cnn members and mitt and msnbc s we spent 95% of their airtime covering donald trump s arraignment. think about the build up over the weekend to. by now, you ve expect the media to have learned how to cover donald trump and his family. but that s the exact opposite of what happened after the president left the courthouse. he stopped by a famous cuban cafe in miami on his way out. cnn, like most networks, took trump s cafe visit live for most networks and certainly producers. his surprise stop is a godsend. after all, how exciting are plane landings, suv caravans, courtroom sketches, but not cnn . this unscripted moment where average voters, as you see right here, show affection and enthusiasm. a human side to president, 45, would not be covered. they would not allow it. watch. donald trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have. and for obstruction of justice, along with wall nada, who is charged wit
[laughter] i m kidding. maybe. happy thursday, everybody. it is a glorious thursday. so let s big question, why are the young liberals so depressed, especially when compared to their righty counterparts? you can see it for yourselves. do these people look like they are having a good day? maybe. if you define a good day as resting your genitals in a bowl of battery acid. don t knock it. what is behind this agony? are they liberals because they are depressed? or are they depressed because they are liberals? it is the old what came first, the responsively great chicken or the organic egg? they are not watching uplifting programs like this one. i m surprised colbert s credits don t end with how to tie a noose. [laughter] it is very depressing. sometimes i cry. to get to the bottom, you have to have a former lefty. covering a 2022 academic paper titled the politics of depression. which comes complete with a beautiful charge. you can trust anything the chart and its colors and numb
american people. x news pola l shows that the president is facing serious competition from democratsfrom. he only captures 62% of the vote against challengers. robert kennedy jr. and marianne williamson. and worse, 60 seven percent of americans view a biden victory in 2020 four as they , quote , a deserve or setback for america. the media pointing out thatface president biden does face an uphill battle,ll a horrible newe horrible for joe biden. whrrible for joe biden. the president leads his democratic competitors by a huge margin, two thirds of all of the american peopleed surveyed. 66% of the publi, c say that a biden victory would either be a setback or a disaster for the united states . it isastes not an outlier. right. so our cnn poll had kennedy at 20%. we ve had two fox polls out 1 in the last month. one had hi.m at 16%. put the other one had him at 19%.r o kennedy is putting up a far more impressive showing than i would have thought when he first entered the race.
debt ceiling deal in principle though. and now the race is on get the votes to pass it and get it signed in order to avoid a default. if you are planning to go to the beach this weekend, be cautious. officials are telling people to be on high alert after a string of recent shark sightings and some attacks. what you need to know to protect yourself and your family. a warning from the surgeon general. why he says social media presents a, quote, profound risk for children. we are going talk to an experts about what parents can do to protect their children. have you seen it? i mean, it was a huge night for boston and the celtics. this buzzer-beater really is a fraction of a second at the ind end. you ve got to look closely to see it. they forced a winner-take-all game seven. we will show you highlights ahead. all right. we begin this morning with the race in washington to craft legislation, the text of it all, to raise the nation s debt ceiling and avoid an historic defau
new concerns about the health of pope francis. a fever forcing him to cancel events. new insight from the reporter who interviewed him face-t-to-face jusust yesterday. the u.s. coast guard joining an urgent search in the bahamas for an american teen, who went overboard while celebrating his high school graduation. the critical shortage of more than a dozen cancer drugs patients being turned away from their chemo treatments what s behind all of this and celine dion s major announcement why she s canceling her global tour. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight if you re sitting in front of the tv right now, you re one of the lucky ones, either because you already reached your destination, or you decided to stay home if the long lines at airports today are any sign, it seems that americans have collectively decided that this is the summer to get out and travel, and there s no better time to start