those mode. biden s image has struggled as much as his policies from shaking hands with no one on stage, you can t forget it, to pulling off of a bike as he was about to speak to reporters to struggling to put on his jacket and dropping his sunglasses on the tarmac. the white house first tried to launch the tough take no names dark bran and the purpose, let s go brandon failed and widely mocked. so, now the media stepping in and trying to paint him as some sort of superhero. the new york times referencing the same aviator he dropped him this news piece titled the return of aviator joe. president biden is back after covid vacation and victories and so are his shades. emily, i read this piece in the fashion section, and i could not believe the so-called paper records deem this as a publication because it read like a child s book. i think i will subject viewers to the introduction. we do something else, aviator joe was back just in time to forget the glowing eyes of dark b
jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
inflation. doug luzader joins us live in washington. good morning, doug. doug: the fed meets tomorrow to talk interest rates, a lot going on, and the white house is laying the groundwork. we may find on thursday gdp has fallen, according to the white house economic advisors, some maintain two consecutive quarters of falling real gdp constitute a recession, that is neither the full definition or how economists evaluate the business state. former obama administration says recession is likely. there is high likelihood of recession when we ve been in this kind of situation before, recession has followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. doug: the fed starts their meeting tomorrow, expected to raise interest rates to reign in that 9.1% inflation rate. inflation is way too high, the fed is charged with putting in place policies that will bring inflation down and i expect them to be successful. republicans meantime, say the administration is makin
the nation as demonstrators demand stricter gun laws. cnn correspondents spanned out across the country to cover the push for gun reform. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we start in ukraine, where officials are claiming progress in the south, as russian shelling rains down on the east. ukraine has been pushing forward with this counteroffensive in the kherson region, and president volodymyr zelenskyy says another area has been cleared of russian troops. here he is. translator: the ukrainian military gradually liberates the territory of the kherson region. the day the village of tevriska was added to the list of those returned to our state. there are several areas in. russian artillery is playing a big role in the fighting in the east. the ukrainian governor says heavy weapons are dismantling buildings in entire neighborhoods in severodonetsk. russia now controls most of the city, but the governor says ukrainian troops are still fightin
their culture they re proud about. they call it the mighty mississippi for a reason. i think that goes beyond the current. it s about the impact this river has had on what we become as a nation and what we decide to become as a nation. i m carlton mccoy, raised in inner city d.c., educated in kitchens around the globe. these days i make a living as a master sommelier. i m a nomad, driven to move in and out of different cultures, different worlds. to celebrate diversity by embracing what makes us both unique and the same. after all, we carry our travels with us to our next destination. that s what life is all about. let s do this. i grew up in washington, d.c., raised by my grandmother who is from virginia. so i always felt i had one foot in the south. but as a young child, i was taught to fear the south a little bit because of the deep scars of our family s past. it s very easy for someone who was raised in the black community to come here and feel very negative thoughts abou