Acknowledges like robinhood yesterday restricted trading in gamestop and other volatile stocks. Robinhood eased up on those restrictions today but the backlash has been fierce. Here is reaction from conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and bar stool sports Founder David portnoy. Its not just political now. The elites are Bent Out Of Shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires. Everything is rigged in favor of the elites. This has upset the rigging. I think its criminal. There has to be an investigation and people have to go to jail. Whether that actually happens i dont know. But ive never been more convinced about Market Manipulation and the people, the hedge funds controlling the game. Harris robinhood ceo is defending the decision. Watch. We had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and our firm. This decision was not made on the direction of any market maker. We are in a historic situation there is a lot of
decision. where does it go from here? jonathan and charlie coming up. this is the worst, the very worst. flights got delayed through denver by like four plus hours. i have never seen it like this, never ever. i m glad i got here early. if i was later, i don t know if i would have made it. not much you can do other than hope to get through before we miss a flight. overcrowded airports causing some major headaches, but many travelers say getting to the airport just half the battle. welcome to america reports. i m molly line. i m bryan. sandra and john have the day off. more than 1,000 delays across the u.s. after a brutal weekend with 15,000 slowdowns and hundreds more flights canceled and may be more chaos ahead as stormy weather coupled with staffing shortages are forcing planes to stay on the ground. c.b. cotton in new jersey, how are things looking there today? hi, bryan. severe weather this afternoon could be the biggest threat to holding up people s trav
talks and he is confident they will come to a bitart san agreement before it is too late. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington. alexandria: president biden did receive a briefing this morning, the president s team informed him steady progress is being made and the president directed his team to keep pushing forward for bipartisan agreement. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. president biden is in japan. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impending june 1 deadline, it is important all legislative options be pursued in the event no agreement is reached. for a forced vote to be successful, all democrats, plus five republicans would have to join the effort. here is house speaker kevin mccarthy. i do not think it is going anywhere, for one, it seems that would be playing into a biden default. i think america public is tired of those political games. freedom caucus members u
being controlled by the cartels and smuggling drugs. the family of bruce willis revealing he has been diagnosed with ftd, a form of dementia. his condition has gotten first. but first this. president biden: make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. bill: president biden finally breaking his silence. we ve been waiting for ten days on those aerial objects shot down by the military. says the last three do not appear to be connected to beijing or any foreign surveillance campaign. meanwhile a hobby club out of northern illinois fears its silver coated party-style balloon may have been shot down by a side winder missile over canada. the missile costs a lot of money. the balloon not so much. sandra: estimated cost $12 of the balloon. bill: the missile upwards of $4 hundred grand. dana has the day off. welcome, i m bill hemmer. sandra, welcome back to you. sandra: i m sandra smith. president bid
george floyd. in that video you could see him cry out for his mother as officer derek chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. all over a pack of cigarettes. floyd allegedly paid for with a fake $20 bill. we would not see any of the police body cam footage for another 11 weeks. the lack of transparency there, the delay and the horror of floyd s death ignited a mass movement. i can t breathe was plastered across signs and social media posts as millions across the country protested. facing intense pressure, then president donald trump signed an executive order calling for police reform. at the ballot box, voters said yes to legislative policing reforms in at least 30 states. at least a dozen cities promised to slash police budgets and redistribute those funds to community programs. though not all followed through. then it was congress s turn. democrats introduced the george floyd justice in policing act. the bill passed twice in the house but died in the senate aft