host: the senior political columnist is back with the national journal. his against the grain column. it was last weekend against the grain where you dug just how worried should democrats be about the numbers right now? be very worried. his average job approval according to the 538 polling average is 44%. that is lower than every president at this point in their administration in the last 50 years other than donald trump. it is a double whammy. the president is losing support amongst independents. his average support among independents is in the 30's and most of these polls. you also have an intensity of opposition among republicans and even independents, a deep disapproval from a sizable plurality of voters. you have on top of it a lot of evidence that democrats are disillusioned as well. covid is not going away, or it is taking a while to go away, the economy is facing a lot of headwinds. this white house a couple of months ago thought that they would be running and politicking on a roaring back economy and covid going away. you are seeing the opposite.

. >> on the smartest minds in politics and then political reporter from the national journal but against the grain of the podcastst of the same name and as usual by political party. >>caller: good morning. biden is not making decisions he is a puppet everybody knows it look at the extreme policy view we will define the money to build the wall with environmental stuff that will not stop the illegals and by the institute for immigration studies it cost american taxpayers last year half a trillion dollars on illegal immigration. and as far as the news media goes talk about the january 6 commission but you don't hear about biden son laptop or art deals. nothing like that is not 50/50 ten forneties / conservatives and republicans and especially donald trump. >> the caller brings up an interesting point which is the trump factor in the need to that he himself is not on the ballot one of the signals out of virginia is that mcauliffe has promised much of his campaign on connecting his republican opponent to former president trump the numbers suggest it would be similar to the 2020 election a cri

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[inaudible conversations] >> josh is back with us, senior political columnist at the "national journal" where he is against the grain column and house podcast the same name. it was last week in against the grain that you sometimes dig into president biden's following polling numbers. just how worried should democrats be about thosed numbs right now? >> they should be very worried. his average job approval according to the 538 polling averages about 44%. that's lower than every president at this point in their administration in the lastni 50 years other than donald trump. it's a double whammy because the president is losing support among independents. 30's and most of these polls. you also have an intensity of opposition among republicans and even independents, a deep disapproval from a sizable plurality of voters. you have on top of it a lot of evidence that democrats are disillusioned as well. covid is not going away, or it is taking a while to go away, the economy is facing a lot of headwinds. this white house a couple of months ago thought that they would be running and politicking

host: zach a cohen reports for national journal and as always, thank you for your time this morning. with that as the set up, you can talk about the process playing out around the debt ceiling. the political process, the financial process, all those things. you can call us at (202) 748-8001 for republicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats, and independents, you can call us at (202) 748-8003 -- at (202) 748-8002. text us at (202) 748-8003. bruce, cleveland, ohio, what do you think about this announcement and where the senate goes from here, bruce? caller: i think this whole thing is ridiculous. ok? we had an $8 trillion deficit from the previous administration. they are just trying to pay it now. i don't know what's wrong with republican lawmakers. they almost made trump a dictator. we all saw that he's a dictator lover. i don't know why republicans are not fighting it. they did this during those four years with trump. so, why are they trying to do this? i think the whole thing is about they hate that they lost the senate, the house, and the presidency. host: ok, let's go to mark, schene

marcia coyle, chief washington correspondent for the "national law journal," was one of the two dozen of so reporters in the courtroom this morning. she is back in the studio now. >> yes. marcia, what was it like this morning? >> you know, john, it was normal and it was abnormal. was normal in the fact that there are were justices actually on the bench and they were hearing oral arguments. but it was abnormal, first days at the supreme court you usually have a court building that's full of tourists on the lower level, lines of people who are waiting to get seats in the court room, lines of lawyers in suits waiting to be sworn into the bar. and the whole floor seems to be humming with talk. but today silence. a few supreme court police officers, staff people going in and out of offices, everybody masked. you go into the court room and you see the press, those of us who attended, we were in the public seats cannot in the usual press section but in public seats so that we could be spread out. and we wear masks. and also the lauers-- laiers who were going to argue, they were limited to ha

host: the senior political columnist is back with the national journal. his against the grain column. it was last weekend against the grain where you dug

i've been to a couple of big gatherings in germany and it's like united nations of journalism. you have people there from every part of the world and they are all talking about the same project and it's a very forceful feeling and we're like a big family and we come in to talk and we trust each other. and i could not believe when i worked in the first one of these that nobody had kind of tried to get a head start on the rest. and that's because you know that you are just going to have so much more impact when you do it together. it's an international firestorm, and it only works that way because we do it together. and there were moments when information started leaking out because the people we were writing to were trying to get ahead of the game on all these projects and try to get their side out before we published. and i remember gerard, who's a director of icij, like a sort of general at the front of his troops saying hold, hold, hold and then charge. and you all go down the hill together. let's get to that. i've seen you describe the whole process is being like bashing at

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. >> dana: national journal tweeted is the white house trying to lose the 2022 mid-terms? but also wanted to ask you about this. there will be -- jonathan hunt showed us there will be a press conference today possible charges being discussed in new mexico for the shooting that happened on alec baldwin's movie set. >> i would be surprised if they announce any charges at this early stage. there is a lot to go through. we have both civil and criminal liability here, potential criminal liability on the part of alec baldwin. involuntary manslaughter is not off the table. it's a crime that occurs without malice or appropriate circumspec shun. everybody is trying to save money on the set. an armorer who is a legacy hire. dave halls fired. they had constant notice one after another they weren't prepped. let me ask another question. you have a revolver. in order to pull that trigger, you have to pull the hammer. it is a single action. why is alec baldwin have the hammer cocked and then pulls the trigger? so it's not just taking a gun and pulling the trigger, he had to cock that ham

josh kraushaar is a senior political columnist for the national journal daily. josh, good to see you. this is an op-ed in "the washington post" who said don't rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes. american consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades are not accustomed to inconvenience. your thoughts? >> yeah, it sounds like excepting malaise as the new normal. that may be acceptable for a columnist. it is pretty remarkable that you have a prominent writer who thinks this will be the new normal, that we will be expecting these supply shortages for the long term. that inflation may be a long-term issue. that is pretty notable in and of itself that this is sort of consider the new normal and you should just accept it. politically speaking, these types of views are what folks in the biden administration believe is dangerous. poll after poll shows not just republicans but lots of independence, even a large number of democrats, really worried about the state of the economy. there was a new politico morning console poll today show

national political columnist for "national journal daily" who writes the against the grain column, great to see you today. so the white house press secretary says the administration is confident the democrats will pass both bills in the coming days. there were talks they were at work over the weekend, but now it looks like it will be next week. but we have heard this before, so what's different now? the price tag looks better, but what else? >> it has been an ongoing challenge, anita, to get someone like joe manchin or kyrsten sinema who are very moderate democrats running in states that republicans have the advantages and to have the same point of view is bernie sanders and the squad members. what we are releasing now is the squad has become a circular firing squad within their own party by refusing to pass an infrastructure bill that terry mcauliffe wanted them to get past, that president biden wants them to get past, that speaker pelosi wanted them to pass this past yesterday this week. and today are refusing to take you asked for an answer, so we still don't have a compromise that ha

marcia coyle for the national law journal was one of the two dozen or so reporters back in the courtroom this morning and she is back in the studio now. what was i like this morning? >> john, it was normal and abnormal. it was normal in the fact that there wereustice actually ton benching and they were hearing oral arguments but it was abnormal, first day at that times supreme court, you usually have a court building that's full of tourists on the lower level. lines of people who are waiting to get seats in the courtroom. lines of lawyers and suits waiting to be sworn into the bar. and the whole floor steams be hum withing talk. but today silence. a few supreme court police ficers, a few staff pple, you know, going in and out of offices, everybody masked. you go into the courtroom. and you see the press, those of us who attended, we were in the public seats, not in usual press section. but in public seats so that we could be spread out an wwere maxed. and also the lawyer who is were going to argue, they were limited to having only one other lawyer with them. before you could have that ta

. >> yang: marcia coyle is chief washington correspondent for the "national law journal." i think the bottom line here is that the court may very well, in a divided opinion, reinstate the death penalty for tsarnaev. i think the court is divided, in terms of the six conservatives being more sympathetic to the government's arguments, that the federal appellate court here was wrong to set aside the death penalty for tsarnaev, and also wrong on how the trial judge should've questioned jurors about the publicity they had experienced. >> yang: the justices are expected to rule by next summer. but, no matter what they say, tsarnaev wl die in prison, as the appeals court ruling did not affect his 11 life sentences. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: it's been two months since the taliban took control of kabul and solidified their grip on afghanistan. since then, living conditions have deteriorated. the banking system is said to be in free fall, and the economy all but collapsing. afghanistan needs help, and needs it fast. that was the message from the head of one of

national geographic and others and into the forest is a well researched and emotionally gripping love story but as a particular remarkable book because takes a backup of the holocaust and a little in chapter of holocaust history there were only now starting to fully understand the stories as an earth and told and helping fuel and understanding. in addition to rebecca frankel we are honored to be joined today by david, host of the deep state radio podcast and ceo of the roth group and david. [inaudible]. in australia and after david and rebecca's discussion today, copy of the book will be available for sale museum lobby and we hope you take advantage of this opportunity to buy the book and pictures book signed by the author. and you can go to the link in the lifestream chat as well and without further ado please join me in welcoming rebecca frankel and david - to the stage. [background sounds]. >> hello and thank you all for being here. >> hi, it's very nice of you to join us and they were going have a very interesting afternoon and hopefully at some point, about 40 minutes from now yo

", "national review" and "new york times" it's unfashionable to be too alarmed about this. it's kind of uncool to say, you know, what we have a real problem here of possible election subversion and people need to rally against this and pass legislation, call it out, ask leaders to step forward. oh, no, it's only trump being trump and a little bit of republican senators being really quiet and don't get too alarmed. that's now kind of the fashionable position among an awful lot of conservatives who aren't really pro trump but they are certainly alarmed of what's happening and that's also very dangerous. >> and what i say to those people is you were saying that as well when trump was saying all of this about the election in 2020 before it happened. hey, if i lose, it's because it's rigged and you were saying that's trump many trump and then there was an insurrection, right? >> and we know what he tried to do at the justice department and of the defense department. >> and now we're finding out all the moves that he was making behind the scenes to try to get his doj to -- to sub

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let's also acknowledge the fact that there really is a lot of tremendous journalism, and tremendous journalism done by national news organizations who were shining a light on power and inequality including stuff you've done, too. so that's just one of the things i start to work us actually that it becomes these huge national news organizations, which there really aren't that many. like the times, the journal, the pose, maybe cnn that are doing the spotlights. they are doing them well but it's often extractive, like let me explain this poor person in mississippi who has raw sewage flowing into her home, right? so there is great journalism, there is journalism that is focus on these concerns, but it's being told about people rather than for them. that's one side of it. i think the other side of it is that you get trapped into doing what journalism always does, right? are certain kinds of stories that you cover. there are certain kinds of stories that are going to win awards. you end up reinforcing power because you end up talking to the powerful to get information for your story. i was talking a

here's our national security reporter at "the wall street journal." >> i think he grappled a lot with it. he was a proud man and once it. became clear that there was no no w.m.d. ice and the intelligence upon which he'd given those running backs was wrong, he was crest fallen. i don't think he ever forrive george potential it, the intelligence doctor at the time. henew this would be part of his obill rip and legry -- legacy. ros: despite, that colin powell was not considered to be an i would logical near coervative in-- unlike the vice president then dick companiy and rumpl family. john negro fonta was u.s. ambassador to the united nations at the time. >> one of his great accomplishments at the you know. ed nations when earlier he succeeded in helping get resolution which set up this intense fined inspection plan of iraq and i think he and others homed that would be allowed to go on long enough to demonstrate whether or not iraq really had weapons of of mass destruction but the people in washington were in such a hurry to go to war, they never allowed that to play out fully. i think t

i think what's acknowledged is there is a lot of trauma and tremendous journalism done by national news organizations and it's about the great work you've done to so i start to worry that they will become hugenational news organizations which aren't that many . they're doing the spotlights and they are doing them well but it's often extracted. like let me explain this poor person in mississippi who has raw sewage in her home. so there is great journalism and journalism that is focused on these concerns but it's about people rather than for them so that's one side. the other side of it is you get trapped into doing that journalism always. there's certain kinds of stories that we cover. thereare certain kinds of stories that are going to win awards . you end up reinforcing power because you end uptalking to the powerful for your stories . you talk to the powerful because their sources that matter to verify stuff like that but there's that side of these institutional routines and then you have to look within yourself to to think about who's asked to be a journalist in these newsrooms that

children a report in the medical journal jama found substantial and persistent declines in pediatric vaccinations for other illnesses, including measles. the biggest drop took place when covid first hit, but numbers are rebounding slowly because of staffing shortages and health center closures. another study done by the cdc reveals that more than 120,000 children have lost a primary caregiver from covid, a disproportionate number, 65%, are racial or ethnic minorities. >> we do not yet have a coordinated response to address the needs of those children and the time is now to do that. >> reporter: among the risks they face, dropping out of school early, violent behavior and depression. >> this problem of being without your parent or caregiver is not something that young people or children recover from. >> reporter: a reminder that ensuring protection from the virus is a priority, but rebounding from the damage done by the pandemic could be a lot harder >> so, stephanie, once this vaccine is authorized for children, how long before we see shots going into arms? >> reporter: well, lester,

joining me now to discuss is valerie, national reporter with the "wall street journal" and author of this piece, "can unraveling of the murdaugh dynasty: unsolved murders, insurance fraud and missing loans." valerie, the case is so complicated that i have created my own flowchart to follow along. here's the way that i think i would begin. alec was married to maggie. they had two sons, buster and paul. maggie and paul have been murdered, and that case is unsolved. how's that for a starting point? >> that's quite a starting point. >> well, what do we know about that murder? >> oh, well, you know, maggie and paul murdaugh were killed on june 7th in hampton, south carolina, this tiny little town in the southeastern part of the state. it was pretty brutal. they were found by the dad around 11:00 and their murders are unsolved. we know very little about the circumstance around them. >> and so, scrutiny of those murders has caused scrutiny of a whole host of other things. as you say, five bodies and seven investigations. for example, the family housekeeper, presumably who died in a slip and

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but spring our panel, bill mcgurn, columnist for "the wall street journal," mara eliasson, national pollock radio, and steve hayes, editor of the dispatch. steve, what you think of this? >> well, look, i think it's one thing if you have a respected economist like jason furman tweeting this. i mean, he is widely respected among the republicans and democrats alike and i think he was making a defensible point. it's another thing if you have the white house chief of staff seeming to endorse this, and i think it does, despite jen psaki's unwillingness to talk about it, and ron klain's twitter account does get a lot of scrutiny. people do follow it, people try to understand the signals he's sending when he likes it tweet and when he retweet something, and i think in this case what republicans have jumped on is this idea that these are high-class problems dominantly affecting upper-class, when as you say, if you look at inflation and the effects, it's widely across the u.s. economy. >> bret: yeah, people are feeling it, bill. >> yeah. it looked, inflation has always been called the cruelest tax be

a series of investigative journalism pieces. a national television rollout, a website that's launched. i mean, she came to play. this is really interesting. if this witness can't get something done or can't catalyze some sort of activity, then -- then this really is just theater. there really is no action that comes from anything. >> you know, part of her argument is look, they are just out for the money. they are doing things that they know are not good. i mean, isn't that a lot of companies? isn't that a lot of cable news shows which are, like, you know, screaming and yelling and they know it's not good and they're getting people angry and riled up? isn't -- i mean, isn't that not good? >> 100%. they're not doing anything -- other media outlets aren't doing. they are just doing it much better and for some reason, we have exonerated them from any liability. if cnn or any other cable network could be reverse engineered to teen depression or if you were taking ads from the russian intelligence arm or the intelligence arm of the r

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have been delivered. china hall joins us live from london journal. i want to get to the co tuition in the u. k. but firstly, the health secretary is urging people to get booster shots in the u. k. when poor nations have those woefully low jab writes, how's the government justifying this inequality? well, the government here isn't attempting to justify that inequality at all. if anything, it's attempting to say that it's playing its part and doing everything it can to deal with that inequality or other sorta vacuous statement from a government spokesman. in answer to questions about this report that you mentioned said that the u. k. was proud to be playing a leading role in the production and distribution of code vaccines worldwide. well, this report seems to suggest does more rather than suggest otherwise, it's a report by the people's vaccine alliance. that's an umbrella body involving n g o z. as he said, they're including oxfam action ada, amnesty international and so on. it exists to promote the idea of lifting patience on vaccines and vaccine te

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press foundations award for broadcast journalism. just a reminder that if you have a question for chris wallace, please submit those in the chat. chris, welcome and let me invite you to take a few minutes and make some opening comments so we can get into a discussion about the book and i will then ask questions and ask on behalf of the viewers questions that they've raised. so, please. >> thank you and thanks to all of you for watching. this is my second time speaking at the commonwealth club and while i'm delighted it's my second time speaking virtually since i did last year with my first book and i was promising today whether that means you owe me two trips to san francisco or i owe you two trips to san francisco but in any case i hope someday we can do this face to face. i've always wanted to attend and let alone to participate in a commonwealth club greeting so i am delighted to be here today. i thought i would just talk to you briefly about bin laden, set the stage and then we will talk for the better part of an hour. whether i

university with a degree in journalism before working on documentaries across europe and switching to film this sunday the black panther party, which was founded in oakland will be honored with the bronze bust of the party's co-founder dr. ue. at statue will mark the first permanent public art display in oakland commemorating the movement one that focused on self-reliance and empowerment within the black community abc 7 news race and culture reporter. julian glover has this exclusive look now at how that bronze bust came to life. from vilified by the government to immortalized in bronze this is the evolution of the legacy of the revolutionary co-founder of the black panther party. huey p newton. i have created him to bring him home to west oakland. that's where we first caught up with the sculptor dana king in her studio as she brought the late leader to life in clay 32 years after his death one scrape at a time. the reason he's looking out. is because he was a visionary he saw into the future. there's been so much misinformation. propaganda about the the that's harmful before the bla