texas state senator and get his reaction. it s sunday, july 10th. thank you for waking up with us. president biden is defending his decision to visit saudi arabia when he travels to the middle east this week against criticism and controversy surrounding that trip. the president will meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman but, remember, as a candidate for president biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now, as president, he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. in his op-ed in the washington post the president also touched on saudi arabia s role in dealing with a spike in energy prices. he writes, quote, today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council, has fully supported the truce in yemen and is working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the killing of journalist jamal k
obviously losing patience. right now you re sitting up here playing cards because they are short staffed and we can check-in and get in there in time so we are waiting for more people to come in. i was supposed to leave at 1:30 and they delayed it to 3:00 p.m. already today. i don t know if i m going to get out on time or not. i brought my laptop charger and i may be hanging out here for a while. we are hoping the plane is there when we are ready to get on and a pilot to fly it, so we have to get back and get back to life. mike: charles watson s life from hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta. good morning, charles. good morning, mike and julie. things are pretty busy here in atlanta so far this morning but so far operations appeared to be moving smoothly here at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international. that said, passengers should prepare for another busy day at airports. the delays and cancellations are already racking up this morning. we are seeing about 140 u.s
he was read his miranda warnings, offered attorneys, et cetera, he went into details about what he had done. he admitted to what he had done. reporter: the county sheriffs office also revealed that there were red flags about the shooter well before monday s mass killing. in april of 2019, police were called about a suicide attempt of his. five months later, a relative contacted police after the suspect threatened to quote kill everyone in the family. but still, he was able to obtain the illinois equivalent of a gun license in 2020. today the prosecutor tried to explain it. there was never a firearm restraining order. that s what i had used the term red flag. that type of order mr. crimo has never been involved in that type of order. that s an order where family members and other individuals can go to a court and ask that somebody have firearms taken and not be allowed to piurchase firearms. that did not happen in mr. crimo s case. cnn security correspondent, josh gamb
critical moments. brand-new information from the biden administration to protect reproductive health data in the aftermath the overcurrenting of roe versus wade. between nightmares at airports to sky high firework prices, and sky high food prices as well as gas, traveling on this fourth of july. delays and cancellations at airports across the country are causing chaos and frustration for air travelers, this as airports are overwhelmed with a record number of passengers not seen since before the pandemic. nbc s george so list is at los angeles international airport. how is it looking for us? hi. happy fourth of july. right now things looking fairly smooth here at the airport. of course it is early. just checking flight aware which you can use to track flights. not many delays receipt now. 16 delays, about one cancellation. across the nation already we are seeing about 1,000 delays. when you compare that to everything that s occurred since friday we are looking at a ver
detective ted williams, a defense attorney in his own right. we re learning everything every hour today, ted. the most scary has to be that he was looking at a follow up attack in madison, wisconsin. we don t know for sure why hi cancelled that. but he was essentially there. yeah, that s very scary. because after he left the scene there in highland park or illinois, he headed to his mom s house, he picked up his mom s car and he headed to madison, wisconsin. from what we ve been told, he is talking to the authorities, neil. he s informed the authorities that he saw a crowd there in madison, wisconsin and he thought very strongly about shooting up that crowd. he thought about it. he then came back, of course, to illinois and quite naturally i m happy and elated to say that he was captured there in illinois. neil: ted, i want to go over the red flag laws in place in illinois that he was violating or at least authorities ignored or didn t have any idea going back to 2019. of