that man joe biden. ainsley: gillian turner at the white house where the president just returned from latest vacation. gillian? the president himself just last month also acknowledged age, his age is an issue that voters cite in national polls time and time again as a reason he should not seek re-election in 2024. but now at least over the weekend, his re-election team seems to be backing away from acknowledging, tackling that reality head on. take a listen. talk about age? we will talk about the things that americans are talking about and that s kitchen table issues. 69% of democratic voters now say the president biden is, quote: too old to be effective for four more years. this according to the latest a.p. newark poll. multiple g.o.p. candidates taking hits at biden s age following nikki haley s call for a physical and mental test for all washington office holders. don t you yo-yos know that
embedded in them as well as they look for what may be one more shooter at large. again, all of this information is coming in from various different sources and none of it is confirmed at this point. the only thing we know is the emergency situation ongoing there at the university of north carolina chapel hill. but i would suspect, sandra, looking at the posture of the officers on the ground there, even though they have all of this protection and long guns out, there does not seem to be an immediate sense of urgency in terms of how they are reacting. so we hope that this situation may be under control at this point, though we don t know. sandra: definitely don t, and don t know what area of the campus it might be in. obviously a huge presence across the campus. let s hope for the best. bring in joe cardinali, former nypd lieutenant. add this update, a.p. update to what we have learned so far,
connections with some people who are not even old enough to vote. white house correspondent peter doocy has that story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, period. bret, officials that work here are confronting a problem they cannot solve. president biden s age. because, no no matter what kind of event they put on trying to set the tone nationally, the number one thing that voters are associating president biden with is aging, above all else. president y all. [laughter] pete: back from vacation, the first family went back to school. the hardest thing is to come back after three months of not doing any work. pete: white house officials won t say why the white house s spotted near the white house as 26% of voters polled by a.p. list age as the the first thing they think of when they think of the president. using words like old, outdated, aging and elderly. we will happily, happily to discuss as we relates to age
bonanza. the often staid associated press captures this with a succinct headline. one midge, one face, one american moment the trump mug shot. the reporting i wanted to share with you from the a.p., which is assiduously nonpartisan, but understands the significance of this, not whether you like or dislike the face on this screen, not whether you think he s guilty or not, which is ultimately up to a jury, but what this means. quote, a mug shot is a visceral representation of the criminal justice system, a symbol of lost freedom. it permanently memorializes one of the worst days of a person s life, a moment not meant for a scrapbook, end quote. i got to tell you something as we go through this together and we try to report on the facts here and our team goes through all of this with you. when you look at something like this and you read what the a.p. says, it almost sounds obvious. duh, mug shot bad. and yet i refer to the polarized