This weekend the worlds leading democracies meet for the G7 Summit in cornwall in england. World questions debates how they will deal with the worlds major challenges. Hello and welcome. I am Jonny Dymond and this is world questions, the G7 Summit. The gathering of World Leaders is happening here in the uk. Im in london and im video linked to an international panel drawn from each of the g7 countries. The g7, or group of seven, consists of the seven most advanced economies. They are responsible for more than half of global net wealth, and they are all democracies. This weekend, their leaders will be debating some of the most pressing issues facing the world and attempting to lead. To mark the occAsion, we gather together our own parallel meeting with leading figures and experts drawn from each of the g7 countries. There will be facing questions from around they will be facing questions from Around The World Climate Change, rebuilding after the pandemic, even the threat to democracy its
Jessica schneider. Were learning more and more right now about former Attorney General Barrs Role in the trump Administrations Targeting of democratic lawmakers. Reporter we are. My colleagues are hearing from people familiar with Barrs Role in these investigations and theyre stressing that this probe targeting democratic lawmakers, it was more than a year old when barr became Attorney General. They say that barr came in urging prosecutors to complete investigations quickly, but that barr does not recall the specifics of this probe involving democrats Adam Schiff and eric swalwell. Tonight, though, lawmakers want answers directly from barr as several investigations are being launched. Tonight, democrats are demanding former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr testify under oath after revelations of secret subpoenas served on apple to obtain meta data. The justice Departments Inspector general issuing its own review of records of two of former President Trumps most outspoken a
The president just arrived in geneva, switzerland, ahead of his big facetoface with russian president Vladimir Putin. This hour hes set to meet with the swiss president. His focus will quickly shift to tomorrows highstakes summit. And this morning were learning key new details about just how he is preparing. Plus, some surprising names helping get him ready. Were going to dive into all of that ahead. We do want to start this hour with Breaking News in Americas Response to domestic terror. Any moment, as you see right there, Attorney General Merrick Garland, is set to lay out the biden administrations new strategy against what he refers to as, quote, an emerging and accelerating threat. Were going to bring that you speech from the Attorney General as soon as it gets started. We are already getting a preview of the administrations new posture from Homeland Security secretary. He says the number one focus of the plan to fight domestic terror, to deter, detect, and prosecute Groups Intent
On their tinder profiles. Youre going to come on it was a picture of me i was literally in a best Buy Yesterday and, yes, it was very strict. Mask guidelines may be getting more confusing, even as the pandemic shows signs of abating. For the first time, covid cases are down in all 50 states. Now the biden administration is poised to send more vaccines overseas to countries that are desperate for them. Good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. Its monday, May 18th, along with joe, willie and me, we have chief white House Correspondent for the New York times, peter baker. White House Correspondent for Politico And Coauthor of the playbook, Eugene Daniels. Hes also an msnbc contributor. And former democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman of california. Shes a distinguished Fellow And President At The Wilson Center and author of the new book, Insanity Defense why our failure to confront hard National Security Problems makes us Less Safe and what a really important place to start this morning. W
Building that housed major media outlets, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and others. The Israeli Military calls the owner of that building and said we are going to destroy this property. Then you had this surreal scene where palestinian journalists crowding around on the Phone Speaking in arabic to an israeli soldier in a Command Center somewhere in Israel Pleading with him saying, give us ten minutes. Give us 15 minutes. We need to go back inside and get our equipment and bring it back out. That was not to be. Israel carried out the strike. The Israeli Military says the building was also housing hamas military assets. We dont know what those assets are but israel insisting this was a legitimate military strike. This is causing outcry around the world. The president of the Associated Press, gary pruitt, saying he is shocked and horrified at his organizations building being targeted. He said in a statement this is an incredibly disturbing development. We narrowly avoided a terrible l