The current president on cnn on june 27 and on abc on september 10. Biden said he had received and accepted an invitation from cnn and agree to participate in abcss news form too. Here is biden initial challenge via x early this week. He had not shown up for a debate and he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day. I will even do it twice. I heard you are free on wednesdays. Host here is on her talking about this upcoming talks here is donald trump talking about his upcoming talks. [video clip] i will demand a drug test by the way. I really am. I do not want him coming in like the state of the union, high as a kite. Is that joe up there . By the end of the evening he is a like that was exhausting. We demand a drug test. They will be fair. You have to deal with it. [end video clip] host he will speak of the 2020 four nra Leadership Forum in dallas at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and you can watch that on cspan now or on our free mobile video at or online at cspan. Org. Those debates have different rules than in years past and that includes the cnn and abc qualifications debate criteria that the candidates be constitutionally eligible to serve as president and they file a statement of candidacy with the federal Election Commission and that they have their name appear on enough state ballast to reach a threshold of electoral ballots and votes needed to win the presidency and that they agree to the debates rules and format and that they receive at least 15 in four separate National Polls of registered or likely voters that meet cnns and abc standards. That does exclude president ial candidates or of k junior who said on x President Trump and biden are colluding to lock americans in a headtohead matchup that a 70 say they do not want to. They are trying to exclude me from their debate, getting back to the rest of the tweet, trying to exclude me from their debate that they are afraid i would win, keeping viable candidates all the debate stage undermines democracy. 43 of americans identify as independent and if americans are ever going to escape the hammerlock of the two party system, now is the time to do it. These are the two most unpopular candidates in living memory. By excluding these from the stage, President Biden and trump seek to avoid discussion on their eight years of mutual failure including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation. That is just one of the several stories we are following today and a reminder for your talking story of the weekly can call in at 202 7488000 for democrats and 202 7488001 republicans, and 202 7488002 for independence. To recap, biting and trump agreeing to that debate. Justice alito and the stop the steal flag report, that is the Common Association for the upside down American Flag. Also that the house gop has voted to reverse the israel weapons block that President Biden enacted and biden block the release of social council tapes this week and also there has been quite a bit of social media traffic about Harrison Butker the nfl player and his commitments speech at a Catholic University and the reaction to that online. That is get your calls, do this in stonington, on our line for independents. Caller good morning. My top news item of the week was about donald trump and that soap opera thing he is doing in court. After i saw the thing about Justice Alito and his wife why are American Flag upside down like that, it is total disgrace. I have no respect for that Supreme Court. They are a disgrace to themselves and a disgrace to this country and i am just so fed up with the whole thing. They are in my opinion, there are a stuffed court by donor, and they are up his rear and i do not think it is right. Host the headline saying that i Justice Alitos house a stop the steal symbol on display. Upside down flag adopted by donald Trump Supporters contesting the Biden Victory flew over the justices front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. As of the 2020 president ial election had some Trump Supporters falsely claiming that President Biden had done it, many had displayed a startling symbol, on their cars and in online posts, an upside down American Flag, including the residence of samuel alito in alexandria, virginia according to photographs and interviews with neighbors. The flag was a loft on generally 17th, 2021 and the images showed supporters including some brandishing the same symbol had righted at the capitol a little over a week before. Before the alarmed neighbors snapped photographs which were obtained by the New York Times. One of the flag fills her back to the court and people who work there said in interviews. I had no involvement whatsoever in flying of the flag he said in an email statement to the times and it was briefly placed by misses alito in a response to a neighbors view to a personally insulting language on yard signs. That is get back to your calls, with your top news story of the week, matt is in bath, new york, on our line for republicans. Caller good morning. Just a Quick Response to the first caller, it is a disgrace for a flack to be flown upside down by the Supreme Court justices wife, but it is free speech when College Campuses are burning and stomping on the American Flag, that is an amazing statement. My story of the week is joe biden trying to shore up his black support by going to the college but also showing up at the white house celebrating brown versus the board of education. I want to remind everybody that back in the day joe biden was against busing and he actually said he would not want his kids to end up going to a school that looked like a jungle. On top of that, i kind of remember him saying implying that barack obama was speaking intelligently and of course the implication was that for a black man. This guy is a total hypocrite and i just cannot believe that people actually fall for this. Host in regards to biden attempting to shore up his support with black voters, he is speaking today at morehouse tomorrow at 9 00 a m eastern he will be delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College in atlanta, georgia. That has attracted some controversy, here is the story we just saw from the associated press. His upcoming graduation speech has upset some, we think of the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Biden will have its most direct engagement with College Students since the start of the israelhamas war at the center of black politics and culture. Morehouse is located in atlanta, the largest city in the swing state of georgia which biden flipped from donald trump four years ago. His speech sunday welcome as will come he tries to make inroads with young black men and repair of the Diverse Coalition that elected him to the white house. As a reminder, tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Eastern went President Biden delivers that commencement address in atlanta georgia, you can watch that on cspan now, our free mobile video app or online at cspan. Org. Next up, let us go to ralph in manoa, new york on our line for democrats. Caller good morning, i am a uaw work and my top news story is the debates and i stand with President Biden, i do not need to listen to the debates because all the debates are about who gets the best knockout punch or who has the best oneliner, but i am an issue voter as most Union Workers in america are issue voters and President Biden is supportive of the rays of the federal minimum wage and the right of workers to organize their units to the pro equal pay for equal work and the economy from the bottom up and the middle out as he says, the debates are actually about nothing and i thank you for your time. Host john is in dearborn, michigan on our line for independents. Caller joe biden been a senator and a president and all of the Delaware Corporations at the last previous collar, he has always been kind of a questionable on topics of race and things like that but that is not the point. I do not know how the top story could not be, are social media and i see disemboweled children and children with their sku lls blown out in gaza this is what oliver congressman want. I do not know if they see it, but you do not see it on mainstream media, it is disgusting and while we are on that i see videos on social media of ukraine, theyre conscripting young men and they are beating them into a van, between ukraine and gaza, the United States is lost. Host thank you for your call. A bit more news this week on israel, the u. S. House to force weapons shipments to israel rebuking biden this week and here is a story about that in reuters, the republican led u. S. House of representatives passed a bill on thursday that would force President Joe Biden to defend send weapons to israel to thinking terrific democrat for delaying bond shipments as he urges israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with hamas. The Israel Security assistance support act was approved largely along party lines. 60 democrats joined most republicans in voting yes and three republicans joined most democrats in voting no. Michael mccaul was on the house floor on thursday speaking about why that legislation to push military aid israel is needed. [video clip] im really disappointed that for some in this country, and for the administration that the moral clarity has faded. That there ironclad commitment is not is not ironclad and in an aboutface the Biden Administration is not withholding critical arms necessary for israel to win this war. This administration wants to dictate how israel executes the war that they were thrust into. They did not ask for this war, they did not start this war, hamas started this war. This recently, President Biden said if they go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons period. That would be similar for us to say during World War Two my father said you can invade all of the way up to berlin, but you cannot go into berlin to finish the job. Imagine if we had done that with our allies back then . Israel is in a fight for its very existence. This administrations public break with israel has only made negotiations and victory more difficult. [end video clip] host gina city chesapeake, virginia on our line for independents. Charles l kotten. We are at the nra annual meeting and exhibit and obviously, as well as the under a leadership but everybody looks forward to it every year, thank you for being here, to begin the program with everybody please stand and joining me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. To the republic, for which it stands, or nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] thank you. Please remain standing and welcome the bostonbased soprano s death, she will be singing the National Anthem and i have had the pleasure and i do mean the pleasure to hear her sing three times now. She is amazing, please join us. [applause] lauren oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave . Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [applause] thank you so much for being with us. It is a pleasure for me, go ahead and stay there, it is a pleasure for me to be here for yet another reason, i get to introduce their governor greg abbott. [applause] i have known greg for over 35 years now. I have known him as a fellow lawyer that handles a certain type of lawsuit. I have tried cases before him when he was a Harris County district judge. He was also on the texas Supreme Court. He served as our attorney general. And of course he has been governor since 2015. In every single position, he has made it a point to support the Second Amendment and the texas version which is article one section 23 of the texas constitution. I know it is hard. I have had the opportunity to introduce him before and had a hard time calling Governor Abbott because to me he is just greg, he is a friend and frankly, i cannot help but believe a lot of them feel the same way because it truly is a friend and so many ways. I would be here way too long to list all of the things he has done for gun owners and not just on owning, but being enabled to use them in selfdefense. Without being in fear of surviving the brutal attack but not the legal aftermath. Greg has always been on the side of honest lawabiding people and i can go on and on and he is so proselfdefense and it takes way too long to list all of them. With that, please help me welcome my friend and yours, the governor of the great state of texas, greg abbott [applause] thank you to everybody here for the texas size welcome. My want to say to all of the nra members with us here today, as governor of this great state, welcome to texas. When it comes to defending our freedoms it is part of our dna. Now more than ever, we must fight to protect our Second Amendment rights. That is exactly what texas has done. According to the nra, since i became governor, texas has passed more significant Second Amendment protections than any other state in the United States of america. [applause] that includes campus carry, open carry, and then two sessions ago i had a big ceremony at the alamo with leadership members from the nra with seven Second Amendment protections and the law including constitutional carry in the state of texas. Including making texas a Second Amendment sanctuary state, shielding texas from an overreaching federal government. A law protecting gun owners privacy from their surveillance of financial institutions. And then last year, i signed three more laws protecting Second Amendment rights. One of which prohibits cities and counties from requiring gun owners to buy liability insurance, you should not be forced to pay to exercise your Second Amendment right. [applause] texas is a law and order state. Unlike some of these universities like columbia, ucla and far too many others, in texas, we do not tolerate paid protesters who tried to hijack our College Campuses. [applause] when they tried pulling that stunt in texas, our department of Public Safety cleared the area, arrested the protesters, and put them in jail. [applause] another thing that we do not tolerate in texas and that is joe bidens open border policy. [applause] never forget it was just four years ago we had the most secure border and 45 years, that is because donald trump passed four policies and put them in place, down in mexico, title 42, relief and building a border wall, the most secure border since last century. [applause] then Joe Biden Took Office and he decimated that secure border. And now, we have the highest number of illegal border crossings in the history of the country. And a 3. 5 years he has been and there have been 10 million Illegal Immigrants across our border illegally. For those from texas, we have more than four houstons that have crossed the border illegally under joe biden. Including known terrorists, no murderers, no rapists, people that we are not going to accept in our state. When biden commanded that they texas border be open, we responded, texas will not comply. [applause] instead, texas has done more than any state in the history of america to secure our borders. You remember those big, orange buoys we put into the Rio Grande River . They were designed by the Border Control to deny illegal entry and would eat you know that as soon as we put them in the river, joe biden made a lawsuit to take him out, that has still been tied up and we want you to know that as we gather at this nra convention, those beliefs remain in the Rio Grande River. Bouys remain in the Rio Grande River. Texas if the only state in the history of america to build our own border wall. We did not reinvent the wheel, we are building the exact same wall that donald trump came up with and it is impenetrable and we are adding more and more miles every single day. I deployed thousands of Texas National guard to a stopper is a and dec