Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Washington post columnist David Ignatius got the ball rolling. President bide app should not run in 2024. A New York Times piece calling the 2024 piece a field of nightmares. An oped in the new York Magazine titled the case for biden to drop Kamala Harris, even from this former House Speaker nancy pelosi. Is Vice President Kamala Harris the best running mate for this president . He thinks so. Thats what matters. Do you think she is the best running mate, though . She is the Vice President of the United States. People say to me why isnt she doing ththat. Because he is the Vice President. Thats the job description. You dont do that much. Harris wow. That didnt sound like full throated support. What was that . Took them several times to get her to answer the question. Former White House Deputy chief of staff karl rove with this plain truth. Time is not his friend. He is going to turn 81 later this year. Nearly 82 by the time of the 202
in a far-right speaker of the house. with the interparty war over house leadership resolved, the idea is that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today, it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, it s not really going to deal with any of it. this evening, speaker johnson put every republican on the record, voting for a bill that did not include any aid to ukraine s, and which would provide aid to israel, only on the condition that congress defunded the irs, to allow billionaires to cheat on their taxes. we have obligations, and we have come. it s and we want to protect and help and assist our friend israel. what we have to keep our own house in order as well. so you are saying you will not pass in israel aid bill, unless it is off, that is that the correct interpretation of your? that s voter going to do. i did not attach that for political purposes, okay i attach because again, we re tr
mourn the loss of already birkin, let s do our best to follow in his footsteps. be strong, be brave, and be a hero. and on that note, i wish you a very good and a healthy night. we are sending love to his family. from all around the colleagues across nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow right now the biden administration is dealing with two major military conflicts in two separate parts of the world. and the desire to actually secure funding for the conflicts involving israel and ukraine was supposed to be, it was supposed to be the reason that moderate republicans voted in a far-right speaker of the house. with the interparty war over house leadership resolved, the idea is that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today, it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, it s not really going to deal with any of it. this evening, speaker johnso
president and video of the president having another imaginary handshake. again just leaves a lot of questions about the occupant of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. well this isn t just any easter bunny this is a white house press staffer who occupies that every year this easter egg roll if there is an easter egg roll. imagine for a second donald trump is out that roe plain talking to reporters members talking to the press let s say in the bunny alves as mr. present we ve got to go, don t talk to them anymore all hell would break loose with the idea one of his strategic communication people those who is actually in the bunny suit her name was megan hayes she is in charge of strategic messaging plan she also saw the president talking to press and i ve got to think she sat there and said this isn t good let s get the hook let s pull him out and so she put on the big show said mre children or whatever she said. the net impact is putting somebody between the president
able to confirm that yet. and ashley, we should say skeptics explained these events as one of the following, refracted light, weather balloons, rockets being launched. venus, what is sort of the change, i guess, in the response? it seems like and look, i worked in the white house press office, you would have someone fringy ask about this, and you would have to run around, as a press staffer, figure out who s in charge of ufo questions. it wasn t easy to find the person with any expertise. it sounds like that has changed. i mean, what is sort of the tone when someone says to jen psaki, a serious question, what are we going to find out in this june report? so two things are really different. one is just sort of the bipartisan, not necessarily belief in extra terrestrial