presidential race front and centre donald trump watching meetings with lawmakers and business leaders while president joe biden half the roadway and italy pledging more support for ukraine as he meets with world leaders. for the first time today, commenting on his son hunter. wait till you hear what he said. what did he say over there and who did and didn t show up for donald trump over here? what the president is no sane. welcome everybody glad to have everybody with us. let s begin first with mike emanuel on what we are hearing from the president. mike. good afternoon president biden speaking in italy a short time ago offering support for his son hunter following his conviction on gun charges in delaware. i am externally proud of my son hunter he is overcome an addiction and is 1 of the brightest, most decent men and no. i am satisfied that i m knuckling to do anything i said i d buy by the jury decision i will do that and not pardon him. was also asked about efforts
saying, i m german, and seeing it in a way that she clearly intends to be threatening. what could she possibly be referring to in german being threatening to people? i mean, i don t know. as someone who has some german background in my own family, usually you don t try to plant the red to breed the nature of the german people if you don t have to. yeah, it is one of those indicators of just how wild it is in the alito home when it comes to what is happening with their flags, which clearly, justice alito knew all about, as your interview proved conclusively. wild is one word for it, lawrence. thanks, alex. the stock market closed at an all-time high once again today, proving once again today that republican businessmen don t know what is good for them . and yes, i m using the antiquated term, businessmen, deliberately, because the thinking of the people i am referring to is antiquated. the last time it made any sense at all for recut republican businessmen to boat
put out, joe. but at this point they are saying that all guests are safe. so do you have any sense of how operational this ship is? passengers have the option to leave from freeport or stay. reporter: well, joe, the ship actually is operational. and some passengers are still on it and they will be staying on the ship. now, passengers who were in impacted rooms, though, some of them are being put up in hotel rooms in freeport. so there is also a question about what caused this fire and whether they re actually going to end up giving the passengers some of their money back. reporter: they haven t made any sort of recommendations yet on what they will be doing, but we just got word that the national transportation safety board is launching a team to investigate today. also, the royal caribbean ceo adam goldstein has already been to the ship to inspect some of the damage, joe. erin mcpike at the port of baltimore, thank you for that.