facility, union training facility just ahead of tonight s town hall here on cnn. and this is part of his build back better agenda. you re seeing one of the union members there talking to president biden about what they do in that facility. and we re monitoring these comments from the president. in just a few moments we ll see if he has anything to say to the press. we ll bring you those comments as they come in. president biden there in ohio. also tonight, there s new pentagon reaction to a stack of new books about the closing months of the trump administration. general mark milley was asked about reporting he was concerned that then president trump would attempt a coup. let s listen. i am not going to comment on any of the books. but i want you to know, and i want everyone to know, i want america to know, that the united states military is an apolitical institution. we were then, we are now. and our oath is to the constitution, not to any individual at all. and the military did no
plans to move forward with or without the picks that mccarthy has selected. and jim, of course, they have a hearing skelded for next week. okay, ryan nobles, stand by. we ll come back to you in just a moment. let s check in with our chief affairs correspondent. jeff, the white house says the president strongly supports speaker pelosi s investigation into the capitol riot. that has not changed. jim, as president biden was flying here to cincinnati, white house press secretary jen psaki said aboard air force one that the president does indeed strongly support house speaker nancy pelosi s decision today on the commission to investigate the attack on the capitol. but clearly the white house and the president came to ohio for a different reason. the president just a few moments will be arriving at a union training center here in cincinnati trying to sell his jobs plan, sell his infrastructure plan. of course, all those topics are top of mind of ohio voters who
shepherd. i more admire not the dog but the chick. i cannot do that. is that what you guys do at brunch? after a couple of pops. we ve got to go. that s it for us back in the studio. how does it feel, greg? there it is. up next is shannon. . shannon: i know i have no doubt about that. thanks, jesse. good evening and welcome to washington. i m shannon bream in for bret baier. tonight biden is focusing on the racial divide in america, while his critics say he should be trying to bring people together instead. the president was in tulsa, oklahoma to mark the hundredth anniversary of a massacre that s believed to have left hundreds of black americans dead. and he promised to pump more
money into minority communities. peter ducey starts us off tonight. good evening. today president biden used the greenwood vict of tulsa as an example of the kind of place where federal help never came in and matched the need after thousands of black americans were left homeless and hundreds were left dead. but he s now promising to change that. i come here to help fill the silence because in silence wounds deepen. to help heal president biden wants to use taxpayer dollars to make it easier for minorities to get mortgages and small business loans. the white house explains the federal government is the largest consumer of goods in the world buying everything from software to elevator services to financial and asset management. federal procurement is one of our most powerful tools to advance equity and build wealth in underserved communities but critics argue this is the wrong
then there is the story of the teenager who i interviewed in april when she found out a few years ago she didn t make the varsity cheerleading team, she posted on snap chat several times the f word. she was kicked off the jv team for the post but that post was off-campus so this has a major implication as far as student free speech. specifically off campus. we ll hear from the justices as they wrap up their term in a few weeks with major implications. in this day and age so much of what kids do is online and off-campus. could have wide reaching implications for that one. good to see you, thank you so much. thank you. shannon: the biden administration is defending oil and gas leases in the arctic wildlife refuge pending environmental impacts. that reverse as drilling program approved by the trump administration. the order follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by president biden on his first day in office. there are serious concerns