challenging interviews you get here on hardtalk, but my guest today may be has and takes. jerry springer is the king of tabloid trash talking tv in the us. his show specialises in dysfunctional relationships and sex. his guests kurt and so chairs, sometimes they fight. critics call it cynical and manipulative tv, but it made him famous and rich. curse and throw chairs. but does he care? jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk. jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk- jerry springer, welcome to hardtalk. , . ., , hardtalk. it s nice to be here, thanks for hardtalk. it s nice to be here, thanks for having hardtalk. it s nice to be here, thanks for having me. - hardtalk. it s nice to be here, thanks for having me. it s - thanks for having me. it s incredible, thanks for having me. it s incredible, your thanks for having me. it s incredible, your show from small beginnings in cincinnati 20 years ago has made you famous and it is still going across america and internationally.
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. closer, but to a deal or to a default. kevin mccarthy herds a bill through the house. it s guaranteed to go nowhere in the united states senate and far from certain to break the white house s negotiating promise. plus, ament here because donald trump raped me. e..en jean carroll is back on the witness stand after detailing an attack by the former president nearly two decades ago in a dressing room. and the mouse strikes back. disney makes ron desantis a defendant as the governor finds the polling gap between him and trump getting wider. up up first, a cross roads moment for president biden and house republicans. today a new number says the country is growing more slowly. but not as to dive into a recession. 12.1%, that s how fast the economy expanded in the first quarter. it falls off as you see the breakneck pace from the end of 2022. but the good from the report is very go
as we wrap up a holiday week, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable, the divide over abortion rights, the unease over the economy, an election lie getting more entrenched. we ll talk about all of that, but i want to start today talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting of the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois, outside of chicago. while shattered families are still grappling with all they lost in that senseless slaughter, cnn is learning more about the warning signs from the alleged shooter that despite illinois s red flag law did not prevent him from buying that semi-automatic rifle police say he used last week. the young man spent time at his father s highland park deli growing up, and police were often called to the home for domestic disturbances between the parents. in 2019 police came to briefly confiscate a collection of knives after the then 18-year-old threatened to, quote, kill everyone
between the people on my show, and i would even say, let s say the people that ultimately come on your show, except the people on your show, except the people on this show obviously are better educated. but to think that they are morally superior to the people on my show, i would say wrong, wrong, wrong. but aren t you missing out a step in your own story? when you switched from politics, mayor of cincinnati for a while, you moved to tv and it s great news. and when you got your interview show, as i understand it, it was a pretty serious show. serious show. more like my show. serious show. more like my show the serious show. more like my show. the first serious show. more like my show. the first three - serious show. more like my l show. the first three years. and then you discover the best way to make money and ratings was to dumb it down. that way to make money and ratings was to dumb it down. was to dumb it down. that is not accurate was to dumb it down. that is not accurate
mayorkas, who conceded the first few weeks will be a challenge. several thousand people are already in northern mexico. officials have been working furiously behind the scenes to set up protocols to address this. one of them announced today regional processing centers, one in colombia, one in guatemala, where people can apply legally through mechanisms that already exist. all of this is underway, initial to building capacity, as they anticipate numbers to go on. john, important to note it is congress that the administration is calling on to pass reform. getting close to the election. priscilla alvarez, thanks for the reporting. grab a chair, respectfully. jerry springer passed away today. he was 79. springer, formerlied mayor of cincinnati, earned notoriety for shows spotlighting the bizarre.