about that grandchild you don t claim, he broke royal protocol. he does something wrong. he is allowed to get mad. sandra: america reports kicks off hour two with that. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: i m chuckling, reminiscent of the last president who woke up every day to bad news. the report on biden goes on to soften the blow of biden s outbursts with an ex claimer, seeing screaming is a sign of respect. sandra: and cbs news biden s grandfatherly appeal may be absent overseas at nato summit. 68% of americans say they are concerned about biden s age. is the m ed why spinning for the president? john: the president does have a full plate overseas, including a high stakes meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy. he wants into nato, but they say not yet. and kurt volker knows what s at stake better than almost anyone. he joins us this hour. but first. sandra: this developing story. when is enough enough? gender transition surgery is potent
lives. contentious issue, no clear path forward, sandra. sandra: kelly o grady, thank you. john. john: now this, the house covid committee holding another hearing as lawmakers sparred over whether dr. anthony fauci and other health officials worked behind the scenes to discredit the lab leak theory. griff jenkins with the latest. what if anything did we learn from the hearing. john, we learned we still don t know with a degree of confidence where it came from, was it a lab leak, or natural origins. this committee pressed two top scientists behind a 2020 paper titled proximal origin, whether they suppressed the lab leak theory and from the start the chairman and ranking member were at odds. we are examining whether government officials, regardless of who they are, unfairly and perhaps biasly tipped the scales
and oh, conditions are not ready yet or ukraine is not ready yet, that in my view sends the wrong signal to putin, that tells him to keep fighting. john: somebody described it as biden is a man at a sink trying to get the temperature of the water just right, he s working the hot, he s working the cold. but in doing that, does he look wishy-washy to putin? and the flip side of that is if you were to say as soon as the fighting is over, ukraine will become a member of nato, would putin see that as a threat? i think if you said as soon as the fighting is over, incentive to put in keep fighting, don t give up. as long as you keep the war going they won t get in. that would be the wrong message to sends. you have to make it unequivocal we will find the right time and place and nothing putin can do about it. and you are right, the hot-cold thing does look like weakness.
john: americans say they are concerned the president is too old to run for re-election in 2024, but the media seems to be finding ways to spin it positively. a brand-new cbs piece is fawning over the president s leadership writing biden s grandfatherly appeal may be asset overseas at the nato summit. the piece argues his personality and old school politicking makes for good strategy in a sea of younger world leaders. that reflected here at home. we ll ask dave rubin in a moment, but mark, talk like what president biden is like in private behind the scenes. president biden has been in washington a long time, decades up on capitol hill as a senator and of course eight years as vice president, but this latest piece kind of sheds light on what the president is like behind the scenes as you mentioned. and what he was like even before becoming president.
a swimming pool sounds good right now. folks here in the southwest are told to hydrate and to stay in air-conditioning during the heat of the day. sandra. sandra: max gordon in the oven that is phoenix right now. thanks, max. be well. john. john: now a story about the flip side of swimming pools, a little boy lucky to be alive after nearly drowning in a detroit area apartment complex pool. surveillance video showing 7-year-old griffin emerson struggling to keep his head above water and then sinking to the bottom in the deep end. two young heroes came to the rescue, 12-year-old noah and 8-year-old brother weston woods launched into action. and here are noah, weston and their mother. great to have two young heroes on the program. let s start with you, noah. you spotted griffin, he says he just wanted to get into the pool in a way he could show other folks that he could swim and