. hey, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. a close eye on a volatile situation in the middle east u.s. forces across the region bracing for possible retaliation after airstrikes against iranian-backed houthi militants in yemen. on thursday streaking dozens of targets, more than 60. at 16 different locations across yemen according to the u.s. favors. houthis say at least five were killed in the strikes. the attacks are a response by the u.s. and its allies what has become a slow slimmering crisis and drawn the administration s attention in the last few months. after october 7th with the attacks in israel, ships have gone to the red sea sites of one of the most crucial shipping lanes in the world. hijacking a ship operated by a japanese company. houthis say they re actions are in support of hamas and the ongoing conflict in gaza and say they ll continue their attacks until israel ends its campaign. moments ago president biden answering question
his visit to germany later in the week will go ahead. the bbc has paused plans to scrap the bbc singers, the uk s only full time professional chamber choir, after a public backlash against the move. the singers were due to be axed just before their centenary because of bbc budget cuts, but now, the corporation says they will continue performing while it looks at other ways of funding them, as our media correspondent david sillito reports. singing the bbc singers a part of british musical life for nearly 100 years. however, what began as the wireless chorus of 192a didn t look as though it was going to make it to its centenary year. the bbc said it had to make cuts the choir would close in september. however, there s been a u turn. and in the queue for today s concert, there was relief that britain s only full time, salaried professional choir looks to have been saved. it s something to aspire to, certainly for young singers coming up professionally. ijust read on my phone
that it wasn in fact a revolutionary bill . and then there was this inio the senate for ted kennedy of massachusetts. the man who drove the bill went out of his way to explain this. the democratic party was absolutely not trying to replace the american population with more compliant foreign born voters. for no way. that s an insane conspiracy theory. he explained, quote, this bill will not flood our citiesci .ti immig the immigrants kennedy said itr. will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. n it will not relax the standards of admission. it will not cause american workers to lose their jobs. it it s all bitterly amusing when you look back at it because of course, that is precisely what this bill did. this bill changed america completely bill and forever. and the numbers show it in the years since that legislationn passed, the united states total populationle explodedited by one hundred 140 and forty million people. you re seeing that chart on your screen t ch right now
Mark Hello America i am marco levin this is life, Liberty Levin saturday per with two great guests we have leo to rell and Victor Davis Hanson. But before i get to them did you see president bidens speech the other day, if you blinked you probably missed it. Not so much a speech kind of a statement. This man is so thoroughly pathetic. He has no moral center. He says that we believe in free speech and of course violence is not free speech so you kids behave yourself there. We cant have antisemitism but we also could not have a Slot A Phobia and so forth and so on. So for his base probably good enough this will not go down as one of the great speeches in American History and this is exactly what we needed. It will not go down as a profile encourage because its not what he is he has linguine for a spine. This man is truly pathetic. At a time when eat at great president , great statesman, great leader we do not have one. We have the exact opposite. Heres the speech. Absolutely useless. Too