>> julie, one thing i will say, when it was cold outside, we had the fireplace inside. >> red wine goes so much better with cold weather. so i like to pair the weather with my cocktails, that's all. >> you and paul pelosi. >> thank you for that. >> now "america reports." >> i hope that was all right. >> john: beer goes well with everything. the migrant caravan closer to the border, some are looking to make it easier to settle in the country. >> anita: to obtain driver's licenses, as they plan to send migrants to cities deeper in the u.s. we will talk to the vice president of the national border patrol council.

>> john: dow down 807 points at this moment. unfortunately, few people surprised by the new inflation data, confirming the pain at the pump and sticker shock. hello, john roberts in washington and happy friday to you. >> and happy friday to you as well, john. good to see you. anita vogel in for sandra smith. prices soared 8.6% from a year ago, highest in four decades as rent, energy and grocery prices continue to surge. >> another record high for gasoline prices as the national average edges ever so closer to $5 a gallon. >> anita: fox team coverage starts right now. karl rove on president biden's response to the economic crisis and a closer look at how much americans are paying at stores.

>> john: but first, jacqui heinrich is travelling with the president live in los angeles. what is the white house saying they are going to do about inflation, jacqui? >> we have not heard from the president yet, he's going to speak later about supply chains but the chair of economic advisers says the president's plan broadly is to let the feds do what it's going to do, and that's a little bit scary because it indicates this inflation report indicates that what the fed has already been doing, raising rates slightly, tapping the brakes to cool inflation is not enough and they need to tap on harder, maybe slam on the brakes. as far as where inflation is coming from, the white house is convinced the war in ukraine is almost entirely to blame. >> the president very much understands and we very much understand that we've got uncomfortably high inflation. what we saw in the data this

month was that month on month prices increased overall, headlines increased about 1%, and about half of that was due to food and energy, almost directly tied to putin's invasion of ukraine. >> jacqui: a white house official reached out to fox saying they believe inflation will moderate and finish lower at the end of the rate this year than the end of 2021. we expect to hear the president say later inflation is a global challenge, the u.s. is in the best position relative to other countries to deal with it. they talk often about the u.s. being in position of strengths and he will point to his past administration work to unclog supply chains, he'll point out 40% fewer containers at the docks compared to the problem last november. it's not clear if he's going to take questions at the event, but we have learned that speaker pelosi is showing up at the summit and she is holding a press conference. john.

>> john: we'll be watching the development as the day progresses. jacqui, thank you. >> anita: red hot inflation is driving food prices sharply higher, forcing many consumers to rethink their choices at the grocery store. lydia is reporting for fox business at a supermarket in new york, what do you think people are cutting out on the list? >> anita, we know people are bargain hunting across the board. prices at the grocery store have continued to soar. we are now paying almost 12% more for our groceries than a year ago, and we are seeing prices on basic staples skyrocketing, like eggs, the prices are up almost 32% more than they were a year ago. if we look at some other staples, meat prices up more than 12%. milk up more than 15%. and almost impossible to escape

these hikes because these are basic items that are in all of our kitchens. americans are feeling this, recent poll shows nearly nine in ten people are bargain hunting for cheaper products. three-quarters are cutting back on dining out. >> i think what they are doing, buying what they need and not what they want. we are seeing things on special, porter house steaks and new york strip steaks, people will buy them and freeze them. >> and the troubling part about all of this, we are really not seeing signs that food prices are slowing down in their increases. april's read from the consumer price index, it shows that prices at the grocery store year over year then were up 10.8%. now we are up almost 12%, so a whole percentage point higher than the last report. so, it seems like we are just continuing to see these prices skyrocket.

anita. >> anita: and like the gentleman said, people buying only what they need, not what they want. lydia hu live in yonkers. >> john: bring in karl rove, if you were to write a political script to overturn congress in november of this year in the midterms, could you write something more powerful than what's actually happening? >> no, absolutely not. and look, let's put this back in context a little bit. in january of 2021 when joe biden comes into office, inflation was 1.4%, below the target set by the federal reserve. by april after the passage of the american rescue plan, $1.9 trillion of additional spending that even democratic economists warn might kick off inflation, it was 4.16. nearly tripled in the course of four months. by july it was 5.3%, by october

5.2, sort of moderated a little bit but stuck up there higher than the beginning of the year. by january, 7.48 point, april 8.25, and then 8.52%. i marked april because that's when president biden said it was transitory, when he dismissed the fears about this. and since then it's nearly doubled and so the president, we just heard the chairman of his council of economic advisors says this all happened because of putin. putin is, before putin we were at 7.48%. putin invades ukraine on february 24th. are these people thinking we are dumb or do they really believe this stuff? the facts spell something entirely different and it's worse for food in the united states, even more than energy. and our food prices are not

being affected, we are not affected the past month or the months before by ukraine, they are affected by the general condition of inflation in the united states. >> john: clearly, karl, everything is going up. let's put up the gas prices, everybody drives by on a regular basis. regular gas at 4.98 a gallon, 5.75 for diesel. we just got a statement from the president on the rise of inflation, he says today's report underscores why i've made fighting inflation my top economic priority. my administration will continue do everything we can to lower prices for the american people. what he's doing, karl, ain't working. >> he's not doing anything significant to reduce prices. if you were in his place a year ago, let's get out there and find wais to reduce costs and expand supply of energy, of food, and reduce the cost for the economy and they will be looking, if they were serious,

of things to do up and down the economy in order to reduce prices and increase supply. they have already missed the opportunity to do so with this year's growing season. they need to make those decisions last november, december and january before people started in their crops. one concrete example. they could have said conservation programs to set aside less productive farmland and compensate the farmers for not growing things. what if they said we will allow you to opt out of that program briefly for a year or two in order to expand the production of things of grains and foodstuffs on your property. they didn't do that. let me give you an issue on energy. i was talking to some people involved in the refinery business. 30% of our gasoline and our diesel comes from small refineries. not tied into exxon and the big boys, these are small, generally individual refineries and diverse parts of the country. they have to get an offset, a

credit offset for their operations. the federal government, under this e.p.a., said not only exempt you, traditionally given exceptions if they cannot find the credits. not only give you the exemption for finding the credits, we are going to penalize you by going back for the last four years and have you cough up additional payments to the federal government. that's 30% of our diesel, 30% of gasoline and the e.p.a. says let's make what you are doing more expensive to pay payments for the last four years. that's nutty. >> john: makes you wonder if they do want to lower gas prices or keep them high and force the transition to the green energy economy. have a good weekend. >> you, too, john. >> anita: fox news alert, the white house is set to toss a covid testing requirement for

travelers flying into the u.s. cdc saying predeparture testing is no longer necessary. charles watson, what more can you tell us? >> charles: good afternoon, senior white house official confirming to fox news the testing requirement for folks flying into the u.s. will expire on sunday at midnight june 12th. cdc found the requirement was no longer necessary for travelers flying into the u.s. however, the agency will reevaluate the decision every 90 days, and could reinstate the testing requirement for air travelers should a troubling new covid variant emerge. the biden administration put the testing requirement in place last year as they tried to move away from banning nonessential travel from dozens of european, african and asian countries, to instead focus on risk posed by individuals. pleading with the administration for months to end the requirement, so i think a

weakened demand for international travel. >> the incoming test currently prevents on an individual level an american unwilling to leave the country, not knowing if they can come back home, and for an international traveller who may represent a large corporation or a group who is travelling, that there is a big investment in meetings and if they can't attend that meeting because they then test positive it becomes a huge downward spiral in their budgets and their impact. >> charles: the u.s. travel association praising the move, saying prior to the pandemic travel was one of our nation's largest industry exports. the lifting of this requirement will enable the industry to lead the way toward a broader u.s. economic and jobs recovery. this, of course -- this is, of course, some six weeks after a federal judge in florida struck down the federal mask mandate on

planes, trains and other areas, saying the cdc had overstepped. and the biden administration is appealing that, but as of now, the cdc says it will continue to recommend folks take tests prior to boarding planes but come sunday the requirement and mandate, rather, to be tested before flying into the u.s. will be no more. anita. >> anita: charles watson with good news there. relief for travelers coming to the u.s. >> john: relief and good news for travelers but have you seen the price of a plane ticket? we were talking about it. >> anita: you were just telling me. i don't know if you want to let the audience know what you paid for a cross country trip in coach, but it was a lot. >> john: i thought six months out i would book our tickets to go to san diego for christmas --

unbelievable, like for basic economy. holy smokes. >> anita: good news for the international travelers right at the start of the summer travel season, couldn't be better timing. >> john: it is good, one less thing to do on your way back. >> anita: nearly two and a half weeks later, new questions raised about the police response to the uvalde school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. a new report says officers knew there were still students and children alive in the classroom for an hour before the gunman was killed. so, why did authorities wait. >> john: and the national average for a gallon of gasoline pennies away from $5. would a boost in domestic oil production lower the price of gas? oil trader phil flynn is here with his analysis coming up next. >> times are tough right now with the gas prices going up, and every item when i go food

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>> john: fox news alert, reports out of north carolina at a shooting in a food court at the east ridge shopping mall in gastonia, just west of charlotte. three injured so far but extent of injuries unknown. multiple stores inside the mall remain on lockdown as no shooter has been placed in custody so far. however, police do say there is currently no active threat at that mall. january 6th committee holding the first of several hearings last night, bringing their case

to primetime. and republicans are firing back. congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. what are both sides saying about last night's presentation. >> chad: the gop contends the primetime made for television event was stacked against republicans and former president trump. republicans criticized the stagecraft. >> this was a partisan production put on by the former head of abc news. they had a democrat staffer giving a timeline on video. if a republican staffer were in a committee and put them on video and let them talk for a sustained period of time, can you imagine what the press would say. >> chad: jordan is 1 of 5 house republicans subpoenaed by the committee but jordan is not cooperating. the gop boycott after nancy pelosi vetoed republican picks, jordan was one of them. they hope the hearings break through to voters but that's a

problem. >> the committee is trying to establish a set of facts and they did that in a very lawyerly fashion and then they are going to try to connect the dots of those facts and that's a really important thing and many people cannot agree on what the facts of january 6th are. >> chad: the committee chair says expect testimony between ties between the president and right wing groups like the proud boys and oath keepers. >> yes, obviously you have to go through the hearings, but we have a number of witnesses who come forward that people have not talked to before that will document a lot of what was going on in the trump orbit while all of this was occurring. >> thompson says the threat to democracy still exists. the committee is trying t show how the former president spurred the riot in an effort to hold the presidency. three hearings next week, one on

monday. john. >> john: we'll be watching for that, chad pergram for us to round out the friday. thank you. >> anita: new data out this morning showing record high gas prices driving up inflation to its highest in 40 years. today's national average of gas prices is now at 4.98. that's a near $2 increase from a year ago. and oil hitting 13-week highs, briefly trading at $124 a barrel today. let's bring in phil flynn, the price futures group senior analyst and fox business contributor. good morning. >> good morning, good afternoon. we talked last week prices have crept up since then, and i want to take a look at a chart showing that as these prices are creeping up, look at this, president biden's approval rating in red is ticking down. lots of people are calling for

increased domestic energy production, the agency that tracks this, it is called baker hughes incorporated. they are like the gold star, like a michelin rating you would give a restaurant, there are 271 more oil rigs in production than this time last year, so why aren't prices coming down? >> well, there is a lot of reasons. a lot is because of the anti-fossil fuel regulations that are in place right now. this has actually slowed oil production. the chart is great, shows the u.s. oil rig count and that has gone to the highest level in a year and we are almost back to pre-pandemic levels in that chart shows you the u.s. oil producers trying to do everything they can to raise oil production in the future. and that's great news. the problem is, that chart should show that those rigs came back a lot faster and the reason

why they're not is because they're working with one hand tied behind their back. at every turn there's more regulations, more red tape, more resistance to people investing in fossil fuels because the biden administration continues to discourage that and so it's not coming back fast enough to make a difference on price. in fact, they are just replacing oil from rigs in production that have seen declining production, so we are just getting back to even. even though we are going to see a record high in u.s. production, it should be better than what we are seeing right now. >> anita: i would say so. we have a map of the states with the highest gas prices. so, 20 states, plus d.c., are paying $5 a gallon plus. of course, they are projecting $10 a gallon on the west coast as the year rolls on. i want to take a listen real quick to how everyday americans are reacting to these prices.

let's listen. >> hurting me, it's hurting me bad. >> incredibly high expense. >> i think it's going to get worse than better and everyone needs to brace for that. >> whatever i need if i have to go to the drugstore or the grocery store, i plan it for one trip. >> $35 to $75 a week. >> i only put in 30 at a time, i know it takes too much to fill my tank. >> anita: hearing a lot of frustration, anger, people saying they have to pad their budget. what point do you think we see a real pushback. americans love to protest about social justice, lots of other things, but i have not seen any large protests on this subject. do you think that would make a difference with this administration if they saw people protesting in the streets over this? >> i think it would. just don't protest at my house.

don't blame the oil analyst. we are seeing signs people are upset. in fact, we are seeing an economic malaise come over the american people. we had a reading from the university of michigan, consumer sentiment, and shows consumer confidence is the worst it's been since the 1980s, if ever. this is back to the jimmy carter days, you know, where you know, you put on a sweater because you can't afford energy. we are getting back to those days, right? and people are upset and i think that the biden administration is going to pay a price for this. they can't get ahead of this issue. you can't tell the american people hey, it's putin's fault, it's the energy company's fault, when your policies very clearly are anti-fossil fuel. the american people are not buying it and they are not buying a lot of things because they can't afford it anymore. >> anita: yeah, no kidding. phil flynn, always good to get your thoughts on this.

appreciate it, and we will speak to you again. >> john: price of gas goes up, traffic is worse. more than two weeks after a gunman killed 21 in a texas school, questions if they could have saved more. how long it took them to get into the classroom even though they knew children were alive inside. >> anita: boston bomber was among thousands of inmates who received covid stimulus checks. but north carolina congressman ted bud says he has proof the situation is even worse than we thought, and we will hear from him coming up next. with a cash out loan from newday usa. the newday 100 loan could get you an average of $60,000.

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north carolina, just west of charlotte. as far as we know, three people are injured. whoever was responsible escaped the mall and may have run into a nearby woods. police at this point do not have anyone in custody but we are told that the immediate threat at the mall has gone away. charles watson is in our southeastern news hub and he brings us the very latest on all of this, we had the shooting outside the gadsden school in alabama and now this. >> the shooting has certainly brought a heavy police presence to the east ridge mall in gastonia, as you mentioned. the shooting happened in the food court inside the east ridge mall around noon. we know at this time three people were injured but are told by police and local e.m.s., none of the injuries are considered life-threatening. the folks were taken to area hospitals and are expected to recover from their injuries.

gastonia police tell us there is no active threat at the moment, so that is good news, but they currently don't have a suspect in custody and are apparently looking for a suspect or person of interest who was seen running from the mall moment after the shooting went down, and was apparently seen in or around a wooded area. the mall is on lockdown as they do a store to store search to help folks inside or may have been trapped inside when the mall was put on lockdown after the shooting to help those folks get out of the mall and get to safety. also taking some of those folks to reunification point to meet up with family members, loved ones and friends. at this moment it is not clear what the shooting was over, what started the shooting or who this person of interest was at the time. if there was some sort of a

motive or conflict that sparked all of this, that is all unclear right now. but as you can see on scene there in gastonia, a heavy police presence out there as police try to investigate what exactly led to the shooting. again, three people injured, but none of those injuries are expected to be life-threatening, john. >> john: sounds like they have plenty of witnesses so shouldn't take long to identify the shooter and whereabouts. anita. >> anita: new details in the mass shooting at a texas school. 19 students and two teachers were killed in robb elementary. officers who waited more than an hour outside the classroom, some were aware the victims were alive but chose not to enter without protective gear. casey stegall is live in dallas. >> absolutely heartbreaking to

hear. "new york times" reporting comes from law enforcement documents and newly reviewed evidence from the attack which verifies what so many had forward, more than a dozen children remained alive for more than an hour while the shooter was in side the school, some made calls to 911. more than 60 police officers had gathered at the scene but were told to not confront the gunman right away, going against active shooter protocols, we know. the call was based in part to wait for the arrival of protective gear, to help better protect the responding officers. yet reports of injured children were trickling out and parents outside the school begged police to take action. now the lingering questions, could lives have been saved if law enforcement acted sooner. it's the primary focus of the state and federal investigations. but for the moment, focus on what can be done right now. >> we are in the process of

developing a list of actions we can take to strengthen security on all of our campuses. law enforcement officers have been assigned to each campus during summer school and it is our goal to hire additional officers to be assigned to each campus for the upcoming school year. >> funerals and visitation services still underway in that community more than two weeks now after the mass shooting, which killed 21 people, 19 children, two adult teachers. eva was about to finish her 17th year of teaching. today the 44-year-old educator is being laid to rest. friends and family say she poured her heart and soul into her work, which was the kids. anita. >> anita: the more we learn about the story, casey, the more heartbreaking it becomes. so many beautiful lives lost. thank you for that live report. john. >> john: really is terrible. the federal government gave hundreds of millions of dollars of covid stimulus money to

people who were behind bars. and now we are learning that the amount of money is even more than previously reported and that is raising new questions. why, and where is the money going, and of course who is getting it? republican congressman ted bud is looking into the issue, new information to share. if you would allow me, i made some very fancy graphics to show people what's going on. payments as of january 1, 2022, 579,000 payments went to prisoners. how much money does that amount to you might be asking at home, caching, here it is. $863 million and congressman, that's more than we knew prior to this. >> you know, they were saying the number was close to 780,000, now we realize it's $80 million

more. this is absolutely irresponsible. because it took months, it took five months of our staff doing research, asking janet yellen, me confronting her in a house financial services hearing to say where is this money going and why did it go to federal prisoners. this was found, first of all, by money going to the boston bomber of all people. and the boston courts are trying to deal with this and redirect the money to those that -- the victims of those that are in prison. so, we think that's something that we can do to make this better in the future. but this is a horrible misdirection from the biden administration of taxpayer dollars, especially when people out there are seeing $5 gas, $6 gas, and now we are seeing what the biden administration is really doing and they are sending it to federal prisoners on the backs of the taxpayers. >> john: you mentioned the boston marathon bombing, this is

him, received $1,400 from the american rescue plan behind bars. why is he getting money from the rescue plan? >> senator tom cotton said this is prohibited to going to federal prisoners. every single democrat voted against that amendment and they allowed it to go to these federal prisoners. so i think every single senate democrat and anyone running for u.s. senate, especially the democrats, need to answer, would they have supported this. we know those incumbent right now voted to allow it to happen. first 780 million, and then 860 million, $80 million more. and so they won't even give us the straight facts. so what are they hiding and why did it take janet yellen's office five months to get me the facts. >> john: you mentioned senator tom cotton a moment ago, what he

said in july 2021, sending cash to murderers and rapists in prison has nothing to do with solving the pandemic or improving the economy. now the same people send hundreds of millions to gifts to the inmates wants to spend trillions more in a bigger and more partisan bill, in reference to build back better. if the president gets parts of build back better passed, are we going to see more money go to these incarcerate snd>> absolutely, they just keep dumping money into the economy. money chasing goods that are not there, people are not there to produce and the money going to federal prisoners when folks are trying to put food on the table, gas in their tanks. how out of touch can you be. this shows what the priorities are and it's not with the american people. >> john: 74 million went to the federal bureau of prisoner trust fund accounts, other than that,

not a lot of clarity to where it went and the funds are also immune from being recouped for restitution for outstanding criminal fines. so this cash just goes into their pocket and they can use it for whatever they want. >> we think it belongs in the hands of the victims. that's what my legislation i'm working on would do, redirect it to restitution for those harmed by those in prison. >> john: i guess if you spend money, probably a better way to spend it. congressman ted bud of north carolina, good to talk to you. thanks for coming on, appreciate it. >> anita: john, a family speaking out in grief after a fraternity hazing ritual left their teenage son unable to walk, talk and even see. newly released video shows how that happened and why the family wants justice. >> john: and migrants surging into southern border with the massive caravan underway.

some states are giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. talk with the border patrol vice president about that coming up. >> i don't think there's anything in any discussion that can happen until the president and the secretary of d.h.s. get a handle on the flow through their policy and make it clear that it's not ok to break the rule of law. .

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his mom had to quit her job so that she can be able to take care of him. the santullis are expanding a civil lawsuit against two fraternity brothers after obtaining this surveillance video from inside the fraternity house. the video from october given to abc news shows danny and other pledges shirtless and blindfolded led downstairs as part of a ritual. each pledge was given an entire bottle of vodka to drink but danny also had beer poured town his throat with a tube and funnel. it shows danny lose his balance and fall backward, carried to a couch where he lays almost two hours, barely moving and then not moving at all. when he is eventually taken to the hospital he is in cardiac arrest with severe brain damage and a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal driving limit. so far county prosecutors have

only charged one fraternity member with misdemeanors, but danny's parents are pushing for more serious criminal charges to be filed as well. >> i do personally want to see specific kids get felony d's. a misdemeanor is not going to wake them up. >> the university of missouri says 13 students have received proposed disciplinary sanctions after multiple violations, the fraternity will be closed. and they are looking how to mitigate the hazing on campus and says safety of the community is the highest property and address it to work together to support safer behavior. international fraternity says it prohibits hazing and giving alcohol to minors, saying danny should not have been put in such

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>> john: take you now to los angeles where president biden is on the deck of the battleship u.s.s. iowa. these are remarks at the port of los angeles where he's supposed to be talking about what he's doing to bring inflation down, which appears not to be working. now at 8.6%. >> thank you, mario, and the mayor of los angeles and the mayor of long beach who i expect is soon to be the congressman of

long beach, the way it looks like. you guys did a heck of a job when i came out here a couple years ago to try to get things moving. everybody, management, labor, elected leaders. as well as at the time we also had governor newsom pushing hard as well. look, we have two excellent senators, dianne feinstein and alex padilla, and annette, you look good compared to these guys and me, but thank you for the fire you bring. you bring some fire to this, i really mean it. it's in your heart. and allen lowenthal has been working on this, we had a meeting, and we have to change it, allen, we can't give up, we

have to turn this corner and john, i can't thank you. you're the real deal. anybody, i won't get you in trouble, but thanks for sticking up for me. and look, we have a labor secretary that i'm his translator, he's marty walsh from boston, but if you -- the only thing you got to know, he always has your back. he always has your back. i had an uncle used to say joey, you are labor from belt buckle to shoe sole, he's labor to the tip of his toes. i would like to speak about my top economic priority, fighting inflation. i understand americans are anxious and anxious for good reason. i was raised in a household when the price of gasoline rose precipitously, it was discussion at the table, it made a

difference, and food prices went up, but putin's tax on food and gas. and job market is the strongest it's been since world war ii, notwithstanding inflation. we added another 390,000 jobs last month, 8,700,000 new jobs since i took office. all time record, never that many jobs in that period of time. unemployment rate is near historic lows, millions of americans are moving up to better jobs and better pay. since i took office, families are carrying less debt on average in america, they have more savings than they have had, and we are doing it all while cutting the federal deficit by $1.7 trillion this year and 320 billion last. if i hear one of my maga friends talk about debt and deficits,

i'm going to be good. they increased the deficit by 2 trillion bucks, anyway, another story. largest decline in american history. because of the progress, america can tackle inflation from a position of strength unlike any other country in the world because every country in the world is getting a piece of inflation, worse than we are in the vast majority of countries around the world. make no mistake about it. i understand inflation is a real challenge to american families. today's inflation report confirm what americans already know, putin's price hike is hitting america hard. gas prices at the pump, energy and food prices account for half of the monthly price inflation since may. anchor inflation moderated the last two months, not enough, but it has come down and we need it to come down much more quickly. my administration will continue everything, to lower the prices

for the american people and the congress has to act and they have been of late. one of the key ways to fight inflation is by lowering the cost of moving goods through the supply chain. when i first started talking about the supply chain when i came here well over a year ago, the american people understand the supply chain, it's not a usual part of their jargon but they understand it fully now, understand it. if you can't get the material needed to build a product, when it's an automobile or whatever it is, it's difficult to move, that's the supply chain. i've been focused on ports. last fall ports around the world were congested due to the pandemic. so we brought together port operators, shipping companies and labor and to ease the bottlenecks. as a result, over the holidays last 97% of all the packages were delivered on time and on

shelves when you went christmas shopping. remember we were not going to have anything on the shelves. you all did it. not a joke, you did it. on time with minimum delays. delivery times were quicker than before the pandemic and today they are about 40% fewer containers clogging the docks on long periods of time than there were last november. this may was the strongest month in the port of los angeles's history, the strongest month in its history, and we are helping fund improvements because of what my friends in the congress have done, we passed the infrastructure bill and we are funding major new initiatives on the docks, on dock rail systems, port of long beach moved goods more quickly, port electrification so communication near the ports and communities can breathe, cleaner air because they are using electric machines that are not generating using

gas, coal, etc. and we are continuing to expand capacity of our ports thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure. look, control the trucking, last december brought together industry and labor to tackle problems facing truck drivers. had to double the number of commercial driver's licenses by the states to speed things up, we did it. sped the creation of apprenticeships to earn while learning. we hit a record setting employment in trucking earlier this year. and truckers' wages went up even after accounting for inflation. we are going to keep at it with the new super chain envoy, general steve lyons. a four star general, handled transportation command, tens of millions, billions of tons of

things to move, like tanks and aircraft, but all kidding aside, he's come off the sidelines. he's retired, helped us identify and get ahead of the challenges that arise at our ports, our railroads, and on the road. this is about reducing costs for families. i have to admit to you a lot of us elected officials have been in office for a while. every once in a while something you learn makes you viscerally angry, like if you had the person in front of you you would want to pop 'em. i really mean it. there are nine major ocean line shipping companies that ship from asia to the united states, nine. they form three consortium. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,000%, so everything coming from asia, they get you, 90

some% of it the stuff coming from asia, raised it by 1,000%. that's why i called on congress to crack down on, and they are foreign-owned, foreign-owned shipping companies that raised their prices while raking in $190 billion in profit. seven fold increase in one year. seven fold increase. 190 billion. senate passed legislation, i'm hopeful the house will enact soon to crack down on the companies and lower the cost. and grateful, and speaker pelosi, and john, for leading this effort. thanks, john. i really mean it. it's a big deal. people are at home trying to make it, you know, paycheck to paycheck, are wondering what in god's name do nine shipping companies have to do with it. well, almost everything you are doing, everything from what you are eating to what you are having to drive to what you need

in your home, related to supply chains. and what's coming from abroad. i'm doing everything in my power to blunt putin's price hike and bring down the cost of gas and food. i led the world to coordinate the release in history. 240 million barrels to boost supply. and we have helped europe reduce the reliance on russian oil by tripling the national gas assistance to europe compared to last year, and working closely with the european partners to get 20 million tons of grain in ukraine locked in the silos now. ukraine and russia, the two main suppliers of grain and corn. 20 million in their silos right now so we are trying to help them to get that and russians are blocking the export. they are not allowed out to the

black sea, and we are trying to figure out how to get it out of the country to get around the world. it will bring down prices. but there's more. there's more than one way to solve this problem. we are continuing to work to bring down food prices and gas prices and save families money by dealing with other items. my dad used to say it's all about the standard of living, how much you have left in the paycheck at the end of the month. how much is left to do the basic things. so if you add up all the things that people need, just to do their -- to do everything from take care of their kids to turn the heat on or the air-conditioning on and everything in between, a lot of ways we can reduce their cost, their cost of living other than if we, while we are trying to get at the grain and gas. we laid out a plan, for example, lower prescription drug costs. that will fundamentally affect

families, and diabetes insulin, it can cost as high as 1,000. you know how much it takes to make that insulin? $ten. charging is outrageous. we should be able to have medicare do what they do with the v.a., v.a. says only going to pay so much for this, and because medicare negotiates the price for them. well, medicare is able to negotiate the price of insulin, it comes down a whole hell of a lot. outrageous, and put a cap on insulin of $35 a month and still make a significant profit. ten bucks to manufacture, 35 bucks. for example, we could begin by lowering the cost of high speed internet. what you all did dealing with

the infrastructure bill. working with the server providers, cut the price and raised the speed, potentially lowering high speed internet bills on average $30 a month. ok, well, paying extra, more than $30 a month to your gas but that still increases the money out of pocket -- decrease the amount you have to put out. the point is, we are doing everything in our power to lower the costs to families but congressional republicans led by rick scott have a different approach. rick scott tried to change his words yesterday, by the way, after he had been campaigning, he had the re-election for the senators, and raising taxes is unpopular. he said everybody, no matter what their station, if they are on welfare should pay a tax, everybody should pay a tax.

well, here is the truth. one concrete plan i laid out was going to raise taxes on working families an average of $1,500 a month. while we have 54 corporations out there did not pay any tax the last two years and made $40 billion. they don't want to tax them at all. they don't want to tax billionaires literally paying a lower tax rate than long shoremen are paying, literally on a percentage basis. he has not walked back from his plan on healthcare. he says what we have to do now that we finally have the affordable care act functionings and the price is down average of 400 bucks for people, eliminate it again. so, and by the way, the one that's the best thing the republicans are pushing now in re-election is that they think that medicare, i'm not making this up, go online and look, medicare, social security and medicare, medicaid, go on the

chopping block every five years. what that means is at the end of five years, they go out of existence unless they are affirmatively voted back into existence. every five years. medicare, social security, medicaid, and they forget people paid for their social security. they paid for it. and you know what's going to happen, people say they'll never eliminate it. what they will do, pick it apart, they'll be able to cut it back. that's the whole objective. and folks, you know, it's not right. it's simply not right. and i disagree, and that's what -- look, this is not your father's republican party. this is a different deal. it really is. i've worked with a lot of honorable republicans, very conservative republicans over the years when i was a senator. but this is the maga gang. this is the maga crowd. i really mean it. they have a fundamentally different view of the role of government and who should pay what.

and i'm going to work with anyone, democrat, republican, independent, to deliver real solutions for families. look, because of the strong foundation we built, we are better positioned than just about any country in the world to overcome the global inflation we are seeing and to take the next steps towards forming an historic recovery and new moment and i count recovery as going from where we are today in terms of the recovery to stability, to make it stable. it is strong as can be, but for inflation. but for gas and food. and look, we have to keep -- we have to keep coming together to find common ground to solve problems like we have done in the ports and in trucking. we continue to build the extraordinary progress we have made. we have to continue building this economy from the bottom up and the middle out. and i mean that literally. i am so sick and tired of trickle down economics. it does not work.

when the middle class is doing well and do well because of labor, when the middle class is doing well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy do it very, very well. they have never been hurt when the middle class is doing well, never. never. so it's about time we start to regather and remember who we are and get a lot of this done. but there's no better place to start than right here in the port and letting those nine foreign shippers understand the ripoff is over, thank you. thanks. we are going to make sure everybody knows what exxon's profits. tell them what the profits were this quarter. exxon made more money than god this year. and by the way, nothing has changed. and by the way, one thing i want

to say about the oil companies. you talk about how they have 9,000 permits to drill. they are not drilling. l why aren't they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil, the price goes up, number one. and number two, the reason they are not drilling is they are buying back their own stock which should be taxed, quite frankly, buying back their own stock and making no new investments, so i always thought republicans were for investment. exxon, start investing, start paying your taxes, thanks. >> john: all right, president biden aboard the deck of the u.s.s. iowa, the famous battleship, giving his speech at the port of los angeles about inflation and what he wants to do to try to bring prices back in line, taking aim at senator rick scott who is not even really promoting his own plan to

a great degree in terms of what the president was talking about regarding taxes and sunsetting legislation. but the president also saying that he, if the ocean transport companies were standing in front of them, he's so angry, he would like to pop them one in the nose because of how much they are charging to get goods across the ocean. clearly a very bad day for your 401(k) here, but the diving dow appears to be the least of american's worries. there's, down 739 points. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. hi, anita. >> anita: as the news goes, inflation goes from bad to worse to beyond where it's been for decades. brand-new report showing inflation last month, the highest level since december of 1981. >> john: 1981, when ronald reagan was closing out his first year in office, "raiders of the

last ark" in theatres, and joe montana super bowl. >> anita: shipping companies and pointing out a 1,000% price increase this year, that only raises a whole lot of new questions. why is biden only pointing the finger at the shipping industry now when last summer prices were even bigger at 1500%. >> john: bret baier will join us in a moment, what it could mean for democrats come november, but begin team coverage from fox business. >> anita: kelly o'grady live at the port of l.a. where the president just pointed the finger at shipping companies. kelly, he said if they were standing in front of him he would like to pop them. >> i know, pretty colorful language, anita. the port of l.a. accounts for 40% of the container traffic

coming into the country, a pretty apt backdrop for remarks. he touted improvements in on time deliveries, investment in trucking, and of course he also is professing he's doing everything he can to bring down putin's price hikes. i think it's interesting, the supply chain snarl happened far before russia invaded ukraine and another target of the blame game was shipping companies, take a listen to comments previously about their price gouging. >> one of the big reasons why prices are going up is the cost of shipping things across the pacific in particular. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,000%. >> now, anita, you mentioned at the beginning it begs the question why inflation needed to hit a 40-year high before the price increases came into focus. i had that same question and rising shipping houses throughout the pandemic,

september of last year saw 1500% price hike verses march 2020, and the president throwing support behind the ocean shipping reform act, house will vote on next week, and exploiting their power for record profits, the shipping issues are only going to get worse with china starting to open back up, that's going to cause more congestion and higher prices for all the president's promises there, anita. >> anita: one of the things he has mentioned, doubled the number of commercial drivers to help that backlog at the port. very interesting report, kelly o'grady, thank you so much. john. >> john: now more on the record inflation report, edward lawrence live at the white house for us. >> this did not discriminate, across the board increases. talked about hit movies at the top of this, "modern problems"

was a hit in 1981, and olivia newton john had a number single. and food, all food is up about 10% on this. look in that and you have eggs up at about 32% over the past 12 months overall energy up 35%. look at all types of gas. 50% more expensive. nothing is immune, close to me, men's suits, year over year also up. from the white house perspective, an official here telling me they see inflation falling and finishing the end of 2022 lower than 2021. but we are not seeing that, we are not seeing a peak in this report yet. the president saying gas prices caused this, as you heard. a white house official telling me it seeped into the core number through the jet fuel and the rising airline tickets, which rose about 38% as you know, john. the white house blaming fuel prices on the invasion of ukraine, secretary yellen probably will regret that but

last night she says she cannot understand why people don't like this economy. listen. >> when you look at opinion polls you see what households have to say, it's amazing how pessimistic they are given that we have about the strongest labor market we have had in the entire post war period. people can easily find jobs. >> and we want to show you quickly what the president said at the port of los angeles, blaming putin price hike for this. listen to this. >> we have never seen anything like putin's tax on both food and gas. america should also understand our economy has unique strengths that we can build on. the job market is the strongest it's been since world war ii. >> and puts pressure on the fed to move interest rates up even faster, john. >> john: ed lawrence at the white house, thank you. >> anita: the national average for a gallon of gas two pennies

shy of five bucks. that means filling up even a mid range tank, like a toyota camry, would cost more than $80 a pop, and it will only get larger. jeff flock is live at a gas station outside of philadelphia. looks like 6.09 behind you, is that right? >> 6.09 for premium, 4.99 for regular. found a cheap gas station for you, not too many left under $5 a gallon. yeah, you put the number up, it's 4.98 on average. only up a penny in the last day, almost like getting flowers, i think, these days, given the price hikes. it's up $2.12 since the last presidential election. i made the point that inflation adjusted prices are not at their highest level ever. they were in 2008. that said, take a look at this. we have had one run of 17

straight days of price increases, another day currently running up 14 straight days of price increases. it was not like anything like that back in 2008 when prices came down very quickly from their highs. and i'll tell you, if you talk to people out there, they may be able to still afford it but they don't have to like it. listen. >> went from about $45 to about $75 a week. >> usually put a full tank for like $60. now it's like $100. >> you have to think about gas now, you decide, if worth it to go out there and extra money like if you go to the club or the bar, you spend money to have fun. but the gas as well. >> at least they are still having money to go to the club. yes, the treasury secretary pointed out in the last report, yeah, people do still have money but i don't know how much longer they are going to have it if the prices continue to rise, and that is the forecast, anita.

>> anita: drive or not to drive. jeff flock, thank you so much for that live report. >> john: trust me, based on traffic in the district, everybody is driving. it's not just high prices that are a problem, simply finding the product that you need could be just as big a challenge. lydia hu is live in yonkers, new york, scouring the shelves. lydia. >> yeah, hi there, john. the rising cost of energy and fertilizer and labor making some products we love harder to find. hot sauce for example, a shortage on peppers being imported from mexico, driving the shortage on a popular hot sauce. popcorn, because of the price of fertilizer. it's a very expensive crop to raise and we know about baby formula, the shortage nationwide outage, about 73% of the stock is out across the country.

this store here got a big shipment for anyone who needs to know. today's consumer price index shows prices in the grocery store up almost 12% over last year, john. >> john: all right, lydia hu for us, thank you. anita. >> sandra: john, parents who are working more to make ends meet need people to look after their kids during work. now it seems even childcare costs are on the rise, meaning those same parents could have to work even harder or shift schedules all around. the details on that. it is a tough situation for so many parents around the country. >> absolutely right, anita. you've got that correct. news today as you were mentioning earlier that americans are facing record setting inflation, up 8.6%, but that's nothing to parents who have seen their average annual

cost for childcare rise 41%, average cost of $14,000 for childcare, and with costs rising, parents are searching for new solutions. some parents working different shifts in order to handle childcare on their own. other families, as many as 1 million, deciding mom will quit her job and stay home to provide care. one of the reasons the costs are spiralling, many workers opting out of the workforce after covid. according to the national childcare association, the workforce shrank which 350,000 folks during the beginning of the pandemic during the lockdowns. more than 100,000 have never returned. higher childcare costs are just one of the many pressures weighing on parents across the country. we have talked about the baby formula shortages, overall higher prices, on and on. back to you. >> sandra: parents are squeezed from all ends, gerri willis,

thanks so much. >> john: special report anchor bret baier, here to break down what the president said a little while ago. one of the things the president did, he looked at the inflation number and said welcome to putin's price hike. earlier on the program karl rove brought out the whiteboard and facts can be stubborn things. >> january, 7.48%, april 8.25%, and then 8.52%, 41-year high. why did i mark april? i marked april because that's when president biden said it was transitory when he dismissed the fears about this and since then it's nearly double. >> so the main point karl made was in january of 2022, inflation was running at 7.4%. that was a month before putin invaded ukraine. so what does that say about putin's price hike? >> it says what everybody really

thinks, and it's a talking point that the white house is trying to grasp on to anything really, and as the numbers continue to go up and people are still feeling this, really feeling it, the speeches are getting more detached from reality. the president started this saying we have made significant progress bringing prices down for families, significant progress. that's just not true. the stat is, according to moody's analytics, compared to a year ago, paying $460 more per month to buy the same amount of goods and services. 460 bucks. so where is the significant progress? there is not any. so the speeches kind of lose traction and altitude quickly when he goes back to attacking rick scott's plan, which is really strange, because no one is really talking about all of that. >> john: rick scott is not even talking about it.

>> and saying this is not your parents' republican party. >> john: anybody putting gas in the tank thinking oh, this isn't my parents' republican party. i don't think people are making the connection. >> anita: 460 a month extra, 500 bucks. where are people pulling that from if they are on a budget. >> bret: they are not. even if they got higher wages and checks went up, they went down because of what they are spending. >> anita: for sure, and i don't know's point, the president blaming ukraine for all of this, well, we know the situation in ukraine does not have an end in sight, it could go on for years, right. so, what does that mean for prices? >> bret: it means bad things and more importantly on the world stage, geopolitically, a possible food shortage for africa and egypt and that affects the world in a supply chain and food issue. in fact, you have some arab countries now worried about a possible arab spring bubbling up

because of food issues, based on ukraine and other parts around the world. let me point out one more thing about the speech. the president states that core inflation over the last two months has moderated or gone down. that's what he says, used the words moderated or gone down. c.p.i. from.3% in march to .6% in april and stayed at .6% in may. so, where is the moderation or the going down? >> john: and the interesting thing, at that, about the core inflation, it does not include food or energy prices. you mentioned where are the prices going down. the president was alluding to. put this graphic up on the screen. groceries, up 11.9%. highest we have seen. gasoline up 48.7%. fuel oil, people need come winter, 106% increase. natural gas up 30.2%. and that means electrical costs are going to be higher. new vehicles up 12.6%.

used vehicles up 16.1%. so to your point, where are the price reductions? >> bret: there's not any. and the president said inflation may be high but every country in the world is getting a big bite and piece of this inflation worse than we are, that's not true. if you bounce around the world. there are places feeling inflation but not worse than we are. the president then goes on in the speech to blame the gas companies for higher gas prices, and the shipping companies for higher -- >> john: he wants to pop them in the nose. >> bret: my point is, they are getting to a point where the rhetoric is getting detached from reality and people are seeing through it more clearly, i think, day-to-day. >> john: his comment about the ocean transports, reminiscent, i want to take donald trump out back of the gymnasium and plastic pool chain and went after corn pop. what does this mean?

>> anita: glad you are here to fact check for us. turn the topic to an interesting new debate series, this is called "the senate project," happening at, where is it happening? >> bret: boston, edward m. kennedy institute and it's going to be senator bernie sanders versus senator lindsey graham, i'll moderate, a replica of the well of the u.s. senate. streaming on fox nation at noon eastern on monday. >> anita: june 13th. >> bret: and also on radio and turn something around the following weekend about this. the premise to get the old school oxford style debate, a lot of substance, you have to back up what you believe and you disagree but maybe get to a common ground. >> john: the pairing is interesting, mitch mcconnell and

chuck schumer, ted cruz and elizabeth warren? >> bret: you never know, you never know. it's a box of chocolate. >> john: we know tonight at 6:00 on "special report." a developing story and not a word from president biden on the attempted assassination of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh two full days after the plot was exposed. rich edson live in washington. we did hear from a spokesperson, but nothing straight out of the president's mouth. >> we heard from the white house the president condemned what happened earlier this week, but nothing from the president. prosecutors say nicholas roske showed up with a pistol, ammunition and a knife, and then called 911. republicans say it demonstrates congress needs to step in immediately and approve a bill offering protection to supreme court justices and their families. last month the senate passed a bipartisan bill that would do just that.

the house has yet to vote on it. >> in some ways they feel they would besiding against the protestors, that they agree with the protestors and they don't want to do anything that would be seen by the hard left as a rejection of their strategy. well, their strategy is going to lead to somebody getting killed. >> house speaker nancy pelosi maintains the justices are secure. the justice department says the u.s. marshals have been provided nonstop security for the justices since last month. they say they want a different bill, one that would also include supreme court staff. >> working together on the bill that the senate will be able to approve of. nobody is in danger over the weekend because of our not having a bill. >> other democrats say no rush to pass the bill. alexandria ocasio-cortez told

politico it would be insensitive for congress to protect supreme court justices before passing gun measures to protect children. a leaked opinion of overturning roe vs. wade last month, that led to protestors in front of the justices' homes. it could prompt a surge of violence across the country. >> john: rich, thank you. anita. >> anita: more on this, asa hutchinson, governor of arkansas as well as the chairman of the national governor association. great to have you here today, appreciate it. you tweeted recently that our supreme court justices deserve protection from this type of danger. for too long you said the rhetoric and politics have been too divisive, we need less chaos and more respect for the rule of law. how do we change the atmosphere for what's happening right now? >> well, let me stress the

importance of protecting our judiciary. obviously we have to protect our children and school, that's a credible responsibility that we have, we need to address that. i've been a united states attorney, i've seen federal judges whenever they are at risk. the rule of law is at risk, and that's foundational to america, and that's reflected in our united states supreme court. clearly they are having to deal with more controversial issues, and if the american public is going to respond in going into, at their home or threats, they need to have that protection. you know, as to how you diminish the climate in america that results in this kind of hostility, we have to listen to each other. that's really fundamental to helping us to understand each side and to deal with issues other than resorting to violence. i think it's a part of the responsibility of the media as well. we have to reduce the harshness

of our rhetoric. we have to talk in more civil terms about how we are going to deal with the problems that we face, many of them that you just talked about. but clearly we have to protect our federal judiciary. >> anita: speaking of reducing the har 67ness of -- harshness of our rhetoric, many say it started in 2020 when chuck schumer said this. >> you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. you won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. >> anita: he did attempt to apologize for that statement, but now we have 26-year-old nicholas roske charged with the attempted murder of brett kavanaugh. not a lot of media outrage about this. i did note that whoppi goldberg

on "the view" say there are consequences and what's your reaction? >> why what senator schumer said crosses the line, creates more hostility, anger and almost it's ok to conduct violent protests or endanger people because they are doing their judicial responsibilities. and so that crosses the line. we also have a responsibility to reduce the rhetoric and let me just say president biden just made his speech and it was blaming. i'm looking for a president in a will articulate where we are, what we need to do and not engage the blame game. i think it's important for america to see that kind of leadership and when we don't have that it does have a way of permeating the thinking of all americans. an important part of the equation. our leaders across the board,

democrats and republicans reducing the harshness. obviously we differ on issues. let's have civil debates about it and sets the example for american. >> anita: amen. governor asa hutchinson, thank you for your thought and your time today, sir. we'll see you again. >> thank you. >> john: anita, when woke doesn't know when to quit, it seems to get fired. a washington post reporter who called out a fellow reporter's sexist retweet, his apology did not seem to be enough. but what she did next would get her fired from her job. we are joined with the sniping that has the washington post looking less like a serious institution and more like a school year at recess.

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who is fighting for his life and soon may have some help from the v.a. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon with details on this story. hi, jennifer. >> hi, anita. next week congress could pass legislation to help millions of veterans exposed to burn pits while serving in iraq and afghanistan as they navigate the frustrating bureaucracy while getting treated for exposure to toxin. andrew fought an aggressive leukemia three years, and then skin cancer, and then problem with his lungs, likely from spelling toxic fumes in iraq. many of the cancers are only just appearing in millions of u.s. service members like andrew. >> this legislation goes through that will effectively help if not save 3.5 million veterans that deserved in the middle east over the last 20 years.

it's hard for me to just put a single word on that. >> burn pits were commonly used by the u.s. military to dispose of trash, including plastics, but also toxic substances like paint, metals, plastic and human waste. >> when i was diagnosed with leukemia, burn pits was the farthest from my mind. i would probably have not made the connection on my loan. i had a low chance of surviving the last two months and that was my focus to try to stay alive and not where did it come from or why. >> andrew was more concerned about surviving ieds rather than cancer. they managed to cut the cost in half from half trillion dollars over ten years to now just $278.5 billion. >> whether it's agent orange in

vietnam or a burn pit in iraq and afghanistan, difficult to get the necessary documents from the department of defense that demonstrate to the v.a. that they are entitled to assistance. >> the senator said for a long time they focused on the physical consequences of war and then the mental consequences, and now the exposing of troops in combat to chemical substances. >> john: thanks. "washington post" firing a political reporter after she spent nearly a week trashing her colleagues and the paper's leadership. now walk us through what happened this is a bizarre story. >> what began as a twitter war ended to nonstop sniping, a huge embarrassment for "the washington post," and felicia sonmess, once sued the paper for

discrimination a year ago. she went after political writer dave weigel for a sexist joke. and a third reporter politecally suggested everyone makes mistakes and move on, she went after him, saying he did not seem to care about sexism. the new editor ordered to stop attacking colleagues either face-to-face or online and be constructive. but sonmess kept it up, tweet storm after tweet storm, ripping colleagues and post management for those bizarrely attacking me for speaking out, of course i'm speaking out. "the post" accused her, and said

it hurt the paper's reputation, that's for sure. what's sad, the paper that 50 years ago helped bring down richard nixon is consumed by staffers going after each other. as for felicia sonmez, her twitter feed is silent at least for now. >> john: seeing a lawsuit somewhere down the road here. you used to work at this place, in its glory days. what happened? >> it was a -- the younger crowd thinks they can trash anybody, and we should know twitter is a dangerous place for journalists. >> john: trashing your bosses and colleagues, and the tweet that weigel, what was he thinking? i don't want to say it on air. >> he did apologize, it was a good move. but she kept it up, seems like

self-destructive behavior. you can't keep poking your bosses in the eye with a sharp stick and not expecting something to happen. >> she says she was punished by the post editors after she said she needed to take a walk around the block after reading a difficult story and other colleagues had been punished for trauma far more recently. reminiscent of the georgetown law students who were looking for a safe space to cry. i mean, this is journalism. you go to war zones, you do tough things, you know. it can affect you psychologically, but it's part of the job. >> i don't have any problem with colleagues respectfully disagreeing with each other, it happens here all the time, but she was so personal with what she perceived to be her detractors, and sally busby had to do something.

>> john: twitter, it will kill everybody eventually. howie, good to see you. >> anita: john, we have developing news from the vatican. the pope postponing a planned trip to africa because of a bad knee. chief religion correspondent has more on this, what more can you tell us? >> hey, anita. the second time in a few weeks pope francis has had to cancel a planned trip because of ongoing physical health issues. began using a wheelchair a month ago because of problems with his right knee that make it difficult to stand or walk for long periods of time. trip to africa was scheduled for the beginning of july, but the vatican issued a statement today saying at the request of his doctors and in order not to jeopardize the results of the therapy he is undergoing for his knee, the holy father has been forced to postpone with regret, his journey to congo and south

sudan. it will be rescheduled for a later date. last month the pope canceled a visit to lebanon scheduled for mid june. that trip will also be rescheduled. vatican has not said specifically what's wrong with the 85-year-old pontiff's knee, but in an interview in a milan newspaper last night, the pope said he had a torn ligament and prescribed a series of knee injections. the pope has stayed busy molding the global church. late may, named 21 new cardinals, many from small countries who never had one before, and they will help choose a new pope. in late august all the cardinals are scheduled to meet in rome. the pope is also scheduled for a trip to canada the end of july and that appears to be still on for now. >> john: learning more about a major drug bust in philadelphia.

nearly two dozen people arrested, thousands of doses of heroin and fentanyl seized. >> not only the scale of the drug bust that makes it significant, the ring leaders came up with a unique scheme to take over an entire neighborhood. authorities in philadelphia say a father and son ran a massive drug ringing the kensington area of the city, claiming the turf as their own, charging drug dealers $3,000 for a street corner for the right to sell drugs at at least a dozen locations. ten law enforcement agencies, curtis coats jr. and sr. were arrested. 21 others were taken into custody. nearly 83,000 doses of heroin or fentanyl were seized in addition to 29 firearms and $179,000 in cash. pennsylvania's attorney general who was prosecuting the case

says the renting of city street corners to sell drugs is a danger to the community. >> these corners are where our children wait for busses. they stole those corners where people cross to get to work from all of you. and then they rented them for top dollar. bringing even more poison to our neighborhoods and more violence to our streets. >> in total, so-called rents brought in about $30,000 a week. more than a million and a half dollars a year, and in addition to the money made selling drugs, including especially deadly fentanyl. despite the arrests in philadelphia, fentanyl remains a problem in all 50 dates. and killing at an unprecedented rate. last year the agency seized more than 15,000 pounds, enough drug to kill every american. john. >> john: david lee, thank you. anita. >> anita: john, some of the

biggest names in golf suspended from the pga tour because they chose to play in a new saudi-backed event. lucas tomlinson has more on this. lucas, what more can you tell us about this story? >> anita, imagine i don't your favorite pitcher left major league baseball to go to a new league. that's what happened in the national golf. liv tour drawing controversy because of backing from saudi arabia. astronomical sums of money, phil mickelson was paid reported $200 million. dustin johnson, 15th in the world, 125 million. that's more than tiger woods has made in career earnings on the pga tour. the purses are enormous. team competitions, a shotgun start, no cut, guaranteed six figure checks each week for the losers, yes, it's difference. phil was asked about taking millions from the saudis. >> i don't condone human rights

violations at all. i don't think -- nobody here does. i've also seen the good that the game of golf has done throughout history, and i believe liv golf is going to do a lot of good for the game as well. >> the new tour started in london and arrives in the united states later this month. portland, oregon, new jersey, boston and chicago. and then returning to miami, season ending team championship, not tour championship, but team. they have suspended the 17 players who joined the tour hoping to stop more from jumping ship. those qualified in the u.s. open next week will be allowed to compete. liv, roman numberals for 54, the

number of holes. two top career earners in dustin johnson and phil mickelson. >> john: that is a lot of money. you know the part in the wedding where the minister asks if anyone objects? wait until you hear what happened at britney spears' wedding yesterday. love does die hard.

>> well, britney spears is about to do it again. get married! a toxic relationship from her past came by trying to hit up his baby one more time. what turns should have been a celebration into a circus. just crazy. christina coleman is live with more in los angeles.

what happened? >> hi, anita. definitely drama on the pop star's big day. britney's first husband, jason alexander went live on instagram and he said she invited him to the wedding and that she was his first and only wife. the two were married only 55 hours before they called it quits. that was nearly two decades ago. yesterday, alexander made it into her home but at some point security was able to stop him when he was outside the premises. there was a physical struggle between alexander and security. they called 911 to report trespassing and deputies showed up and arrested him. alexander was charged with trespassing, battery and vandalism. for brittany, the drama did not stop her from tying the knot to her new husband.

she and her new husband looked as if nothing happened and she was happy. 60 guests attended the wedding ceremony including her celebrity friends madonna and paris hilton. anita? >> thanks, christina. john? >> john: great to spend friday afternoon with you. >> and we had a britney story. >> john: we did. i'm john roberts. hope you have a great weekend. >> i'm anita vogel. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks very much, john and anita. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now, we are about to get some brand new audio of the 911 call in the attempted plot to assassinate supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. as soon as we get that video in, we will get it prepares and play it for you that is coming up. stick around for that it's stunning. first, president biden faces