investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
the reputation of the court is at stake. and a new report reveals thomas wife received secret payments from an activist with business before the court. i do think that there s more that the supreme court should do to address those perception problems. with public confidence in the court at a record low, what can be done to restore americans trust in the judicial branch? plus default danger. as the deadline nears for the government to pay its bills president biden faces off with republicans who want to negotiate spending cuts. we re not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. does president biden have a plan to get republicans to work with them? we re the only ones to lift the debt limit to make sure this economy is not in jeopardy. president biden has produced a budget. house republicans produced a ransom note. i ll talk to house democratic leader hakeem jeffries. and guilty as charged. four members of the far right proud boys were found guilty of the hig
country, two associate deans at the peabody school s office of equity, diversity and inclusion were caught doing something that would get most students tossed out. after the tragic killings at michigan state university, nicole joseph and hasina mahoodni felt the need to send out a campus-wide e-mail about the shooting. one problem, they used the artificial intelligence app to write it for them. the bot used the typical blather and expressions. the recent michigan shootings are a tragic reminder of the importance of taking care of each other, particularly in the context of creating inclusive environments. now, these women were so sloppy and so lazy that they didn t notice the small print at the end of the actual letter which read, pair fry sed from open ai s chat gpt ai language model, personal communication, februar whoops! the school has since apologized. dumb and dumber. well, they obviously didn t read the piece recently published in the atlantic by ian bogus title c
president s, convicted felon s rants about sharks, electric boats, rather he would be electrocuted or eaten by a shark have everybody talking about his state of minds. at that moment, a merchant of right wing talking points and sometimes even disinformation is going into overdrive with calculated and relentless regional attacks on president joe biden. statements by donald trump on the other hand so unhinged. fox news didn t carry them or broadcast them. didn t air them after the fact. in the words of stephen king that speech was like listening to your senile uncle after he has that third drink. that performance and others like it or reviving questions about trump s stability, mental acuity, questions trump loves to talk about. watch. the next day they ll say he s crazy. the next day they ll say he s incompetent. this is one of the dumbest human beings ever. that wasn t working. i didn t like that one as much. that was bad. i said what do you think about a cognitive test
they cannot verify the alleged comments by travis king. pyongyang alsoarm article saying he wanted to seek rev fufuge in north korea or a d country because of this maltreatment. again, we don t know if that is accurate. we don t have direct comments from travis king. we still haven t seen him since a month ago when he crossed the military demarcation line into north korea while on a civilian tour of the dmz, the joint security area. so certainly what u.s. officials are trying to do now is find out more information about his whereabouts, about his condition for example. that was not touched upon in state run media. also heard from his mother through a family spokesperson after this announcement from pyongyang and she said that she asks pyongyang to treat her son, quote, humanely. she also asks for a phone call with him. but we know from previous cases, from precedences of u.s. detainees in the country, that