the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
ok. in theaters april 5th. rated pg. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. yet another norfolk southern train derails this morning just as the ceo faces members of congress who have a lot of tough questions but don t always get clear answers. a full month after the train crash that got many residents sick, will the railroad keep its word to be in east palestine, ohio, into the future, and what are lawmakers willing to do to make sure he keeps his word? plus, president biden about to lay down a critical marker ahead of the 2024 presidential race unveiling his budget just about 90 minutes from now, how it will frame the critical economic and political fight with republicans going forward. and more misery in california as a series of unrelenting storms escalates the danger and the disaster. at least a dozen people have been killed. now a new storm could dump another 8 inches of rain risking flooding in areas that are already buried under 16
pothole pete buttigieg. he has been utterly mia and in two years he aimlessly presided over multiple airline fiasco and chaos america shipping ports and supply chain nightmare that s still ongoing and a disaster in east palestine, ohio, a train wreck followed by a controlled chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water. we have dead fish and dead animal and sick people. pothole pete, he s nowhere to be found and same with joe. he did nothing about a toxic fire so huge that it could be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately pothole pete was shamed into making a statement. last week he declared that east palestine was getsing more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing. obviously, they have levels of severity. where all of that points us to is a need to raise the bar on rail safety.
was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if you th
Reporter very rich, but not very punctual. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Thank you so much for joining us. Ac 360 with anderson starts right now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news tonight in the russia investigation. New reporting how interested the fbi seems to be in carter page. The story detailing how many times page has been questioned already, what hes been asked about and told investigators. Page himself, calling the encounters extensive. In a moment, the correspondent who broke the story. But we begin with the Health Care Replacement billion. 22 million fewer people with insurance by 2026. That, according to the congressional budget office. Also big Deficit Reduction. However, its that 22 million estimate that could be politically toxic to some republican moderates, one of
whom weighed in late tonight. So a lot to get to, starting with phil mattingly. What else is in the cbo report . Reporter you start with that tom line number, anderson. You know its important, p