please. absolutely not, absolutely not. john: ah, absolutely not but the numbers tell a different story. have a look here. the president has held 23 news conferences since he took office and this time in his presidency, president trump had held 41, and obama had held 53. so, what gives with 23? sandra: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. and great to have you back. john: maybe channelling michael jordan with 23. joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we ll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president s lies. but first sandra: chaos on chicago streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting i
what more do we know about the attack? reporter: we re still learning more about the stunning attack. she was not there at time but her husband, paul pelosi, who was 82 years old was at the time. and what wae re learning is an assail aent broke into the couple s home and attacked paul pelosi with a hammer. the speaker s office put out a statement of what they believe has happened. they said early this morning an assailant broke into the pelosi resident in san francisco and violently assaulted mr. pelosi. the assailant is in custody and the motivation is under investigation. mr. pelosi was taken to the hospital where he is receiving excellent medical care and the speaker was not in san francisco at the time. we have learned that the speaker was in d.c. at the time. she s been traveling across the country raising money, appearing in campaign stops as we head into the critical midterm elections. sometimes paul pelosi travels with her and oftentimes he does not. he has his own
terrorizing the residents still there and many who cannot afford to leave, they can t just pick up and leave like some have chosen to do over the last few years. really great to have both of you on, both business owners, in cities seeing this happen. thanks to both of you, joe and sam. thanks, sandra. sandra: thank you. john, a reality for way too many. you have walmart shutting four stores in chicago, you ve got a lot of these businesses over time who have fled, tyson, boeing, citadel, they just pick up and leave and the main reason they say is because they can t get recruit top talent to work for them in a city they can t raise their family and send them to school safely. john: it s really a shame what s happening to chicago. it has been such a great city over the decades and now people are fleeing the city, maybe even fleeing the state as well for places that are not quite as dangerous as that, and yet it just keeps happening. sandra: we ll see, you know, last year remembe
and when do you expect to reach the top there? i m hoping to reach the top at 5:00 p.m. hoping to make it by sunset tonight. his mom is going to be up there and we also are about to hang a huge banner. she goes, i love you mom. i love you, mom. and it is almost there and it will hang off our portal ledge in a minute and she ll get to the value in just a minute. well that is pretty great. i m excited for you guys. i have loved following your adventure. and we re looking forward to the post when we see that banner and you guys are up there at the summit. joe and sam, thanks for joining us. one thing. yeah. make sure to tell everybody our instagram is samuel adventure and our facebook is am adventure and you could follow all of the fun on there. it is great. we will follow. and i should point out your names are named sylvan light year and joey danger.
climbing with your dad? yep. say that was a good time. that was a good time. joe, what like? he s having fun. he s having fun and you re hanging on the side of the rock there, eating lasagna, watching the lion king. it just sounds like a normal king. literally we re suspended in a giant cot right on the side of the wall. and the sun is just about to hit us. and on the wall. and it feels like we re above eattorney you the up here. i look over the edge and it is forever down. and yet we still have a lot to go. it is a terrific adventure. we got one night where we got behind another party that got a bag stuck and had to climb until past 1:00 a.m. and i couldn t believe it. sam, i expected him to cry a couple of times on this trip. and because it is hard and