white house press briefing for reaction from the white house, as well as john kirby, actually, the spokesperson. china is pushing back, accusing the u.s. of a smear campaign, so how will the white house respond? we are going to first start with this fox news alert. john: america s crime crisis continues to plague residents in democratic-led cities from coast to coast, including here in the nation s capital, innocent civilians fight off violent felons and brazen teens who face no consequences for terrorizing america s streets. sandra: the latest incident, 82-year-old grandmother trying to make her way to receive chemotherapy, forced to fight off a vicious juvenile trying to carjack her. john: what a brave individual that guy was. but not stopping the d.c. far left city council overhauling the criminal code, critics say will put more criminals on the dangerous streets and supposed to be the crown jewel of american exceptionallism. sandra: jeff flock on a new bill in ill
president, not george w. bush, his father. i m christine romans, this is early start. just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. i m 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went jim, thank you for those comments. i hear you. i m terribly sorry that this has happened to this community. what i can do and what i will do is make it right. we ll get the cleanup right. we re going to reimburse the citizens, we ll invest in the long term health of this community. miguel marquez has more from east palestine. reporter: a massive effort under way to clean up creeks and water flowing in an
hashtag long form. hashtag, good to see you. have a good show. okay. hashtag, thank you. always good talking, nicole. i m ari melber and we re reporting live from somewhere, as the saying goes, specifically washington. congress under new management after the bruising fight to elect speaker mccarthy and for all the talk, among gop hard liners about how that clash, remember, they said that would really change things. it would upend the d.c. games, that s what they said. well, tonight for top republicans, i can tell you, it s business as usual. the same playbook the republican party used during the last time that the republicans were in the white house and they had the congress. it s the brinksmanship that can rattle the economy and some conservatives argue actually hurts them too. it drags down the gop in the long run miami talking about another threat to exploit the financial rules and govern by ransom. this story involves some beltway jargon that you ve probably heard b
now they want to take the abortion fight to the states. pro-life supporters across the country descended on the nation s capitol 50th annual march for life and since roe v. wade was overturned. the dobbs decision brought abortion back to the state level where many think the next fight begins. we got to get to the state levels now. right? that s the the emphasis. that s why we are going in front of the capital is to show at each state level this is not over. it s only the beginning. currently 13 states have a complete abortion ban. five have partial bans. six states are in limbo pending current litigation. abortion is legal in the remaining states. new house majority leader steve scalise says despite the supreme court s ruling the issue is far from settled. the court didn t get rid of abortion. they just allowed this debate to continue with elected leaders instead of judges. the new republican majority in the house wasted little time passing pro-life legislation.
let s go to phil mattingly who is in rockville, maryland where joe biden is participating in a reception for the democratic national convention. democrats are trying t ining to support going into the midterms. do you know what he s expected to address tonight? reporter: jake, in case you can t tell from the high school band behind us, it s campaign season for the president and his team. they ve been talking about getting on the road for several weeks. this will be the launch of the midterm campaign season, including a very clear speech, making clear that while he understands a win does not [ inaudible ] they have real things they can campaign on. they can campaign on legislative results, against republicans that they feel like are against most of the things perhaps democratic voters want to pay attention to. more than anything else, jake, over the course of the last several weeks, there have been clear signals that the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade is boos