in an interview today that c dropped on cnn. obama can t help himself. if you notice. he doesn t spend a lot of time p praisingal pal joe biden, who h. got his old job. we can only wonder why that is. john barrack used to be really good friends. i think they gave each other rocusedd friendship bracelets. remember when joe biden tweeted that photo of the bracelet? friendshdoesn t obama think joee a good president? should he get another braceletn to cite that new advantage with the new job? it doesn t seem to be happenint . instead, obama used the cnn inkerview to attac republican and specifically not donald trump. but senator tim scott of south carolina. the fact that tim scott has an optimistichat ti view of race relations in america seems to have the former president very racrelation upse. i m not being cynical about i tim scotngt individually. i am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of can t we all get along and those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in
happen with this court. i do. but i m not on the courts, and certainly i m not on that court where that texas judge decided to, uh, turn upside down the whole process that fda you has used for years for many drugs. cnn s elaine to train is in washington. for us, elena. i mean this was a controversial decision to be sure. so what our members of congress, saying this is all about? well for the reaction has been pretty disparate immediately after the court s decision was announced, democrats began railing against the ruling. they held press conferences. they span the airwaves, and some even went so far as to tell president biden that he thinks that they think that he should ignore the ruling altogether. now republicans, meanwhile, have been far less outspoken, but we did hear from a few today who were pressed on the issue during the sunday shows that includes congressman tony gonzalez. he is a republican from texas, and he had some pretty harsh words for the biden. ministrations
wall street journal, was detained in a small town just east of moscow. the wall street journal strongly defending their reporter. the kremlin says he was quote caught red handed, but refuses to provide any more details. its track record on this sort of thing. does not inspire confidence ahead. we will have the latest from russia plus overnight, the army says. several people have now been killed this after two blackhawk helicopters crashed near fort campbell will be on the ground there in kentucky. also right now homes are evacuated in raymond, minnesota, after a train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning. we ve got new details for you on that. we re also keeping an eye on the vatican as pope francis is in the hospital undergoing treatment for a respiratory infection ahead. we ll have an update on his condition. but we begin this morning with that alarming headline out of russia . american journalist herskovitz is right now in russian custody after the wall street jour
bombers biden and blenkin arere hoping for with their recent r recenttrips to ukraine and ean europe. biden s presence there when he wasn t tripping upstairs was meant to bolster and reassurwae the people of the region funding a proxy war againstre. russia. g with tens of billions off dollars in us aid. that s one thingdollar. the but by actually showing upthe wl there, he wanted the world to know that he s making a personal commitment to ukraine. our commitment is too the the people of ukraine and the future of ukraine.e no there should be no doubt our support for ukraine will not waver america to with you and the world stands with you. witkyiv has captured a part of my heart, i must say.say. while biden and his entour entourage showed up in ukrainear aineand then poland, because, an ,they want everyone to knowto dt they re going to do whatever it takes and they relish the rolef of being europe s protector. rope sbut what about being amers protector? once a while? a
and the big questions are, can the democrats somehow defy history, and hold on to the house, or are republicans poised for a big win? high inflation, gas prices, is the continuing covid pandemic, president biden s parties facing voters in a very bad mood this year. all republicans need to do to win the senate is to pick up one seat. it sounds easy enough, but are they actually in the process of shooting themselves in the four? how about, former president donald trump, is he helping or hurting the gop effort? and he does end up hurting it, will he end up hurting himself, when it comes to 2024? what about the end of roe v. wade? is it mobilizing democrats? and then, there is that major shift that we saw in 2020. hispanic voters abandoning democrats, and voting republican. it is accelerating even more this year. 99 days to go. let s get to it. let s start at the place where at least, for me it s all gonna and in 99 days from now, or i should say, it will start two and 99 days fr