all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
excellent. a night of serious reflection on a situation that really now needs our attention. absolutely. get to it, my friend. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. katherine tai was born to parents who were born in china, went to yale, and then to harvard law school, became an expert in trade and she served in the bush administration as the general counsel to the united states trade representative, a cabinet level position. general counsel is a very important job. she continued as counsel to the trade representative during the obama administration when the trade representative was an obama appointee. then she became the trade counsel to the house ways and means committee, which has jurisdiction over international trade. today, katherine tai made history when she became the first member of the biden cabinet to be confirmed unanimously by the united states senate. the senate has never confirmed a more qualified u.s. trade representative. as united states trade re
there, getting him ready for debates. she found currency in acting like donald trump, and she has accelerated up into a leadership position in the party. gene robinson, this horror in buffalo a couple days ago seems to me to be sort of the culmination of all these conspiracy theories that used to live somewhere in the fringes of the internet, being completely mainstreamed by a president of the united states, by members of congress, by primetime cable, things people dared not say in public now are just part of the conversation. they are. that message is getting to the wrong people, including an 18-year-old in buffalo who thought he was doing something in the name of his race, by going out and attacking 82-year-old woman shopping at a grocery store. yeah. willie, we hope it s the culmination which implies an end point. i fear, in fact i m sure, that it s not. you re right. this is not the end of this.
there were a lot of weapons present that day, including guns. by the way, a member of the far-right oath keepers will prosecutors, that the group had stockpiled a bunch of guns at a nearby hotel. line and before, wow, okay fine. it was a violent crowd but it was by undercover fbi agents. i know, you re thinking, who believes that kind of math garbage. well, probably, a lot of viewers of tucker carlson, whose fox show was just a higher rated program on primetime cable. here s what he said, using his immense platform, last november. person two and person three were organizers of the riot. the government knows who they are, but the government has not charge them. why is that? you know why. they were almost certainly working for the fbi. so, fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th,
newshour and nia-malika henderson for the washington post. the president blaming the media for distraction and silliness was his word. there certainly is something to it. but i think you have to look at our poll, cbs news poll, 25% of americans and 45% of republicans questioned whether the president was born in the united states. you can t ignore an issue like that even if it s coming from somebody like donald trump. so if trump gets some of the publicity and i ve also got to add, the president saw a political opportunity here. sure. to jump on donald trump and by association, lots s of other republicans. he certainly made this issue bigger himself. terry smith said obama misspoke. it wasn t the dominant issue in a pew poll, it was only 4%. if you looked at primetime cable, it was on all the time. now, news organizations kept saying, well, these allegations are untrue. but then they kept giving him airtime and teasing it and teasing it and putting it on the next night. wh