with law enforcement leaders and mayors where he highlighted cities and states that have committed to use $10 billion from the american rescue plan to reduce crime and hire more police officers. president biden is also challenging other communities to tap into the billions of unspent covid relief funds to help pay for more crime prevention. our look at more now from jeremy diamond at the white house. what do we expect to hear from the president today? reporter: yeah, that s right, victor and alisyn. president biden expected here to highlight these $10 billion of funds from the american rescue plan. that s that covid relief bill that was authorized to be used for public safety measures as well. this is $10 billion that has been committed to public safety funding, 6 1/2 billion of which according to the white house has been spent in the last year by states and local communities, and this is part of a broader attempt by the white house to talk about how they have been trying to addr
moment, the administration is not going to back off junking title 42 on that day and then what? well, i predicted back in 21 that title 42 was going to go away. this was always the part of this administration to bring as many people into this country as you possibly can. and you couple that with what i think the american people need to know what happened last wednesday with the house appropriations committee, our homeland security secretary mayorkas just asked for $6 1/2 billion in addition to his budget of $97 billion to and yet, have 5,000 fewer beds. so we know that detainment is not what s going to happen here nor deportation. we re looking at 18,000 a day after may 23rd. that s six and a half million people, you know, for the year. so that you re looking at a system that is currently designed using these dollars,
now to what could be shaping up to be a not so hostile takeover of twitter. a source tells cnn the board of the social media company met sunday to talk about elon musk s take overbid. the driving factor seems to be the sec filing revealing he s lined up $46 1/2 billion in financing. now, the big unknown is the board s estimate of twitter s value and whether it s in line with must s valuation. the new orleans pelicans get an impressive win to even their nba playoff series with the phoenix suns. andy scholes has it covered in this morning s bleacher report. good morning, andy. good morning, laura. it is entering the nervous range for the top seed phoenix suns. he s out with a hamstring. the suns find themselves going to phoenix tied at two.
yes. neil: so i should say thank you. tough job. neil: and leave it at that. susan, you re the best. susan li toiling away in miami. another one toiling away is kelly o grady, following the drama at twitter and elon musk and ranting and ravings i won t call it ranting and raving. but he shamelessly weighed in on this controversy. elon musk now has the money to buy twitter. in a sec filing this week, the billionaire has a total of $46 1/2 billion to fund the takeover. he s putting up $21 billion himself. the remaining will be by a group of banks, 12 1/2 pegged to tesla shares, which got a convenient bump on earnings. and twitter has no indication when they ll respond. now that musk has more than $43 billion he needs for the original offer, it puts
(excited yell) woo-hoo! ensure max protein. with thirty grams of protein, one gram of sugar, and nutrients to support immune health. turning now back to the situation in ukraine and what the u.s. government may do to try to help there. you ve got lawmakers considering a huge aid package there, reported on friday, of course, as we said here in the show, for about 6 1/2 billion dollars in help for ukraine. something you heard senator tim kaine say he s optimistic will get done in his words in the first few days of this coming month, the first few days of march. the state department points out more than a billion dollars in aid has been committed to ukraine in the last year. 350 million of that in the last week. the u.s. is trying to help solve ukraine s money problems, russia s are getting worse. western sanctions are hitting hard with the ruble tanking against the dollar. interest rates more than doubling and look at this, hours