paw. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. ever. bret: breaking tonight, an all-day testimony, the south carolina lawyer accused of murdering his wife and son took the stand today. alex murdaugh admitted lying to authorities but insisted he did not kill his family. correspondent jonathan serrie has details tonight in what has been a very long day. good evening, jonathan. indeed, bret. a bold move by the defense putting their client on the witness stand and asking him some very direct questions. did you shoot a 300 blackout into her head causing her death? mr. good win, i didn t shoot my wife or son any time. in front of the attorney disbarred. bret: we have tape difficulties there. we will go back to jonathan serrie and once we figure that out we will go back to the piece. jonathan just to ask you a question about this. at times it was emotional. at times that testimony really got heated between the prosecution and alex murdaugh. ye
we have got to give them whatever they need in order to continue to win this war. bret: so there is unity up on capitol hill but you do see cracks. and the number that people are hit by is the $113 billion and they say where is the limit? well, $100 billion is 1.6% of the $6.2 trillion budget. when you really put this, i mean, the rounding number itself, when you look spends money on and then you look at this budget wit. bret: without u.s. troops fighting it. reagan said, listen, let s help our friends and our allies with a common enemy and give them everything they need to win and let s avoid putting troops on the ground if we can we have got this situation in ukraine now. we have looked at it long enough and i m at the institute of
there is worse to come we need tax on the oil and gas producers to knock 200 pound off of peoples energy bills, because people need help right now. the governments also got t think again about the national insurance rise and the false council tax rise that s coming in just a few weeks time people simply can t afford it the question for many, with rishi sunak s budget, i whether or not it matches th scale of the challenge right now, in places like this one prices are going to continue t rise for months, if not years, and the chancellor has t decide whether or not th government can step in eac time to help rosier forecasts means th chancellor needs - to spend or save then at the time of last autumn s budget he had another many budget wit the chancellor is moving money around at the last moment. more giveaways that he didn want to make a month ago does he think he can afford to stand by people, yet again
john boehner a few hours ago, as he vowed to cut 1z $100 billion from the fiscal budget. the house is currently working on a gop package of $61 billion in spending cuts. nbc s luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. luke, what else did mr. boehner, speak speaker boehner have to say? reporter: me kind of walked back that comment about so be it, a few days ago, when folks asked if federal workers lost they re jobs would it be okay to pay down the debt. he doesn t want anyone to lose their job, but that america is broke. the real news that came out of the press conference, though, towards the end there has been a lot of questions whether or not, because this budget still has to go through the house and still has to be worked through with the senate, whether or not, when it expired march 4th, which is 15 days from now, this is the current budget wit the united states government is operating