the final flight premieres sunday at nine on cnn good morning. you were alive in the scene now newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the fiery language coming from the white house over the senseless killing of aid workers bind israeli airstrike in gaza. seven members of the non-profit world central kitchen lost their lives while delivering food to starving civilians. in a statement, president biden said, he was heartbroken over their deaths. he also sharply criticized israel s leadership saying it has not done enough to protect gaza s most vulnerable people at some of the most blunt language we ve heard from the president and the white house since the war began, israel says the strike was a grave mistake and has vowed to investigate. meanwhile, the world central kitchen shared the names of the seven lives lost, calling them beautiful souls and heroes. and cnn s melissa bell is live in jerusalem, flores with the latest melissa, what more we learning about t
censored or suppressed. they did rule that they could not have interaction with social media companies. that particular ruling an appeals court has put on hold, but it gets back to this broader conversation that republicans are having in many ways, peter, it s a perfect example of how republicans and democrats are talking past each other. republicans believe there is a real problem with censorship and democrats believe there is a problem with giving robert f. kennedy a platform. those two things collided and probably not too many minds were changed as a result. the added bonus for the republicans is putting up a challenger to president biden to try to amplify that message as well. i want to ask you about this. kennedy is running on his family s name. the members of the family right now are expressing their concerns, their reservation, even their outrage with some of the comments he has made, not in
this is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing. house republicans are giving the floor to one of president biden s long shot rivals for the democratic nomination. you just heard him there, robert f. kennedy jr. despite objections from his own party, kennedy is testifying before what s called the weaponization of the federal government subcommittee. he s focused on alleged social media censorship. speaker mccarthy and jim jordan both refused to pull kennedy s testimony despite his long history of pushing controversial conspiracy theories including covid was engineered, he suggested, to spare jewish and chinese people and, quote, ethnically targeted, he said, to attack white and black people. kennedy said his comments were taken out of context. nbc news capitol hill ryan nobles has been be monitoring the story. and we have the deputy washington bureau chief for the
nations combined in the world and with this failure to get a real commitment with them, it makes it impossible to achieve the goals for the next climate summit which is this fall. secretary kennedy was not given an audience with president xi. xi gave his own competing speech while kerry was there saying they would not reduce emissions, they would do it on their own calendar while he was in beijing. it s a continuing sign between the frosty relationship between china and the u.s. xi did meet with henry kissinger in beijing. he s 100 years old. kissinger holds a special relationship with the chinese, has for decades, ever since he opened the u.s. grand opening to china back in 197 p 2 under richard nixon. so there you have it. andrea mitchell on the ground for us on the security forum in aspen. for that, coming up here, excuse me, conspiracy contagion.
recent weeks but ones he s made in recent years. this really is about the kennedy dynasty and the divisions with rfk alone in this situation. that s right. sort of strangely the only kennedy is louisiana senator kennedy who has no relation. the kennedy family has receded from political view, in part because the member of the family that looked the most promising, joe kennedy iii waged a failed senate bid to unseat ed markey, rather embarrassing defeat. you have that as the context. out of almost nowhere comes rfk jr. running this presidential campaign in the primary against joe biden which is giving a platform to all of these views. the kennedy family, i m told by those who know them, that this is vexing them. they are not going there on the candidacy yet but you see them sort of choosing these moments to very clearly repudiate what