Welcome to inside politics. Im john king in washington. Very busy news day. Thank you for your time. Provocation or pretext, the creme lun accuses ukraine of trying to assassinate Vladimir Putin with a drone attack. The president said, we dont attack russia. Plus a surge and a search for a solution. Migrants prepare to overwhelm the southern border. The Biden Administration snaps into Action Ordering troops to the border, o traiting a new deal with mexico and erecting new processing centers. And reading is believe ing. The text message that said the fox decision to fire Tucker Carlson are reveals him rooting for a mob to kill someone. We begin with dramatic images of red scquare and the kremlinses expla thags na ukraine launched drones at the heart of the russian government with the goal of killing Vladimir Putin. The kremlin statement came after social media reports showing explosions over the president s residence. We regard these actions as a planned Terrorist Act and an attempt on
attention and watch it because it s pretty important. hope is not a strategy. should get something done. this is true. i m gillian turner. we re on mccarthy watch. we ll bring you any news out of the speaker s office as it comes out at this hour. a presidential candidate is raising alarms, saying linkedin intentionally censored him. this was no accident. this was intentional viewpoint-based censorship. i fear it s just the beginning of what we ll see all over again this election cycle like we did in the last one. he s accusing microsoft-owned linkedin of shutting down his posts on climate and china. the company s response and mollie hemingway just head. passengers near pre-pandemic levels. as to has already screened over 2.6 million people, the highest number since 2019, pre-pandemic. spike and near misses on runways have hit the industry hard as it is trying to bounce back. president biden s transportation chief says things are getting better. listen. we re a l
whether it s a mental illness or not having enough food, these are just not intractable problems in the least. they are uniquely exacerbated in the united states as it relates to developed countries. but absolutely solvable problems. especially here in new york city. a city awash in wealth. that s right. among a very few number of households. i appreciate that you are staying on top of. it thanks alex, have a great weekend. thanks ali, have a great show. the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be questioned. that is america s constitutional mandate. and who in the current negotiations between president biden and kevin mccarthy appears to be violating that? who really knows what s going on with the white house negotiations with kevin mccarthy ten days before a potential default date. here s the update. talks briefly resume tonight with no progress after republican negotiators abruptly left a meeting with the biden administration officials t
briefly resume tonight with no progress after republican negotiators abruptly left the meeting with officials this morning saying that they needed to quote, press pause, and quote. calling the talks not productive. the republicans exit was widely seen, not as an order from the speaker, kevin mccarthy, but rather as kevin mccarthy taking marching orders from the chaos caucus. otherwise known as the house freedom caucus. and it s spiritual leader, donald trump. who said today, quote, republicans should not make a deal on the debt ceiling unless they get everything they want, including the kitchen sink. that s the way democrats have always dealt with us, do not fold. exclamation, exclamation, exclamation. and quote. that the chaos of kevin mccarthy s speakership taught us anything, it s that kevin mccarthy does not control his caucus. and now those hard-liners who one unknown concessions from mccarthy to make and the speaker, seemed to be calling the shots. a source familiar wit
the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say