pete buttigieg was working with the railroads as well. you heard from the president calling this deal a win for tens of thousands of railway workers. just to reiterate key points, they re getting better pay, improved working conditions and peace of mind surrounding health care costs. this agreement after those 20 hours of face-to-face negotiations was led by the labor secretary, and he said one of the key moments was crucial call from president biden that took place late last night at 9:00. walsh warned a strike would have been catastrophic. you know that some of the consequences, but consider this, 40% of this country s products that are shipped long distance are moved by rail. that means auto parts, lumber, the food we eat. we are already seeing some of the possible implications, amtrak preemptively canceling long-distance routes. the statement from amtrak this morning saying they re trying to get these canceled trains quickly restored. they re reaching out to passengers to
Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
Amazing story. i didn t know anything about it, to be honest. i think most people don t. so, how did you come to this story? well, i think i came to it the way most writers today come to it. i was screwing around on the internet when i should have been writing something. i honestly don t know. for some reason i got on the subject of world war ii and sports and read about this game called the mosquito bowl, and it became more and more improbable, more and more delicious, but it was two regiments of the marine corps stocked with great football players, and they would argue over beers who would be the better team if we played each other. finally, one marine said we re marines, we don t argue, we fight it out. so, they had this game as close to a real football game as you could get. they had marching bands, programs printed. it was broadcast on the mosquito radio network. you name it, they had it. this delicious game. but really it was a way for
Dropping, and it wouldn t have frankly happened if she hadn t been willing to probe so many government documents, push for so many documents to be released to the public. you really have just been indefatigable so incredible here, anna. what can you tell us about how this is going forward with the fbi investigating? is anything happening there? we do know that the fbi has been investigating for the last two years. we know they met with favre at one point back in the beginning after six people were arrested in 2020. but, you know, as this has just been unfolding, you know, the main players of this scheme, namely phil bryant and brett favre, have sort of tried to make excuses for their involvement. so, favre, you know, obviously is connected to this volleyball stadium but he says he didn t know the money came from welfare. i think these text messages will be interesting to investigators
morning joe, they aren t listening to my podcast. they re casually following the news once in a while. these young voters were an example of that. i think the challenge it s funny, those voters all voted for joe biden in 2020, so they showed up in the presidential election, and they re all constituents of katie border, congresswoman from orange county. i talked to her afterwards and she said these young voters are trying to make it, pay for school, for rent, get through their lives. it s not on them to figure this out. we need to reach out to them. i need to find these constituents, make sure they know when the election is, why it matters and make sure they get to the polls. i think as democrats look toward the midterms, and people get frustrated when they see this focus group, if we want democrats to win, it s not incumbent on not just democratic politicians but striss and organizers, to reach these young