[ applause ] [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please receive this benediction. gracious and everlasting god, as we depart, inspired by the a powerful and long overdue honor at the white house at this hour. good day. i m peter alexander in for my friend andrea mitchell. we have been watching president biden awarding the medal of honor to paris davis for gallantry during the vietnam war. he was one of the first black officers to lead a special forces team in combat. dragged his fellow soldiers to safety, despite suffering multiple wounds and grenade fragments during a 1965 raid. an honor that is decades overdue coming to fruition in the east room there at the white house. we have been following breaking news from south carolina. convicted attorney alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a powerful preamble, the judge clifton newman, sentencing the lawyer this morning after a jury spent fewer than three hours deliberating last night before findi
newton john has died. olivia has been a symbol of triumph and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. do i expect you to help? yes i do. president biden applauding passage of the senate bill. some g.o.p. members remain skeptical. people in country can t afford everything in their daily lives. this bill does nothing to address that. ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. republican lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the fbi s raid on mar-a-lago. steve: meanwhile former president donald j. trump released a campaign style video on his website, truth social, calling the united states a nation in decline. lawrence: kevin corke joins us live from washington. kevin, what can you tell us? good morning, guys. certainly a day to remember in the nation s capitol. if you ask republicans not for a good reason. president trump s home mar-a-lago comes under siege by the biden administration s department of justice, with the approval of a
president biden: donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism. maga forces are determined to take this country backward. maga failures. extreme maga ideology. maga republicans have made their choice. maga republicans look at america and see carnage and darkness. they believe for them to succeed everyone else has to fail. dana: the president s prime time address ignored multiple crises plaguing the country such as rising inflation, deadly drugs pouring across the border and the violent crime wave in big cities. trace: the new york post summed it up on its front page saying dark divide. and we have team fox coverage. jessica tarlov and charlie hurt but first alexandria hoff. the president used the term maga 13 times. this is an official taxpayer-funded event. one the white house said earlier yesterday would not be political. president biden: i stand here tonight for quality and democracy, they re under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend oth
The race to replace Kevin Mccarthy hits a speed bump amid backlash over a planned Speakers Forum on fox news, the potential successors all pulling out of that event, but congressman jim jordan did seal a big endorsement from former President Donald Trump, and the opposite of an endorsement from former congresswoman liz cheney. Meantime, the former president reportedly discussed sensitive nuclear sub secrets with an australian billionaire who then shared that information with dozens of foreign officials, journalists and employees. And we are weeks into the uaw strike against the big three auto makers. At any moment we will find out if the union is going to expand the strike again. We are following all of these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central. Uncertainty and intrigue on capitol hill, surrounding who will be the next speaker of the house. Both the leading candidates jim jordan and Steve Scalise are working their divided conference, tryi
jeff, the white house, as we tried to get to in the exchange with the press secretary yesterday, is in a pickle here. they like to say, we stand for the district of columbia. we like them to be the 51st, to rule themselves. on this issue, we have to intervene. we believe they have to be tougher on crime here. it does raise a lot of challenging questions for them, especially after what we witnessed with lori lightfoot, the chicago democratic mayor who lost her bid for re-election even in the primary. is the white house trying to demonstrate it is tough on crime? what s the motivation? what changed here? i think the difference was the mayor opposed this. i think president biden can t look soft on crime. that s something he faced in the midterm elections. it didn t end up hurting democrats as much as many republicans thought it would. it s going to be an issue going into the presidential election. it s something president trump will bring up former president trump will bring up and ot