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they have called this a crisis of trust. as of yet, president biden has not yet spoken with the french president. we know president biden requested a phone call with the french president, but as of last hour, the white house press secretary saying that call is still being scheduled, the details still very much being finalized. let s discuss with my team. david sanger of the new york times, let s start with you. how much of this meeting between boris johnson and joe biden is focused on the u.s. and the u.k. repairing relations with france, or do you think they don t care that much? it s not clear how much they care. they blame the australians, who had a deal with france. the american and british view was it s for the australians to go unwrap themselves from that. of course, the world doesn t work like that. what they needed to do was come up with a plan to basically come up with an alternative that would bring the french into it or at least make up some of the econ ....
feel like scrooge in the grinch right now. the news on the covid-19 pandemic getting worse by the day as the holiday season hits full effect right now, i almost forgot to take my mask off to start the show. they had to remind me you have your mask on. didn t we think that we were done with this? well, as we have seen time and time again covid is not done with us. cases surging about 120,000 new cases per day. and let me say that again, nearly 120,000 new cases per day. that is a 40% jump over just last month. most of them are the delta variant, but omicron is right on the heels. that variant is highly transmissible and it spreads a lot faster than the delta variant. pay attention to this dire warning tonight about omicron. it s from michael osterholm. you ve seen him here on this program, one of the nation s leading infectious disease experts. i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa, in europe, i t ....
night time in europe and the us is not expected to bring widespread relief either, as temperatures stay above 30 celsius or 86 fahrenheit in places including arizona and southern spain. georgina rannard from the bbc climate unit explains why scientists are worried about these temperatures. it has been days now of sweltering temperatures across the us, europe, and china, and one millions of people have struggled through this extreme heat, climate scientists have been poring over a run of broken climate records. they say the speed and the timing that these records have tumbled is unprecedented. now, while climate models are very good at forecasting long term trends, experts say that some of these abnormalities were not expected. let s take a look at some of the broken records. in july the world recorded its hottest day on record. for decades, globalaverage decades, global average temperatures have decades, globalaverage temperatures have been getting higher and higher. th ....
davie. you ll take your life as that happens. it s full days and we re still not clear whether truth lies. it has developed into a complex case of the mixture of claims and counter claims. today the bbc s director general tim davie said he had not spoken to the presenter since the allegations emerged. in the last hour the corporation provided a timeline of how it managed the family s complaint. it said on the 18th of may a family member went into a bbc building and asked to make a complaint about the behaviour of the bbc presenter. the next day the family member contacted the bbc s audience ever since. the allegation was deemed important enough to be passed on to the bbc s corporate investigations team. at this point the bbc says an assessment was made that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality. the bbc says the bbc e mailed the family for more information, but there was no response. then there was a gap of 18 days until the bbc tried to call the fa ....
he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. w ....