juneteenth, of fresh perspective . we will also pay tribute to the late great mark shields. his daughter amy will join me live. the first, the u.s. medias narrative about president biden. it s facing a perfect storm right now with the rising inflation, skyhigh gas, the continued covid pandemic, the president s unpopularity in the polls. more and more columnists are commentators are bringing up biden s age is a factor as well. right now, some liberals see up pylon going on. conservatives just think others are coming where they have been. standard photo ops seem to be going sideways for biden right now. chooses what video to show. maybe warps these narratives. vs reporters come you will see those complaints. this week, he invited a reporter from the associated press into the oval office for 30 minute interview. it was a rare move at some of these headline said. there long list of media outlets still waiting for the turn with the president. there was an news in that interview. t
John roberts start us off tonight. Busy day tonight. We wouldnt have it any other way. Late today, the Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appeared at the white house and pointed to a dramatic increase in the number of people crossing the border illegally. More than 50,000 a month for the past three months. 400 increase in the number of socalled family units. But the new Administration Practice of criminally prosecuting people who come across the border illegally has created a very large political problem for the white house. With a storm of outrage growing over the separation of children from illegal immigrants, President Trump today laid the blame squarely on the democrats. I say it very strongly. It is the democrats fault. They are obstructionist. And they are obstructing. Democrats outraged at the Zero Tolerance policy at the border were people who cross illegally are held for criminal
prosecution and separated from any children they may have brought with them. Even some r
That statement read, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. President trumps lawyers admit that the president did dictate that misleading statement. But they did say this. I do want to be clear that the president was not involved in making a statement or issuinging a statement. It came from donald trump jr. Thats what we know. Why the changing stories, why did the president say that he had nothing to do with meeting with the russian lawyers when he did. I said that in my statement, i have talked about that before, that happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out, that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. Thats what investigations do. Cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is in new jersey where the president is spending
his summer break. Why is the legal team bringing up that meeting this weekend . Skb reporter because that meeting at trump tower in 2016 could present legal issues for the p