slide off the pedal. i was getting off the bike and it got stuck on the right side. come on. don t make things up. now you sound like a republican politician. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning. there s nothing inevitable about a recession. here s what we can do. i think we can get a change in medicare and a reduction in the cost of insulin. we also can move in a direction that we can provide for taxes on those in the corporate area as well as individuals as relates to trump tax cuts. we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn towards renewable energy, electric vehicles. across the board. that s something that we should be my team is going to be sitting down with the ceos of major oil companies this week. giving an explanation of how they make $35 billion in the first quarter. the president said quite a bit on the beach this afternoon. david asman and charlie gasparino join me now. great to have
dispatch audio about a child trapped in the middle of the massacre in uvalde, texas. cnn has not been able to confirm this audio clip. it was first reported by abc news. it s unclear when the message was relayed, but according to the texas public safety director there were at least eight 911 calls from at least two callers inside robb elementary. we have a child on the line. he is in a room full of victims. at least 19 officers were just on the other side of the door of that classroom where the student was calling from. texas public safety officials reported the first call from a child came at 12:03 p.m. not until 12:50, 47 minutes later, would officers finally break in and kill the gunman. so the justice department will now investigate the local law enforcement response. one critic called it one of the worst police failures in modern u.s. history. in the meantime, democrats are trying to seize whatever momentum there is on capitol hill for gun reform. here is presi
As we recently reported, Oakland, California bucked the trend seen in most U.S. cities last year, with its homicide rate almost unchanged from a year before and about 40 percent higher than it was jus.