gearing up for an historic trip to europe meant to strengthen american leadership overseas. after a week spend touting the administration s command of the economic situation here at home. yesterday the labor department announced 209,000 jobs were added in july. the white house touted he number as a sign of bidenomics inaction. alongside consumer-focused efforts to reduce jump fees and health care costs. and democrats and their allies are mobilizing in the wake of last week s rulings from the conservative dominated supreme court. with race based affirmative action band, legislators and lawyers are taking aim at so-called legacy admissions. we talk to one group suing harvard university for what some call affirmative action for the rich. in the meantime, it was a bloody-long independence weekend, as mass shootings rocked cities from coast to coast. kansas city mayor quentin once better law enforcement, but also tighter gun restrictions. he will join us shortly. and later you a
stations and the people that operate them. on twitter, biden proclaimed my message to the company s runnin gas stations bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you ar paying for the product and do i now. this tweet, so egregious that even the owner of the washingto post responded, inflation is fa too important of a problem for the white house to still keep making statements like this. it s either straight ahead this direction or a deep misunderstanding of basic marke dynamics. to be honest, it s probably both . just justice and from earlier today. watch. how do you go from leaming high gas prices from food into small business owners? here is the thing about that. when you look at as of this morning when you look at the crude oil. retail gas prices have early decline just about 3 percent over the same time period as we have seen with the crude oil prices and the wholesale gas prices. they are doing what is possible in bringing back the cost fo
history and would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of his second term. his recent bike fall with his many verbal gaffes are not helping his cause. the growing numbers of headlines highlighting biden s age will be hard nor the white house to ignore. with his approval rating sinking and inflation sky high, it s leaving some democrats asking questions though out loud. whether the party needs a different younger leader in the next presidential race. now, ben, my team told me that you literally said these words. this topic is my jam. yes, joe biden is the useful idiot that is no longer useful to the democratic party. they saw an opportunity to get the white house, they thought this was the safest bet and it was for them. and he was a useful idiot. and now he s no longer useful. i think they realize not only do we have to get rid of him before he even has a chance to run for the presidency again, now it s because that would destroy the democratic party, they understand he s goi
mixed feelings about it. church of england leaders have described the policy as immoral , downing street has said the plane may not take off today as planned because of ongoing legal challenges by some of those due to be removed. also this lunchtime: basic pay falls in relation to rising prices at the fastest rate in more than a decade. intense russian bombardment in the east of ukraine all three bridges in a key city have now been destroyed. five years since the grenfell tower disaster, a memorial service is held at westminster abbey for the 72 people who died. nicola sturgeon insists there is an indisputable mandate for a second referendum on independence for scotland. and england chase a second innings target of 299 to win the second test against new zealand. and coming up on the bbc news channel: australia are into the world cup finals for a fifth time in a row, following the heroics of sub keeper andrew redmayne. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one.