we have new polling on what that message might do with a key bloc of voters. plus, what a raging wildfire in california is warning us about this summer s fire season. and two days after the supreme court rules to make it easier to rapidly fire a gun, a man shoots nearly 30 rounds at families using a community splash pad for kids. nine injured, including children. some seriously. an 8-year-old boy who has a gunshot wound to the head. he s in critical condition. those stories in a moment. first, let s begin with politics. the new more aggressive strategy from team biden to go after donald trump as a convicted felon. the new $50 million ad campaign is going up in battleground states, framing the election as a choice between a convicted criminal, that s in a quote, and a president who is, quote, fighting for your family. it was juiced over the weekend as george clooney, julia roberts, jimmy kimmel and former president obama laid out the stakes for november. the next pre
on that day. june 6th, 1944. it s to listen to the echoes. they re asking us to do our job, to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy. to stand up against aggression abroad and at home. president biden stressing the importance of democracy from the very cliffs that allied forces scaled 80 years ago to fight the nazis. plus, the far right is finally facing accountability, with steve bannon ordered to report to prison next months and alex jones forced to liquidate his assets to pay sandy hook families. i asked you all online if you would be interested in us talking about the sudden boom and interest surrounding the wnba and the controversy that has come with it. and you answered with a resounding yes. stay tuned for that conversation later in the show. and we begin tonight with president biden in normandy. delivering an address on democracy and freedom at a pivotal site during the world war ii allied invasion on d-day in normandy, france. democracy begins with e
desantis in florida. all you need is a quarter of the people that just supported trump to sign a petition and it appears they have done that. he failed miserably. he locked on the largest for the economy in the world and let out prisoners and now gavin newsom will be held accountable. brian: here we go, that s a look at our road and that is philadelphia. ainsley: this is our oc wagon. yesterday brian said he thinks the anchor who says hello for should decide the song. brian: i was hoping that would be a new tradition i mean, if you went to the other side of the album. ainsley: if you will suggest it, you should know it. brian: but i don t know every song. i focus most of my youth with the base city rollers. i thought they would have long jevity but they did not and they left with their mullahs. if you google base city rollers you will know what i mean. so great to be with you all. brian: you should ve seen at lawrence s face when he walked in. like he was headed to
excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. they think war is a glorious thing and let s go and do it. but in the spring lincoln s overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team, would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. ellsworth led a band across the river to tear down the confederate flag. as he was walking down the stairs, the owner of the inn took his shotgun and shot him in the chest. he fell down the last few steps, clutching and wrapped in this increasingly blood-soaked flag. lincoln loved this young man, so the war came home really fast for lincoln. with the first cannon fired at ft. sumter in april 1861, the country is thrust into civil war
honor the more than 529,000 people who have lost their lives to covid-19. and address the sacrifices that americans, that all of us have made during this pandemic while recognizing how it has very much changed our lives. that is right. president biden is also expected to tout what just passed and that is his $1.9 trillion covid stimulus package known as the american rescue plan. largely popular with the american people. but it passed only along party lines. there was not a single republican in either chamber that supported the bill. the president will sign it into law tomorrow and then he s going to pennsylvania next week to sell it to the american people. so let s begin at the white house with our john harwood. good morning to you, john. what have you learned in terms of the tone we re going to hear from the president tonight? reporter: well, poppy, pretty consistently president biden has struck a very sober tone about this pandemic, honoring the sacrifice of people, spe