welcome, everybody. we begin on the unofficial first day of the summer travel season. and you better pack your patience. 42 million americans will take to the skies this memorial day weekend. experts think it could be one of the busiest on record. now, the white house is pushing to avoid another flight mare like last year. president biden is touting his effort to compensation travelers for flight delays, quote, ledezma up for travelers this memorial day weekend. we launched flight rights.gov. if the flight was cancelled or delayed, check the dashboard to see how you could be compensated. transportation secretary pete buttigieg thinks it will serve as a big test for the airline system. this weekend will be a test of the system and i think all of us have airline stories from last summer and the disruptions that took place then, cancellation and delay rates were at unacceptable proportions last year, and it s important that that not happen again. all right. so pete buttigieg
get this, 240 of those were minors. some as young as 12 years old. researchers highlighted improvements two took their own life and eleven considered suicide. this was a tax payer funded study. it was widely embraced this improved their mental health. republicans in the house and senate express grave concerns and demand answers writing this in a letter to the nih. rather than shutting the research down. researchers published saying the study was a success. the law makers are also questioning the so called success. the experiment had no control group. why wouldn t it have that? that s par for the course for an experiment. law makers say four of researchers involved were out outspoken advocates. north carolina senator is accusing nih for acting on political motivations. the attacks payer expense. 240 of them were minors at young as 12 years old. we think this is absolutely tragic. first of all taxpayer expense. second at the expense of minors. researchers are justifying ane
white house correspondent peter doocy live on the ground in hi roche a ma with the latest. reporter: griff, that s what he told the world 4r50eders gathered here in japan, but for months he s been telling us zelenskyy doesn t feed need f-16s fighters. we re finding out why it is that president biden is changing his tune. we ve reached a moment where it is time to look down the road and say what is ukraine going to need as part of a future force to be able to deter and defend against russian aggression as we go forward. f-16 iss fourth generation fighter aircraft are part of that mix. reporter: the u.s. is not sending f-16s right away, instead they are supporting a plan to the train ukrainian pilots in europe, and we are being told that at a later date the united states and other partners from the g7 will decide when the ukrainians can take those jets and who will be providing them. the number one thing though that president biden is getting a lot of questions about he
for anyone. we ve had presidents who have fallen before who were a lot younger and people didn t go into, you know, heart palpitations. but his age is an issue and people have every write to every right to consider it. driving the knife in his back during his most vulnerable moments. new poll numbers show he is in serious trouble. less than a third approve of handling the economy, guns, immigration. and hillary is not giving a glowing review of his presidency. i am, you know, of the camp that is hes determined to run, he has a good record. that people would not have predicted would have gotten done. he doesn t get the credit he deserves for what s going on in the country. i hope he stays very focused, able to compete in the election because i think he can be reelected. . jesse: she s stealing his talking points. if trump wins, which i do not believe will happen, let me quickly say that, if in some scenario that were to happen, it would be the end of democracy in th
all that on tap for you. all new at 2:00. first this fox news alert. john: president biden back on u.s. soil after the g7 in japan, debt negotiations are at a standstill. the president cutting his trip short to deal with this crisis at home, and seemingly downplaying china s threat to national security before he departed asia. and then this silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars worth of spying equipment was flying over the united states and it got shot down, and everything changed. sandra: saying he gave beijing a win on the world stage. gillian turner is live on the north lawn at the white house for us. gillian, what are the president s advisors saying about all of this? well, his national security advisor, jake sullivan, took to the airwaves over the weekend to hit back against this criticism from folks who say that biden s decision to cut his international trip short really gave china a quick easy win on the world stage by making the u.s. somehow seem