concerns about the 81-year-old president revealing the clear signs of his cognitive decline becoming more obvious during private meetings. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. the white house quickly firing back at this report in the wall street journal calling the claims false and politically motivated. that long story, however, it is long, it includes interviews with dozens of high ranking officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who all agree behind closed doors biden shows signs of slipping. dana: former secretary of state mike pompeo will join us in a moment. first white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president. good to have you have on from paris. good to be here. and despite that wall street journal item that they say sources information from 45 different people detailing what these folks are saying is basically questions about president biden s acuity, here in pa
repetitions of words like i &. he consulted with people who created the transcript and who agreed it was an accurate transcript. dana: final thoughts on that, sir. american people deserve to hear the president s conversation. if you released the transcript. if you can t release the audio it s odd. they are trying to protect something that is there, how it soun. maybe connected to the same issue we ve been speaking to. i think the american people can sense the political article you referred to talked about foreign policy not being on the top of people s list. that s largely true and properly so. the mood music, the american people can sense that they and their children and grandchildren are less safe today because we have a president that hand handle the 3:00 a.m. phone call and deliver the security the american people need and has gotten us into two wars that didn t have to be. we could have deterred these bad guys and we simply failed to do it.
spain. first of all the pictures are extraordinary. walk us through this. what actually happened? reporter: that cctv footage surveillance cameras, a few yards from where actually the train crashed into that concrete column. it doesn t have any audio it s cctv footage but what our eye is drawn to of course is the locomotive the back end seems to swing out from the tracks and that crashes into the concrete column the back part of a bridge and goes on its side and brings the rest of the train with it. if you go back a fraction of a second before that happens, you can make out a puff of something, is it a puff of dust, is it a puff of smoke?
the great their economy. what does this mean? britain is staying on the sidelines keeping some anxiety in those markets. we ll have full details in a minute. we also have details about yesterday s virginia tech shootings. now police say the apparent gunman and victim did not know each other. university spokesman says the suspected shooter was not a student there and ballistics tests confirm that the same gun was used to kill the suspect and a campus police officer. the suspect apparently dye died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. they ve identified the slain officer as deriek crouse. he was 39. married with five children and step-children. police say the gunman walked right up to him and fired. he opened his car door and when they opened it he just fell out towards the ground. and then they immediately started reviving him. then they took off with some sort of automatic weapons. they started running the opposite direction after the gunman. that s so sad. a small vi