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
and dialing of the urgency, making no bones about the fact that if donald trump is back in office he will bring to bear some of this political violence and incite some of it, which we know some are afraid of the trend, the weight is moving in the country, and to touch on actually, the all-out war, and the all-out word he can to in the campaign, and amount of campaigning every day and not allowing trumps lies to go unchallenged and that sort of thing. what biden was saying was people don t actually want the state of politics to be a constant factor attachment battle, they don t want to feel like it s my team against your team and we can never find common ground, and been talking about it on cable, motivated on twitter or x or whatever we call it now, the average voter does want to see elected officials work together. i thought it was interesting to that into a speech and and it was an important piece, an important piece of how you will hear him talk as the campaign moves for
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
abhorrent and had previously been unaware of the claims. we can speak now to laurie at the international communications and financial world affairs commentator. she s in west london for us this evening. good to see you. a rather strange statement, suspending key activities can i suppose you have to understand what the cbi does to make sense of that. maybe you could explain it to les. the cbi is really one of the bigger lobbying groups that polices between business and government. cbi has had a bit of a reputational hit, even before all of these allegations. we will get to those in a moment. a lot of people were wondering whether the cbi had become, had lost its effectiveness, given the last governments attitude towards business. rehabilitated itself a little bit, couple of the things that cbi had been looking for, like childcare provisions did make it into the last budget, but that seems a different era now. so many company picnic companies have deserted the cbi the last coup
let s turn to ireland where us presidentjoe biden has been meeting with leading politicians and is now on his way to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament it s been an extremely busy day for the president. he set off to parliament from farmleigh house in dublin after meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. while in the grounds of farmleigh, he watched a gaelic sport demonstration by local children. inside, the taoiseach praised american leadership since the russian invasion of ukraine last year. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. there really is an opportunity to make serious progress. notjust because of the accords we have signed, 25 years ago, but in terms of the way you lead ireland and ireland is moving in a way that is taking its place in the world and i think it feels so good to be able to have this merging and stronger relation between the united states and ireland. this mornin