investigators now believe the attack that killed eight and wounded at least seven others was connected to right-wing extremism. the guy just had his neck like this and blood just dripping down. we don t do something, it will happen again. it could happen anywhere. at any time. the border patrol and the fbi working to determine the identities of the eight people killed when a driver plowed into a crowd between 20 and 25 migrants were sitting on the curb waiting for a bus. driving that fast, people around there, there will be some sort of reckless, maybe criminal action. this is a huge consequence. in early june, there is a day we re unable to pay our bills. financial and economic chaos would ensue. president biden has determined that he doesn t want to negotiate on this. we have to avoid default, period. still stop. on the front lines in the east, russian forces are increasing their attacks on ukraine. a very public rift between russia s defense ministers
and recently, not some past generation or just the past few years, if you had been the chairman of the intelligence committee in the house of representatives again not a long time ago but recently, if you had been the attorney general of the united states recently, if you had had any of those jobs in the very recent past you d think that you d kind of be a hot ticket, right? you d think that you d hav you d be moving in impressive circles maybe not for the whole rest of your life, the sort of impactor of that highfalutin jo you had would wear off, but at least while you were in that impressive very high end government job you d think you can kind of write your own ticket and you think you d move in kind of rarefied air. you would think. alas, this week all of those people i just mentioned, literallyt the guy who was attorney general of the united states ando the guy who was pentagon chiefuy of staff and national security advisor and white house trade chief, all the rest of th
trade policy at the white house. them as parallel or do they intercept? again, recently you held that i don t think we can see they re adjacent. job. if you had been national i think at least the republican security adviser to the president of the united states and recently, not in some past party in so far as it is generation, but within the past represented by donald trump has few years. if you had been the chairman of fully embraced these elements. the intelligence committee in the fact that this speech is not the u.s. house of representatives, again, not a only sort of waved through with long time ago, but recently. a wink and a nod but they are if you had been the attorney general of the united states invited in. recently. if you had had any of those jobs we can see with nick fuentes to in the very recent past, you dinner at mar-a-lago. would think that you would be a the main welcome of the hot ticket, right? you would think that you would candidate. and the one that
politicsnation. tonight s lead, law and order. but for who? right now, president biden is flexing the legal powers of his office to address the country s deepening problems. and an exclusive interview with nbc news, the president talked about the difficult decision to send 1500 troops to the border to help is a refugee crisis. he also spoke about the possibility that he might invoke his 14th amendment authority to raise the debt limit. if he cannot convince some of the gop to back off threats to push the country, and to an economic crisis. here s the deal. i think that first of all, this is not your father s republican party. this is a different group. and i think that we have to make it clear to the american people that i am prepared to negotiate in detail with her budget. in the meantime, here in new york city, there is outrage after an alleged act of vigilante justice. a young black man s life is snuffed out on the subway. prompting tough questions about who has the ri
the lead starts right now. allen, texas, joining the ranks of columbine, aurora, parkland, new town, another town whose name is synonymous with a mass shooting. two young sisters were just identified as victims as we re learning more about the gunman s extremist background into which authorities are looking. and new video obtained exclutively by cnn. bystanders trying to hold down the man accused of plowing his range rovers into a group of migrants. plus, just in time for summer travel, the new proposed rule to give you a refund if you re bumped from your next flight. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. another day. another deadly mass shooting in america. over the weekend a man gunned down several people at a mall in allen, texas. police are investigating whether a gunman killed by the cop at the scene was motivated by right wing extremism. this is not a monthly occurrence in the united states. it is not a weekly occurrence in the united states. this is now happening