the friday before juneteenth, clocked in as the most popular air travel day of 2022. and all of this as inflation hits a 40-year high. let s start with the travel troubles facing so many americans right now. in los angeles international airport, already today more than 770 flights cancelled. and still, there might be more this holiday weekend. why? yeah. it s because a lot of people are flying first of all. tsa saying they screened about 2.5 million people on friday. that s the highest number they ve seen since the sunday after thanksgiving. and then the problem is that the airlines just can t keep up. of course, part of the reason why so many are flying this weekend is because it s a lock summer weekend. a lot of people have off monday for juneteenth, and of course, it also coincides with father s day. and then these airlines just not keeping up for a number of reasons. one, being weather problems. delays and cancellations. there s also staff shortages and infrastructure c
region aimed at leveling the economic playing field with china but his remarks on taijuan garnered the most attention. president biden said the u.s. would respond military if china invaded taijuan. this morning, the white house is walking back those comments. a source familiar with the president s thinking tells me biden was speaking about providing weapons to taijuan, not putting u.s. forces into any conflict with china if it were to invade taijuan so similar to the position on ukraine. weapons, not forces. we ll have more on that in a moment. in switzerland, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has taken center stage to the economic forum suggesting m maximum sanctions against russia. they are continuing to encounter russia and their impacts on the war in ukraine. jeremy diamond is traveling with the president in tokyo and cnn business editor at large richard quest is attending the world economic forum in switzerland. jeremy, first to you. the news the white house
Richard fowler, dana perino and greg gutfeld. 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Cpho taking another nosedive in the polls and a lot is getting way too close for comfort with drew barrymore. Things are going off the rails at the white house again. Joe biden was riding pretty high after being the host at the white house Correspondents Dinner on saturday. With the Events Committee called him decent and joe got to give the leftwing press their marching orders. Listen. President biden im sincerely asking you not to take sides but ask you to rise of the to the seriousness of the moment. Everyone has roles to play got a serious role to play in major democracy endorsed, america survives. They woke up Sunday Morning and got smacked with a hard dose of reality from leftwing cnn of all places. Thereby new survey shows trump taking his biggest lead he had ever over joe biden. And it also says that most americans find president bidens term to be a total failure. The white house is an inco