Mark Halperin

The price increase is adding new pressure on the president's affordability messaging ahead of November's midterms.

Though, of course, much could depend on how long the spike lasts.

Prolonged high costs risk fueling voter frustrations ahead of those crucial elections.

CBS News speaking to Americans about the pain at the pump.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, President Trump casting higher prices as short-term pain for long-term gain.

We spoke to the host of The Edge on YouTube, Eric Bolling, who spent 35 years as an oil trader.

He tells us he has never seen a situation this volatile.

Bolling weighing in also on the domestic political ramifications for the president if gas prices do remain high.

Bolling tells us he has proposed a solution to the Trump administration, offering deals to both Venezuela and Iran to create public-private petroleum corporations like Saudi Aramco.

Under this structure, the government owns the oil, but private companies extract it.

Bolling explains.

Coming up, a California man stabbed to death while using a public charging station.

Then the ambulance has stolen his family now suing the city.

And Governor Gavin Newsom's wife also in California under scrutiny as IRS filings reveal millions flowing from her charity to her company.

A California family now filing a $40 million claim against the city of Downey after a 68-year-old lab technician was killed while charging his Tesla outside a public library.

The family of Rinaldo LaFonce alleging city officials

failed to protect residents in an area they say had a very long history of crime.

And that series of failures during the emergency response contributed to his death.

LaFonce charging his vehicle at an EV station outside the Downey City Library back on September 13th when police say he was stabbed and killed by Giovanni Navarro, a homeless man with 28 prior convictions, including brandishing a weapon, attempted burglary, criminal threats,

and resisting arrest.