Im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is off. Its not entirely clear why relations between germany and america have deteriorated so fast this week, but theres no doubt they have. Both Angela Merkel and donald trump today continued their war of words. For the american president , that meant taking to twitter. We have a massive Trade Deficit with germany, plus they pay far less than they should on nato military very bad for us this will change. The German Foreign minister wistfully suggested it isnt helpful for the two countries to be communicating with tweets but his chancellor restated her view that europe now has to look out for itself. Translation transatlantic ties are of paramount importance to us. The only thing i did was to say that the Current Situation gives more reasons for us in europe to take our destiny in ourown for us in europe to take our destiny in our own hands. So what is germany and the rest of europe making of the apparent us german row. Joining me from bruss
billion dollar decision that a lot of people to realize how much that impacts the wallet to folks at home. organizations like ours have to pick up a lot of the select. over the course of the last year, we ve seen about a 70% increase in we are going to have with these additional snap cuts probably another potentially up to 20% more in need. a couple quick things to leave you with some states are trying to pass legislation to keep the minimum at a level so families who are impacted cannot feel the impact of this new change that went into effect this past week. the cost of the overall federal program in 2021 alone was 114 billion dollars. i want to point out that 12% of the country uses food assistance programs in some capacity. the majority of those families are families with children. back to you. we thank you. all right, one year ago, one of
program in 2021 alone is almost 114 billion dollars in restaurants show the 12% of the entire countries are using food assistance programs in some capacity. the majority of those families being families with children. i didn t wasn t. hi thank you for sharing. that pretty stunning. appreciate, it. melissa it was a slap heard around the world today comedian chris rock is going back for the first time since will smith s shocking assault at the oscars. eviscerated smith in his new standup special. here s nbc s janis mackey. a year after the slap heard around the world. comedian chris rock finally had a stage with an audience of millions. you all know what happened to me, getting slack by shooks smith. using his long awaited special, selective outrage, streamed live on netflix to
production to keep gas prices down, in fact, instead, ease their record profits to buyback on staff, rewarding ceos and shareholders. corporations ought to do the right thing. that is why i proposed we quadrupled tax on corporate stock buybacks and encourage long term investments. [applause] we will still my considerable profit. . let s finish the job and close a loophole that allows very wealthy to avoid paying the taxes, instead of cutting the number i just signed 114 billion dollars by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats. that is being fiscally responsible. in the last two years, my administration has got the deficit by more than 1.7 trillion dollars. it s the largest deficit
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,