and listen to republican senators kay bailey hutchinson present a different picture. >> but, president obama's policy has resultted in an unprecedented slow down in exploration and production of oil and gas. off shore drilling permits are issued at less than half . rate of the previous administration. the average number of leases issued on public lands is less than half that during president clinton's term. >> in addition to all of this conflict. catch 22 in the gas price roller coaster. world economy breaks free of the recession it will require more fuel and that is leading to higher demand and higher prices. >> too much pain in the pump. thank you very much. >> tomorrow is fox news sunday. chris wallace will have an exclusive interview with mitt romney. chris will be sitting down with indiana governor mitch daniels and you want to watch that. and fox news can confirm that osama bin laden's compound in pakistan is being demolished. residents said the government destroyed one room. it is not certain how long it will take to destroy the entire compound. we are efforting video on this .

response, a bit of that as well from senator kay bailey hutchinson.ave a listen. >> but president obama's policy has resulted in an unprecedented slowdown in new exploration and production of oil and gas. off shore drilling permits are being issued at less than half the rate of the previous administration. >> jamie: it is a debate over high gas prices and you have to be feeling it at the pump. how can we address them? are they making their way into the campaign trail in a way that will effect both the president and g.o.p. candidates? moments ago we did hear from the president, there you have the republican response, let's get both sides fair and balanced. political analyst angela mcglowan joining us and former clinton pollster, and fox news distributor. >> great to see you. >> we're lucky we live in a city and we can take mass transit. but too many places filling up gas tanks, more than $5 a gallon. the president says he's going to do an all-strategies approach here, everything's on the table, but gas prices can be tied to lack of consumer confidence,

but senator kay bailey hutchinson delivering the republican response. he said there is a way to fix the policy and the president's policies are not helping. >> some politicians always see this as a political opportunity. since it is an election year, they are dusting off their same three point plan for two dollars gas. i'll save you the suspense. step one according to them is drill. step two is drill, and step three is to keep drilling. >> all forecasts are prices to rocket above four dollars a gallon during the summer driving season. families and businesses will be devastated. >> republicans also calling out president obama over his decision to stall construction of a new oil pipeline from canada. our correspondent, doug with the news. who has it right for assessing blame for the high prices here? >> they are both a little bit right and oil traders might suggest a little wrong. there is some agreement the present spike in prices is uncertainty in the middle east of the that said they have continually warned america there are no quick fixes to these typ

. >> in the republican response, texas senator kay bailey hutchinson put the blame squarely on the presidentblocked potential new sources of oil and gas. >>> gas prices are rising almost as fast as tempers across then nation. this is the 30th straight day gas prices have gone up. this morning it is it's up a nickel at $4.25. yesterday it was $4.20. a week ago it was $3.99 according to triple a. why is this happening? here is abc's dan harris. >> when it comes in to breathing in the noxious fumes of overpriced gas, we are not living in the united states. california is the red zone. a big angry blotch of high prices, over four dollars a gallon pretty much throughout the state tonight. >> one of the most expensive gas stations in america right now, the mobile station on south hacienda blvd. in l. a.. today at $5.21 a gallon. on the east, prizes between $3.60 and $3.93. the vast underbelly of the country in yellow between $3.38 and $3.71 but look at the big pasture of green in the middle where prices are all the way down to $3.16 and lower. home of the cheapest gas in america? u pump it in for t

. >> in the republican response, texas senator kay bailey hutchinson put the blame squarely on the presidenting he has blocked potential new sources of oil and gas. >>> gas prices are rising almost as fast as tempers across themation. this morning marks the 30th straight day gas prices have gone up. it's up a nickel at $4.25. yesterday it was $4.20. a week ago it was $3.99 according to triple days. last week was got ole days. dan harris explains what is driving prices higher. >> when it comes in to breathing in the noxious fumes of overpriced gas we are not living in the united states. california is the red zone. a big angry blotch of high prices, over four dollars a gallon pretty much throughout the state tonight. >> one of the most expensive gas stations in america right now, the mobile station on south hacienda before in l. a.. today at $5.21 a gallon. on the east, prizes between $3.60 and $3.93. the vast underbelly of the country in yellow between $3.38 and $3.71 but look at the big pasture of green in the middle where prices are all the way down to $3.16 and lower. home of the cheapest

. >> with me now is kay bailey-hutchinson. let me ask you straightforward, senator, are you going to support this deal? >> i don't know. i do not like it. i think we're up against a wall, but to take $100 billion hit on social security, on the trust fund and weaken social security, it's a tough call. >> would you have been comfortable with any of the proposed closing of a few of these corporate tax loopholes? apparently that was the sticking point here on paying for it, which was this issue of democrats wanted to go on the tax front. republicans wanted to go in a different direction just simply cutting other programs and not dealing with taxes. where were you on this? >> chuck, that argument we've been having for years. democrats always want to add taxes, we do not think that is the right thing to do in this kind of economy. we believe that spending cuts should have paid for any kind of an unemployment insurance extension or doctor pay fors. all of these things should have been paid for. and we should cut spending, we should n

services, jeff sessions, ranking member on finance, congressman enzi, ranking member on health, kay bailey hutchinson, ranking member on the commerce committee, lisa murkowski, ranking them on the energy emitted, and chuck grassley on ranking member of the finance committee, which is to senator reid, which we have asked that the legislation go through the regular process with the committees of jurisdiction having a say in this process. so, trendy i think you and i killed the balance of my time. >> no balance. [laughter] senator mccain, i returned -- [inaudible] i return -- know it's not. [laughter] >> looked, with the same fondness and respect you expressed to senator collins and even a starter, i cannot conceal the fact that i'm disappointed by your statement. we have conducted, this bill is essentially the windows market by the committee, but that's not the point. the point is that we've reached out, not only to everybody who was possibly interested in this bill outside of the congress, but opened the process to every member of the senate who wanted to be involved. we pleaded for involvement. and a

many mrns are outrage at the ongoing surge and texas senator kay bailey hutchinson faults the obama administration's no magic bullet to fix gas prices. do you remember this moment. >> if you're 65 years old eligible for medicare you should have to pay nearly 6400 more than you would today. that was vice-president joe biden caught sleeping or perhaps in deep thought during one of president obama's speeches last year. what goes around comes around. take a look what happened when biden took the light at an event in north carolina. you can see the guy right over the vice-president's shoulder, struggling to stay awake, come on, come on, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. he no. it's all-- oh, there we go. and he's back. so, anyway, this has been a big hit on the internet. >> dave: and you often have to wake up clayton throughout the program. and we're very in touch with what joe biden is going through. >> i think he's deep in thought and maybe bad contact lenses, you know. >> dave: you really want to listen, visualize the speech, close your eyes. that's what we do during that, during weather to really vis