it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. right now, president biden fights back. how dare he raise that? it wasn t any of their damn business. the president forcefully responding to the accusations of memory loss in the special counsel report that found no criminal charges were warranted for his handling of classified documents. new reporting today on why the memory details were included in the report. at the supreme court, the justices gear up to potentially hear another case involving former president donald trump. on capitol hill tonight, the senate is due to consider the stripped down bill providing aid to israel and ukraine, but its future is still uncertain, even without the bipartisan border provisions. overseas, israel steps up its assault on the city of rafah in southern gaza. president biden says the response in gaza has been, quote, over the top. we begin this morning with president biden s response to a report on his handling of c
partly because his memory is hazy, fuzzy, faulty and poor. there s an environment that we re in that generates a ton of pressure because you have congressional republicans, other republicans attacking prosecutors that they don t like. and it creates, you know, a need if you re going to determine that charges weren t filed, people are human. they re thinking through what do we need to do. you know, it leaves one to wonder exactly why he included a lot of the criticisms that were in there. president biden slamming the report and snapping back at reporters. i know what the hell i m doing. i m president. i put this country back on its feet. my memory is fine. while many americans are watching, they have expressed concerns about your age that is your judgment. that is your judgment. that is not the judgment of the press. he said his memory is fine but went up to mix up world leaders for the third time this week. as you know, initially the. of mexico, c.c., did not
my memory look at what i have done since i ve been president. facing criminal charges in his classified documents case, donald trump with no major challengers celebrates a victory in the nevada caucuses last night and enjoys the supreme court s skepticism about the ballot challenge to him in colorado. i think they had a very, very interesting day and a very beautiful day. beautiful sight to watch. former cia director and defense secretary leon panetta will join me for his take on the classified documents. the struggle over aid to ukraine, as well as the rift between the white house and prime minister netanyahu. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden will not face charges for mishandling classified documents. the special counsel s report delivered a major political blow, intention aleally or not, focusing on his hazy memory. in a press conference last night, a furious mr. biden lashed out at the special counsel for his assessment. the
and raising concerns about his age and ability to endure a grueling election cycle. we will watch the news conference live and dig in. fog, the smell, the smog, it s it s like out of like a disaster movie or something. yeah, it s really surreal. this is unbearable, and seems like apocalyptic. definitely have a headache, it s pretty hazy out here and my eyes are burning a little bit. john: people living in the northeast reacting to surreal scenes of smoke-filled cities as smog from raging canadian wildfires drifts to the united states leaving more than 100 million americans under air quality alerts, and the hazy conditions could be sticking around into the weekend. john roberts in washington, and good smoky thursday afternoon to you as well. aishah: coughing here and there. this is america reports, thanks for watching. time lapse video showing how the new york city skyline changed over the span of a few hours yesterday, the skies turning the orange-tinted color
reasoning of what the news that we heard about pence, so i m just not going to comment from here. i m not going to comment on any other former elected official, current elected official, i refer you to the department of justice, anything that relates to this white house, i would refer you to the office. the abrams tank, john kirby says it s expensive to maintain, operate, fuel, and requires a lot of training. does this white house still have those same concerns when it comes to providing tanks to the ukrainians? as my dod colleagues have said very recently that again, nothing to preview from here, certainly don t have anything to share, but they never ruled out tanks, just want to make that very clear. i think what my colleagues at the dod have said in the past and recently is that there were always challenges with tanks, but not going to preview anything. i think i would refer you to the dod comments on this. always been challenges, never been taken off the table. i don