friday marked the single busiest day in the skies ever. add in 34 million at risk of severe weather and we have a potential recipe for a travel disaster. we have your forecast and when you may want to steer clear of the roads. plus, a weekend of gun violence in america, at a nightclub in kansas and a block party in baltimore, injuring dozens and claiming two lives. what we re learning about these mass shootings. later, the ride of a lifetime that no one asked for. the scary moment at an amusement park that should give everyone pause. it makes me second-guess guesting on a roller coaster now. let s begin with what you need to know as you get ready for your independence day celebrations. sizzling temperatures and severe storms in the forecast while americans set travel records not seen since before the pandemic. aaa projecting nearly 51 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home as a storm system moves down over the carolinas and 36 million people under heat
basil, what does this tell you about where the 2024 campaign may be headed? in some respects it says that republicans are continuing to promote the politics of cruelty. one of the things that secretary buttigieg said in that interview was that it was shameful that desantis in this ad was going after a community already disadvantagedment why do that even more? why expose that nerve even more unless you re trying to do, as brendan said, try to create these enemies, whether it s within your own party or certainly from the left. what i always say in this particular context, can he out drooet trump donald trump? i don t think he can. he s trying to, and i don t know from an electoral strategy point of view, i don t know if that works for him in the context of the republican primary. it s certainly not going to work
extremist lobby, it s been almost four decades of them digging in and loosening gun laws across the country. we re going state-by-state, city by city to make sure we re doing everything in our power. this is not inevitable. some of the things we ve been working on are background checks for all gun sales, making sure there s secure storage. by the way, these are things backed by not just democrats, it s republicans, it s gun owners and folks without guns alike that know that when we have strong gun laws, we can save lives. we also want to reinstate the assault weapons ban. we want to pay attention to things like gun suicide. that s part of the crisis in this country as well. i think what s been important, we ve seen this when we broke the 30-year logjam, we think about federal legislation, a bipartisan law that took effect last year, that we were able to make sure we have billions of dollars going into community violence intervention programs across the country.
mike pence was vice president when donald trump was impeached for black mailing ukraine. he was vice president when donald trump went to helsinki and prostituted himself before putin in what two gop nominees called disgraceful. mike pence has zero credibility on ukraine. if i were him, i would be spending time on the phone and calling gop members and asking them to not cut half a billion from ukrainian support as they voted to do two weeks ago. what are you hearing from those gop members? president zelenskyy says he s concerned about losing bipartisan support after what he called dangerous messages coming from some republicans. there s broadly three camps in the house gop conference. one camp, call them the reagan conservatives, are aligned with the strategic and moral imperative to support ukraine. fortunately that s some of the most senior members of the
house, mike turner, mike mccaul, et cetera. then there s the trump camp who have always been sympathizing with puti. then there s the middle camp. the middle camp is where i think the political work needs to be done. these are members who individually i think want to support ukraine, understand the value of supporting ukraine. but whose base back home because of donald trump s absurd ex-orientations in favor of putin is increasingly restless. senate republicans are going to have to work on that middle camp to sustain bap support for ukraine. i ve been doing that in my own way with a series of bipartisan actions as well. quickly, if you will, what is your message to americans who may be worried about the u.s. spending billions and billions of dollars indefinitely in this conflict that has no end in