future bottlenecks. today i m announcing two further steps. first, i m allocating additional funding to help american partners as well as the united states cut port congestion by slashing red tape and reducing processing times so that ships can get in and out of our ports faster, and second i m signing an executive order that will strengthen our management of the united states defense stockpiles for minerals and materials and allow us allow us to react and respond more quickly to shortfalls in the industrial base. president biden also met with turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan raising human rights issues and turkey s use of a russian missile system with the turkish president. biden did not attend some of the more informal cultural event including tossing copies into the trevi fountain with other g-20 leaders. many of these leaders will be traveling to scotland tomorrow where the united nations climate change conference or connecticut fence is under way. let s go n
man hunt. another incident of a mass shooting over a neighborhood dispute. the search is on in texas for a suspect who allegedly murdered five of his neighbors friday including a 9-year-old boy using an ar 15 style rifle after a neighbor asked the suspect to stop shooting his gun outside because of it was keeping their baby awake. texas governor greg abbott facing criticism for calling the mass shooting victims illegal immigrants and president biden confronting the age issue head on at the white house correspondents dinner. they say i m over the hill. don lemon would say that s a mine in his prime. good day. federal regulators have stepped in to rescue first republic bank. it has been sold to jpmorgan chase after losing nearly $100 billion of its deposit this is year. the takeover insuring customers have access to their uninsured deposits. the third major bank to go under this year. this comes after the federal reserve in a scathing report on friday took much of the bla
redirect police funding, because they have way too much money, a big change from three years ago. when he was running last time, at the democratic convention, he campaigned on the idea that police are racist, the dnc s platform stated millions of people in our country have good reason to fear that they may lose their lives in a routine traffic stop or while standing on a street corner. really? joe biden isn t talking like that anymore. it is not hard to see why. the anti-police movement that he supported big-time has destroyed major democratic controlled cities. take, for example, seattle. they lost many officers and hit a 30-year low in the number of officers on the payroll. on top of that, seattle s state government where the senate and hougs are controlled by democrats has decided to decriminalize drug possession, effective july 1st. no state law in washington against drug possession. that is absolutely true. democrats refused a compromise bill are republicans because it i
really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well
Republican member could call for a vote of no confidence in his speakership. part of the arrangement he made with the conference to get that job. a very, very difficult position. but he s going to need the democratic votes. he ll need a deal of some kind to actually lift the debt ceiling. we have breaking news about maryland senator, ben cardin. also three-term governor jay insly. two big political retirements. a lot of folks got to know him. the governor of washington state says he will not seek an additional term. he ran mostly on climate issues. a big signal issue voter. candidate rather. did not make it particularly far in the democratic primary and ben cardin, who has been a member of congress for almost as long as i ve been alive. serving maryland in the house and senate. i believe the senate for three terms now. says he will not seek a fourth term in the senate. the list of democrats who are likely to run for what many believe would be a safe blue democratic seat, i could pr