And law enforcement officers quote, failed to prioritize saving
the lives of innocent victims that over their own safety
. While the Yuval, the school shooting unfolded,
that's all. According to a scathing new report from
Texas, lawmakers who were investigating the mass shooting that
killed 19 Children into adults. This is likely going
to add to growing calls for police accountability That despite
almost 380 law enforcement officers rushing to the scene,
the report the first to criticize federal authorities that in
addition to state and local law enforcement for that stunning
hour long delay in storming that fourth grade classroom where
victims were being held there and the U. S
. Faces record breaking temperatures this week, Kansas,
Oklahoma and texas could reach temperatures as high as 100
10 degrees and is expected to put a massive strain
on crops as well as electrical grids. Texas has
been under a heat wave pretty much since summer started
hitting triple digits for the last six weeks. We'll
dive more into summer. Safety at the beach in
just a few minutes. Well, people are wary
of rising prices but they keep on spending and that's
the upshot of two economic snapshots that were released last
friday, consumer sentiment remained near record lows in the
month of june but we also saw retail sales grow
by about a percentage point. Now inflation obviously of
course on top of mind, especially after that 9.1%
increase. We saw last week international pressure from the
war in Ukraine and uncertainties in china, also weighing
on the US economy that is fears of a recession
continue to grow and the world of politics, waking
up this morning and Ariel, the political world still
reeling from President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia and that
fist bump that was heard around the world. So
what can you tell us about that? Well,
baker, like you said, it truly was the
fist bump heard around the world. So of course
we've got to break it all down. So President
biden greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a
fist bump on friday just months after saying he wouldn't
meet with the Prince on this trip over his role
in the murder of Saudi dissident journalists, Jamal Khashoggi
and other human rights concerns. So we have to
get a little refresher on the timeline here, Cash
Augie was killed in october 2018 at the Saudi Consulate
in Istanbul. A month later, U. S
. Intelligence found MBS ordered the killing, but it
didn't go anywhere because President trump was still in office
. But on the campaign trail, President biden pledged
to make Saudi Arabia quote a pariah on the world
stage after the Khashoggi killing. Now, once biden
took office, he had little to do with the
Saudis until the past few months when gas prices shot
up and oil production in the Middle East went down
, forcing biden's hand and sparking this trip to the
region and to Saudi Arabia more specifically, biden said
that he challenged the prince on cash A. G
but he still received criticism for even going and even
more for dignifying the crown prince with a fist bump
despite his role in the murder. This is one
of those moments where we see biden dealing with the
reality of governing. So do american swing vote voters
really care more about human rights halfway around the world
or the gas prices around the corner, biden's calculation
leans towards the latter baker. Yeah. So meanwhile
, aerial back here in the states, Senator Bernie
Sanders throwing punches. That is democrats in the Senate
. Look for some big new spending deals before the
midterms, especially when it involves climate change. So
what can you tell us about this? Well baker
, it's all about everyone's favorite centrist joe Manchin.
We say his name all the time. Mansion just
last week privately told his fellow democrats that he would
not support a spending package that would raise taxes or
fight climate change because of his concerns about inflation Sanders
, the progressive independent from Vermont told abc news just
on sunday that Mansion was quote intentionally sabotaging the president's
agenda. Congress is in session for the next few
weeks before the august recess. So this conversation isn't
going away anytime soon. Absolutely not. Good point
. Thank you so much Ariel for that update.
Meanwhile, federal reserve officials have signaled they're likely to
raise interest rates by 75 basis points later this month
. That is policymakers press ahead with an aggressive effort
to combat high inflation and the Fed leaving the door
open to a larger full percentage point increase at their
next meeting. Later this month, Fed officials who
entered into the pre meeting quiet period on saturday have
been saying in recent interviews in public remarks that a
larger hike, however, was less likely. Meanwhile
, late june mod see the online interior design services
startup abruptly ceased offering their services laid off their designers
and even left customers with unfinished projects. The company
returned some charges and even promised to issue refunds to
those who completed a form. But more than two
weeks later tweets show that many mods customers still waiting
for those refunds. Unfortunately for them, monty has
made a tougher now to get in touch with them
quietly shut down. Earlier this month. Business of
home first reported back in june that leadership intended to
wind down the corporate and legal entity of moxie and
that most of the companies, e commerce staff,
engineers and management had all been let go. Finally
, Tiktok's global chief security officer is stepping down And
this comes as the chinese tech company transitions to using
oracle's US based servers to store americans data at all
. According to the Wall Street Journal. Tiktok announced
last month that they had started routing US users data
to oracle servers. That an attempt to curb fears
that china had complete access to information and the Ceo
of Tiktok said that this change in leadership should minimize
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