the mexican drug cartels suspected of kidnapping four americans and murder of two oco of them the gulf cartel turn in five of its men beaten up with their hands tied behind their back inside of a black pickup truck appeared alongside of them come a hand written apology note which says, they decided to turn over those of directly involved in the events and they acted under their own decision-making and lacked discipline. just a few hours later, reports surfaced from mexico it had arrested the leader of the gulf cartel. a crackdown on groups killing hundreds of americans over fentanyl. but don t be fooled the president of mexico made the stunning, yesterday. here, we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have consensus to produce fentanyl. why don t they come of the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? kayleigh, the address preposterous nature of that, is mind-blowing. the thing i keep thinking about, there is no way he would make that audacious comment u
state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi