here in new york and we begin this morning with the shootings in atlanta. a terrifying escalation of the anti-asian violence seen throughout the country and a reminder of the threat of violence women live with daily. robert aaron long charged with murder after he confessed to killing eight people, six asian women. authorities say long a 21-year-old white man told detectives he would go to massage parlours in the past, he blamed his sexual addiction. the cherokee county sheriff suggested long was, quote, attempting to take out that temptation. other officials and community leaders saying that narrative misses the mark. in this particular case where the victims were asian women we see the intersections of the racism, xenophobia and gender-based violence. you know, we ve also seen historically where news outlets and the police frame the story around the perpetrator and now we re hearing about the suspect in custody and we are hearing stories about how he was religious, he su
down. the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standing strong with ukraine, we will not walk away. that was president joe biden pledging not to walk away from defending ukraine as he commemorated the 80th anniversary of d-day. in this next hour biden will meet with ukraine wherein president volodymyr zelenskyy in paris amid russia s ongoing aggression and tensions over the pace of military aid, and biden then later delivering a major speech on democracy. plus we now have a date when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will address congress as a growing number of democrats and the biden administration have become critical of israel s ongoing handling of the war. and steve bannon has been ordered to report to prison to serve his contempt of congress sentence. we ll discuss why his lawyer brew up over the ruling and how bannon himself responded. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 7th. folks, we made it to fri
be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
anniversary of the d-day landings in normandy. we re going to go live to france with the very latest as ceremonies on the sacred day are set to kick off any moment now. plus, we re learning more about the gop s playbook following donald trump s historic felony conviction. what republicans now say they are vowing to do as payback. and also ahead the white house is hitting back at the wall street journal over its piece about president biden s mental fitness during high pressure meetings. we ll dig into the growing backlash straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us, and today does indeed mark 80 years since allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy as they pushed to liberate france and then western europe from german forces during world war ii. the sun rose this morning at omaha beach shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time ahead of today s anniversary proceedings nearby.
the sooners are ncaa champions for the fourth year in a row. they slugged their way to victory for a two game sweep. confwrats to oklahoma again. now to major league baseball. in the bronx the yankees continued their absolute dominance of the minnesota twins, completing a season sweep with an 8-5 victory last night for the team s eighth straight win. what can you count on, death, taxes, the yankees beating the twins. but new york may have suffered a significant loss last night. star slugger juan soto exited the game with left forearm discovery. it s not clear yet if soto will need to miss any time. we will keep you posted. time now for the weather and let s to meteorologist angie lassman for the forecast. i m happy to say, angie, the weekend forecast. we are so close. i know you re thrilled about that. folks out west you should be thrilled about it, too, because