and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. wee begin with nikki haley, the 2024 presidential contender breaking with former president trump and florida governor ron desantis on a cnn town hall last night. they differentiated herself from her rivals, sometimes, by name, on a number of points including social security and medicare. and january 6. here s haley on ukraine where trump and desantis have avoided clearly backing the country s fight against russian aggression. listen. this is bigger than ukraine. this is a war about freedom. and it s one we have to win. a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong, they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan is next, we better believe them. russia says poland and the ballotics are next, if that happens,
series to play. we know it doesn t mean anything one game in one series. so, for us to focus is on us, to focus. we all dreamt about having this opportunity. you know, for many of us, it was pretty far-fetched. you know, if you can t enjoy it you know, you shouldn t be here. game two of the stanley cup final tonight, puck drops at 8:00 p.m. eastern on tnt. finally, making magic, just two weeks after becoming the first after back-to-back ncaa champ, go stanford, the 20-year-old goes how to win in a playoff. zhang becomes the youngest player on the tour since 1951, rose, just as stunned as anyone. no, what is happening. i just can t believe it. it was just last week when i won
four individual events beginning on sunday. the world is waiting to see if she will be okay and if she ll compete again in tokyo. u.s. swimming legend katie ledecky failing to medal for the first time, finishing fifth in the 200 meter free style wednesday, but just over an hour later she was back in that pool making history yet again in the first ever women s 1500 meter free style event in the olympics, i was there to see ledecky dominate, winning gold. and she was hardly even using her legs during the race. i talked to a team usa staffer afterwards and they said ledecky was saving her energy because she has two events to go here in tokyo. by the time the games are complete, she will have swam a stunning 3.7 miles. go stanford! erica sullivan, fellow american, took silver. and after dropping their opener to france, the u.s. men s basketball team taking out their frustrations on iran.
actually portends of exciting things where you have no risk of the kind of meltdowns we re seeing. where they each spent fuel rods. we can go to the kinds of innovations that make nuclear safer or safe. so this is the point i m making. i m a competitor. i m a baller. i played football in the pac-10, go stanford, now the pac-12. this is the thing that ticks me off. we used to have the most r & d intensive economy on the planet. we are no longer the research in terms of percentage of our investment in gdp. we re no longer there. people want to outinnovate us. that s unacceptable to me. call it pride or confidence, if america can compete we can win. so government needs to step up in a much more significant way. that s why may plan has a massive moon shot like investment in the technologies of the future which range in everything from battery storage
this week as 16 million americans are out of work, the economy is struggling to grow and the housing market remains a mess, we learn that total student loan debt now topping $1 trillion for the first time. at the same time, 15% of 20 to 24-year-old americans do not have jobs. student loan delinquencies have jumped to more than 11% doubling just over the past few years. nicholas kristof is a columnist for the new york times, moody s expects student loan problems to only get worse. this is a really tough situation for young people. no jobs, tons of debt, an economy that s not favoring the things it used to. that s right. and i fear that the result may be, you know, more people having trouble getting into college and one of the long-term problems affecting our long-term competitive is the proportion of americans going to college has flattened since the 1970s, i fear we re kind of digging ourselves into a hole. the thing is even if you get a college degree and you get the d