campaign a burst of momentum in states president biden won four years ago as we get closer to the first debate. the economy, inflation, and the border and we re going to take care of it all. we re going to make america greater than ever before. president biden: he s about him, i m about the country. are you ready for this debate? president biden: yes. todd: we re talking to lara trump. carley: and a glitzy l.a. fundraiser featuring george clooney. why did the hollywood leading man reportedly make an angry phone call to the white house? you won t want to miss details. todd: a connecticut town declining to fly the thin blue-line flag following the death of a trooper. it did say a pride flag is okay. it is viewed as antagonistic, even if you don t see it that way. i don t think that is a good way to fly, especially not with further discussion. todd: state of connect sect is in mourning following the death of this trooper, fact they cannot fly a thin blue line f
exactly. one of the big problems is that our students don t know why they are not standing for the pledge. it would be different if they understood why. speaking to my students, particularly and some of their friends, i think the bigger issue is they want to be on their cell phones. not my students thankfully, they want to stand and say the pledge. a lot of other students just want to be on their phones and talk and don t want to stand or because other students be aren t standing. they don t really know why. if the schools encourage them to do it, i think they would actually stand. after the whole kneeling for the national anthem, i think we saw
campaign, numerous reports of sivs vicious activity, fraud, and so on. to, we did not have the resources of the fbi or a large agency to investigated so we got people to look at it, we got all these reports in. we had all these suspicions. three, we took this evidence which was not fully baked but it s what we had at the time and to try and slow down the process we went to the courts and dozens of them refused to hear us either on the evidence but mostly aren t standing. and then we went or legislative bodies. so their overarching argument is going to be, it doesn t matter if we won or lost, it doesn t matter if we were right or wrong. it doesn t even matter if we light in a press conference. when it came to using the system, we went to the courts, we went to the legislative bodies, and we believe that we did it by the book. now, you have a special prosecutor in washington. and the district attorney in fulton county to say there were things that were not true. they knew there were not
unpredictable. but at the moment, i do continue to believe that we re more threatened by us than we are by our enemies right now. we re more threatened by the way we re allowing our democracy to erode and people aren t standing up enough. there s a lot of cowardice in politics right now. and really just such a pushback from the american people. they re just losing their faith in institutions it seems like in a lot of ways. yes. which so foundational, right, to democracy. i to do want to ask you, if you were advising any one of the republican candidates running against trump at this point, how would you approach this issue? because i ve been following them. they really are trying to kind of delicately go afternround it. mike pence has been very direct about that third indictment. but otherwise, you know, they re not really going right at donald trump. yeah, that s very, very true. they re not going after donald
said in our relationships with other faith communities and with other communities across our city and across our country because we know that we can t stand alone, and we shouldn t stand alone, and there s strength in building those kinds of relationships so that we can call upon each other in moments of joy and share each other s joyce, and also share each other s pains and stand with each other in moments of challenge and difficulty like this one. that s really my message to my community whenever these kinds of incidents come up. yeah, can t stand alone, aren t standing alone. rabbi, thanks so much for your time, i really appreciate it, sir. thank you, thank you. all right, coming up, gun violence is extremely rare in japan, and now investigators are trying to find out what motivated a gunman to assassinate the nation s longest serving prime minister, and how it was able it to happen in the first place. we have a live report coming up next. plus, elon musk wants out of his de