school and handing out syringes. it lets them punish assistance for crimes committed before they were born against people they don t know, in places most of them have never even been to. that is like punishing me because in the past, one of my relatives bought a red hot chili peppers record. [laughter] i can t be held accountable for every white person s atrocity. [laughter] the task force just released a report of over 1,000 pages and it is all about eliminating disparities. you know, like that one between people who own small businesses and people who loot small businesses. like between people who use a bathroom and people who pee behind trash cans. [laughter] one time. greg: yes. and it is on tape. the main recommendation of course is reparations. they want to give up to 1.2 million to each eligible california resident to make up for their ancestors being enslaved in other states. basically replacing policy with powerball. how in the world without even work? where wi
look it up. the lead starts right now. from canada all the way down to the cloipiasarolinas, wildfie been burning for more than a month, why did it get so bad for today, and how long will this last, and former president donald trump swears he s being attacked up fairly again and desperately wants you to hear his side of the story, and he s just released a new tv ad starring some wild animals to make sure you get the message. all this while former vice president mike pence jumps in the race against trump and chris christie believes he can both them both. i ll ask governor christie how ahead when he joins me live on the lead. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin today with our health lead. as much of the eastern united states is being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging wildfires in canada. air quality alert are out for more than 55 million people across the northeast, midwest and mid-atlantic. the air is so unhealth
Greg happy, happy, happy monday, everyone. You all look beautiful. Well, some of you. So another weekend, another biden blunder. There is flatulence in whoopee goldbergs dressing room. While delivering a speech Saturday Night ole joe might have been trying to tell us something. Namely, that you ever heard of ll cool jay. Two of the great artists of our time represent the Ground Breaking history of hiphop in america. Ll cool j. By the way, that man has biceps bigger than my thighs. Greg bring joe to the 21st century, try not to call africanamerican males over the age of 10 boy, if you once eulogized a close friend who hailed the ku klux klan but joe does know his hiphop. An accomplished break dancer. Greg doesnt need cardboard. I wonder what the fellow democrats think of these gaffes. [laughter] greg yes, as the gaffes pile up newsom is laughing so hard, birds are falling out of his hair, and now a shocking New Washington post has biden in a the only thing shocking about that is its not
leaders at odds over how to handle the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. u.s. secretary state entity blinken met with foreign ministers from the middle east and jordan earlier today to discuss the conflict. leaders of egypt and jordan are strongly condemning israel s offensive and are demanding an immediate cease-fire. blinken opposes a cease-fire he is pushing for israel to allow pauses in its assault on gaza. united states believes all these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian causes. we believe pauses can be a critical mechanism protecting civilians, getting aid in getting foreign nationals out. while still enabling israel to achieve its objective to defeat hamas. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is rejecting calls for temporary cease-fire saying the country s military will only pull back when hamas frees all of its hostages but he adds his country will continue to block fuel from entering the region. meanwhile u.s. state department is urging a
secretary of state antony blinken arriving israel a short while ago. this is his second trip to the middle east in less than a month. blinken is expected to discuss ways to free the remaining hostages, minimize harm to palestinian civilians, and get all who want to leave gaza out. we ve seen americans and their families begin to come out of gaza, and we expect that to continue over the coming days. this has been a very deliberate effort on our part working with other countries to make sure we can get passage out for our citizens and citizens from other countries. blinken s trip comes as israeli ground forces now gaza city, surrounded. and air strikes continue to pound hamas targets inside the strip. the conflict has, according hamas officials, killed more than 9000 people in gaza. more than 1400 israelis have also lost their lives. secretary blinken also says while they re dealing with getting the hostages released and minimizing civilian deaths, now is also the time to come