am jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden defending his decision to include cluster bombs in the admonitions latest military aid package to ukraine. human rights groups oppose cluster bombs which can carry dozens or even hundreds of smaller explosives. sometimes they do not explode on impact, as you can see in this video of a russian cluster bomb dropped on ukraine last year. the unexploded bomblets can kill and maim civilians, more than 100 countries have outlawed the use of cluster bombs but that group does not include the united states or russia. priscilla alvarez is on the road where the president is spending the weekend, priscilla, the president is facing some pushback even from fellow democrats on the inclusion of cluster bombs in this military aid package. tell us more. reporter: that s right because is a significant development, and one that is not sitting well with democrats in congress. now, senator merkley, along with former senator leahy wrote a
we ve already produced there is a pattern across the globe of joe biden s family receiving money from foreign nationals. there is a pattern here that would suggest this allegation is more than credible and it is way past time for the f.b.i. to determine whether or not they need to move forward with an investigation. dana: the f.b.i. s refusal and allegations made in the document coming as president biden s 2024 campaign kicks off, very quietly. david spunt is live at the justice department with more. a story that is escalating quickly, no question about that. we know f.b.i. director christopher wray and house oversight chair james comer are scheduled to speak in a few hours early afternoon in this highly-anticipated phone call. comer claims he is being stonewalled by the f.b.i. but the f.b.i. is saying listen, we will cooperate with you but you have to give us a little bit more time to give you a specific reason for why we re not going to just hand over a document to cong
open to an alternative in 204 with 14% saying they d support kennedy for the democratic nomination while a new harris poll finds that 63% of voters think the president would not be able to finish a second term if he was reelected and that vice president kamala harris would wind up taking over at some point. let s bring in wall street journal columnists dan henninger and kim strassel. so, dan, what do you think of joe biden s decision to run for a second term? i think that if in terms of the good of the country, it s a big mistake. for sure. in terms of joe biden s apparently boundless ambitions, if he thinks donald trump is going to be the opposition, he believes he can beat trump. paul: you think that s the main motivation for biden at this stage, beat trump? well, no. i think the main motivation is he likes to be president [laughter] paul: okay. air force one, all the rest of it. [laughter] his entire career was dedicated to this spot, and it s tough to give it up
thomas putting the subpoena for lindsey graham on ice for now. new reaction from capitol hill, we want to start with white house correspondent mark memoli, and ali vitali and steve kornacki at the big board. we ve seen the president out with what you can call a presidential pep talk, trying to get everybody rolling in the same direction, ahead of election day, now just 15 days away, even as steve will talk through, some of the environment is changing for democrats, who have seen new polling showing that the anger around abortion, that we saw after dobbs has started to recede. talk us through how the president is navigating this. that s right. the environment is changing fast. the president spoke to some of the whiplash a lot of people are seeing as polls go up and down, the president even saying he s not sure even pollsters are confident in their own numbers at this point. so what is the president doing? 15 days to go, until election day, a lot of people already voting in f