Survey show parents strongly favor masks. Nearly twothirds want masks required for all unvaccinated students and staff. Parents are more closely divided over mandating shots. 58 say they dont want their schools to require vaccination, 42 are in favor. Public health experts not divided. They say every student who can be vaccinated should be vaccinated and other politicians who are politicizing the important debate should just stay out of it. Extraordinary to think that we have governors that arent putting needs of School Kids first and this is something that i think every Voter And Everybody in the country should be very focused on. Lets get our kids vaccinated and for those who arent or cant be, they should be wearing a mask. This is not a political issue. One of the officials who is making it a political issue though is text goas governor ab, judges blocking his ban on mask mandates. And meanwhile the surge overwhelming Texas Hospital resources, Governor Abbott on tuesday sought out o
kilmeade. the consumer price index just surged by 7%, the biggest jump since the height of the cold war. meantime, americans are flooding social media with photos of empty stores and hashtags bear shelves abide in. some are even drawing comparisons with the soviet union as a grocery store shelves remain empty. it s like a soviets or during 1981. it s horrible. emily: kennedy, this is astonishing, and those people are not wrong. emily: the fall of communism followed a trip to houston that boris yeltsin made in 1989, and he went to just a typical grocery store in houston and it actually brought him to tears because he couldn t believe that anyone in america could walk into a grocery store like this and have a bounty in front of him. he said the potus was so fresh scum of the meat and fish and poultry so abundant, and that s when he realized that communism was alive. and americans have always had abundance and a choice but this is what they are faced with. for those of us
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
harsh enough. but penny s lawyer that he should not be punished for putting himself in harms way to protect others. what is a safe was behaving erratically yelling and ranting at subway writers. if you look at some of these recent events in the country whether it is the mass shootings or stabbings or people with patches in new york city, when somebody comes in and says i don t care if i go to jail i do not care if i get shot i m going to kill somebody, you have to take that seriously. i can very much see a marine saying let me be proactive instead of waiting and then regretting i didn t diffuse this report escalated. bryan: cb cotton is live in new york with the very latest. good afternoon. attorneys for daniel penny are now saying we should all expect more in this case presumably evidence which they feel will exonerate their clients. this new insight into pennies and defense being shared by his attorney thomas on friday night during wabc radio show katz and cosby. the atto
bipartisan policy on gun reform stands this morning. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thursday, june 2nd, i m sorry. still a long week, folks. thursday, june 2nd. thanks for joining us. just over a week since gunfire rang out in uvalde, texas, we begin this morning with another mass shooting in america. and four people are dead, and several others injured after a gunman armed with a rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. the gunman who has not yet been identified apparently also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to police. the chief of police there in tulsa said that officers arrived at saint francis hospital at 4:56 p.m., just minutes after reports of a gunfire were first called in. officers heard shots and made their way to the second floor. where they found the gunman and victims. at a news conference, tulsa s deputy police chief praised the quick response of office