Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with Breaking News from washington, d. C. Any moment now, President Biden is set to stop by a meeting of National Union leaders at aflcio headquarters. After that, he will head over to the nato leaders summit. All this as the president faces more questions about his Health And Reelection campaign. Heres what Nancy Pelosi said when asked if the president has her support to be the democratic nominee. It is up to the president to decide if he is going to run. Were all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. He has made the decision. He said firmly this week, he is going to run. Do you want him to run . I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And thats the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go. And i said, everyone, lets just hold off, whatever youre thinking, either tell somebody privately, but you dont have to put that
The chancellor, rachel reeves, has promised to make kick starting ecOnomic growth a natiOnal missiOn. A key part of that is a plan to reintroduce compulsory House Building targets, as our chief EcOnomics CorrespOndent Dharshini david reports. How do you go about building prosperity . Loosening Red Tape to revive private investment in Home Building and Energy Infrastructure form the foundatiOn of todays plans, aimed at underpinning a decade of renewal. It will be up to local communities to decide where the housing is built but it has to be built. If The Answer is always no, well cOntinue as we are and cOntinuing as we are means living standards cOntinuing to decline and it means public services cOntinuing to deteriorate. The plans involve reviving mandatory House Building targets, allowing development On so called grey belt, parts of the protected Green Belt already built On, and lifting a ban On Onshore wind powered developments. She knows she may be in for a fight. How prepared are w
Outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took outright. The left wing coalition, The New Popular Front, took the outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took the most with President Macron s Centrist Alliance coming second. The two blocks which had agreed on a tactical Voting Pact pushed to the far right National Rally into third place. National rally had been expected to win the most seats after doing so in the first round of the voting in the european elections. Live now to my colleague Christian Fraser in paris. Good morning, welcome to paris. A beautiful day in the french capital. We are on the left bank overlooking the Eiffel Tower in the background, where the preparations continue for the paris olympics, which begins here in three weeks time. But france waking up this morning to an Election Result it could hardly have predicted a week ago and that is very much reflected in the Morning Papers. No question who came out on top. It is The New national
Good day everyone. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin with President Bidens Big Week ahead. A short time ago he was seen on a Bike Ride in Rehoboth Beach before he takes on another Brewing Crisis a fallout with french President Macron which is angered by a secret deal to sell submarines to australia. He ignored some questions there. But this week he will also deliver an address to the u. S. General assembly, host a Vaccine Summit and then friday will be hosting the quad leaders summit. And then on capitol hill, the battle over reconciliation is heating up among democrats are Senator Manchin renewing debate over whether the 3. 5 trillion Price Tag is too high. Here is Bernie Sanders response. Were taking on the pharmaceutical industry, were spending millions and millions of dollars trying to make sure that they could charge us ten times more than the people of other countries for drugs. Were taking on the Health Care industry. Does not want to expand medicare. Were taking on the fos