smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c
tribute tonight to those who died and a show of support to the families of the victims that demonstration of gratitude to the police officers who prevented many more lives being lost. first lady jill first lady jill biden blade flowers and stood alongside officials of the vigils among them the police chief whose officers acted so heroically in confronting the shooter appeared our police officers have cried and i have cried with national and the world beer to from your support, we gather strength and the will to gary on and thef our city. speak of the of 9-year-old have said that she was shocked that she will try to pull a fire alarm. both nine years old were also killed as well as adult staff members cynthia, mike hill, the school head katherine koonce whose officials suggested died trying to protect the children. saying that would have been typical of her. she was an absolute champion for her students. her students knew that she was in their corner. we have learned mor
jesse: nancy pelosi thinks her boogie man will disappear if we stop talking about him. at the direction of donald trump. yeah. a very sick person. i think that we spend too much time talking about him because this was a real taint on our democracy to have that person there. but we cannot keep giving him all the press he wants. jesse: this is coming from the lady that impeached trump twice. ignore trump and he will just go away. obama didn t get that message. barry and michelle took a private jet down to australia this week. michelle looked miserable. what does she have to be so sad about? her husband is making millions in australia. people are paying $900 a ticket just to hear him talk? now, obama met australia s prime minister. look how happy they are. they didn t even need the marine to hold the umbrella. obama greeted by indigenous elder anti-joy murphy. elder ante only comes out for the big shots. and when you go to melbourne, she gives you a welcome bush.
into the use of artificial intelligence. they are worried about the risks of developing machines designed to be smarter than humans and how fast things are moving right now. correspondent matt finn is live tonight in los angeles with a top story right out of a science fiction movie. good evening, matt. good evening, bret. this list of more than 1100 people calling for a temporary halt in artificial intelligence includes names that are considered some of the biggest ai advocates and greatest minds of our time. among them elon musk ceo of spacex and twitter. steve wozniak the co-founder of apple and andrew yang former 2020 presidential candidate. tech leaders are asking all ai laps immediate ai pause developing than the latest chatgpt platform. the pause should be public and verifiable so independent experts can develop a shared standard of safety protocols. the tech leaders say artificial intelligence can pose profound risks to society writing in part, quote: contemporary ai
into the business activities of the president s son. all of this comes on a dayothers name, robert f. kennedy jr. officially launches a primary challenge. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live on the north lawn with the latest. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this whistleblower s lawyer says that he is a career official in the irs criminal division and he is alleging that a political appointee at the irs lied to congress about the hunter biden tax investigation at some point in the last few years. and this whistleblower is alleging that politics and preferential treatment are interfering in the hunter biden probe. we are awaiting reply from hunter biden s representatives. the chairman of the house ways and means committee says they are going to meet with this whistleblower soon. and this does come at a politically delicate time for the president. remember, he and his political team retooled the democratic primary calendar to put south carolina first because