morning, the president. i'll begin by saying that everyone buy a ten copies, read it ten times at least, and share friends and family. it's really a wonderful book and really appropriate that do this here for a number of reasons. one is stuart mcclure, who was too modest to say this himself, who was our leader, had a lot to do with the ronald reagan centennial and the fact that the up the honors that were given ronald reagan's several years after that, that was 2011. and president reagan died in a little bit earlier than that, 2004. but he is very much involved in legacy, understands how to under honor a president not only at a time that a president passes, are our authors have been studying the subject for how many years you don't ever one step up at once a long time. but it's an eternal subject and additionally important, not only because this is the white house historical, but franklin roosevelt's funeral procession went down the avenue just outside the carter house, where we are right now. and kennedy's

president. mr. president, i call up my amendment number 1034. i ask that it be reported by number, and i ask consent that senator menendez and i each have three minutes to discuss this amendment. the presiding officer: is there an objection? without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from louisiana, mr. kennedy, proposes amendment numbered 1034 to amendment numbered 1935. mr. kennedy: mr. president, as we all mow, the international monetary fund, or the imf, as we call it, it's an international bank. most countries belong to it, 190, in fact, and every country -- the presiding officer: will the senator yield? kennedy certainly. -- mr. kennedy: certainly. the presiding officer: please take your conversations out of the senate chamber. the senator may proceed. mr. kennedy: , thank you, virtually every country in the world is a member of the imf, there are 190 countries. and everybody puts up money and when another country gets in trouble, the imf helps bail them out. now, not every country in the imf is equal in voting rights

presidents always enjoy. the first serving president that king charles metith was eisenhower back in959 so there is a long history there that obviously plays into queen elizabeth's history as well with the many u.s. presidents that she met. what is different about this visit is that we're actually being told that we are they're going to discuss which would never have been the case for elizabeth, those conversations were all highly confidential. we are told they will be discussing environment, something that king charles and the president of the u.s. share a lot of common interest over, so they will have a discussion about that. a lot to fix actually frankly in this special relationship as it's called here in the uk. there are tensions, arlette was talking about ukraine, not just about these cluster bombs, but also how quickly ukraine should become a member of nato and reportedly president biden rejected the uk's choice as head of nato as well. when it comes to the head of state meeting this is all about firmi

finally, the president will travel to helsinki, finland where he will meet with the president of finland and participate in a u.s. nordic leaders summit. in these meetings, the president will advance our cooperation with the nordic countries on shared regional security objectives, along with shared efforts on technology, health, climate and clean energy. we are looking forward to a busy in europe. we are looking forward to the president being able to further solidify, strengthen and give momentum to the strong, united alliance that has been standing up so effectively against russian aggression. as i mentioned, because we have seen all of these reports on the provision of cluster omissions to ukraine, i will leave it to the pentagon to make a formal announcement later this afternoon for the next drawdown package. and go into the details of that drawdown package and the specifics on the types of munitions being provided. i will use this opportunity today to make a few points. first, we base our security assistance decision on cranes needs on the ground. ukraine needs artillery to sustain i

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trump and president biden.friend, ali vitali standing by for us on capitol hill. start us off, the latest on the hearing, what have we been hearing coming out of the room? >> reporter: this was always going to be a contentious hearing and it is wide ranging. we knew coming in that director wray went in with the goal of defending the law enforcement officials that worked within the fbi, they have seen sustained attacks from republicans including some of those who are on this very panel. listen to the way it started and i'll tell you how we have seen it go over the course of the last hour or so. watch. >> i want to talk about the sheer breadth and impact of the work the fbi's 38,000 employees are doing each and every day because the work, the men and women of the fbi do to protect the american people goes way beyond the one or two investigations that seem to capture all the headlines. >> reporter: we have heard republican and democratic members each ask pretty tough questions of the fbi director. everything from

the president's people and the president went back to the process and, chose samuel alito and think about that. that series of steps in history, kind of what ifs. what if harriet miers had stayed the course? what if she had gotten confirmed? would we be where we are on issues of abortion or affirmative action if she had ended up being more like sandra day o'connor? and then you get the three trump appointees on top of that. so at the very end, i quote from ed gillespie, who was a political adviser to the president. and when we interviewed him here. he talked that situation and how difficult was for the president and for harriet miers. but he said, you know, when we samuel alito to the white house to come meet the president and then be he said there was harriet, as gracious as could be. and he said, you know, it was just it just like harriet and then alberto gonzales said, most of the time, the president try to follow a process. and one of the times he didn't and going his gut and choosing harriet miers, it didn't work. so with i'm going to turn back to to russell and say we've got about a

the fact that the vice president, then vice president, now president thinks that it's to his advantage to say i never talked to my son about his business, he should have. son, you're involved in a corrupt company. you're embarrassing me. you ought to get the heck out of there. instead, we have this explanation by goldman saying we never talked about business deals. what was he doing on the phone? what do you think hunter wanted him on the phone for? he said my dad is the vice president of the united states. i'm a big dog. that's what it's about. deal with us. >> trace: they were saying basically, hey, the the president never talked business with his son. then i went from the president never did business with his son. now the lawmakers saying it's casual talk. >> right. no, it stinks. it's sleazy from the get going. the fact that the president doesn't understand it is a real problem. the american people see it as influence pedalling. the son had no business being on the burisma board. devin archer had no business being on the burisma board. the only reason they were there, they were clo

the president, the vice president and i have put borrowers first from day one. we refused to go back to the way things were before the pandemic. when a million borrowers defaulted each year and faced devastating financial consequences. we are going to open up an alternative path to debt relief for as many borrowers as possible as quickly as possible. we acknowledge the court's decision. we began the negotiated rulemaking process on settlement uncompromised authority today. more information on the new regulations will come out shortly. today we are rolling out the most affordable income driven repayment plan ever. the new plan is called saving on a valuable education. it will cut monthly payments in half for all undergraduate loans. it will cut payments to zero dollars for millions of people making less than $33,000 a year. all other borrowers will save at least a thousand dollars per year. this plan will stop runaway interest and it's not going to require you to pay more than you can afford. as the president mentioned, we are creating an on-ramp for repayment fo

president biden believed president erdogan was weighing this decision carefully, and that president biden had confidence he would either take this step in vilnius for the period shortly thereafter. from the president's perspective the two leaders had a good understanding of one another. president biden got off that call without any certainty about the way ahead, but with a since that president or the one was taking this issue as he always does, very seriously. i will take one more question. >> [indiscernible] mr. sullivan: from the administration's perspective, we knew that turkey had a certain set of concerns. that sweden had taken quite historic steps to address those concerns. yes, president erdogan raised other issues as well but the president continued to focus back on the core point that from the point of view of sweden coming into the alliance, the real issue was hadn't been able to satisfy what it had committed to a year ago in madrid? the president made a point to erdogan yes, in fact, it had and pointed out in specific detail how it happened. sweden's effective work had an impac

university of california president dr. michael drake will tell us how the uc system ensures a diverse student body following the state's own ban on affirmative action decades ago. >>> and there were some supreme court wins for the left. we'll talk about those key voting rights decisions with obama administration attorney general eric holder. >>> plus, turmoil on the travel front. it's been a miserable week for millions leading up to the fourth of july weekend. will the trip home be any easier? >> i feel gross. i feel like i want to cry but i have nothing left. >> once your initial flight gets canceled and you have a connecting flight, you can forget it. >> we'll talk with pete buttigieg about the criticism of the faa and what's in the works when it comes to dealing with the impact of climate change on airline travel. >>> finally, can you tell the difference between an artificial intelligence generated image and a real one? we'll help you learn what to look for to tell the real deal from the ai fakes. it's all just ahead on

what we said to the president, mister president, this is exactly the kind of energy project that joe biden, president biden, should approve. because it meets so many of the things that you say your administration is. for let me just name them, dan, real quick. the highest environmental standards in the world, by far, those of you who know alaska with the high standards, but the lowest greenhouse gas emissions of any major project in the world. the biden administration eis says this. negligible emissions. it is what they say in the i.s. they also do what's called a market analysis substitution. if you don't do willow, we're gonna get energy from places like venezuela, saudi arabia, the emissions are much higher they pumps more co2 into the atmosphere. that's in the eo i.s.. that's number one second, the president's team talk often about racial justice. racial equity, environmental justice in the vast majority of the native people in alaska support this project. very strong support from the indigenous people of my state. and what they're trying to say is the lower 48 environments are n

didn't grant vice president the powers to do what the president wanted, mr. pence went back to his own office, sat down and looked around the portraits. jefferson, adams, teddy roosevelt, coolidge and one who wasn't vice president lincoln. and he himself thinking of the book of hebrews and, the cloud of witness who everything we do, and the call to quote, throw off everything that hinders close quote quote, let us run with perseverance, the race marked out for us close quote. then the vice president bowed his head, folded his hands and prayed. yes, the new york new york sun noted admiringly right there on government property. and then he went on to cleave to the constitution with a greater display of courage than any other vice president. no, no. vice president has just shown a greater display of courage and i think it will be studied for generations to come. mr. vice president. sir, thank you for that overly generous introduction. i'm deeply humbled by it. abraham lincoln said his only ambition in life was to be esteemed by people esteemed. and so i thank yo

but let's start with this picture of president nixon of course is the only president still the only president who was a native of california kind of hard to believe given how big california is but here he and mrs. nixon are planting a sequoia tree on the south grounds of the white house. he he actually liked doing tree planting seeing mrs. nixon like doing free plantings and as california as they wanted to put this sequoia in there. i don't believe it had it thrived. i'm not sure washington was exactly the place for this tree to thrive, but it did grow for a number of years and then as far as i know it's not still present on the white house grounds, but it certainly, you know presidents have been planting trees on the white house grounds forever many of them are still there going all the way back to andrew jackson's magnolias that flank the south portico just as a kind of way to promote the place where they come from and to promote the the beauty of the brands of the white house. so there is planning a tree wonderful. so click on the thing and now so yeah, so here. here we go. another tree re

and as president reagan, president elect and outgoing president carter are riding in the limousine down to the to take the oath of office, the iranians release the and they put them in the airplane on the tarmac in tehran. but then they tell the airplane, you can't take off until. reagan is sworn in as president because we don't want the carter to get any out of this. right. you know, it's a very vital, symbolic humiliation of of carter that the plane won't actually take until carter is officially ex-president. so that's that's how it plays out. so we have time for one final question. i think tricia has it right there. i was going to ask, what was your of the relationship, president reagan and john the second and lech walesa in trying to enable the polish people and eastern european countries to become free to the soviet yoke and also comparing the fact that they both were assassinated very closely in time each other and actually john paul, second by a soviet inspired bulgarian secret agent. yes. yes, a great question. again, it's a very important part of the story. so even though presi

the presiding officer: the presiding officer: the president pro tempore: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the republican leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: the biden administration's been working overtime to sell the american people a fantasy. the president would like working families who have struggled under two years of soaring inflation, believe their refrain that bidenomics is working for america. the administration secretary said that people are feeling better about their personal finances. if only that were true. unfortunately, the american people had too many reasons to believe their financial outlook is worse today -- worse than when the president took office. according to a survey conducted last month, just 24% of voters say the american economy is on the right track, less than a third believe this administration is bringing costs down for working families and just 22% think inflation is getting any better. so, madam president, no matter how many ways the administration officials spin the number

and a vice president and certainly a president and a former president. now. but that that is far from whole story. and that's what makes it interesting. yeah. so reading your book, first of all, obviously, as you said, it's more complicated than the stereotype and going to sort of bucket it into a different is recognizing that there's bleeding between those phases. but reading your book i sort of looked at it as kind of the early days when they first met and served together in the senate through the campaign in 2008. and of course, the presidency, the presidency or that the intermediate period between that the the presidencies of barack obama and joe and of course, the current period we're in is the biden presidency. and as i said, i think that's far too simplified, but i think it's a good way to sort of walk through some of the issues for that, for the audience. so, you know, starting with those sort of early days, when did they first meet so. first interacted? well, it's a little bit of a complicated question. you do get different answers from differen

while he was president.e and historic that the arguments that will be made potentially by the justice department in the future defenses are just so unique and different. >> paula, we were just talking about the one new document. what do you know about it? >> that's incredibly significant, anderson. of course cnn broke the story that former president trump was on a recording, seeming like he was showing people who did not have security clearances a classified document. now he has subsequently insisted that he didn't have a document. he just had a pile of papers. some of his representatives have told cnn that there was no documents. they went to look for this alleged document, and they never found it. but here the special counsel is saying that it does exist, and now it's been added to the classified materials that he is charged with mishandling. and it is also, i will note, a top secret document. so it really underscores the significance of that recording. and now prosecutors will be able to put his own words

i think that president biden has two . that president biden has two 0ctober, that president biden has the end of this offence if, that is the window he has where he has to go back to the american voters, policymakers and say, even we have made progress orfallen short. bollingerat we have made progress orfallen short. bollinger at this point means an escalation. we are now bringing banned weapons back into conflict. who knows what else will comport after october. at the clock is definitely ticking. president biden still has an opportunity and the ability to make a case of white ukraine is a strategic asset to the us. up until that he has at the back. we sought the bleeding of support. it will only continue to bleed some further as the counteroffensive —— counteroffensive cou nteroffe nsive — — cou nteroffe nsive has fallen counteroffensive —— counteroffensive has fallen short of what everyone expected. has fallen short of what everyone exected. , . ., . expected. there is a huge moral issue here _ expected. there is a huge moral issue here about _ expected. there is a huge moral issue

president. let me say that in just a few moments we will begin voting on amendments that are subject to i ask unanimous consent requests, -- i ask unanimous consent -- unanimous consent requests and we will have votes tomorrow so that we can get the national defense authorization act voted on. this year's national defense authorization act would help meet the dangerous moments and help equip our military with the tools necessary to help implement the national defense strategy. chairman lee will speak later about the way this bill will deter adversaries and reinforce our defenses. and it's been a pleasure to work with him and to advance our constitutional duty to provide for the common defense. we do this every year, madam president. this will be the 63rd time that congress, the house and senate, have sent a national defense authorization bill to the president for his signature, and i know we will do it today. this is a testament to our commitment to our country and also to our servicemembers. ou

richard, do president and mrs. ford very well. he interned for president ford. he he wrote for president ford. he directed the ford presidential foundation library and museum, along with a half dozen other similar organizations. he's lived over the ford's burial site right there, river house, looking down on the the building and the burial site for more than a decade, but not looking down in a sense of pride, but in great humility. he has, you know, to write this book. he spent more than ten years reading thousands of source documents. oh, my gosh. so much that he read conducting more than 170 interviews, writing four drafts, 40 drafts, and whittling the whole down to 700 narrative pages. it's not too much to say that this is the book. i think richard was meant to write. now, in addition to richard norton smith, we are also delighted and honored to host heyneke meyer on this stage. now, everybody in michigan and across the midwest now knows who hank is. he's got some 240 meyer super centers that make up one of america's largest family owned companies. while hank

this is the second visit by president herzog, correct? guest: president herzog is symbolic. someone who does not make policy but he represents the state so this is sort of a symbol that president biden was very clear yesterday that the relationship between the united states and israel is very strong and he wanted to make sure that was underscored even if there have been notable differences when it comes to israeli policy. host: do we have any idea what president herzog will say to the joint meeting today in congress? guest: you will be speaking at 11:00 in the morning, and then he will meet with -- he will be speaking at 11:00 in the morning, and then he will meet kevin mccarthy, the house majority leader. there it is really government is trying to make sure that support -- the israeli government is trying to make sure that support for israel is bipartisan. folks like aoc and a handful of others are very vocal critics of israel. a lot of detractors have called them antisemitic. that has been a big fault line within the democratic party. herzog's mission is to have a big bipa

president. the presiding officer: -- a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i call up my amendment, 705 and ask it be reported by number. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from maryland, for himself an mr. young, call up amendment number 075. -- 705. mr. cardin: this deals with our democrat value to fight corruption. i thank are senator wicker for his help, particularly in the helsinki commission where this issue was debated. i thank senator menendez and senator risch. this bill has been reported out by their committee at least twice by near unanimous or unanimous votes. i think we all recognize that corruption provides fuel for mrt leaders to do their nefarious actions, including the war in ukraine. it is in our core national security interest to fight corruption, as declared by president biden. this patterns the effort we made in the trafficking of persons to have the state department combat corruption using standards, evaluations such as criminalizing corruptio

former president trump said about president xi just days ago. >> think of president xi, when i say he is brilliant, that is terrible. he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist, brilliant. >> shannon: you talk about the threats you think china is. that description of brilliant and iron fist, most consider him a dictator. how do you describe president xi? >> xi jinping is a dictator and china is the top threat that the united states faces. i think i'm clearest candidate in offering clear path to declaring economic independence from china, first step in our policy fchl that had been a russian spy balloon, we would have shot it dow and ratcheted up sanctions. we didn't for the chinese spy balloon, we are afraid of our economic dependence on them. i would be in the pacific, different from trump's strategy and lead declaration of independence from china and i would end the ukraine war on terms that require putin to exit military alliance with xi jinping, russia-china alliance is military threat. i have qualified for the debate stage and this one area i'm different from the other candidat

i think president putin's allies... _ president putin's allies...another country, violating their territory, that is a flavouring breach of international law. those principles which, not just us, but countries around the world think are important to our... you have seen that in the widespread combination in the united nations. you saw it today at the summit. press putin is inflicting untold misery millions of people. we are going to continue supporting the crane for as long as it takes to eliminate sufferings to make sure they have their sovereignty and freedom back. and lastly, if i could just go to the sun. can freedom back. and lastly, ifi could just go to the sun.— just go to the sun. can you be c stal just go to the sun. can you be crystal clear. _ just go to the sun. can you be crystal clear, can _ just go to the sun. can you be crystal clear, can you - just go to the sun. can you be crystal clear, can you make i just go to the sun. can you be - crystal clear, can you make remarks atrout— crystal clear, can you make remarks about what— crystal

if you can talk about the two president reagan and president. yeah, you know, anita, i have done a i mean, i don't i don't want to say hundreds, but dozens and dozens of talks that involve q&a. and no one has ever asked me that question. well, very good, because you are who you are. so i mean, i think that with reagan, it was very much. focus on the history of that day. i we were a transition transition to his vice who is going to become the new president. so that was very smooth and. and i was just focused on you know making the pictures matter of fact the the i did the same picture for both those days which was i got a ladder from the gsa to make a high angle shot wide angle shot of president reagan leaving the oval office for the last time. and i ended up doing the exact that's the only time i did the exact same picture did the exact same picture for president obama. the difference, though, on that day was was profound meaning for last day of obama in that i was physically spent. you know, i put into the eight years i was there every day i ga

and president biden vowed to pass forward with new tactic to fulfill the plan. >> president biden: higher education act. >> alexandria: higher education reeling when the court ended use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her discents, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. justice thomas says justice jackson's world view falls flat at each step. the divide was clear when court ruled colorado graphic designer refusal to create certain lgbtq expressive content was protected by first amendment. it was called a setback for gay rights. for biden, hope is he can turn the legal losses to voter motivation. >> alexandria: the president expressed he is looking to turn around the term bidenomics to a positive to sell his administration and their economic policies. shannon. >> shannon: we'll talk more. alexandria hoff, thank you. joining us is republican presidential candidate, former un ambassador, nikki haley. i want to start with france. word of attack on mayor's home and hundreded arrested. when you were ambassador t

president, what is your role in getting turkey to agree -- mr. president, mr. president? -- >> you were just watching president biden and general stoltenberg at the start of a very consequence shall nato summit and a nato summit that comes as the 31st member of nato, finland, as already joined the coalition and the 32nd sweden appears to now have a pathway forward after a lengthy process where turkey and to some degree hundred gary as well were standing in the way. those pathways have been cleared. the president making clear adding those two countries to the alliance at a very consequential moment in the on going war in ukraine. >> that's absolutely right. let's bring in someone on the ground there, british defense secretary ben wallace. thank you for joining us. i want to get your reaction, if you would, first to what we just heard from stoltenberg and president biden. >> really good news sweden have literally got to final 99% of getting into nato. just has to go through the turkish parliament. a lot of us have been working behind the scenes to make thur sh happens. firs

agenda working to commence turkey's president to approve sweden joining nato. >> you can expect president and the president will talk too. >> nato leaders expected to discuss what steps you crew would take to join. >> president biden's trip comes days after his treasury secretary janet yellin arrived in beijing to try to simmer u.s. china tensions tomorrow the president meets with king charles for the first time the english monarch was crowned. shannon: , jacqui heinrich live in london for joining us from wyoming republican senator john barrasso welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> great to be with you, shannon thank you. shannon: source secretary yell yellin's to china for their significant disagreements between the two countries that also as this. >> president biden and i do not see the relationship between the u.s. and china through the frame of great power and conflict. we believe the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive. >> get the u.s. and china see the world very differently they have different ambitions, they have competing interests. do you agree it is possibl

i mean, we would sit around with president clinton and vice president gore and get ready for a press conference. and i'd throw out my job was to be the nasty reporter asking the question which got me in trouble. sometime. but but he would we would give him what the prepared talking point or answer was, and clinton would look and say, well, that's just mush. and we'd say, well, you want to do something about it. so he'd pick up the phone. he'd call the secretary of labor or he'd call someone else. and government said, well, we've got to get a better answer to this question. so really, one of the advantages is that it moves the process forward and it requires better decision making. i think so. i think that's one of the important aspects and it's a really interesting thing to think about, about how this television event focused those in power, to think about not just what they were saying and how they were saying it, but what the policy was behind what they're doing, the quality, the questions, too, because we are now in a situation where i'm boiling down to bumper sticker level as few

i suspect at some point you're going to see president biden and president erdogan of turkiye meet. the fact of the matter is that the u.s. is simply not giving turkiye f-13 -- the f-16 fighters that it wants right now and the congress is -- has made it pretty clear they're going to block this unless turkiye relents. turkiye's concern is what they believe is swedish support for dissonant greurntion ethnic groups they believe are opposing erdogan. laura: margaret, going over thie summit is what played out over the last few weeks with the wagner group against vladimir putin. how much do you think that is going to be a topic of conversation as the leaders meet? margaret: for sure on the sidelines it'll be a huge topic of conversation. i think what gets said officially at the microphones will probably be a little more circucircumspect. on the one hand ukraine has had a much harder time with the counteroffensive and slower progress. on the other hand, the incident with prygozhin showed a lot of weaknesses and vulnerabilities on putin's part. i think that'll become part of the western all

president. and i will start -- you said about 500 days is really, really a difficult jolt for our people. soldiers and civilians, mothers, fathers, children fought for their life, and for these values and thank you very much that all these days you are with us. i mean, you and americans, americans and congress, i mean, thank you, mr. president, that you like we say shoulder to shoulder with us from first days of full scale war. we appreciate for this very much, and really, really, you know, we understand your support because when you give such messages and when you gave sometimes some weapons -- i'm sorry, but i want to say like i said during our meeting, our council that it' very simple to criticize, for example, cluster munition, which you made difficult political decision, but you have to know that russia used such weapons from the first days not only full scare war from first days of occupation of crimea from 2015 in all of our territories. in donbas they used it and now they continue doing.

president. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. marshall: bidenomics. bidenomics. i think everyone knows that you don't give tur self a nickname. you don't get to do that. your friends get to do that for you. who can imagine back in grade school giving yourself the nickname? by the same token, you don't get to name an economy after yourself either. you have to earn it. just like j.lo. before there was j.lo, there was jennifer lopez. for jennifer lopez to become j.lo, she had to prove herself, she had to become a great singer. before taylor swift was known as the countries pop princess, she had to compose music, play instruments and sing to the hearts and souls of millions across the world. margaret thatcher, before she was the iron lady, had to earn that nickname, because of her iron fist, the way she ruled her country. ronald reagan, the great communicator. could you imagine ronldz reagan -- ronldz reagan stemg -- reagan stepping onto the stage, telling everyone, i'm the great co

when he was president, the rule that he invoked was you can't charge me, i'm president, when he ceased being president he said you can't charge me, i used to be president, will that's not the way that democracy works. , that is a banana republic. >> do you have a sense of what possible charges might be or what they might encompass?>> that is for sure, there is no elaborate memorandum, almost 300 pages, by norman eisen any group of others, experts, former prussic is, laying out in great detail with the charges are likely to be, they are likely to focus on the fake electors and the attempt to say that the election was stolen, when the former president knew it wasn't, and likely to include a second act, pressure on various people, i the vice president, and finally likely to include aiding and abetting in insurrection. and if the president were convicted of that, then he would be ineligible to run again. and he's going to claim of course, he always claims he's the victim, he's going to claim the only reason it's happening is because he's running for president. that is getting it backwards.

if you notice recently, president trump went up in the polls and was actually surpassing president bidenelection. so what do they do now? weaponize government to go after their number one opponent. it's time and time again, i think the american public is tired of this, they want to see equal justice, and the idea that they utilize this to go after people who politically disagree with them is wrong. >> it is remarkable to hear that, tim. just remembering what kevin mccarthy was saying in the days even on january 6th, including on the house floor when he said the president bears responsibility for the attack, that urgent call he had with the president as the attack was under way, and yet right now it's clear that the former president has basically co-opted all the leadership of the republican party. >> yeah, i think it's important to say on the merits that is an alarming statement from the speaker of the house, somebody that has as much power and influence as kevin mccarthy has, as close as he is to the presidency, to go out and claim that joe biden and joe biden's department of justice ar

president. he has said time and time again that what he's doing actually doesn't matter what he's doing in the face of democratic and republican, not that it matters because the secretary of defense should think of themselves as a democrat or republican but people who have served in democratic and republican administrations have said over and over again that he's compromising our national security, which is of course exactly the conclusion that anyone looking at this with common sense would believe. that our generals and admirals actually make a difference. the head of the joint chiefs of staff actually makes a difference. if that's not the case, if that's not the case we are in worse trouble than i thought. and if it is the case, if what he is saying is right, it doesn't matter, doesn't make any difference, and how can he claim to be acting on this incredibly important principle since it doesn't matter? as he says, these military positions are being fulfilled by acting officials, by acting offi

laura: president -- amna: president biden was also asked about this issue.s he incentivizing pressure to never end their war in ukraine? how is he addressing that? laura: president biden was very forceful in saying that the question of ukraine's nato membership is much broader than ukraine when he was asked about this. hugh said that, look, if any country were at war and wanted membership to nato, they would not get it because of the fact that it could start world war iii. he was also saying that ultimately, he believes that putin has already -- vladimir putin, the russian president, has already lost war. it was striking because of the fact that at the same time he is saying putin has already lost the war, the president still will not define exactly what an end to this conflict looks like. amna: president biden at the summit made a number of promises about short-term and long-term support to ukraine. he returns to washington tonight. laura, how does he make sure he makes good on those promises? laura: there are a number of deliverables that the president is

president biden pointed out to president erdogan it had. i think that sweden's effective work had a impact on president erdogan'a decisions --president erdogan's decision. >> solesky push back and said we are not asking to be added right now. the u.s. conceit -- can see there's a way to get ukraine to get a stronger commitment to join nato without the u.s. war with russia? >> the coverage was about up -- the question underlines the fact that there is consensus including from ukraine that the question is not ukraine and nato now in vilnius. what is the pathway towards ukraine's future membership? we can come to a good understanding -- understanding of that in vilnius. that is what we will be -- that is what will be reflected in the communique. >> this is in part of temporary move because the ukrainians were low on ammunition. what timeframe are we talking about in terms of the ability to provide them with the ammunition the ukrainians meet? how long will this take given all the military -- to get back up to speed? >> what president biden was

but she also traveled with the vice president and then president. i mean, she was a bona fide world traveler. she was as vice president. she traveled with the president, i believe it is 53 countries excuse me, with the vice president, 53 countries. the first was a trip around the world which president eisenhower, the vice president, to take. and mrs. nixon went with them and the couple's secret service and one aide. and that was it. and they were on their own and they went to allies in east asia, allies in south asia, in the mideast, in europe, and of course, there were different customs and from white tie to you know regular business suits. and of course women have to do do what's necessary to dress according it and yet they did it on their own. it was quite extraordinary. and she was a real trooper in doing that. but of course you know she was brought up working. she believed just to get through college. she went to the university, southern california. she had nine different jobs from sweeping the floor of a bank to being an extra in a hollywood f

mr president, your colleague, the president— mr president, your colleague, the president of the czechhe czech republic, has stated that he believes that the window — stated that he believes that the window of opportunity for the reoccupation of ukraine with weapons will end _ reoccupation of ukraine with weapons will end this summer because then the support will weaken. —— deoccupation. i have seen the support— deoccupation. i have seen the support from the united states, germany, — support from the united states, germany, france, poland. | support from the united states, germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning — germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning all _ germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning all the _ germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning all the countries, - germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning all the countries, i - germany, france, poland. i am not mentioning all the countries, i am | mentioning all the countries, i am sorry for that, but i have heard a lot of leaders who have reassured me, and that means they reassured our people and our soldier

vice president, i'm speaking. stole the show was the fly. it landed on pence's head. and it was so distracting. it really took on a life of its own. [geoff] that fly now has a number of twitter accounts. who would have predicted a fly would steal the show? we say this with every election, but the stakes really could not have been higher than they were in 2020. so much loss in america. more than 225,000 dead americans because of covid-19. biden really focused on the covid pandemic and kind of responsibility around how that would be managed. and it was an easy contrast to make. that's all i hear, turn on television. covid. covid, covid, covid, covid. here you have president trump, who helped accelerate the creation of the vaccines, but he was part of a party arguing that covid was fake or overblown, and the political animal of president trump didn't want to go against that. this year, because of the covid-19 pandemic, for the first time, a majority of americans say they plan to vote early. more than 190 million amer