good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, some sad news. former connecticut senator vice presidential nominee and 2,000 presidential election jerome has died. lieberman first joined the u.s. senate in 1989. he was mostly viewed as a centrist democrat. most recently lieberman was the founding chairman of the no labels movement fronting the effort to try to get a third party unity ticket on the 2024 presidential ballot. late-breaking news today. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on the hill with this breaking news. reaction coming in fast. good evening, chad. bret, good evening. jerome s family says he died in new york from complications after a fall. he was 82 years old. lieberman entered the senate in 1989, defeating republican local weeker. he ran as al gore s vice presidential candidate during the disputed election of 2,000. lieberman was jewish and was just on fox recently. he spoke out against the comments about israel by senat
this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. a very warm welcome to a special edition of talking business weekly with me. let s go take a look at what is on the show. the airline industry is roaring back to life after covid and thinking about how to get us back on board so here we are at the airline passenger experience summit in long beach, california. this is where you can find everything from the next generation of in flight tvs to the seats in the fit. it is where the airlines work out what we want to make our journey is even better. investing in the future, it can be a pricey affair, especially when covid has cost you billions. the big boss of air new zealand will tell me how he is reshaping things after getting through some of the words toughest lockdown restrictions and once you ve got all those passengers on board, how do you feed and entertain them? well, i m going to taste so
one of the revelations in this wide-ranging report on the uvalde massacre. it describes widespread failures, egregious poor decision-making that resulted in more than an hour of chaos in the, quote, lackadaisical approach by those sent to help. the report states law enforcement failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety and failed to adhere to active shooter training. the police chief failed to assume his responsibility of incident command, the report says. the report says the robb elementary school lockdown was likely delayed by poor wifi connectivity. and the school also had reoccurring problems with maintaining its doors and locks, those are just a few of the revelationes in this report. and uvalde s mayor is releasing dramatic new video showing the first moments that officers arrived on the scene there at the school. shots fired. get inside. go. go. go. the new body camera footage gives a close up view of the action, but mainly the inaction, as
america, there is a group being targeted by the conservative movement to rollback your basic rights. it is right out of the authoritarian playbook, and now targeting librarians. this hour, the battle against freedom of choice in my home state of texas. republicans want to punish women who seek abortion care. we will talk to a texas democrat who is doing all she can to fight back. this is american voices. we start with breaking suit news out of uvalde texas. the texas house investigative committee today released a new report on the shooting at robb elementary that left 19 children and two teachers dead. last, our committee officials in uvalde had a press conference on their preliminary report. if there s one thing that i can tell you, it is that there were multiple systemic failures. i would invite everybody to read the entire report. you cannot cherry pick one sentence and use it to say everything without reading it all together, and with context. but if we need a simple ph