the wider incident. dyfed powys police told this programme. the furnace action group says the policing bill could have been avoided if the home office had just consulted with the local community and listen to them. we said at the outset of the campaign lastjune that the plan to house asylum seekers at the stradey park hotel was deeply flawed, that no due diligence had been done on the subject, and we wanted to preserve the 100 jobs that are on site. but sadly, during the course of the campaign, there was quite a lot of friction, a lot of splits in the community, a lot of aggro, a lot of social media commentary, resulted in lots of pain and heartache for lots of people. but for now, this community is trying to restore the hotel once seen as its jewel, while grappling with the tensions that have been left in its wake. the home office told newsnight, the government is making significant progress with moving asylum seekers out of hotels, which cost uk taxpayers £8.2 million pou
president s debt ceiling deal with speaker mccarthy facing its first major legislative test inside a crucial house company that has several conservative opponents of the agreement. threats from a group of republican lawmakers on capitol hill put a catastrophic default back in play. there s no new taxes, no new government programs. would i want to cut more? yes. i was able to work at 15% of the budget. i m not sure what else they want to do. i think we have to look at where the victories are. this hour, ron desantis kicking off his first presidential campaign trip in iowa with hopes of making a splash at the caucuses there in 2024. plus, kremlin officials say ukraine is responsible for new drone strikes on residential areas in moscow. vladimir putin s relentless bombardment of kyiv fires up another wave of deadly aerial attacks. today in pittsburgh, the trial gets under way for the gunman charged with the 2018 shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at the tree of life synago
political. cancer doesn t care if you re republican or a democrat. everyone can come together to fight this and he compared it to the moonshot saying you have to harness the resources of u.s. scientists and doctors and technology to be able to do this. elizabeth, in general since 1991, cancer deaths are down 31% according to the american cancer society. a lot of that is because of prostate cancer deaths down 50%, breast cancer deaths down 40% but a lot of that, i have to say, is because of screening, early screening and preventive measure, not necessarily curing the cancers itself. how feasible, how realistic is it to cut cancer deaths in half in 5 years? i reached out to a variety of experts asking that question this afternoon. i thought they d say, i don t know about that. they actually were quite positive and pointed to the statistic that you just pointed to, in 28 years they went down 32%. whatever reasons there were, we can do more of the same and they pointed to sev
possible. laura: to make a bad situation worse, we may be facing a shortage of truckers soon. the owners are facing a crisis due to the sky rocketing cost of diesel fuel. and food prices? bloomberg headlines caught my eye. chicken wings for $34. consumer prices of food were up 9.4% in april compared to last april. it s the biggest gain since 1981. it s time to ask this question: both a global and national level, is the economic chaos unfolding before our eyes the result of incompetence or careful planning? ted cruz believes this is all purposesful. joe biden believes in gas is $6 or $10 a gallon, if he imposes enough pain that eventually everyone will have this epiphany and get rid of that truck or mini-van and everyone will buy an electric car. laura: the angle did not disagree. biden is ignorant and his cabinet is unqualified. but this can t be an accident. none of this was predestined. the biden team chose to cancel oil leases, to stop keystone and gren lit a proxy
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. just moments ago, you saw it here on msnbc, president biden delivering an address defending democracy and freedom at the pointe du hoc ranger monument in normandy, france. 80 years ago there at pointe du hoc, u.s. army rangers scaled the 100 foot cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches on d-day. it is about seven miles west of the normandy american cemetery, also where in 1984 then president ronald reagan delivered one of his moment memorable speeches. before the speech today, president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy, announcing a new $225 million military assistance package for ukraine. joining us now, richard haass, president emeritus of the council on foreign relations and elise labbott. wondering your thoughts on this speech the day it was delivered, what it means for the history of the world, what we witnessed there 80 years ago. well, jose, what happened 80 years ago, in no sm