maybe none of the above. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we have eight months to go before the first presidential ballot of 2024 is cast. the conventional wisdom is we re headed for a rematch of 2020, this despite concerns that one candidate is too old and the other is morally unfit. which might explain why recent polls have revealed that americans don t want this rematch and there s dissatisfaction with both candidates. last month an nbc poll found that 70% of respondents said biden shouldn t run and 60% said trump shouldn t run. what are the odds that when all is said and done, the democrats nominate someone other than joe biden and republicans select a candidate different than donald trump? back on april 16th i put a polling question to my radio audience asking them if they agreed with this statement, neither biden nor trump will be the nominee. more than 25% of 20,000 plus who voted agree with that statement. maybe my listeners are on to something. this week emmy
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize the cour
amid a global energy crisis and soaring gas prices at home. sandra, good to be with you. sandra: and great to be with you, john. the topic of clean energy front center, net 0 emissions by no later than 2050. all of this as the world leaders say they are now working to tap russia s income from global oil sales that are financing putin s invasion of ukraine. john: biden s plan to bring down gas prices in the u.s. with help from two top oil exporters could be in jeopardy. video showing the french president pulling biden aside to tell him the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have already reached their maximum production. sandra: it comes as americans are still feeling the effects of the sky high prices at the pump ahead of the holiday weekend. national average, 4.86 a gallon. john: wow, jacqui heinrich live at the nato summit in madrid, spain. jacqui. jacqui: good afternoon to you guys. u.s. officials do not want to comment on the content of that conversation betwe
holiday this afternoon with the ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier at our benton national cemetery. that was just a couple of hours after president biden addressed reporters outside of the white house about last week s massacre of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde texas. the president told reporters that they gathered on the south lawn. they said that there was no rational basis to the ability to persist high caliber assault weapons that could fire hundreds of rounds, quote, it makes no sense. the idea that there should be at least limits on assault weapons in the wake of uvalde, buffalo massacre which together left 31 people murdered was echoed by the vice president on saturday. after giving remarks at the memorial service for 86 year old ruth winfield, one of the victims of the buffalo supermarket shooting, vice president harris said this to reporters at the airport. you know, we are not looking for a backseat. we know works on this. it includes having assau
arlington national cemetery. that was just a couple hours after president biden addressed reporters outside the white house about last week s massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers in uvalde, texas. the president told reporters gathered on the south lawn that there is, quote, no rational basis for the ability to purchase high-caliber assault weapons that can fire hundreds of rounds, quote, it makes no sense. the idea that there should be at least limits on assault weapons in the wake of the uvalde and buffalo massacre, which together left 31 people murdered, was ek code by the vice president on saturday. after giving remarks at the memorial service for 86-year-old ruth whitfield, one of the victims of the buffalo supermarket shooting, vice president harris said this to reporters at the airport. you know, we re not looking for a vaccine. we know what works on this. it includes, let s have an assault weapons ban. background checks. why should anyone be able to buy a weapon th