Canceled it . On friday, the New York Times wrote the following. Quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. President Trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. Quote, the failing the New York Times quotes a senior white house official who doesnt exist, use real people, not phony sources. The source was, in fact, a senior white house official speaking to a large group of reporters in the White House Briefing room. We journalists try as hard as we can to always identify our sources on the record so that we can tell you, our viewers, watchers, listeners, why you should trust our information. Sometimes we agree to allow people to speak anonymously. Well refer to that as talking on background. Nbc news does know the identity of this official, although were not identifying him because we agreed not to. We, however, do not invent people. If we did, we would an
unfurling scream of bomb threats to oklahoma elementary schools. after the far-right education commissioner in oklahoma decided that he would amplify extreme right attacks on an oklahoma elementary school librarian. which has resulted now in days and days and days of death threats and bomb threats targeting oklahoma elementary schools. headline in the tulsa world, more school of palm three keep administrators busy, and parents worried. and sometimes there are law enforcement consequences for these things. this week we re gonna see four straight days of sentencing s for members of pro trump, armed, right-wing, paramilitary groups. whose members have been convicted of seditious conspiracy against the u.s. government. those sentencings will start tomorrow, and federal court in washington, and continue all week. but even as we have all the sentencing starting tomorrow, today the georgia bureau of
country, with respect to guns. we have been in thrall to the nra, and gun manufacturing madness, so the answer to school shootings s arm teachers. we come up with slogans that guns don t kill people, people do. this is madness, countries that have dealt with this matchless like great britain and australia, have significantly reduced, almost eliminated this kind of mass killings. jacksonville, officially was the third and fourth mass killing in the united states this year. that doesn t count hundreds of gun instances. just this week, and we saw incidents in chicago, in jacksonville, in oklahoma, in boston, this weekend, we cannot normalize gun violence. it is time to restrict gun access, it is time to be strict again about who gets to use it, what kind of training, what
conditions spreading to many other cities too including houston where triple digit temps buckled roads. and the electrical grid in texas breaking its all-time daily usage record for june. trying to stay hydrated and stay in the shade as much as possible. reporter: to the north, canadian wildfire smoke once again impacting air quality in the u.s. both chicago and detroit were rated the worst air quality in the world on tuesday. that choking smoke expected to arrive in new york as early as today. while in oklahoma, a possible tornado tearing through this barn, threatening supercell clouds producing wind gusts topping 100 miles an hour. a stark contrast to this extreme heat that has some questioning whether it s even worth going outside. i will not be leaving my house unless i absolutely have to. i mean, it s 100 degrees is unbearable. reporter:
bill 70 and 75 was passed in 2021 saying if a student felt uncomfortable in the classroom, a teacher could be punished for that. there s so much am big ouzts in the way these laws are written and we can see the way some conservatives are exploiting that ambiguity in order to make it hard for teachers to do their jobs. one thing that really worries me about this backlash is in some ways it mirrors what was going on in oklahoma. it was at one point egalitarian, almost utopian in some senses but then decided to import jim crow policies from the deep south. it seems like we re seeing something similar today when all these individual states and republican legislatures are deciding to embed discrimination in various forms into their laws. i think what we need to do as america is be vigilant about opposing laws that are not in our interest and really about, you know, being allies to each other in these tumultuous times. we just have to know about