see you in vegas. dana: good to have you back. no charges after a bombshell report finds president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified material. even worse politically it indicates biden s mental state is in decline using blistering words to describe his aptitude, important memory and diminished faculties. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start back there. bill: happy friday. a long one, huh? bill hemmer, good morning. special counsel report blowing open the national debate about the president s age. special counsel hur recommending against criminal charges in part because a jury might view biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. dana: even in the mainstream media the reaction has been harsh. they are no longer to ignore the age-old question is biden too old to be on the 2024 ticket? atlantic with a harsh headline. biden s age is now unavoidable. he looks like he is turning into a statue of joe biden. the im
investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
caught on camera, and hospitals prepare for injuries. cars thrown and heavy damage to homes. the national guard called in. tens of millions at risk, the dangerous tornado emergency from the midwest to the mississippi valley. we re tracking it with our team in the storm zone. also tonight, new details about the historic indictment of former president trump. sources telling nbc news it contains around 30 counts of document-related fraud for his alleged role in a hush money payment to an adult film star. mr. trump calling the democratic d.a. s move a political persecution. what we re learning about when the indictment will be unsealed and what will happen when mr. trump arrives in a new york city courtroom. just released, the names of the nine soldiers killed in the nightmare traini crash of those two army black hawk helicopters. our inside look at a remarkable new treatment. helping peopeg their sense of smell and taste lost for years due to long covid. and the cinderel
elected. a speaker has not been elected. yes, the circus is still in town and the group of 20 serial insurrectionists opposing kevin mccarthy, they are right about one thing, this man has no business being speaker of the house. if he can t navigate his way around the basic vote to get the job he s not remotely capable of leading especially a radical caucus filled with this iteration of republicans. and we do begin tonight with the never ending republican fight over the next hour the never ending republican fight for speaker. over the next hour kevin mccarthy should be wise to learn this one lesson because he s going to be facing this hell over the next hour. any tolerance of insurrection breeds more. in the next hour as i mention the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans par
these documents belong to the american people. it s not a good picture for trump. there s no possible way to spin it that it is. has the mar-a-lago search and its aftermath dimmed trump s 2024 odds? can democrats really pull off an upset in a state trump won by eight points? this is about getting back to some common sense. this is about getting back to building the economy, making things, manufacturing things. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju in for abby phillip. it s labor day in the united states, the unofficial start to the final sprint to election day. in 65 days americans will head to the polls to decide control of politics. president biden wants it to be seen as a choice between democracy and donald trump. there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this coun