Ago wrapping her comments in Raleigh North Carolina. This was her first major Policy Speech since becoming lead on the ticket for democrats is the president ial candidate of the democrat party. She began saying shell have more incoming speeches. This was largely focused on inflation and on housing. In terms of her economic vision. It included as you just are discussed 25,000 in a down Payment Support for firsttime homebuyers. A big expansion to the Child Tax Credit and this is getting a lot of attention, federal ban on Price Gouging for food and groceries. Watch. Will help the Food Industry become more competitive because i believe competition is the lifeblood of our Economy. More competition means lower prices for you and your families. Charles payne and David Asman watching all of this very closely. The will join us in just a moment. Some have said there some of the program sound a lot like socialist or communist governments in terms of how they approach business. The Vice President
Im Martha Maccallum in Americas Newsroom today. Good to be back. President biden preparing to visit oklahoma today. This marks 100 years since the actual Sa Massacre and wants to push for racial equity. Bill his comments that has america talking from monday. Give the theme a listen. President Biden Democracy itself is in peril. Here at home and Around The World. How we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure. Struggle for desensy and dignity. The struggle for prosperity. Prosperity and progress, and yes, the struggle for the soul of america. Okay. Jackie heinrich is live outside the White House with more on that. Good morning, martha. Todays visit marks the first time a president has taken part in the remembrance for the tulSa Massacre where a white mob killed 300 black residents many who fled racial violence after the Civil War and left another 10,000 homeless and businesses and churches decimated. Yesterday President Biden declared a da
government. we ll ask senator mcconnell about that. also this morning, president trump speaking out about the gop s prospects in 2022. i think we re going to do very well. we need good leadership. mitch mcconnell has not done a great job. i think they should change mitch mcconnell. martha: we ll give him a chance to respond to that in just a moment. first, the white house where peter doocy is standing by with more from the white house on day 100. hi, peter. president biden said the u.s. government should provide people with more services to help them dig out from the pandemic. we were to sit down and get a bipartisan committee together and say we re going to decide what we do in terms of government providing for free education, i wonder whether we would think as in the 20th century that that 12 years is enough? i doubt it. a trillion taxpayer dollars to help cover tuition for child care and free preschool and college maybe up the backbone of the biden s family plan.
be open to reparations paid in some way to the descendents of slaves that topic is back on the docket on capitol hill. watch this. that is what we need to do. a reckoning, a healing, repairive justice. black americans asking for a hand up, not a handout. chamberly klacik and richard fowler join us soon on that. we will also share with you my interview with rush limbaugh way back in 2007. we had a really interesting conversation for about an hour at his eib studios in florida. i will show you some of this unefforted video in just a little while. first today the year long covid battle over lockdowns comes to a head with this simple but hugely important question and this kind of squishy, nonanswer to this very important question about the validity of lockdowns. watch. this contrast states like florida and california, california basically in lockdown and their numbers aren t that different from florida. so much as at virus that we think we understand that we think we ca
days we know the death that was part of this horrific attack that took the lives of five people, four women and one elderly man, 48 others were injured. many of those are children. several are still in critical condition in the hospital right now. police say they ll charge 39-year-old darrell brooks, who you see on your screen right now, with five counts. the counts will be first degree intentional homicide. and when that happens it will sadly be another notch on his really extensive 50-page long rap sheet. brooks was facing several felony charges when the walk d.a. s office released him on a $1,000 bond just two days before the parade. now that looks like a bad decision in retrospect. the same office also freed him on $500 bond earlier about one year earlier. so wisconsin senator ron johnson looking into this man s background says the situation surrounding him is simply unacceptable. you have crime now spilling over from high crime regions into communities like waukesha th