You were named back in 2015 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by time magazine. Then the likes of steven spielberg, denis villeneuve, Martin Scorsese all praising your film making. Without embarrassing you, how do you do it . Gosh, thats a. Thats a long list of accolades some deserved, some probably not. Um. How do i do it . I just love making films. I started making films when i was a kid. I borrowed my dads super 8 camera, started making super 8 films when i was seven or eight years old and ive never stopped. Itsjust something i love doing and i feel very fortunate and privileged to be able to work with a team of really, really talented people on each film. In the case of oppenheimer, this Incredible Cast that, you know, youve already mentioned, cillian and emily, but also, you know, Robert Downeer and matt damon and ken branagh you know, a very, very long list. Florence pugh and many others. Um. For me, how i do it is to bring together talented people like that
also tonight, after the hottest days on record, has climate change already reached a tipping point? the meteorologist who left local news after his climate coverage led to a death threat joins me tonight. and america s economy is red hot. jobs and wages are growing. inflation is easing. so why isn t joe biden more popular? but we begin tonight with a crisis that is impossible to ignore. i often start this show with the most recent to solve on american democracy at the hands of the modern republican party or the supreme court, but tonight i want to talk to you about a different type of existential threat. y all know it s hot. some of you in arizona spent the day trying to avoid 115 degree heat. next week, it might hit 120. earlier this week, i shared some really terrifying news. some scientists believed that july 4th of this year may have been one of the hottest days on earth in 125,000 years. guess what. we keep breaking those records. new york s temperature set a record
raised. it s nonnot an acceptable situation for us to be able to pay our bills. that s treasury secretary janet yellen, reiterating her belief that the united states will go into default if the debt ceiling is not raised in just nine days. it comes as president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are set to meet again today in hopes of hashing out their growing differences on the budget. also ahead, we ll recap the president s trip to japan for the g7 summit, which included a meeting with the ukrainian president. plus, we ve got new reporting on turmoil inside the trump legal team that s representing him in the classified documents investigation. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin this morning with the debt ceiling. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are expected to meet one-on-one today at the white house. this comes after a weekend of
trump knew that and we know it from the contents of hunter biden s laptop. but joe biden, as you may h recall, did not even respond. that s russian disinformation, he said. and then he went on the offense. disi your tax returns, biden. demand it. show us your tax returns. and of course, trump refused. biden, by contrast, already set up a website called joe biden .com to showcase his own recent tax returns because he had nothing to hide. unlike donald trump, you coulduo trusu t joe biden. m that was the message. now, whyy ar are we telling yout this tonight? why are we dredging up history when we re doing it? because two years later, the roles have reversed in a bewildering and pretty remarkable and kind ofwa hilarious way. so wey. now have donald trump s tax returns. house democrats grab them law and precedent and privacy be privacy and they release i them to the public becausead donald trump is orange and bad and has no protections under the bill of rights. so now that w
Dana breaking overnight israel Firing Hundreds of missiles targeting Hamas Terrorists in gaza. This in response to a barbaric series of Terror Attacks targeting children, women and the elderly. The death toll now eclipsing 1,000. President biden is set to break his twoday silence today. Good morning, im dana perino. Good morning to you. Bret im bret baier for bill hemmer. Complicating israels response an estimated 150 people taken hostage by hamas. Americans are believed to be among them and hamas is threatening to kill them onebyone for every time israel strikes gaza. Dana the families of the missing are calling on President Biden to act. Some of them as you can see here are about to hold a News Conference in tel aviv and well take you there live as it happens. Bret Peter Doocy Standing by at the white house. We begin with greg palkot reporting live from israel. Greg. Bret, dana, we are a mile and a half away from the gaza trip. The town of sarot, israel says this town is secure. Lets