pomp and power, the president of the united states abroad for a big nato summit but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across europe. trouble since he walked in. ron desantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks, the media. it might be the ugliest headline of the biden presidency a conversation about the biden family and the cruelty of counting to six versus seven. i m dana bash. behind the head looilines and e politics. up first, geopolitics, the president tries to hold the nato family together. joe biden wheels up right now to lithuania and will land to a new uncertainty about ukraine s future and if it s with nato and conp front rare public fractures among allows over a decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine s front line. the president took pains to project everything is okay in a stop to number 10 downing street with the british prime m
texas, and buffalo, new york. now, this is sad and infuriating ritual to go through ever going list of mass shootings every time we go on the air. this week, biden said enough. he said enough 12 times in a rare primetime speech to the nation. but apparently, enough isn t enough, because no substantial legislative solution appeared on the horizon. the president believes there is some, quote, rational republicans who might be willing to address this gun violence endemic. senator mitch mcconnell got some favorable headlines, which he suggested a willingness to work with democrats on this. but don t be fooled. he s had a decade long history of blocking gun control. this is not the first mass shooting that he s been involved in. the washington post provided a detailed list of times he spent working to quote, delay, obstruct or prevent most major firearm restrictions from being approved by congress. now, his stories begins back 1989, after a mass shooting rocked his own hometown of
marjorie taylor greene. melanie, tell us what you ve learned? there has been a ton of turmoil inside the house freedom caucus lately. they have been split over tactics, over policy, over membership rules, and even over whether to support former president donald trump. in fact, the group has been so divided lately, that we have learned there s been a side group that has been holding sort of secret side meetings to discuss strategy because they don t trust other members of the freedom caucus and those tensions really came to a head when they voted to remove marjorie taylor greene just before the july 4th recess in part because she is so loyal to speaker kevin mccarthy. now, we should point out not everyone in the group supported her ouster and just another example of how prominently the group has split, jim jordan, a member of the freedom caucus, a co-founder also become close to kevin mccarthy, did support keeping her in the group, even though many other members voted to remove her, a