biological males. lia thomas u penn teammates scared to speak out. i will not be scared anymore. other women should be encouraged to speak out about unfair competition. have you ever had to apologize being a member of the will pga tour? i recognize people are going to call me a hypocrite but circumstances do change. steve: good morning, everybody. it is june 7th. it s 6:01 here in new york city. and we start with a fox news alert. you are looking at a video of former vice president mike pence who officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign by launching this video 25 minutes ago. here is 10 seconds of it. it would be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that s not how i was raised. today, before god and my family, i m announcing i m running for president of the united states. ainsley: pence rolling out that clip this morning on his 64th birthday. just two days after filing paperwork with the fec. he is set to hold a big event today in des moines, iowa after
a number of hot button issues, including developing a warmer relationship between the two of them. we will bring you that as soon as it starts. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. good friday eve as we like to call it. aishah: almost there. i m aishah hasnie in for sandra smith, as we wait for the bilateral press conference to start, breaking news out of the middle east. john: one of america s top enemies has added a new weapon to its arsenal. iranian officials showcasing what they claim to be their first hypersonic ballistic missile. aishah: get this, officials say it can travel 15 times the speed of sound and has a range of 870 miles, roughly the driving distance between new york and savanah, georgia. john: made possible by none other than china, after they helped obtain the technology for the missile group. aishah: says the chinese communist party has a clear agenda and lies on displacing u.s. orders. they
his first television interview since the announcement in iowa last hour. sandra: polling has him at a distant third, and he will have to walk a fine line between his white house experience and distancing himself from his former boss turned rival. how will he stand out? john: one top issue, the push for parental rights, republicans are campaigning on. they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as. six years old to decide about sexual things they don t even know. john: a brawl breaking out in southern california where parents pulled kids from classrooms over the push for lgbtq materials in the curriculum. assistant principal instructed staff to teach kids that every child by default is queer and socialist. a busy one, sandra. sandra: second house. a hazy orange new york at the moment, start with the dangerous wildfire smoke smothering not just new york but the entire eastern united states, john. wild pictures coming in. john: take a look
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
states and all around the world. investigators offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of the mass shooting suspect in texas. plus the husband and father of two victims describes why he chose to run away from the gunfire. regulators weigh bids for first republic. plus the crisis in sudan. the first u.s. evacuation ship is expected to arrive at a saudi arabian port in the hours ahead. you will hear from those who managed to escape the fighting, and what they endured. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, a small texas town is in mourning and on edge after a deadly shooting in which five people were killed. this man lost his wife and 9-year-old son in the shooting the meanwhile, more than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are involved this the manhunt for the suspected shooter. and there s also an 8 o$,000 reward being offered for any information that could lead to his arrest. a