Midday essentials for Friday 12 July

On today's episode, we cross to our Washington DC correspondent as President Joe Biden holds a rare, solo news conference. The Tertiary Education Union says a directive for Te Pukenga to hire specific consultants to lead their cost-cutting exercise is unusual and misguided. ACT MP Mark Cameron details his member's bill seeking to stop regional councils from considering the negative impacts of climate change in consenting decisions. And Jibali the giraffe is loaded into a custom-made five metre tall trailer and driven down State Highway 1 from Auckland Zoo to his new home in Hamilton.