he has relationship with some of these world leaders for decades and he never thought that he would hear that and so you hear him say that, you hear him talk about it. another part of it too how unprecedented, how unprecedented that moment was on january 6th when a mob of 2000-person mob went to the capitol because they were lied to about the results of the election. because they wanted to overturn the election. so, just really want to make sure that we get that, that we understand why the reason he was telling that story and look, you know, look, as it relates to the names and what he was trying to, you know, what he was trying to say, many people, elected officials, many people, you know, they tend they can misspeak sometimes, right. and look, let me give you a couple of examples. you know, on sunday, speaker johnson said iran instead of israel. this happens. joe is not here, many times i call joe from u.s.a. today michael, i m sure he does not appreciate that. [laughte
reinforced it. white house correspondent peter doocy has our lead story tonight. good evening, peter. shannon, good evening. officials here are telling us the mistakes we have seen president biden make this week on camera are normal, and they have nothing to do with the special counsel s findings of a president with a poor memory. no one in this building would say that what we saw in this report about his memory. peter: just days after mistaking him with a now dead predecessor, president biden met with the german chancellor olaf sholls swing and miss leaving it up to the vice president to clean up a special counsel report that challenges president biden s mental acuity. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. white house officials believe the special counsel was pressured to be tough. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. democrat
continues our coverage. good afternoon, everyone. i m lindsay reiser in for natalie pursue cnn today. a search is underway for a suspect, or suspects, in baltimore, after a mass shooting kills two young people and leaves dozens more injured. the mayor of the city is pleading with witnesses to come forward to catch the shooter. we need you to treat this as if someone had taken the life of your son, your daughter, your father, your brother. we need you to do that, step up and do the right thing. and to those who carried out the act, we will find you. we will bring you to justice. we re also following relentless protests in france over the police killing of a teenager. we re going to have a live report. the fallout from the supreme court decision on affirmative action this hour, the potential devastating impact could have on diversity in the medical community, all of that plus donald trump makes a public defense of his handling of classified documents. we are going to do fac
after a strange of deadly storms barreled through the region, leaving at least six people dead and dozens of others injured we re in a texas community still picking up the pieces. later highway collapse pennsylvania s governor vowing to reopen that busy stretch of interstate 95 through philly within weeks let s begin with the breaking news out of china this morning. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken just departing beijing after that high-stakes meeting with china s president xi jinping. that included the secretary s crucial two-day visit aimed at stabilizing the spiraling relationship between the two countries, upended recently by the downing of a spy balloon and this tense encounter by a chinese fighter plane and a u.s. jet. plus the encounter with military ships. let s discuss with janis mackey frayer in beijing as well as nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell standing by in washington we know the meeting between blinken and xi lasted about 35 minutes,
trump happen preso thes to be the leadingndb candidate to get the gop nomination and be on top inen s the primaries when it s all said and done, making him joe biden primars and main oppo. is that the man that s goingide, to be charging the president, the foreign press, the united states? statis that the justice departme that he controls? yes, the justice department der s specifically accusing trump of violating the espionage act. congress passed the espionage act right around a few years before world one. again the law was meant to target spies who might turn against unit warti states during wartime. now, joe biden s justice department is trying to argue that whichreally trump is a spy, whe is really absurd. now, the president said as much he a over the weekend.fi he addressed the indictment against him in public forst tir the first time. the baseless indictment of bye biden depar administration s weaponized department of injustictme will o down as among the most horrific