governor s races in new jersey is ahead of the mid terms. ron desantis signing a new law banning trans gender athletes in high school and college from participating in women s sports. and he did it on the first day of pride month. desantis denies that was a factor. it s important to have integrity and fairness in competitions. . florida is now the eighth state to enact an andy transgender athlete ban. president biden recognized june as pride month, pushing for lgbtq equality and calling out some states for targeting transyouth in discriminatory bills. more than 40 house democrats introduced legislation it to protect family members of mult personnel that are transgender. it limit gender affirming health care and treatments. all right. to the job market now. is the big, big debate of the great reopening. is there a labor shortage or a surplus of awful jobs? restaurants are struggling to find workers as the economy
faithful base. but at some point, don t you have to say as a republican voter, you re making a fool out of me. i think, laur yashgs we long since passed the point that a rational person engaging in critical thinkinging would have reached that. but the president s a former president is galvanizing a part of the republican base that is desperate for someone to champion them, that feels like they re america is under assault. and donald trump has been extraordinarily effective and extracting money from the people. he s facing the risk of prosecution. he needs money. he is pressed in in financially in various ways including for his legal defense, including for the maintenance of his businesses. and he has continuing that effort to mobilize people. among other things, he is trying in addition to the
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and then he took out a pen and stabbed himself in in the neck. now you can see on that video, he s inside a cage. it was difficult for court workers to get to him. he was brought on a gurney and had to go into surgery. the issues are not life threatening. all this, of course, comes as we see increasing crackdown there in belaruse. yesterday there was a meeting between the seven delegation and the opposition of belaruse in lithuania. the opposition calling what is going on in belaruse right now state terror. of course, all this comes only ten days after a ryan airplane was brought down and a journalist was taken off that plane. now all eyes, guys, are obviously on that meeting between president biden and vladimir putin. he s the last big packer of the dictator. thank you so much, appreciate it. just about the top of the hour. take a look at business. marke markets around the world, mixed performance. asia mixed. european shares opened slightly higher. those are not big moves. u.s. s
i think christine, these are priorities that president biden expressed from the beginning. time is running out on that early period in the administration. you have a burst of momentum and a an ability to get your program through. of some things can you do by executive action. he has taken executive action in the last 24 hours, for example, suspending those newark tick oil and gas leases in the national wide life refuge there and also ending a border policy by the trump administration about making people wait in mexico while their asylum claims were being heard. but the steps he announced or discussed financially to try to remedy some of the racial wealth gap, they re going to take action from congress. so will will protecting voting rights and increasingly it s becoming clear that republicans across the country are launching an assault or a kprens af tempt to curb voting rights. he s got to get moving if he s