he does not seem to have a lot of influence over president bynum. he is not one of the key advisors so having said that, he is talking about a robust budget. he is not talking about lethality and readiness and this is a man who is, quite rightly, imposing wokeness on the military. in many ways and that is the opposite of readiness. wokeness whether military is a form of national suicide. i cannot take mr. austin searcy -- seriously. host: when you say wokeness, what are the specifics that the pentagon is doing? guest: i have a. april 2021, he was talking about how the united states military has to emphasize lgbtq rights in its relations with other governments. that is not something we have a lot of time to do and if there is time allowed, whatever, but this is the kind of thing -- the military doing things that do not increase lethality and readiness. the army's general neutral physical fitness test out the window. there is a lot of that going on. as mr. austin said, that the most important thing is climate change in diversity. that is not what a mi

. >> reporter: this is becoming more of a bynum issue. only 31% of democrats actually support lifting title 42. >>> days after florida made news for banning some math books, tennessee is considering a law regarding which books should be in school libraries. a new bill would grant the tennessee textbook commission the power to approve or reject books in public schools. critics say school librarians should keep the power. one lawmaker questioned the sponsor of the bill about the books considered objectionable. >> let's say you take these books out of library. what are you going to do with them? are you going to put them in the street? light them on fire? where are they going? >> representative? >> i don't have a clue but i would burn them. >> it needs to be negotiated with the state senate before becoming law. >> 30 years after went to prison for a murder he didn't commit, a florida man is finally 43. thomas james, now 55, was exonerated in a miami murder after the victim's daughter recanted her testimony. james had been confused for a man

at president bynum's direction we have done more than lead global vaccination effort. they have pioneered the global vaccination effort. the u.s. was the first country in the world to donate a significant amount of our own vaccine supply, creating the model for other countries to do the same. the u.s. was the first country to strike a deal with the major vaccine manufacture, to purchase the doses solely to donate to other countries in need. one billion pfizer vaccine doses. we were the first and remain the only country to broker a deal with the u.s. manufacturer and covax to get vaccines into humanitarian zones to reach people, displaced by war, famine and other crises. we were the first and the only country to give up our place in line for delivery of doses, enabling the african union to more quickly access over 100 million moderna vaccine doses. today we are adding to our list of first. announcing that we will be the first nation to donate tens of millions of pediatric covid-19 vaccines to low and lower middle income countries for free, with no strings attached. thes

has provided more than $2.4 billion for military assistance to ukraine since president bynum took office. inflation jumped to a 30-year high. sumer prices rose in march micron annual rate of 7%. higher inflation is on the way. this month will be a 54% increase in the energy price cap. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. guy? guy: thank and a. jp morgan has wrapped up its earnings call. it is the first of the big wall street banks to report earnings. its results were marred by a $524 million loss tied to russia's invasion of ukraine. here is what jamie dimon had to say on the earnings call. jamie: that is another huge cloud on the horizon. we understand it. i can't tell you the outcome of it. i hope those things go away, we have a soft landing. i would not bet on all of that. guy: let's talk about what we heard on the call. bloomberg's wall street correspondent, sonali basak, listening and bringing up the takeaways. jamie dimon, obviously the rest of

president bynum had -- president biden had a chance to meet with european leaders and they made a to working with them to provide them with resources from the united states to make sure -- a couple of -- to make up from some of the russian -- in case that they have lost. doing this overtime is something that is critical to them because they knew that reducing their independent -- dependence on russian energy, it hurts the kremlin and it reduces the winds president --wins a president couldn't. we want to -- better supply the market so that europe is able to move away from russian oil and gas. ultimately, as you know, global -- all markets are global. the next time that president putin or someone knows who controls oil decides to launch an invasion, we will deal with volatility in the energy markets. moving to clean energy alternatives is not only a priority for us but a national security priority for our future. it will take longer but we recognize that doing so will put us in a better position to control our future. >> that is a great bridge to talk about long-term, which i know in y

it was like get scholars in vicki bynum who wrote the book free state of jones, right? and then the film comes out right? so she tweeted along with say, okay. this is where this differentiated. with the work that i did and this is why there is a line right because you don't want to make a jfk at least jfk did well, right. so people who made it probably doing great, but ethically right. what's what's it play here. what's what's the morals it play to say the in my selling you something that i know not to be true, right? there's gonna be some dramatic licensing that takes place to tell a story right never would say, what's the line? don't let the facts and get away your story. yeah, right. it's a difficult line down. i think it's the thing where people have got to say this is what i feel comfortable with but it's historians. that's our job. also we do this with books. we read other books say hey, it's where it's wrong. what's what we can do with film as well. and that's not necessarily the point of these things is to say this person got it wrong and on that but say hey, th