bob nardelli is on the panel this morning, david. and bob, you've been in transportation businesses almost your entire career. when somebody is paying more for gasoline, somebody is paying more for heating their home, that takes away the disposable income to spend elsewhere. do you see an impact on the economy from the price of oil right now? jump in here, bob. >> thank you, maria. and good morning. thank you for having me on the show. i couldn't agree more with david. as you said, having spent a big portion of my life in power and gas and oil, it just -- it challenges common sense. we had attained energy independence and we threw it away with a stroke of a opinion and now we're out tin-cupping, as david said, begging opec to provide oil and they got us. our personal experience, week over week, last saturday, 10-cent increase per gallon every week, ten, ten, ten. you could say that the lower wage people are not going to be taxed. they're being killed, maria. they're being killed at the gas pump. they're being killed in the retail, wh

bob nardelli. thanks very much. built in to the cake on whatever spending we get out of this super infrastructure package, whatever you want to call it, the rich will foot the bill. we learned that the rich are good at shifting their money around and the shift has just hit the fan after this. aaaand welcome back to guess the price. sal. what do you do? oh, i'm a retired postal worker. fantastic. are you ready to play? oh, heck yeah. ok johnny, tell him about eargo. these top of the line hearing aids from eargo are straight out of the future. they're rechargeable and virtually invisible in your ears host: ok sal, how much do you think they cost? oh gee i don't know... um er $5000? well, actually for you they don't cost anything holy heck. that's because federal employees, retirees and their families get these life changing hearing aids at no cost. holy heck and you don't need to visit a doctor because they ship right o your home and they come with lifetime remote support. convenient right? heck yeah..... heck yeah he

bob nardelli, thank you. >> thank you, brian. >> meanwhile, let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather cast. >> a good morning. beautiful day here in new york city, but we had some really rough weather across the central u.s. last night. powerful cold front bringing the threat for tornadoes over areas like oklahoma in towards kansas and we still have a tornado watch in effect for central oklahoma. we had a couple of early warnings and north of oklahoma city is where we have it tornado worn storm so some of these could be happening this morning. know what to do if there is a watch or warning in your area as the front will move through this afternoon. we still have cold air behind and snow warnings or parts of wyoming, so a very complex system we will track throughout the day. we will certainly keep you up-to-date from a fox weather. >> thank you. meanwhile, janice exposing e-mails, president biden to his son hunter's finances, could bite his past remarks get him in hot water? we will discuss next. when i needed to create a better visitor experience. impro

what a waste of resources when bob nardelli comes up with an idea they talked about yesterday, and use the national guard. >> they've been looking at that for a wild. >> looking at what the administration has been looking at. talk about the ships, over 100 of them off the coast of los angeles and long beach you know how long, there's 100 ships, you know how long it takes to take all the containers off one ship, for 5 days and over 100, that is 500 days worth of taking stuff up. it depends on the number -- ainsley: to get them to florida or texas. pete: the thing about la and long beach that handle the most cargo in the united states and according to reuters they are among the least efficient ports in the world. they look at 351 ports around the globe and out of 351 los angeles is number 328. behind tanzania. long beach even worse. 333 behind the country of turkey. we should be - the president is pushing infrastructure, we should look at how japan does it because they have a number one most efficient port in japan followed by saudi arabia, followed by china, the world is getting a run.

i did to leave you with the final word on the program, bob nardelli, thank you, have a great day. "varney and company" begins right now. take it away. stuart: president biden is in deep political trouble at a time he needs maximum support to push through socialist plans, support is evaporating was the latest poll shows biden is way underwater on his performance on the economy. 39% approve and that is down 11 points in just a few weeks. his big problem is inflation, voters biggest concern. 87% are extremely or very concerned about rising prices. one more. it is the independents who are leaving him in droves. among that group he has dropped 15 points, over handling the economy. there is news on biden's massive spending plan. christensen a will not support higher taxes on individuals, corporations or capital gains. democrats are scrambling to figure out how to pay for it all. the president stumped for his plan wednesday saying, quote, it does not increase the debt. it is all paid for. christensen a set it does not add up. to the markets, a pull back for stocks follows and intraday hi

host: bob nardelli on fox and friends yesterday. we are talking about supply chain issues, what you are seeing in your part of the country. are you shopping early for christmas or stocking up on certain goods? give us a call. regionally, (202) 748-8000 for eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 for mountain or pacific time zones. we will start in the middle of the country, kansas city, gordon. kansas city, kansas. go ahead. caller: that old man could not fix a bicycle chain. we need back. host: what are you seeing in kansas city. we lost gordon. but this is greg out of mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. you are next. caller: i detect some drifting towards the middle by you personally and c-span. i hope that continues. the caller from kansas city is absolutely right, and so was the ceo of home depot. absolutely, both of their comments were exactly what i was going to say. that is what needs to happen. see the world as it is, not the way you want it to be. and somebody at c-span, let's find out who is writing the stuff that hunter's