he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i
law enforcement reversed what was the initial statement about this. we covered these type of incidents before. there is room, of course, for monday morning quarterbacking and room to update information as it comes in. if you watched the news, you are familiar with that process. but there are some aspects of this painful story that are getting extra scrutiny today. a statement update says now no school official confronted the shooter outside the school. that s a change. the shooter was able to walk in through an unlocked door. 11:40, he walks into the west side of robb elementary. multiple rounds. numerous rounds were discharged in the school. four minutes later, local police departments, uvalde police department, finished the school district marred are inside. making entry. was there a school officer on campus and was that school officer armed? because that s what we have been told. so at this time no. also newly revealed video from that terrible day, what you see her
Conversation with Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of his netflix comedy, unfrosted, a movie about the creation of the beloved Breakfast Treat, pop tarts. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday. We made it to friday. It is friday, may 3rd. Im Jonathan Lemire. Along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. Were in for joe, mika, and the birthday boy, willie geist. We have former white house Director Of Communications to president obama, jennifer palmieri. Pulitzer prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, euGene Robinson. And managing Deputy Politics reporter for politico, you just saw him on way too early, sam stein. We have a lot to get to. We should note, at the top there, what we played, President Biden, after days and weeks of unrest of College Campuses, finally made Public Comments. Itd been more than a week since he addressed them. Hed asked his aides the night before to prep remarks in case he did need to speak about them ahead
Hello, im samantha simmonds. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We start in china. Americas top diplomat, antony blinken, has told the bbc that he is prepared to take steps against china if beijing continues to send key supplies to russia which are used to aid its invasion of ukraine. The Secretary Of State has been holding talks with the chinese leader, xijinping, for talks in beijing where he also raised concerns about taiwan, and industrial espionage. Mr xi in return called for greater mutual co operation, so both countries could succeed. After that meeting, mr blinken sat down with the bbc s laura bicker heres a little of what they said. Thank you forjoining us. What were the biggest points of contention for you and your chinese counterparts . Whats really important is i was last here ten months ago and that really kicked off much greater engagement between our countries, diplomatic engagement with a number of my colleagues coming to
gutfeld have air. happy monday. control yourself. put your pants back on. so let s talk about january six. i know, i know. but was it really as our mainstream contends, 911 and pearl harbor rolled into one.r well, thanks to the new house speaker, mike johnson, video from inside the capitol building was just releasednsid almost three years later, showing what mane y who attendee the protests have been contending all along that not only were the capitol doors more open than hunters knows on a saturday night, but in a many cases, the capitol policeet escorted the protesters in like ushers at a wedding or stoodin k by objecting. now, let s be clear. no one s defending the chaoss o on the capitol, so spare meto the gutfeld supports insurrection, tweets from substitute teachers in brooklyn still traumatized by trump, slappingd s hillary into retirement. t riot i may not support riots, but i do support the truth and have the right to hear the whole story, especially when many of