Honor 150,000 troops that stormed the beaches of normandy june 6th, 1944. biden is expected to recognize the american alliances that have defeated the dictatorships of the past. on friday, biden will make another speech in normandy where he is expected to really frame the stakes of the battle for democracy across the globe today, and then he ll travel to paris for a state visit with french president emmanuel macron. joining us now, white house correspondent for reuters, jeff mason, who will be traveling with the president. couple nights in paris, not bad, jeff. can t complain, john. can t complain. let s start with the d-day agenda. i was lucky enough. i covered, five years ago, the 75th anniversary when then president trump went. but we re going to hear a slightly different message this time around for president biden. this is one of the more moving locations, frankly, on the globe, where the tide turned in world war ii. give us some of the themes, if you will, we re expecting to
Conspiracy theories that he says is being weaponized against the justice department, garland declaring as john said, i will not be intimidated, seen as arlette saenz as much more on this from the white house for it so are like, can you talk to me about this new line of attack? we do need to call it from president biden against trump yeah. okay. president biden is really escalating his rhetoric against former president donald trump. in the wake of his conviction in new york city. now, the president, it s worth noting, made these comments in an off-camera fundraiser in greenwich, connecticut for the first time calling trump a convicted felon and saying that he is waging an all-out assault on the american justice system. but the president, also use his remarks to these donors to try to argue that trump would be even worse in a second term that he was in his four years in office, the president said, quote, something snapped in him when he lost in 2020. he can t accept he lost and it is literally driving him crazy.
Packages get even bigger next year, john, i think at the end of the day, the real question though is you would obviously be a great ceo. what do you do with $106 million on whatever i want isn t that why you re a ceo absolutely. it s good work if you can get it. matt egan. thanks. i guess for me, shade it so a virtual strip club that is what tiktok is being called and a new lawsuit against the social media platform and then do sometimes get the urge dramatically roll your eyes or stick out your tongue when a politician speaks, a errantly so do their family members this 6-year-old, better behaved by should note that some members of congress did not hold back during his father s speech on the house floor cnn business updates it is brought to you by pods, trusted with more than 6
Remarks from the president just yesterday, that the campaign is eager to really escalate their rhetoric, escalate their attacks on trump. is there fine to paint him as unfit for office heading into november s election well, let thank you very much for that reporting, john. all right. breaking overnight, attorney general merrick garland seems like he has had enough very shortly. he testifies before the republican led house judiciary committee, and we are learning and he has planning to slam as conspiracy theories the idea that the department of justice is being weaponized against donald trump, particularly any connection with the guilty verdict in the new york criminal case. and opening remarks shared with cnn, garlin will say this quote, i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending our democracy. cnn s kaitlan, poland s is with us now in these are unusually defiant words from the attorney general kaitlan really very sharply
Wealthy nations, it s hard to see the united states doing less i mean, the us health care system when it comes to this, especially for black mothers is failed for so long. glee, it s beyond a tragic, absolutely beyond and being reminded of it, once again though, is extremely important to shine another light on it. thank you, jacqueline lee, john, you statistics, not new but surprising every time i see them this morning, a new study shows that ceos at some of the nation s top companies are making nearly 200 times more than their employees. cnn s matt egan is with us now. i m at what he learned here. well, john, it s a great time to be a ceo. some of these pay packages are pretty epic. now, see you as have always made more money than their workers, but the gap is widening now last year, see you as meet 196 times what their median employee made. that s according to the study from aquila and associated press. now, that is up from 185 times the year
That iran would then strike back from its own territory. now we re going to have to wait and see what happens here as you ve mentioned, a lot of the details are still quite murky. obviously, israelis have not ignored knowledge that they were behind the strikes. officially the iranians have not commented either. but of course right now, with the way things stand in the greater middle east, there is that potential for a possible escalation after a strike like that one? it isn t your and your perspective on this and the context around it and how things have shifted since that strike in damascus is extremely important here, fred. thank you so much for its going to stay on top of this one for us, john where we ve new reporting this morning, attorney general merrick garland is expected to defend the justice department and what he testified on capitol hill very shortly and defend them with force the attorney general will slam what he calls repeated attacks and conspiracy theories about the department being weaponized he says by donald trump, he will not say donald trump s war is right there. i should be clear about that. he won t use the words donald trump and prepared remarks. garland says, quote, i
Obtaining four no legitimate purpose sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations. john, in short, that s merrick garland saying, we re not giving you that audio tape at this time. expecting some fiery wars this morning on capitol hill, katelyn polantz, thank you very much also this morning, opening arguments are about to get underway in the trial of hunter biden, and we ve new word on one who will testify and how prosecutor there s plan to make their case against the president s son and a suspect in the gilgo beach serial killings is expected to be indicted on another murder charge. now the details about a new search, and we re investigators were looking she was declared dead by the workers at for nursing home. two hours later, an employee at a funeral home realizes she is still breathing, we ll bring you that
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Transition to net zero. and the problem with what anas has set out is that there is a very direct damage going to be done to the oil and gas sector as a consequence of the tax plans that he s put forward, and which the conservatives have put into place. just to make this clear, you support higher taxes for people earning £29,000 a year in scotland for example, nurses but not higher taxes, windfall taxes on the oil and gas giants making record profits. are you personally, and the snp, in favour of granting new oil and gas licences? yes or no? i m in favour of there being a climate compatibility test. why can t you just give a straight answer? - i think what we ve just seen here is an example of two parties that have been in power for far too long. the snp and labour will be key rivals at this election. this is good for scotland, john! you cannot escape the fact that you ve signed up to the tories fiscal agenda. you have said you re desperate - to get rid of this tory government, i but all you ve done in this electionl campaign is attack the labour party.
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