that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
surrounding president biden s 2024 prospects, after brutal reports, that members of his own party see him as an anchor that should be cut loose. the times interviewing more than 50 democratic officials. a current dnc member saying, quote, biden should announce his intent not to seek re-election in 24, right after the midterms. oh, that s my prediction date, isn t it? it is. president biden getting no mercy from younger members of his party. listen to this about a second term. he s saying he s going to run again in 2024. will you support him? if the president has a vision, that s something we re willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. that s not a yes. yeah. you know, i think we should endorse when we get to it. democrats set on dumping president biden can point to a laundry list of reasons. national gas prices have sky rocked to over $5 a gallon, inflation on everything from shelter to medical care. some feels it s too late to change things aro
indiana doctor as its only source. well, now the washington post is raising questions about the legitimacy of the story the president raised. the post s analysis is time thinged, a one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral. it reads many part, this is a very difficult story to check. dr. bernard is on the record, but obtaining documents or other confirmation is almost impossible without tale that would identify the locality where the rape occurred. the left-wing activist group shutdown d.c. is offering bounties to poem who provide realtime locations for supreme court justices so protesters can target them. this comes after justice brett kavanaugh was harassed as he was trying to dine at a morton s steakhouse in washington, d.c. last week. alexandria hoff with more on the security threats. reporter: shutdown d.c. is
right? half the country thinks it s only white mass shooters. there s no black shooters. the other half of the country thinks the biden family is clean and the trump family is dirty. half the country is disoriented and the other half of the country is paranoid and distrustful of the mainstream media. they want us divided. of course they do. and we re divided as ever, to the point we re protesting outside supreme court justices home, and now shutdown d.c. activists trying to literally shut down the court. and there s no coverage of what s happening in their neighborhoods, where all these protesters are. one, it s li l to protest in front of a federal judge s home. i ll day it every day until the attorney general does something about it and enforces the law. law enforcement is not going up there and doing anything about it. neighbors of the cavanaughs were, like, this is our home.