but we begin with the white house closing ranks and saying the president meant what he said about the classified documents being no big deal. the white house correspondent kevin corke is live for us in the nation s capital with this. evening, two years and in the white house says it is focused on the battles that it mattered most, both here at home and abroad which is to say nurturing the economy back to full health, responding to the climate crisis, and of course and effort in ukraine to name a few, as we look at the jill biden have time report, we see that it is a mixed bag coming at us, we are two years since he was inaugurated, we have low unemployment, jobs aplenty, high but falling inflation, high but falling gas prices, however, record debt in spending, the border crisis, and don t forget to the crime crisis and many of america s largest cities, the afghanistan debacle, and the document drama, the unfolding classified materials kerfuffle continuing to bubble up to th
[cheers and applause] thank you, thank you for receiving us with open arms. even if they are covered with black sabbath tattoos and number 77 sunscreen. let s cover some news before we go to the monologue. an american who was trapped in ukraine for eight months says he evaded russian troops by prevpretending to be irish. in other words, he was drunk. comedian gallagher sadly has passed away at age 76. his family scheduled a private ceremony. followed by smashing him with a giant hammer. [laughs] laura: we had to show the picture of the watermelon. amazon s jeff bezos and ncb giving his fortune to charity, earning praise for hunter biden who gave most of his fortune to charity a month and the other girl dancing wednesday night shift. [dracula sanctuary city of philadelphia.- [cheers and applause] sparking outrage from migrants who packed for martha s vineyard. this isn t what i signed up for, said one refugee named beto o rourke. the department of energy is projecting he
the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping classified documents next to stingray and the president fired back that
we will be playing country music over the place even if you are not a fan of country music, it is memorial day and patriotic. todd: it puts you in the mood to honor america but most importantly honor those who paid the ultimate price that we can enjoy today and everyday in the land of the free and of course, that the home of the brave. this is definitely the home of the brave. with that, a lot of you traveling will see a lot. a holiday crisis, gas prices and flights being canceled due to staff shortages at airlines. ashley: alexandria hoff live with more, alexandria. good morning, ashley, todd. i wrapped up my holiday travel at the airport and it was no joke. aaa predicts 25% more americans will travel for this holiday than they did last year between weather, airline staff issues, hundreds of flights canceled this week and including more than 200 so far today. that is on top of passengers already having to shell out more, listen. when i travel, i m not really surprise
because not a lot of follow-up pieces about these man-made food shortages that joe biden was predicting and that is weird if you think about it because food shortages are inherently a big deal. you can argue that there even more significant than a slap fight between celebrities at an award show. food shortages they bring down empires and they often have. if you have a short food shortage of a potentially destabilizing problem on your hand. now we do have a food shortage and it s real as joe biden predicted. they released 26 states that half of the retail stores are completely out of baby formula. that includes the states of texas, missouri, and many others. these are major population centers without enough food for newborns. in memphis and nashville, 52% of stores have no baby formula. houston at des moines dimona reported similar shortages. in san antonio with unusual high percentage of small children 57% of all scores in the city have no baby formula. those are the numbe