy company linked to the communist regime. he also faces a federal tax fraud investigation. "washington examiner" reporting in an op-ed joe biden says hunter's business dealings were okay. that's not okay. all of this as major news outlets are finally admitting the hunter biden laptop story was real. here is ohio republican jim jordan. >> the laptop was real. the eyewitness was real.

the emails were real. the only thing fake 18 months ago was the news. the democrats colluded with big media and big tech to keep this information from the american people. >> harris: mercedes schlapp, former trump white house advisor for communications and laura fink. founder of rebel communications, a democratic campaign consultant. great to see you both. mercedes, i'll start with you and where we are with hunter biden and the investigations and why we aren't seeing more coverage. >> first of all there is so much to this story and i think joe biden is in a very difficult spot because first of all he should have never been hunter biden's spokesperson by making those comments that what he did was not unethical because now we're seeing this emails coming out. we're seeing the fact that the mainstream media is finally shedding some light to what the

emails contained, which -- the next question following that is what was joe biden involvement in these deals with hunter biden and obviously his foreign dealings with china and ukraine? all very questionable. it creates a huge headache for the white house and the biden administration in a time when joe biden's poll numbers are sinking on every other issue, including the economy, including obviously his foreign policy response so far. harris, this is not what the white house needs right now. it is a huge distraction and very problematic for joe biden and i think hunter biden might be sinking the biden presidency. >> harris: interesting you said joe biden shouldn't have been the spokesperson for hunter biden. how has the president been compromised by anything that his son would have done? laura, that's the only reason

americans care about this. i don't need to see any more naked drug fueled video of hunter biden on youtube. don't care about any of that. is our president compromised? >> look, there is absolutely no connection between hunter biden's businesses and nothing has been unearthed to suggest that as in your reporting, harris suggests as well. there is not a connection. what americans see in hunter biden especially women can relate to. a well-connected wealthy guy that had access and got paid millions for doing a bad job at what he was paid to do. so i think all americans can relate to it. when you are well connected but especially women. we see it a lot. americans can relate to that but as to what it has to do with the biden presidency i would say very little. i think this headache is really more of a right wing conservative journalism hangover. >> please, please. no, no, harris, i have to respond. i was on the presidential

campaign with president trump and when we brought up the questions about hunter biden and the laptops and the emails that the "new york post" had leaked exclusively the "washington post" refused to verify for months and then they told us on the campaign that we couldn't bring up hunter biden because they were like it could be part of a russian misinformation campaign. that's a disservice to the american people when the mainstream media are not -- refuse to question and cover the news and they refused to let us speak about this issue on air. >> what was your question? >> asked if you gave the "washington post" the drive to check? >> oh, please. are you serious? are you serious asking me that question? give me a break. we did our job bringing up these issues. the "new york post" reported on this and the liberal media refused to cover this because as you know their goal was they

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