more on this development let s bring in wall street journal columnist henninger and dan and based on evidence that s swirling around in the public how strong is this case? that s an easy question to answer paul. because maybe a thousand or more people have already answered it. unanimously, it is not a strong case. it just isn t which raises the mystery of why it s being brought. what trump is being accused of which is related to the possibility of paying hush money to adult film ac tres years ago is a misdemeanor under new york state law. prosecutor bragg is thinking about elevating it to a felonny under federal law which most specialist say they ve never seen something like that happen before especially with the former president. so the question becomes what is going on exactly with prosecutor bragg? he was under a lot of pressure from his staff before this to do it two prosecutors resign one where a book about it. i think there s the possibility paul that he s facing
Election, havent provided anything to lead me to believe or should lead you to believe, and i continue to see reports coming from Media Sources saying when they checked in with Law Enforcement or Intelligence Community sources. Theres nothing more than has been previously reported over and over again. So at some point you do have to ask yourself what are you actually looking for . How many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer . Thats what im saying. Mara . Just to followup, did you personally reach out im not going to say what we discussed internally. We did our job about making sure that when people had reporters had questions, we let them know what subject Matter Experts were available to discuss the accuracy of a newspaper story. Mara . Im sure people will come back to the budget question, which is during the campaign, the president said he was not going to touch medicare, social security. Treasury secretary repeated that. Sounds like the direc
ground here? yes. this is a real problem for republicans and it has been ever since we have the battle over speaker kefn mccarthy he came that and said okay we work through all of that we re going to be united now and the fist big test was, obviously, this budget deal. this budget question and yet the gop is got a lot of divisions, he s not managed to corral them around one position that s a real problem because strategy here needs to be to have a position as for some modest requests, use it as leverage to get votes to raise the debt ceiling, and but until republicans unite around something that s not going to happen and that should be kevin mccarthy biggest focus right now. donald trump and potential indictments sucking out oxygen out of the room and republicans are talking about trump all of the time that s doesn t help with the budget front also central bank keeps up its fight against inflation for now despite turmoil in banking
other ukrainian officials claimed this morning that ukrainian forces have killed a third russian general in the ongoing conflict. can you confirm whether that has taken place and any observations about what that indicates about the russian defenses? i cannot confirm those reports, paul. tony. did you just call me? i did, tony. ok, sorry. i missed it. two questions, one budget question and one air defense question. the president is about to sign the 13.5 trillion package, excuse me, 1.5 trillion package. in that, 3.5 billion for ukraine defensive equipment. 3 billion is going to be new equipment to the ukraine. how quickly will the pentagon be able to send over the new equipment? i m not going to get ahead of
said he was aware those conversations had taken place. we know michael cohen lied to congress prior to his testimony, most recently. we know he s lied at least twice in that hearing. i think that it s time to stop giving him a platform. let him go on to serve his time and let s move forward. my budget question, just to put it on the record because a lot of people want to know, is there anything in the president s 2020 question that has mexico play iing for the wa? as the president has stated a number of times, through the u.s. mca trade deal, that we look forward to get ipassed soo, that will be part of how that takes place. john. thank you, sarah. two brief questions. following up on john s personnel question. does the president have full confidence in secretary acosta or is the labor sector possibly leaving? i m not aware of any personnel changes, but again, those things are currently under review. when we have an update, i ll let