JUST IN: President Trump unloads on the nation's governors on a call, calls on them to step up enforcement: "You have to dominate, if you don’t dominate you’re wasting your time. They’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate."
In audio obtained by @CBSNEws, Trump tells governors: "Washington was under very good control, but we’re going to have it under much more control. We’re going to pull in thousands of people." (more)
@CBSNews MORE: Trump tells governors: "You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again," per audio obtained by @CBSNews
@CBSNews One person listening in on the call describes the president's words and tone as "unhinged."
@CBSNews On the call, Trump references Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Milley and Attorney General Bill Barr. "We will activate Bill Barr and activate him very strongly," Trump says.
@CBSNews MORE: Trump tells governors later: "You’re making a mistake because you're making yourselves look like fools. And some have done a great job. But a lot of you, it’s not – it’s not a great day for our country."
@CBSNews TRUMP ADDS: "You know when other countries watch this, they’re watching this, the next day wow, they’re really a push over. And we can’t be a push over. And we have all the resources – it’s not like we don’t have the resources. So, I don’t know what you’re doing."
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The president begins his press conference with a victory lap: record vaccinations and job growth; record low unemployment and historically large infrastructure bill.
But also with humility: “Should we have done more [COVID] testing earlier? Yes.”
“I’m not going to give up and accept things as they are,” @POTUS Biden says of the pandemic.
“We’re not there yet but we will get there.”
On inflation, @POTUS Biden says he supports @federalreserve’s moves to address spiking prices. Mentions his recent nominees to the Board and asks Senate to quickly confirm them.
On @CBSMornings, @SenWarren says she's open to breaking up Build Back Better to gets parts of it passed. "I'm open to whatever is going to get us across the finish line." But she notes there's still no GOP support to pass any of BBB's parts on a standalone basis.
#Campaign2024 WATCH: Reiterating what @ewarren/@SenWarren just told @CBSMornings: She's open to primarying two of her Democratic colleagues, Manchin and Sinema, if they don't help deliver voting reform legislation this week.
Interviewed first on @cbsmornings, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker calls the weekend hostage taking "completely overwhelming" and that he's still processing the incident.
@CBSMornings The rabbi recounts for @cbsmornings first making a cup of tea for the hostage-taker, "an opportunity for me to talk to him. In that moment, I didn't hear anything suspicious. Some of his story didn't quite add up, so I was a little bit curious."
@CBSMornings Rabbi Cytron-Walker says he'd recently taken courses with federal and local law enforcement about how to deal with gun-related incidents. In the last hour of the ordeal, "It didn't look good, it didn't sound good. We were terrified."
Although most like @POTUS Biden personally, words like “frustrated” and “disappointed” top people’s descriptions of things, along with the feeling that he’s “distracted” and not focusing on what they care about.
Perceived focus matters: @POTUS gets much more overall disapproval from people who don’t think he’s focused enough on inflation or the economy. That’s true even if you control for partisanship.
NEW FROM @CBSNewsPoll: January 6 has had lasting impacts on the nation's psyche, the most immediate of which is that millions of Americans think more violence is coming, and that democracy itself might be threatened. (A thread…)
Events of Jan. 6 were widely condemned when they happened and still are today by majorities of both parties. But there is an alternative set of descriptors and interpretations of those events, and of what should happen next, largely on the right.
A year ago, most Republicans strongly disapproved, but today, their disapproval is spread between strongly and a bit more only somewhat disapproving.
Americans who no longer strongly disapprove are less likely to describe the day's events as an insurrection than they were in Jan.
IN THE OVAL OFFICE… @POTUS Biden and British PM @BorisJohnson meet to discuss pandemic, trade and other issues. Johnson took 3 questions. White House aides shouted down U.S. attempts to ask questions. I asked Biden about southern border and we couldn’t decipher what he said.
@POTUS@BorisJohnson After pleasantries, Johnson suggested "just a couple of questions" and called on a reporter from The Sun, who asked about potential of a U.S.-UK trade deal and then the fate of Anne Sacoolas, charged in the death of 19-year-old Brit Harry Dunn.
@POTUS@BorisJohnson Johnson called on another British reporter who asked Biden again about his reluctance to move on a US-UK trade deal and whether it had to do with his concerns about respecting the Irish protocols.