she may permanently lose vision in her right thigh. she will join us to tell us about this harrowing moment straight ahead to. also later, buckle up. espn host our buddy stephen a. smith will join us, we ll get his take on the gruesome injury from last night, thursday night football game. will next get to that but we begin tonight in the washington swamp, now led by some of the dumbest most incompetent people on the face of the earth, our economy is in shambles because of reckless spending. gas prices are going up again because of their war on energy. average price per gallon $6.26, statewide in california $6.18. oregon $5.29. washington state $5.17 and it s only going higher. our kids have fallen behind in school because of their unscientific covert restrictions, illegal immigration, opioid, sentinel deaths are at an all-time high because of their reckless open border policy. of course in afghanistan, and i we have vladimir putin threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons p
multiple times. she ll join us live. and cnn goes one on one with the u.s. marine veteran trevor reed on his brutal imprisonment in russia and what it is like to finally be home. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m told it is friday. indeed it is. it is friday, may 20th. a short time ago, president biden kicked off his first visit to asia since taking office. he joined the new south korean president yoon seok-youl at a samsung semiconductor plant and immediate display of unity. the goal is to reassure asian allies of u.s. commitment to counter and contain china. the president will also visit japan on this trip. and growing concern over what north korea will do next as the u.s. braces for the possibility that kim jong-un will conduct a missile test in coordination with biden s trip. the white house sayses it prepared for all contingencies. russia s invasion of ukraine not far from their minds as well. vladimir putin continuin
people are going there but it does come with some risk. absolutely. all right, coal messenger. yeah, well, joe rogan s podcast is the mecca of this and joe refused to have trump on his podcast. he had bernie on and andrew yang, he had rfk jr. recently and he has the biggest podcast in that space, so trump s attempt to go to someone like mike tyson, in a way that s a end around the elephant in the room. in defense of mike tyson and won t defend his alleged well, his crime that he actually served time for, but if you look at the way he speaks now, he doesn t speak the same way he spoke when he was a young buck. he talks about his feelings. he has a much more rounded and sort of holistic way of speaking so i m curious to see that kind of conversation. would you have trump on your pod podcast? no. then again you re not an mma. but apparently everyone is doing it. do you want me to get in the
noticed it s in parentheses, he is the host of espn s first take stephen a. smith, the one, the only stephen. let s let the audience know, you don t have to sit up there and hide the fact that we know which other, i m the one who should be hiding that, i m the one who s going to be criticized but not you. let s be clear about that. sean: i m going to be on your podcast. you said you want 20 minutes i will bet any amount of money this podcast goes on for an hour and 20 minutes. we have been friends for a long time, i m ruining all credibility with your audience by telling the truth about that. you are a friend of mine i love talking politics and sports with you i m happy for all your success, congrats on the pod podcast. tua, this is a gifted, talented quarterback. we saw what happened last night, we saw what happened a week before, really scared me. of the neurological response of
gov governor s race here, trump has not had a lot of good luck in gubernatorial races so far this month. you go to idaho, brad little defeats the trump endorsed candidate. nebraska, jim pillen defeats the trump-endorsed candidate. in ohio, there was no trump-endorsed candidate but mike dewine beat back three pro trump challengers n gubernatorial races, a lot of races are saying we don t care what trump says. may be a different calculation, people are thinking more locally. i think most people know you got a podcast, a wildly popular pod podcast. thank you. and this week you are, i think, focusing on something extraordinarily important. what is it? i m focusing on something extraordinarily important. so, look, you can tune in, get on apple, stitch or any podcast app. this week, does wearing glasses mean you re smarter? most people think so. court defendants try the nerd defense wearing glasses in court to say, i couldn t have committed that crime, i m a good person. but is it ac