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What the president blamed, and what a gallon costs (5 min), with captions The story President Donald Trump gave his first interview since the November 3 mi...

What the president blamed, and what a gallon costs (5 min), with captions The story President Donald Trump gave his first interview since the November 3 midterms, recorded at the White House on Friday, November 6 and aired by CBS on Sunday. Asked for his analysis of the result, he named the war with Iran, the rise in gasoline prices, and what he described as a dislike for Israel. Control of the House and the Senate passed to the Democrats on November 3, with races in Alaska and Mississippi still uncalled as of November 8. On gasoline, the federal energy agency's weekly national average puts a gallon of regular at $4.153 for the week of November 2. The lowest week of the term was January 12, at $2.779, a rise of $1.374, and the price was $1.134 above the same week a year earlier. The gallon peaked at $4.500 on May 11 and has not returned to where the year began. The price of crude oil underlies the pump price. Brent stood at $71.36 a barrel in the week before the war began, rose to $127.43, and was still $121.17 in the week of October 30. The national average hides a wide spread: in the same week the West Coast paid $5.296 a gallon and the Gulf Coast $3.636, a gap of $1.660. In the same answer the president said the stock market was at its highest in history. The S&P 500's record close is 7,818.93, set on October 6; on Friday, November 6, the day the interview was recorded, it closed at 7,376.86, 5.7 percent below the record. The index was still 8.0 percent above its close of 6,832.43 on November 10 last year. Asked why people say they feel worse off than the figures suggest, the president said it was not really the Iran war because the numbers are phenomenal, and attributed it to bad messaging, possibly by him. He also said the press does not cover good news for him. In the same interview he said his deportation policy might be too tough, that he was not on the ballot, that he expects a few changes to his team, and that he probably cannot forgive his enemies. The new Congress is seated in January 2027. The next weekly average for a gallon is published on November 10. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio