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is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me ....
wants a long sentence for his son. he claims he did not see a lot of signs of his son s troubles, but police reports prove otherwise. but first, moments from now, president biden will present the medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor, to 17 recipients. the prestigious list includes olympians, actors, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, and the first american to receive the covid vaccine. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. what do we expect from today s ceremony? reporter: it s a buoyant moment to some degree. this is a particularly difficult moment for this white house, but the opportunity to present the highest civilian honor to an array of individuals from former lawmakers, olympic athletes, civil rights kind of people at the highest level of the civil rights movement, is something i think the president enjoys and i think the white house looks forward to, to some degree. yes, there are definitely celebrities here. denzel washington ....
steve giffords. but first u.k. prime minister boris johnson is out or at least he s about to be. the scandal-plagued leader says his party doesn t believe in him anymore. themes the breaks, he said in front of 10 downing this morning. i tried to persuade my colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when we re delivering so much and have such a vast mandate. but as we ve seen at westminster, the herd instinct is powerful. when the herd moves, it moves. my friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable. johnson was touting his successes on brexit, the pandemic and support for ukraine. ultimately it was one too many scandals that did him him, accused of harassment and groping to a key leadership position and then denying he ever knew about that lawmaker s history of similar allegations. more than 50 ministers in his government resigned over johnson s shifting explanations, a mass exodus in the party intended to finally force the pm out. johnson bl ....
election night in the hospital. the depth of republican fidelity to trump s big lie. north carolina, a test of what the gop is willing to look past. a first term includes tales of drugs and or jis and an attempt to get guns on planes. trump says voters should give him a second chaps. we begin in buffalo, new york. we expect to hear from the president any moment. already this morning visiting the site of the latest american massacre. alongside the first lady he met with community members and families of those killed by a shooter. the president observed a moment of silence, he and his wife leaving a bouquet at a memorial. the president says the racist attack is a reminder in his words, the soul of the nation is still at stake. the president visit happens as authorities remain on high alert. the new concern, a possible copy cat attack. authorities this hour uncovering new chilling details about the gunman, how he targeted the supermarket and planned the rampage, how he ....
the feds are reporting a record shattering number of migrant encounters with a quarter of a just last month alone. that s a record. this, while our drone captured some pretty disturbing images at our southern border just over the last three days. on saturday we saw just how brazen migrants have become, not even barbed wire stopping them from hopping a fence onto private property in texas. then, just hours later on sunday morning, and even larger group numbering roughly 150 is seen wading in the river and crossing illegally into our country. and yesterday that scene was repeated and multiplied several times over, raising fears that the worst is yet to come. raymond, it s hard to believe that 234,000 migrant encounters in april, record, and 100,000 released into the interior of the country. think of that, one month, attended a million people. just to put this in perspective, title 42 is listed, we have a number all our viewers need to know. 1.9 million migrants with title ....