some restaurants you can pay on the qr code and i hate it at the end, where's the check, where's the check, hello, where's the check. >> leave cash on the table. >> and the chalk board. >> i'm here for the physical menu but support the business owners. thanks for watching. here is "america reports." >> sandra: thank you, emily, primary voters in seven states are heading to the polls today as the 2022 election season shifts into high gear. crime, inflation, gas prices are on the ballot amid warnings of a red tsunami that could wipe out democrats in the midterm elections. >> john: critics are blaming far left candidates for the crisis sweeping the country. katie pavlich and rafael mangual weigh in on that coming up. >> sandra: another alert, this time on the fading american

dream. most americans in a brand-new poll say the ability to achieve their true goals is increasingly out of reach. hello, welcome everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. and john, hello to you. >> john: good to be with you on this tuesday. this is "america reports." 61% of those polled by the wall street journal say they are pessimistic about being able to achieve the american dream. as families get crushed by record high gas prices, skyrocketing inflation. >> sandra: it is hard to believe, the average price of gasoline has jumped nationally today to another $0.05, i should say, overnight. and now setting a record for 28 of the past 29 days. the cost of gasoline has more than doubled since president biden took office. >> john: the white house is scrambling to respond to the growing economic crisis with a new plan on solar energy? critics say the move will only hurt american businesses even

more. >> sandra: ro khanna will join us in moments. >> john: according to the white house, the future is so bright we have to wear shades. >> good way to put it, john. the new white house spin about the latest economic news is basically things could be worse. >> when the president walked into this office the economy was in a crisis. and he moved forward, put a plan forward, the american rescue plan that democrats, only democrats voted for and has put us in a place we are in a stronger economic position to deal with inflation, to go into this transition period where we can see some stable and steady great. >> peter: turns out most americans are not buying that. a new wall street journal poll finds 83% of respondents feel as though the economy is either poor or not so good. as gas prices now sit more than double they were, what they were

when president biden took office. >> biden has said this is, you know, a great transition. yeah, a great transition for something like him, a rich kid paid by the federal government, for poor families it's a more i believe transition. >> peter: not just gas, everything is costing more. the treasury secretary who admitted inflation was wrong, says most of the eye popping stats how high things are elevated cost-wise are driven by new and used car sales. she says none is driven by the covid stimulus checks. >> we are seeing high inflation in almost all developed countries around the world, and they have very different fiscal policies so it can't be the case that the bulk of the inflation that we are experiencing reflects the impact of the a.r.p. >> peter: white house officials would clearly like to change the

topic of conversation. we just found out that in about 45 minutes at the white house briefing they are going to have a special speaker about gun control. matthew mcconaughey, john. >> john: interesting diversion from the business of the day, release from the white house saying trade and u.s. goods exports hit a record in april. under scoring the strengths of our economic recovery. gas is just $0.09 a gallon off five bucks. >> peter: and as the president said when i asked him about this a couple days ago, it can go higher. >> john: and likely will. peter doocy, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: let's bring in democratic congressman ro khanna of california. welcome to have you here today. can the administration be doing more to bring prices down to your view? >> yes, they can. they have to. it's wrong to say gas could go up to six bucks and we do nothing about it. what i have called for is doing

a lot more with the strategic petroleum reserve. we consume about 20 million barrels a day. the president is releasing 1 million. we should be buying a lot more at a low price and then selling it back at a low price to make sure gas does not go above five bucks. that's something the president can do. >> sandra: to be clear, i'll let you explain further if you wish but the administration has tried that multiple times, three times, and in each instance it, for just a moment brings prices down but they run right back up. why do you see that as a solution? >> well, it's a short-term solution, price went down 4 or 5% when they tried it but did it with a million barrels a day and we consume 20 million barrels, those only about 5% of our consumption. they need to do it at a much bigger scale and need to do it with selling it back at a much larger quantity. and i think if they did that

they could stabilize prices for the short-term, for 3 to 4 months. and puts a floor for production, so people will know that the government would be willing to buy stuff and oil companies more likely to produce in case the price went down rapidly. >> sandra: perhaps then the solution should be a more friendly rhetoric and environment for the fossil fuels. because you know, when you look back at the chart, congressman, it's not just that gas prices have run up since inauguration gay, but steadily since election day 2020. this was a candidate, joe biden, said his goal was to bring an end to the fossil fuel industry. wouldn't it just be a start to be a bit more the fossil fuel environment so they feel like taking on the risk to produce more oil and bring those prices down?

>> sandra, you know it takes a long time for production. we were basically in a shutdown and the president came back and economic activity began and gas prices went up. demand exceeded the supply. look, i have been very critical of big oil companies, critical of their profits but said in the short-term we need an increase in production and i think the president gets it. the question is, what policies are going to lower prices in the next three months. the oil companies will tell you they cannot do that, that's the role for the strategic petroleum reserve. >> some would say those are emergency times and we have had record after record high gas prices, put up the gap of the states gas at $5 or higher, becoming a bigger and bigger political risk for your party come the midterm elections. but still this is the white house that insists that it is doing everything to bring prices down.

here is janet hill -- janet yellen on the hill this morning. >> administration has done everything that they can to bring down energy costs, for example, through an historic release of a million barrels a day from the strategic petroleum reserve and energy prices, gas prices, while very high, have risen a lot, they would be higher without that. >> sandra: that's tough for the american people to hear that when they are the ones who are out there trying to fill their gas tank just to go to work and paying a substantial amount more than a year ago. now to karine jean-pierre this morning. >> we understand there's more work to be done but we are continuing to take steps and we are encouraged because of where we are economically. we are going to do everything that we can to attack inflation. >> sandra: final question to

you, congressman. is this white inaccurately painting a rosy pick is your of the economy when people are not feeling it. you heard peter doocy's report, more and more americans are feeling pessimistic about the american dream, and polling people satisfied with their finances at the lowest level in decades. 35% say they are not at all satisfied with their financial situation today. >> we need to up the urgency and the boldness. i mean, let's not sugar coat it. people are upset with food prices, the baby formula shortage. i think secretary yellen's instincts are right. 1 million is not enough. the thing that f.d.r. did, he said let's do everything ten x, be bold, urgent. congress should say we are going to run through a brick wall and priority 1, 2, 3, lowering

prices. >> sandra: congressman, that's a reaction. you've got a president that is pushing more green energy policies in the wake of all this implementing more spending at a time of historic inflation. so, why are you touting a reactionary response rather than something that will bring down prices and the big picture, we get your party is pushing green energy, but there is not currently replacement for the system right now. there is not enough innovation around that industry. >> sandra, that's why we should support the innovation and we should -- look, long-term investments in renewable energy, diversified energy sources makes us more competitive than china. every american should want that to happen. that creates less price volatility. and also at the same time have to recognize most people don't have electric cars, people are driving around in cars and paying too much at the pump and this is when they look to government and government needs to take decisive action, given the crisis to lower the

pryingses, you can't say long-term investments in renewable energy are going to solve tomorrow the price at the pump. we need more urgency and action to feel people's pain and reacting to it. >> sandra: i have to leave it there. fair to say -- >> needs -- look, a lot of my colleagues spent the last couple weeks at home, we heard from constituents upset. i don't need polling to realize people are upset on the issues and let's bring production back to america and highway jobs again. >> sandra: appreciate you coming on the program. hope to have you back soon. thank you. john, there you have it, a debate around the country right now, whether or not this is a white house that sees the problem and is actually doing anything about it. but the question is, if democrats are going to keep pushing this green energy and the white house keep pushing these policies, do the american

people have to suffer in the meantime because there is not currently a replacement for the fossil fuels that we are dependent on. >> john: they are suffering, and the problem with releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve, you are doing nothing to change the climate around oil and gas domestically, the word is still out that the president wants the oil and gas in the country to go the way of the dinosaur and only temporary measures, not having a whole lot of effect. the house jan six committee set to kick off hearings later this week, as speculation swirls when the justice department will indict more trump officials for refusing to cooperate with the panel. david spunt is watching this for us. >> david: on thursday we will see the house hearing from the select committee on the january 6th investigation. it's going to be actually helped produced by former abc news

president james goldston, a primetime hearing for millions of americans to see and told there will be some new evidence introduced to the american people. john, since this committee came into power last july 1st of 2021, we know there have been around 900 depositions. the department, though, has charged only two people with contempt of congress. former trump aide steve bannon, left the white house in 2017, and peter navarro, a trump economic adviser with him until he left office. now, the department of justice has charged those two with actual crimes. mark meadows and dan scavino were referred to the department of justice but told there will not be charges per the d.o.j. and the department gave this information to congresswoman liz cheney and congressman benny thompson on the committee, both

expressed disappoint. we find the decision to award mark and dan for their continued attack on the rule of law puzzling. some other names as of late, can he min mccarthy, mark meadows, steve bannon. jeffrey clark, john eastman, roger stone, jim jordan. the question is, what kind of precedent when you charge some, you don't charge others, it's not clear why scavino and meadows were walking away, and why navarro and bannon have been charged. >> john: safe to say navarro and bannon were defiant, and the other two may have been cooperating with a bit of a document potential. >> more so.

>> john: david, thank you. >> sandra: critics slamming president biden for using wartime power to ramp up production of solar panels. can he really do that? >> john: it's primary day in california. all eyes are on san francisco, where chesa boudin is facing a recall vote over the city's spike in crime. with lawlessness on voter's mind, what does it mean for soft on crime prosecutors. katie pavlich joins us with that coming up. >> he has made political policy positions more important than what is necessary to protect the citizens of san francisco. compln for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition . with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪

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>> sandra: all right, primary day in california. voters in san francisco could oust one of the far left prosecutors in the country. chesa boudin is facing a recall election as critics blame his policies for rampant crime. that issue will also be front and center in the race for the los angeles mayor and billionaire developer, and karen bass. katie pavlich will be here in a moment, but claudia is live in san francisco for us. hey, claudia. >> hey, sandra. it is judgment day for chesa boudin, as you mentioned is facing the recall. embattled san francisco d.a. cast his ballot here at city hall yesterday saying he feels confident he will hang on to his job. >> i'm feeling energized and optimistic. we are seeing a massive surge of support as we go into election

day. >> since being elected two and a half years ago, boudin has advanced a progressive agenda aimed at reducing mass incarceration, ending cash bail and gang enhancements, and prioritizing diversion programs and mental health treatment over locking people up. but critics argue many of those he helped release committed more crimes and a surge in open air drug dealing, overdose deaths and brazen theft. he says it's an effort by wealthy republicans opposed to criminal justice reforms but most polls show san francisco voters overwhelmingly democrats want him out. homelessness and public safety are the defining issues in l.a. karen bass has endorsements from the l.a. times and labor union. a virtual dead heat with billionaire develop erik caruso, a republican turned democrat. as an outsider he's the best

hope for the country's second largest city. and gavin newsom is facing two dozen mostly unknown challengers, and voters will choose runoff for senate and state attorney general. no big names or controversial propositions, voter turnout t to be low. final recall about the recall here, if chesa boudin loses tonight, tomorrow or some time in the next few days, the mayor will appoint a new d.a. who will serve out the remainder of his term. a lot to watch tonight. >> sandra: the country will be watching closely, thank you. john. >> john: sandra, let's bring in katie pavlich, start off with chesa boudin who says he's experiencing a massive surge in support on the eve of the recall.

might be looking at the world through rose-colored glasses. >> yeah. >> he's blaming republicans for this. maybe there is republican tactics being used but they are being used by democrats against him. >> the thing about being soft on crime, it affects everybody, and san francisco has been ground 0 for this experiment of social justice by getting rid of incarceration, when he ran for the position the first time, that's what he campaigned on. san francisco of all places was one of the most far left democratic cities in the country has experienced this, the homelessness, the smash and grab, unsafe streets that they are in, and the d.a. now is facing the music when it comes to people saying all right, we want some kind of, you know, reform in terms of criminal justice, but this idea people can run rampant literally through the city and put people at risk is not a great experiment. >> john: we made the point yesterday this is very much like

a school board recall, it's not a republican, this is democrats. >> right. and it is indictment of this soft on crime social justice policy that we have seen their version, the far left version of criminal justice and remaking the system. now, when you look at this ideology and think how could you believe in letting criminals out of jail, not believing in incarceration, the background of this d.a. in particular is his parents were part of the weather underground, went to prison for a very long time, pleaded guilty to murder, those kinds of things. so he spent his update with bill ayers going to prison visiting his parents, so incarceration is bad no matter what the crime. >> john: in 1981, 2 police officers and a brinks driver killed. and george gascon, he is defending this, tweeted out

after reviewing the evidence our office charged the minor with the most serious offense possible under the law. two counts of felony assault, one count of felony leaving the scene of an accident that caused injury without exchanging injury. the minor pleaded guilty. he got five months in a juvenile camp. >> and also you have the back and for the with the sheriff's department and george gascon and prosecutors saying he is not following the law, not imposing the strictest, harshest penalties possible, not prosecuting what's on tape with the criminals attacking innocent people out for a walk. his own people working under him are revolting, to do what they can to hand down harsh sentences. but this is not happening in just republican states or cities as they are trying to claim, this is happening in democratic cities where the voters are saying enough victims as a result of these lax on crime. >> john: your favorite topic on

town hall.com, the president invoking the defense production act to make, what else, solar panels. >> he is invoking the defense production act to rapidly expand domestic production of solar panel parts, building insulation, heat pumps and more. historic action will cut costs for american families, strengthen our power grid and tackle the climate crisis. >> john: what's it going to do with the price of food and gas and everything else? >> it's going to do nothing. the administration is clear they are willing to push the transition to the american people, doing it for the sake of saying they are doing something on energy. the solar imports are helping china, and we know john kerry, admitted that the solar panels were being made with slave labor and a price they had to pay for the sake of moving into this new

greener future and a lot of people would argue you need oil to make the solar panels and ship them across the ocean. not necessarily the clean dream the white house likes to sell. >> john: massive migrant caravan heading to the united states from mexico now on day two. as the president is ready to kick off the summit of the americas. why are the presidents of mexico and other latin american countries boycotting the event. brandon judd joins us on that. >> sandra: gas prices, oil prices surge. gas prices another record high. natural gas is soaring even higher. how high could that go, and what does it mean for you and your power bill this summer? charlie, brian, gearing up to join me here on set. >> this whole administration is only focussed on its agenda, the

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>> john: as if the pain at the pump is not bad enough, electricity bills will give you sticker shock this summer. natural gas prices reach record highs as temperatures soar and prices are up over 200% this year. we have team coverage with charlie and brian just ahead, but first fox business correspondent jeff flock has the details how president biden's energy crisis could get, yep, even worse. jeff, how high could the prices go? >> i wish i knew, john. i would -- i would place a bet somewhere. we are in unchartered waters, no question about it. used to point out gas prices had not yet exceeded historical highs when it came to adjusted for inflation. well, that day was long ago,

yeah, we are now at all time highs. 4.91 for the average gallon of regular, up a nickel overnight. up $0.29 in the last week, 60 plus cents in the last month and around $3 for a gallon of gas this time last year. 13 states have now joined the dreaded $5 club, on average, for the gallon of regular. maine, massachusetts and new jersey overnight joined that club. and as you point out, everyone who watches oil and gas and the prices say it's going to get worse. >> we are seeing gasoline demand increase at the same time that gasoline inventories are at their lowest level for this time of year since 2014. combined with other events happening in the world, gasoline prices are going up and i expect over the next week we are going to see $5 a gallon as the national average.

>> and john as you point out, natural gas prices obviously on the rise as well. perhaps even more so than gasoline prices. yesterday hit a 14-year high on the futures markets, around $9 here in the u.s. per million british thermal units, the way it gets measured. to make you feel better, in europe what are they paying for the same amount of natural gas? $26, almost three times what we are paying here in the u.s.. so, i guess maybe we should feel better about that. but somehow we do not. john. >> john: you know, at some point the numbers are all going to crunch together and people are going to have to make some difficult choice. jeff flock for us. sandra. >> sandra: charlie gasparino joining us, and brian brenberg is here, economic professor at the kings college in manhattan. charlie, i know you talk with the wall streeters, and gene

sperling talked to john over the weekend, he's from the white house, adviser to the president, president biden put out a blueprint for fixing this economy and this inflation problem in the wall street journal last week. gene says i'm not in the forecasting business, and we asked him based on this economic plan how much lower could gas prices be a couple months from now, by end of year, not in the forecasting business. you know who is, wall street. goldman sachs is now forecasting, the economists, that oil prices will surge to $140 a barrel this summer. they say consumers will feel as oil is 160 a barrel, means gasoline and fuel prices are rising more than would normally be expected. guess what that means. much higher gas prices and by the way, nat gas prices soaring as well. >> listen, we have inflation across the board that's up. we have pretty much economic

mismanagement inside the white house. the interesting thing about this is like you can blame it on ukrainian war and you know that has an impact but they could not pivot out of that fast enough and the pivot like electric vehicles, really? you know how much an electric vehicle costs? >> 60,000 now about inflation. >> the fact they could not pivot out of that is the reason why, janet yellen, treasury secretary, i guess she's speaking before congress is likely to be gone after the midterms. they have to shake up the economic team, missed this. i don't think it's going to matter. the people in there that will take her place like brian deese -- >> sandra: head of sustainability, a guy -- >> i wrote a column. >> deployed to bring gas prices down, and janet yellen, play this out for the viewers,

hillary vaughn is on the hill, just had janet yellen walk by her, fired off a few moments. >> sent yellen, if you admit you were wrong about inflation being temporary, how can you be confident government spending is not the cause of inflation? did you ever warn the white house that increased government spending could have contributed to the inflation we are seeing today? >> heading to the car, thank you very much. >> ok, so janet yellen waved her off, great job to hillary vaughn, but the person deployed to bring down prices for the american people who are suffering today. perhaps answering those questions would have provided some transparency. >> she's heading to the car right now, that's what the response was. americans are trying to head to the car, people talk about six bucks a gallon by the end of the

summer. what we are not talking about are electricity prices, that's where the double whammy will hit. everybody knows gas prices are going up. when they crank up the air-conditioner this summer because it's going to get hot, natural gas and coal are both in very short supply. power plants have the lowest level of coal on supply since early -- >> we are going to have blackouts in the summer. >> imagine you get in the car can't afford it, turn on the air-conditioner can't afford. and now people spending so much time at home. they have to have the climate control, they can't afford it. >> sandra: you mentioned gas prices throw it up on the screen, rising natural gas prices, go back to the beginning of the year and how far they have come. >> total mismanagement. look at it this way. biden administration acted as if they can go to a 0 carbon footprint for the country overnight. not even larry fink at blackrock, the aforementioned

blackrock believes that. trust me on this. >> great to have you both. we'll have to do this again soon. nice to see you, happy charlie. >> so happy. >> sandra: you never know what you are going to get. >> you notice i did not say yes, i want to come back. >> sandra: we know you meant it. thanks to both of you. john. >> john: standing by for the white house briefing. actor and uvalde, texas native matthew mcconaughey is expected to talk about guns. we'll take you there when the briefing begins. >> sandra: and progressive d.a. chesa boudin's job is on the chopping block. manhattan institute senior fellow rafael mangual will join us on this. >> john: president biden slammed for waiting until almost 9:00 last night to mention the anniversary of d-day, and by the time he said something it was

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"first blood" 12,000, and "jaws" 10,500. i have a feeling as we report this there are people running into their dens and attics, everybody probably has some of these lying around somewhere. where is all the blockbuster videos, too, right? >> john: one question, why? why? >> sandra: people probably threw them out and now hard to come by. >> john: vhs claim to fame is it beat betamax. but in terms of watching a movie it's horrible. >> sandra: speculate, collector's items, i suppose. go find 'em if you've got them. "dirty dancing" probably fechtes a big one, too. >> john: president biden marking 78 years for d-day, the

president failed to make any mention last year the brave troops fought and died there, then 77 years ago. alexandria has more on the president's last-minute message. i mean, once oversight, twice -- >> you would have thought he would have made up for it after last year. but this message finally came out, 3:00 a.m. local time in normandy the message came out and the remaining veterans traveled there to france that did mark the second year they had no acknowledgment by the president. last year as we had said the president made no statements regarding the 77th anniversary of d-day and not until 8:45 p.m. that the president released a tweet commemorating those who answered duty's call on the beaches of normandy, and next line, we must never forget their service. presidents bush, obama and trump never forgot acknowledging during their presidency. 78 years since more than 4400

allied soldiers lost their lives in an assault that helped to end world war ii, but no official white house proclamation was made. biden administration honored national ocean month, national home ownership month, and great outdoors month. yesterday morning in france thousands gathered alongside surviving world war ii veterans and general mark milley spoke. >> here at the beaches of normandy 78 years ago, ordinary people from all walks of life came together to serve the cause of liberty. >> defense secretary lloyd austin did tweet a quote from president eisenhower yesterday, but 11 hours before the president issued any kind of statement. >> john: i went to the 60th anniversary with bush, the 75th anniversary with trump, i don't understand why the white house

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>> john: massive migrant caravan marching toward the u.s. southern border and appears to be growing in size. this comes as president biden summit of the americas gets off to a rocky start. several latin america countries, including mexico, boycotting it. brandon judd, good to talk to you. one person that has the power to stop the caravan is the president of mexico, but he is openly thumbing his nose at

president biden. he says because nicaragua, cuba and venezuela are not invited to the summit of the americas, he's not going either. >> it's sickening to every one of us who put on the uniform to try to patrol the border and it's not about us, it's about the american people, saving lives from fentanyl and jobs in the future, it's about everything good about this country and the american people. this is not about border patrol agents, but we are the ones who are faced with looking at this caravan that's coming up. we are the ones faced with looking at the summit where the mexican president is not even bothering to show up. we know that this administration just will not put the requisite pressure on mexico to do the right thing to ensure that we can actually go out there and patrol the border and do what is right by the american public. it's disgusting, frankly. >> john: yesterday we had chad wolf on and chad wolf walked us

through the process they tried to get mexico to stop at lower levels but not until trump picked up the phone that action was taken. would you encourage president biden to pick up the phone and say look, put a stop to this? >> i would not just encourage him, i would say he has to. that's his job. it's his responsibility. he needs to get out there and he needs to be the strength. he needs to lead from a position strength. if he throws more money, they are going to do what they are doing now. cartels are making billions of dollars and the money is going right back into the mexican economy. the mexican president wants it to continue and the money to throw money at look to look at root causes. we need a position of strength and president biden needs to be the president of the united states, do what's right by the

american people and needs to pick up the phone and put the requisite pressure on the mexican government to do the right thing for everybody. >> john: vice president harris will be at the summit of the americas talking about the efforts the administration is doing to address root causes, public-private partnerships she's trying to set up, yet more than a year after she was appointed the border czar and things are getting significantly worse. >> no operations, no program, nothing that is on the border to actually help us secure the border, to keep fentanyl out of the public from our children, from killing them. nothing that she has done has worked. all she talks about is giving money to corrupt governments, the money is not going to go where it needs to go because there is no way for us to have oversight over that. what she's doing is irresponsible and is only going to cause issues and become

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>> john: all new at 2:00, june of 2022 could very well be celebrated as the time mankind discovered the key to conquering cancer. >> sandra: you've got our attention. doctors say for the first time since ancient egypt first documented the disease and called it the curse of the gods, there is a new treatment that wiped out every trace of cancer

in all patients who received it. >> john: the study sample was small and specific to one form of the disease, researchers say the results are unheard of and could forever change the way we fight cancer. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. john roberts in washington. that's some news, sandra. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. it is often the worst news that gets the bigger headlines, but this is one of hope for every person on the planet. begin with that. and a live look at memorial sloan kettering cancer center here in new york city, focus of the medical world's awe. the new england journal of medicine publishing the result of the study and the 100% remission rates inpatients who took part. >> john: all of them with no signs of disease, after having

advanced rectal cancer. no chemo, no radiation, no serious side effects. just back to life as normal like it never even happened. the hope to use the same methods to wipe out cancer of all kinds. fox news contributor is a radiologist at the hospital and research giant, she will explain what the results could mean for all of our futures. >> sandra: gives you chills. jonathan is in atlanta, stunned reaction from the medical community there. >> john: but first eric shaw is live with how the discovery seems to wipe out cancer. eric. >> hello, john. talk about great news for this afternoon here in the fox news channel. being hailed as the new drug that can conquer cancer, complete remission, something the medical community has never seen before. the study was conducted here in

manhattan and it gives new hope to those suffering from cancer. the drug is manufactured by glaxo smithkline, called distormilab, and given to 18 patients suffering from rectal cancer. they were suffering from cancer at an early stage when the tumors and cancer cells had not spread throughout the body. one dose every three weeks for six months. instead of facing grueling chemotherapy or surgery, they say the tumors disappeared and the cancer vanished. the drug has laboratory produced molecules that substitute for our body's natural antibodies. says in part the percentage of patients with clinical complete response was 100%. no patients had disease progression or recurrence. the hospital here put out this video of the patients praising the drug. they said they did not expect the cancers would be apparently

cured and they were all stunned at the results. >> the first thing i did, i called my mom, yeah, we both cried. >> you go from feeling oh, am i going to die, lose my colon, and then to find oh, you are going to be fine, it's just like -- wow, it's -- it's amazing. >> definitely saved my life and saved the lives of many other who have been a part of this trial. >> despite this apparent breakthrough, much larger study still is needed. 45,000 americans are diagnosed every year with rectal cancer. it is the second largest cause of death of cancers that we have, but certainly some apparently tremendous good news and hope here from the doctors and medical staff at memorial sloan kettering cancer center in manhattan. back to you. >> john: eric, thank you.

>> sandra: jonathan has the latest live in atlanta for us. >> the medical community is expressing cautious optimism over the results of the exciting study. among them, the chief scientific officer for the american cancer society, dr. william dayhut says it's an important study because of the potential implications for the treatment of certain cancers. >> which is really exciting about this, the potential for, you know, immunotherapy by itself to be given to patients in a way they may never need, you know, chemotherapy or very aggressive surgery. >> in addition to this study, the new england journal of medicine published an editorial by a separate medical expert, u.n.c. chapel hill oncologist writes about the study. very little is known about the duration of time needed to find

out whether a clinical complete response to the drug equates to a cure. she says additional studies are needed to determine whether the drug will have the same affect on a larger population of patients based on this initial data from this early study. she says this is "cause for great optimism." sandra. >> sandra: wow, ok, we are going to dig in here. jonathan, thank you. john. >> john: let's bring in dr. nicole saphier, radiologist and director of breast imaging at memorial sloan kettering and fox news contributor. doc, on the surface this appears very promising but we have to remind people at home this was a very small group of patients and very specific cancer. >> well, that's right, john. it was certainly a star at the 2022 asko annual meeting, and presented at the new england journal of medicine, what we showed here, of the 14 patients who had completed the treatment,

100% had complete tumoral response. that's significant. the concept of immunotherapy, you use your own immune system to fight off cancer is not new but increasing lengths right now. this study, not only did the immunotherapy shrink the cancer to make it easier to be removed at surgery, it actually made the cancer disappear. so, in breast cancer, for instance, a lot of times we will give chemotherapy or immunotherapy to shrink the tumor, to make the surgery so it's smaller, less invasive. when you are talking about the rectum and other more sensitive areas, when you have chemotherapy and other things, it can have long-term issues, such as sexual consequences and others. and this would improve quality

of life substantially. it is a small study, 14 people have completed their treatment. more people are enrolled and it will need to be replicated. so that does not make it any less exciting. >> sandra:>> sandra: brings us joy to hear that, saying a complete remission in every single patient is unheard of. so, dr. saphier, give us some idea for those who hear this and are so hopeful about what may be to come how they will now widen the segment of the population they used for this to see if it's really 100% effective. >> well, sure. and first of all, sandra, you have to know the majority, overwhelming majority of treatments are never 100% effective. we are happy with 80%, 70%, 60%,

so the 100% is ground breaking. this is for a very specific type of rectal tumor, a specific genetic mutation. out of the 45,000 americans diagnosed, only 5 to 10% of the rectal tumors will have this genetic mutation. therefore, potentially have the same response to this immunotherapy. but we are making headway with this, treating so many cancers, lymphoma, leukemia, breast, and it was not just the one medication, there are so many more we are very excited about. we are really in a new generation of treatments when it comes to cancer treatment and i can tell you the cancer diagnosis is not the same as it was once decades ago. so many early detection methods as well as treatments and hopefully we can give these patients the hope and quality of life they deserve. >> john: we are making leaps and bounds, no question about that. another drug described as

unprecedented, terzepitide, a diabetes drug but effectiveness in helping people who are obese lose weight. people who took the maximum dose without doing anything lost 22% of their body weight. how promising could this be for folks who are obese and maybe one day could just be a standard weight loss treatment? >> well, another exciting drug, john. so, it's already f.d.a. approved to treat type 2 diabetes, and in the subset of patients, 15% of their body weight reduction. now, what the study that just came out also in the new england journal of medicine showed, patients who are overweight and obese who took the medication and did not have diabetes, had a greater weight loss, 22%, two-thirds of patients were able to lose 20% of their body weight. that's huge, especially when we know obesity and being

overweight is linked to medical conditions. so if we are to help the patients lose weight, that's a win. but it's not just about the medication, and patients had to adhere to a diet and exercise. but you really only expect a 5 to 7% weight reduction. the medication, up to 21% weight reduction, that is incredible and this will really help americans with obesity epidemic we are suffering from, we have to get to the point we are preventing chronic illness and not just treating it. >> sandra: and obesity epidemic that really got worse during the pandemic as we spoke a lot about during the process, nearly 42% the prevalence of obesity from 2017 through march of 2020. and we know that that did get worse. final question here, apparently led to weight loss of between 35 points to 52 pounds, depending

on the dosage. that's serious weight loss, you would think that that would be a weight loss category not for somebody just trying to lose 5 or 10 pounds. >> absolutely. and nothing should be done without being under the supervision of physicians. but the people in the study were obese, so that is going to be an appropriate amount of weight being lost. usually only that kind of weight to be lost will be seen with surgery, but this medication was able to provide it without an invasive surgery, which would potentially have some complications, severe weight loss is not healthy for anyone, it can also have its own consequences. >> john: remarkable stuff. thanks for kicking us off with good news for a change. >> sandra: judgment day in the bay city as people in san francisco take out their anger over the violent crime they say has made their beloved city

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>> sandra: crime and lawlessness on the minds of voters in california, especially san francisco, where chesa boudin's job is on the line. rafael will join us in a moment, but claudia is live in san francisco on this for us. hi, claudia. >> hey, sandra. voters are casting their ballots around the state, including here in san francisco with all eyes on this recall of district attorney chesa boudin, with

polls showing he may not survive the embattled d.a. is making a last-minute plea to voters to keep him in office when he cast his ballot i asked him what changes he would make if he gets to stay. >> if you survive the recall, chesa, will you operate your office any differently? people have some issues how you are running your office. >> i think people have issues with the pandemic and the history of the failed approach to criminal justice. >> critics say his approach focussed on diversion programs to reduce mass incarceration has failed even more, many of the evidence offenders he kept out of jail committed more crimes, and san francisco is a land of drugs, rampant theft. most voters, 63% are registered democrats. elsewhere a big race for mayor in los angeles where

homelessness and crime are the issues facing karen bass and rick caruso. both are democrats, but bass is a progressive congresswoman. caruso is a billionaire developer, and they are at a dead heat. and governor newsom survived a recall last year. in the statewide races, the democratic incumbents are expected to sail on to victory. might be a different story here for chesa boudin. a lot at stake for the recall for him and the prosecutor movement. >> sandra: thank you. >> john: rafael mangual, manhattan institute senior fellow, chesa boudin says he is unfairly blamed for the rise in crime in san francisco. take a look at the statistics. since 2019, when he took over as d.a., homicides have gone up

36%, motor vehicle theft up 37%, arson as well up 37%. the once beautiful city of san francisco is a mess. is he to blame? >> well, i certainly think he should share some of the blame. he obviously can't lay the entirety crime rise at the feet of any one individual. are the levers he's been pulling calculated to make things better off or worse if he didn't pull them. and voters surprised to learn, the sort of policies necessary to actually significantly reduce our incarceration rate are not particularly popular among voters. they require us to take significant chances with the safety of other people by releasing people who are extremely likely to reoffend if released, extremely dangerous and have violent propensity. this is a broader problem in our criminal justice department at large. always been a gap between what the conventional wisdom is and

what reality is. conventional wisdom says our criminal justice system is overly punitive, it regularly hands out significantly lengthy sentences to people accused of even minor offense, and denied second chances when in reality incarceration is particularly long terms of incarceration is reserved for violent repeat offenders extremely likely to reoffend if released. the only way to cut down on incarceration is to adopt policies that have always been unpopular with voters on both sides of the aisle. it's that the voters are now learning what is entailed in reducing incarceration to the degree like chesa boudin want to reduce it. >> john: soft on crime is in los angeles, philadelphia, st. louis, all the way to new york city, where the new d.a. there is pretty soft on crime. and finally the new mayor of new york city, eric adams is

throwing up his hands and saying enough. listen here. >> no one takes criminal justice seriously anymore. these bad guys no longer take them seriously. they believe our criminal justice system is a laughing stock of our entire country. >> john: your thoughts what the mayor said. >> he's not wrong, this is something i've been saying for quite some time. the idea that we can -- maintain our public safety standards we have grown accustomed to over the last decade while also reducing incarceration is just impossible. what we have ended up with is the system in which the conventional wisdom i mentioned earlier, overwhelmed reality and now a system is consistently spitting people back on to the street and i think people who are interested in public safety are frustrated. the problem is, though, is that a lot of these prosecutors and lawmakers have extreme amounts of power. there is really not much someone like mayor adams can do.

not much the police commissioner can do if the rest of the system is not going to play ball. that's the question we face today and will have a better sense of after the recall elections are in. i hope politicians will be responsive if one of them gets thrown out on their keester, that's what's necessary. if that does not happen, i suspect things are not going to change for significant periods of time. >> john: it could be a warning shot to others, we'll see. the big question here, what is mayor adams going to do about it, and we showed a bit a second ago, and something that happened in the bronx in the last little while. grabs a woman, throws her on the subway tracks, thankfully there was not a train coming and people helped her back on the tracks. she suffered some minor injuries, went to the hospital. she's ok. take a look at the statistics. year over year, may to may, new

york city transit crime is up 28.1%. 219 incidents in may of 2022, compared with 171 in pay of 2021. are you saying the mayor is powerless to do anything about that? >> not entirely powerless. he has increased patrols on the subway and i would note those numbers are more troubling. given how much lower ridesship is. so that i think is real concern. one of the things the mayor should think about doing, put pressure on lawmakers and prosecutors to act by putting out the data that will illustrate the folly of their ways. it's a shame that people in new york city don't know how many prior arrests on average someone accused of serious crime has, and i think if they had that information it would become clearer to them what's at stake when we fail to incapacitate someone coming through the

system. >> john: fighting an uphill battle there, but people are getting fed up. rafael mangual, good to talk to you, thank you. >> sandra: john, when you have that kind of crime on transit, that's another cost to the american people, hard working americans trying to get to work, you are afraid to ride the subway or the train, it will cost you more to get to work and add on to the sky high inflation we are facing. a live look at the white house, karine jean-pierre just started the briefing, matthew mcconaughey has penned a piece in the austin american statesman, it's time to act on gun responsibility. he said as a father, son of a kindergarten teacher and an american, he wants to speak out about gun responsibility. he was born in uvalde, texas, he has decided to speak out and write about it. so we are going to hear from him shortly and we'll certainly head to the white house we begins. >> john: and he talks about the idea of gun responsibility he says is different than gun control. he said "the first is a mandate,

gun control, could infringe on our right. second is a duty that will preserve it. there is no constitutional barrier to gun responsibility. he goes on to say keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous people is the responsible thing to do, let's listen. >> to make the loss of these lives matter. my wife and i, my wife and i camilla, we spent most of last week on the ground with the families in uvalde, texas, we shared stories, tears and memories. the common thread independent of the confusion, anger and sadness, is the same. how can the families continue to honor these deaths by keeping the dreams of these children and teachers alive? again, how can a loss of these lives matter?

so what we honor and acknowledge the victims we need to recognize that this time it seems as if something is different. there is a sense that perhaps there is a viable path forward, responsible parties in this debate seems to at least be committed to sitting down and having a really conversation about a new and improved path forward, a path that can bring us closer together and safer as a country, a path that can actually get something done this time. camilla and i came here to share my stories from my hometown uvalde, to take meetings with elected officials on both sides of the aisle, we came here to speak to them, to speak with them and to urge them to speak with each other. to remind and inspire them that the american people will continue to drive forward the mission of keeping our children safe because it's more than our right to do so, it's our

responsibility to do so. i'm here today in hopes of applying what energy, reason and passion i have to try to turn this moment into a reality because as i said, this moment is different. we are in a window of opportunity right now that we have not been in before. a window where it seems real change, real change can happen. uvalde, texas is where i was born. it's where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a daisy bb gun. took -- two years before i graduated to a .410 shotgun. uvalde is where he was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun.

uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. and uvalde called me on may 24 when i learned the news of this devastating tragedy. i had been out of cellular range working in the studio all day when i emerged and messages about a mass shooting the town i was born in flooded my inbox. in a bit of shock, i drove home, hugged my children a bit tighter and longer than the night before and then the reality of what had happened that day in the town i was born in set in. so the next morning camilla and myself, kids, loaded up the truck and drove to uvalde. we arrived a few hours later, i have to tell you, even from the inside of our vehicle you could feel the shock in the town. you could feel the pain, the denial, dissolution, anger, blame, sadness, loss of lives, dreams halted. we saw ministries, we saw first responders, counselors, cooks,

families, trying to grieve without it being on the front page news. we met with the local funeral director and countless morticians who had not slept since the massacre the day before, they had been working 24/7 trying to handle so many bodies at once, so many little innocent bodies who had their entire lives still yet to live. and that is there that we met two of the grieving parents, ryan and jessica ramirez. their 10-year-old daughter ulithia, she was one of the 19 killed the day before. and her dream was going to art school in paris and one day share her art with the world. ryan and jessica were eager to share her art with us and said if we could share it, maybe that

would make her smile in heaven. told that showing someone else her art would in some way keep her alive. now this particular drawing is a self-portrait of her drawing with her friend in heaven looking down on her drawing the very same picture. her mother said of this drawing, she said you know, we never really talked to her about heaven before but somehow she knew. ulithia was ten years old. her father ryan, this man was steady, he was uncommonly together and calm. when a frazzled friend came up and said how are you so calm? i would be going crazy. ryan said no, you wouldn't. no, you wouldn't, you would be strong for your wife and kids. because if they see you go crazy, that will not help them.

just a week prior ryan got a full-time line job stringing power lines from pole to pole. and every day since landing that well-paying full-time job he reminded his daughter, he said girl, daddy gonna spoil you now. he told her every single night, he said. daddy's gonna take you to see the world one day. he didn't get to spoil his daughter. ulithia does not get to go to seaworld. we also met anna and danila, mom and step dad, and she wanted to be a marine biologist. also in contact with corpus

christi a and m for future enrollment. nine years old. the city asked her mother if they could release some balloons into the sky in her memory, her mom said oh, no, she would not want to litter. she wore green high top converse with a heart she had hand drawn on the right toe because that represented her love of nature. can you show them? she wore those every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her at the shooting. how about that. meitae wrote a letter. her mom said if her letter could help someone accomplish her

dream, that then her death would have an impact and it would mean her dying had a point and wasn't pointless. that it would make the loss of her life matter. the letter reads marine biologist, i want to pass school to get to my dream college. dream college, corpus christi by the ocean. i need to live next to the ocean because i want to be a marine biologist. marine biologists study animals and the water. most of the time i will be in a lab, sometimes i will be on tv. and then there was ellie garcia, 10-year-old, and her parents steven and jennifer. ellie loves to dance and church,

she knew how to drive tractors and was working with her dad and uncle mowing yards. always giving of her gifts, her time, even half eaten food on her plate, they said. around the house we called her the great regifter. smiling through tears her family told us how ellie loved to embrace, the biggest hugger in the family. and ellie was born catholic but had been going to baptist church with her uncle the last couple of years. her mom and dad were proud of her because they said she was learning to love god no matter where. the week prior to her passing she had been preparing to read a verse from the bible for the next wednesday night's church service. the verse was from deutorony.

love the god my soul with all thy might. that's who ellie was becoming. she never got to read it. service was on wednesday night. then there was a fairytale love story of a teacher named irma and her husband joe, had a great family, amazing family, camilla and i sat with about 20 of their family members in their living room, along with their four kids. the kids were 23, 19, 15, 13, they shared all the stories about irma and joe served the community and would host all the parties and how irma and joe were planning on getting a food truck together when they soon retired. they were humble, hard-working people. irma was a teacher who her family said went above and

beyond and could not say no to any kind of teaching. joe had been commuting to and from work 70 miles away in del rio for years. together they were the glue of the family. both worked overtime to support their four kids. irma even worked every summer when school was out. the money she had made two summers ago paid to paint the front of the house. money she made last summer paid to paint the sides of the house. this summer's work was gonna pay to paint the back of the house. 'cuz irma was one of the teachers who was gunned down in the classroom. joe, her husband, literally died of heartache the very next day

when he had a heart attack. they never got to paint the back of the house. they never got to retire. and they never got to get that food truck together. we also met a cosmetologist, she was well-versed in mortuary makeup, to make the victims appear as peaceful and natural as possible for their open casket viewings. these bodies were very different. they needed much more than makeup to be presentable. they needed extensive restoration. why? due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an ar-15 rifle. most of the bodies so mutilated that only dna tests or green

converse could identify them. many children were left not only dead but hollow. so yes, counselors are going to be needed in uvalde for a long time. counselors are needed in all these places where these mass shootings have been for a long time. i was told by many that it takes a good year before people even understand what to do next. and even then when they become secure enough to take the first step forward a lifetime is not going to heal those wounds. again you know what every one of these parents wanted, what they asked for, what every parent expressed in their own way to camilla and me, that they want their children's dreams to live

on. that they want their children's dream to continue, to accomplish something after they are gone. they want to make their loss of life matter. we heard from so many people, right. families of the deceased, fathers, mothers, texas rangers, border patrol, and responsible gun owners who won't give up their second amendment right to bear arms and you know what they said, we want secure and safe schools and laws to make it not so easy for the bad guys to get the damn guns. so, we know it's on the table, we need to invest in mental health care, safer schools, need to restrain sensationalized media coverage. we need to restore our family

values, we need to restore our american values, and we need responsible gun ownership. responsible gun ownership. we need background checks. we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an ar-15 rifle to 21. we need a waiting period for those rifles. we need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them. these are reasonable, practical, tactical regulations to our nations, states, communities, schools and homes. responsible gun owners are fed up with the second amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals. regulations are not a step back, they are a step forward for a civil society and the second

amendment. is this a cure-all, hell no. but people are hurting, families are, parents are, and look, as divided as our country is, this gun responsibility issue is one that we agree on more than we don't, it really is. but this should be a non-partisan issue. this should not be a partisan issue. there is not a democratic or republican value in one single act of these shooters, it's not. but people in power have failed to act. so we are asking you and i'm asking, will you please ask yourselves. can both sides rise above? can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life

preservation problem on our hands? we have a chance right now to reach for and to grasp a higher ground above our political affiliations. the a chance to make a choice that does more than protect your party, a chance to make a choice that protects our country now and for the next generation. we have to take a sober, humble and honest look in the mirror and rebrand ourselves based on what we truly value. what we truly value. we have to get some real courage and honor our obligations instead of party affiliation. enough with the counter punching. enough of the invalidation of the other side. come to the common table that represents the american people. find a middle ground. the place where most of us americans live anyway, especially on this issue. i promise you america, you and

me, we are not as divided as we are being told we are. no. how about we get inspired, give ourself just cause to revere our future again. maybe set an example for our children, give us reason to tell them hey, listen and watch these men and women. these are great american leaders right here. hope you grow up to be like them. and let's admit it. we can't truly be leaders if we are only living for re-election. let's be knowledgeable and wise and act on what we truly believe. again, we have to look in the mirror. lead with humility and acknowledge the values that are inherent to but also above politics. we have to make choices, make stands, embrace new ideas and

preserve the traditions that can create true, true progress for the next generation. with real leadership. let's start giving us, all of us with real leadership, give all of us good reason to believe that the american dream is not an illusion. so where do we start? we start by making the right choices on the issue that is in front of us today. we start by making laws that save innocent lives and don't infringe on our second amendment rights. we start right now by voting to pass policies that can keep us from having as many columbines, sandy hook, parkland, las vegas, uvaldes from here on. we start by giving ulithia a

chance to be spoiled by her dad. we start by giving mateia a chance to become a marine biologist. start by giving ellie a chance to read her bible verse at the wednesday night service. we start by giving irma and joe a chance to finish painting their house, maybe retire and get that food truck. we start by giving mckenna, layla, miranda, jose, javier, annabelle, jackie, j.c., jayla, ava, ann marie and lexy, start by giving all of them our promise that their dreams are not going to be forgotten. we start by making the loss of

these lives matter. thank you. thank you. >> [indiscriminate questions] >> sandra: all right, you were just listening to actor matthew mcconaughey there, born in uvalde, texas, meeting with the victims' families, met with the president, saying we need to make the lost lives matter. he went into ways he believes, and raise the age buying an assault rifle 21 years old unless you are in the military, all gun purchases should require

a background check and red flag laws the law of the land, someone from hollywood calling to restore our family values in the wake of that mass shooting at the elementary school in texas. >> john: real impassioned plea there, and the best presentation in a long time, he is part of hollywood, but a texas native, uvalde native, and bret baier will interview him tonight at 6:00. he said what some people would see as a -- we start by making laws that save lives but don't infringe on second amendment rights. enhanced background checks, people say it infringes, talk about the waiting period, people say it infringes on the rights, and raising the age, people say it won't fly in court. >> bret: i was happy he did not

take questions so you can hear the questions on "special report" tonight at 6:00 p.m. i'm kidding, i think that was an impassioned plea driven by he and his wife and the visit to uvalde and what they heard firsthand and all of those stories and all of that, the people that those kids and those teachers were going to be, really in the structure of that presentation as you mentioned, was as good as it gets to make a point. you know, his specifics are, it seems like, a compromised position and i think there are a lot of americans who get, can get around raising the age to 21 for ar-15. i think there are a lot of americans who can get around a four-day waiting period to make sure that, you know, somebody just does not get it in the passion of the moment and does something. i think red flag laws raise other red flags that we have seen in other places, maybe that gets worked out.

but there are compromised positions here that i think capitol hill is working on this. >> sandra: your point about his presentation even as he wrote in the piece this morning, i want to be clear i'm not under the illusion the policies will solve all of our problems and important acknowledgment how complex this is, bret. saying but if responsible solutions can stop some of these tragedies from striking another community without destroying the second amendment, then they are worth it. he said just now as he also wrote this time feels different, bret. and i feel like just like he is saying it so many in this country are in this moment. >> bret: the other caveat is we have been down this road before and we have thought that it felt different before but i will say that having talked to a lot of players in the mix that the discussions are different, they are more advanced, they are more specific. there is more an effort to find some common ground. there is a lot of pushback

about, you know, restrictions, tough restrictions but age requirements and four-day stipulations i think are something that is going to happen. now, he also talked about mental health, about securing schools, about, you know, other elements of society and culture that are bigger picture that could be part of some kind of compromise bill as well but that's long-term. >> john: so you have action in the senate, senator chris murphy of connecticut working with pat toomey, john cornyn and others, trying to see if they can thread the needle here. chuck schumer said a little while ago we are giving him, chris murphy some time. i'm encouraged a good number of republicans are working with him. but democrats are really on one side of this debate, they want more gun control, republicans want the laws on the books enforced and maybe some enhancements in terms of how to deal with people who are

mentally ill, by and large are the ones who carry out these mass shootings. what do you think can get done on capitol hill? >> bret: first, before we get to that, i think the hurdles are the timing. it's obviously coming after uvalde and other shootings but also four months before the midterm election and we are always one election away from solving the big things. and usually politicians want issues, they want an issue of gun control so they can bring it to the campaign. they want an issue of abortion so they can bring it to the campaign. that aside, let's say you are over that part of it, as i said, i think that these specifics that he actually lays down in this op-ed are possible and he's talking to republicans that are giving him a nod. the pat toomeys, the cornyns, these are conservative conservatives who are pro gun but willing to talk. now, they need ten of them. but it's possible.

i think it's possible. >> sandra: interview tonight, we look forward to where you go with matthew mcconaughey. anything else going to come up we should know about? >> bret: i'm open to questions. i'm bret baier, send me a tweet, i'll ask him on set. i think, listen, he's -- i want to ask him about his personal goals, what he's trying to do, there is obviously talk about his political ambitions if he has any, and he'll probably answer that one way or the other. >> john: maybe ask for me and other people, too, what the heck the ending of "interstellar" was all about. >> bret: i'll save that to the end. >> sandra: john, as usual, a rocking show here, as we continue to watch this administration deal with a lot on its plate at this time. and that brings us to the top of the new hour shortly. >> john: yeah, leave you with this idea that we are $0.09 away

from $5 gasoline in this country, hit people hard in the pocket book, and just about to reach an inflection point here people have to make tough choices, gas in the car, food on the table, and shopping for food, what kind of food do they put on the table. it's really getting tough out there. >> sandra: indeed. ok, with the few minutes we have left, pick larry kudlow's brain on this, it's such an emergency type of moment for the economy. larry, you tell me when you are ready to go, you stayed with us through the breaking news as we tell everybody we are now looking at record high gasoline prices, oil prices continue to go higher, natural gas prices spike and a white house that maintains there is somewhat of a rosy picture when it comes to the american economy. john, i know you spoke to gene sperling from the white house, not forecasting where the gas prices will be, that this is a white house trying to do

something about it. >> john: but i don't think he wants to forecast, he does not want to be the one saying i think we can bring gas prices down by x and then when the time x comes along gas prices are 50% above and not greater than where they are now. >> sandra: you know who is in the forecasting business, larry kudlow. not afraid to make a call where things are going next. >> john: meteorologist of economists. >> sandra: we have four minutes, larry. i put in the brain room request and we are looking at, for the average american right now, the average american household is spending an extra $317 a month on inflation. >> larry: i thought it was higher, i'll take it. 3600 bucks per year on inflation. which i might add is eroding the value of their savings, particularly with low interest rates to get back. >> sandra: i should say additional per month based on

the inflation over the past month. >> larry: a factoid, i know you like facts, inventories of gasoline called gasoline stocks are falling, so it's down by 700,000, according to the energy department. 219 million barrels down, gas supplies are falling, simple. gas demand is rising, even at the higher prices it's still rising so the chances of higher gasoline prices are very substantial. 4.92 today, right. 2.40 at the biden inauguration. diesel, 5.68, both are all time record highs, and you are more than double the natural gas price so a home heating problem and perhaps an electricity problem. people know this. world oil is running at about $120 a barrel, we'll leave it

there. and here is the bizarre thing. despite the rise in world oil prices, whether it's brent crude, european crude or west texas intermediate, the baker hughes rig count is flattened out. they are not drilling more, they are not producing more. why is this? >> sandra: such a good point. >> larry: what's up with that? i made some phone calls today to some producers and some refiners and the answer is all these new regulations coming out of the white house, we had another one on clean water before that we had one on clean air, no permits are coming, they are not willing to make investments, ok, there is a lot of uncertainty so you are at this global supply demand imbalance and there's no sign of that abating. so you know, the outlook for higher gasoline prices is substantial. outlook for higher oil prices is also substantial. >> sandra: goldman sachs says it will feel like oil is 160 a

barrel, and gas prices, we should not be looking at where they were since biden took office, up 105%, by the way, but election day, that's when the run-up began in anticipation of the demonization of the fossil fuel industry. >> larry: that's a true fact. >> sandra: what's the point calling for the emergency oil to be released when we don't have the refining capacity. the oil does not go in our cars, gasoline does. we have to be able to refine the oil to go into the automobiles. anybody thinking about that? >> larry: they can't get permits, whether it's through refining or l.n.g. for exports. and american truckers are getting killed because of high diesel prices. 5.68 as of today, if not mistaken. guess where diesel is going, to europe. they have higher diesel prices because of their problems with russia. so we are unprepared for the

ukraine problem and nothing since then, no new permits have been made, all you've had is very strict regulations. i know you have to get out to other people, it's ok, you are coming on "kudlow" at 4:00, we have great ratings and the whole world will see you. >> sandra: if you want more of him, 4:00. >> john: we'll see you soon, larry. "the story" starts now. >> >> ever since the minneapolis police abandoned their precinct ever since it was runover by protesters. remember this night? that is the moment that it all goes back to in so many ways. on may 28, 2021, it was right after george floyd's deat