from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there. a chatroom that counts as members some foreign nationals
it take to get formula on store shelves? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we start in buffalo, where president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit there today. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against quote weapons of war, and curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. this trip comes as information continues to surface about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning the attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations had he not been arrested. two possible plot, a black church in buffalo and an elementary school in the city. the author of the posts wrote that they were targeting the school because of its predominantly black student body which they found by looking up tes
New content would be posted to its 52 official twitter feeds adding this, quote, npr s organizational accounts with low longer be active on twitter because the platform is taking actions what undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we re not editorially independent. they says they receive less than 1% of its $3 hundred million annual budget from the public broadcasting fund. musk called for them to be defunded. axios reporting this morning that pbs is also joining them and stopped tweeting on april 8th after musk labeled them government-funded as well. bbc another government that drew the same labels interviewed musk yesterday. does the bbc hold itself at all responsible for
Has been trying to get out of it for a while now. well, all excellent question, and all ones that seem to be coming across the minds of not only traders and financial markets but people more broadly. this saga has captured the attention of seemingly everybody. so the newest development, we ll just start there, musk this morning came out and essentially issued an ultimatum, and the ceo of twitter saying that the deal for the social media giant cannot move forward, until he shows public proof that spam accounts make up less than 5% of users. now, musk suspects that the real number is closer to 20%. but as you alleged, john, the real question, does musk want to walk away from the deal? is this all just a front to be able to walk away? or is he trying to negotiate a lower price? and the jury is out. one comment i would just end on came from musk yesterday, he was speaking at a conference, and he said you can t pay the same
Data showing prices are continuing to rise, the economy actually shrank, and the president this week said he is not concerned about recession right now, but he says he is concerned about the possibility of one next year. alexandria hoff life at the white house, thanks live at the white house, thanks. griff: the left still slamming elon musk for his twitter takeover. the tesla ceo told new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez to, quote, stop hitting on me after she criticized some ego billionaire with an ego problem. nate foy is live9 with the latest. hey, nate. reporter: an interesting exchange, you can say that, for sure. after initially denying she was talking about musk yesterday, congresswoman ocasio-cortez is tweeting again about the world s richest man today. just after 10 a.m. she tweeted, quote, we ll hoe you the tweet here, like i said, ego problems. this comes after the initial