Smith. And maryland, the president trying to handle growing threats in the pacific. A new Military Exercise Program to Counter China and north koreas ambitions. John and during the announcement, one reporter squeezed in a question about National Security concerns over the president s son. Listen here. Administration view this investigation as legitimate and the administration concerns that Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a National Security issue . I dont have any comment on that. John the white house shutting down that line of inquiry, trying to focus on the task at hand. Jacqui heinrich is live at camp david, with the podium behind her, the leaders will soon appear. Its significant to note just how interesting it is you are going to have these three leaders appearing on the same stage together. Two years ago the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman had to appear solo on a Stage Following a trilateral event with the two countries and u. S. , the Japanese Foreign minister objected
Future. It comes as new fox new polls reveal what voters think schools should be focused on teaching in the classroom. Im john roberts, welcome to friday and to you. Aishah im Aishah Hasnie in for sandra smith. Voters of all political stripes are finding Common Ground on a couple of key issues. Public schools should teach more about being a good citizen, less about gender identity issues. John parents are protesting over transgender policies which prompted a Court Battle In One State Andout right defiance by a School District in another. Mark meredith joins us with more on all of this. How much are voters do we think focusing on education . John, quite a bit. Seems like this issue has broken up ever since the pandemic. Of course, always Hot Button Issues in politics, but education has played a more prominent role in the daily debate and new fox news polling explains why. Not enough time is spent on what you consider reading, writing, math, science, they say too much time is spent on ge
plus, from total celebration to complete chaos, two people were shot, a police officer hit by a fire truck during a victory parade for nba champion denver nuggets. and the department of justice tees off an investigation, looking into that mega merger between the pga tour and saudi funded liv golf. our reporters are fouling all of the latest developments. we start, though, with the breaking news out of pittsburgh where nbc s george solis is covering the guilty verdict in the trial of the gunman who killed 11 people at that synagogue in 2018. george, i know it s been a few hours since the verdict. what are we hearing from the community? reporter: yeah, chris, some members of the congregation weighing in, saying they expected this guilty verdict. for them, this is some semblance of justice. in my conversation with them over the last several days, many of them say they will never be able to look at the accused shooter robert bowers directly in the eye. it was hard for them to
quality concerns, images coming in. smoke from canadian fires filling the skies over several major cities, including philadelphia. rob marciano times this out. tonight, a store owner facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy he accused of shoplifting. the teen shot in the back while running away. police did find a gun. and what we ve learned tonight about that store owner before. the apartment building collapse. authorities now using drones to search for the missing. our team in iowa. the war in ukraine tonight and the missile debris raining down on the ukrainian capital of kyiv. this as ukraine launches new attacks inside russia. the russian refinery tonight set ablaze. here in the u.s., the race for the white house. ron desantis taking aim at president biden and former president trump, saying we don t need an entertainer as president. jon karl in iowa. the breaking news actor danny masterson of that 70s show convicted of rape a short tim
big apple earlier today. city officials are desperately searching for places to house thousands more expected to be on the way. new york city began housing migrants in several public school gymnasiums. mayor adams identified more potential housing options. but it didn t take long for those migrants to begin lining the streets of these school zones. with these migrants gathering outside their shelter at an elementary school near coney island. city officials are reversing course and moving migrants out of the schools but it only came after parents and students took to the streets. give back our gym, we need it for the kids. give us back our gym, we need it for the kids. we want our gym back, we want our gym back. we want our gym back. you know, congressman, this is just common sense. you ve got 11 and 12-year-old girls and you are going to put single adult males beside them, not just single adult males but males who haven t been vetted, we know people in the terror watch li