It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say
arlette saenz who s at the white house anticipating this event from president bide en. what should we expect to hear, arlette? reporter: well, boris, the white house is really engaged in this full court press to try to sell and educate the public on the benefits of the inflation reduction act. in the weeks leading up to this one-year anniversary event today the president and other officials from the administration have been traveling around the country trying to promote some of the benefits, things like jobs created due to clean energy manufacturing investments, highlighting the impact that it has on things like health care and insulin costs. but it comes at a time when many american voters appear to be skeptical or simply unaware of what exactly this inflation reduction act entails. recent polling found that 7 in 10 americans either had heard little or nothing at all about this piece of legislation one year after the president had signed it into law. additionally, you ve seen presid
in our politics lead, the fbi searched president bide en s office in a think tank in november after classified documents were first discovered there. paula reid is following this. this search has not previously been disclosed by the white house or biden s personal attorneys. we knew they found the personal documents but didn t search for them. why with rejare we just learnin this now? the attorney agaigeneral had opportunity to previously disclose this. they don t etypically talk abou investigating steps but this isn t your usual case and the attorney general held a press conference and he announced the appointment of a special counsel and took a step of a timeline of things that had occurred in the
people who loved jed bush, but when it came to jed bush versus donald trump, they voted for donald trump. though i think ron desantis is very well liked by the republican base in florida, not just national donors and republicans, if you pick donald trump versus ron desantis in florida where they re both from, donald trump wins, and i don t say that happily or lightly. so paul, we ve asked our resident floridian, our florida base question. i want to ask our resident democrat our democrat based question. the cnn poll has president biden s approval at 38%. we ve seen california governor gavin newsom is running an ad in florida kind of taunting desantis, really kind of grappling with the message that a lot of democrats would like the white house to take to some degree. as a democrat, are you looking for a bide en comeback or looking for biden to hand off to
negotiations, handled members during the build back better process. we remember in the house it took a long time and a number of setbacks. some of the bigger take aways from that moment is members really felt that if they can work together, so more member, member input to leadership, they actually may be able to get something done. if you remember, that one day where at the end of the day, the infrastructure bill passed and they moved the build back better legislation forward a little bit before final passage, members really had to work together both progressives and moderates, sitting in a room, hashing out statements to try and make sure they could save bide en s agenda. they say that as potentially the future for the party rather than what we ve seen over the years where pelosi and her top lieutenants amass a lot of power at the top, essentially arm twisting and negotiating with members to make sure they can take at times difficult votes for them. members see they may be able to hav