maybe none of the above. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we have eight months to go before the first presidential ballot of 2024 is cast. the conventional wisdom is we re headed for a rematch of 2020, this despite concerns that one candidate is too old and the other is morally unfit. which might explain why recent polls have revealed that americans don t want this rematch and there s dissatisfaction with both candidates. last month an nbc poll found that 70% of respondents said biden shouldn t run and 60% said trump shouldn t run. what are the odds that when all is said and done, the democrats nominate someone other than joe biden and republicans select a candidate different than donald trump? back on april 16th i put a polling question to my radio audience asking them if they agreed with this statement, neither biden nor trump will be the nominee. more than 25% of 20,000 plus who voted agree with that statement. maybe my listeners are on to something. this week emmy
the latest developments. hello, cb. mike, good afternoon. the legal team is calling for upgraded charges and attorneys for penny say the mounting defense will exonerate their client. this insight shared last night by penny s attorney thomas kenneth during wabc radio show katz and cosby. and the attorneys say, quote, they were led to believe this case was head today a grand jury and caught off guard when d.a. decided to arrest him on manslaughter, a penalty up to 15 years in prison. he was released on a $100,000 bond. some legal crit exsay this process has been political. if they re not going to arrest him on the scene with a political complaint, and wait and there s a gap. they ll go to the grand jury and come back with indictment. they didn t here, which leads me to believe the decision to charge him on a complaint was something driven by politics and not by the best interest of the criminal system. he s saying his firm has retired n.y.p.d. detectives investigating and
now, john. all right. important update there, chad. thank you very much. a sudden departure this morning by a key figure in the january 6th investigation. tony ornato, the sis tachbt director of the secret service left the agency on monday. it comes two months after his name came up in explosive testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. she said ornato told her then president trump was furious with his security detail for refusing to take him to the capitol on january 6th. the president said something to the effect of i m the f ing president, take me up to the capitol now to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. when mr. ornat
marched from different places in the goddess city and they stood right here behind me. it s the un headquarters. this is where they are located. at the end they deliver the message. this rally was called out for by the palestinian factions. they gave out a message and they said they re going to deliver this a written message or speech to the you when at the end, after the delivery date, finland has confirmed that it will officially apply for nato membership. it s long been neutral, but the government has said that the crumbson s unpredictable behavior is a pressing issue. public support in finland for membership of the alliance as more than doubled since the start of the war and ukraine. ordinary people with their opinions, political parties, covenant parliament, they have shown how strong thinness democracy is. as a result of that, we have to day historic day finland will maximize its security. lebanon is holding its 1st general election since an economic meltdown that began
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] eaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 7, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Scott Franklin to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the who is willd house will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternative recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five min minutes. Mr. Blumenauer