Good evening. The chancellor has been putting his final touches to his budget as he prepares to unveil it tomorrow it could well be the last one before the General Election. What is now expected is a 2p cut to National Insurance and another freeze on fuel duty. But could jeremy hunt go even further . Our Political Editor chris mason is here with his thoughts but before we hear from Chris Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam has been weighing up how much room for Manoevre The Chancellor has. The chancellor is hoping to use his Big Red Box Moment tomorrow to declare a definitive economic Turning Point after years of crisis and shocks. Certainly the path and forecast for Inflation Looks like that. Look at this inflation is falling back from its Energy Shock Highs towards the Bank Of England target. On the other hand, its a little tricky to talk about a Turning Point when as you see here, the economy just started shrinkng at the end of last year you can see a shallow recession, but one noneth
americans do? here is our international editor. one of the presidents international editor. one of the presidents officials - international editor. one of the presidents officials as l the presidents officials as actions speak louder than words. we can only speculate at this point. what tends to happen is the us militarily gives the president a menu of options that he can choose. and the lowest level, if you like, might be to hit back at iranian proxies operating inside syria or iraq. that might not be enough for the americans, and especially not forjoe biden s critics back home. so they might do something a bit more. they might go for iranian targets in those countries or they could go for maybe iranian targets in the gulf. the most extreme option, and i think this is highly unlikely, would be to attack targets inside iran itself, inside the territory of iran. that s something that the americans have not done. so we get to a situation now where the american secretary of st
at $2,000 and extend expiring health care subsidies for three years. jessica dean is live on capitol hill with more on all of this, jessica, what is happening? reporter: well we have the senate in session now, fredricka. they are doing a couple of nomination votes to get everybody here and everybody moving and in the meantime behind the scenes the democrats are waiting on final rulings from the senate parliamentarian because remember they re using the specialized budget process in order to move this legislation forward. it requires the support of only democrats but they also have to pass the test of the senate parliamentarian who is looking over every provision and making sure that it fits within this budget process. so they re waiting on final rules from her. they re also waiting for the congressional budget office to see just how much some they re going to score this and how much it will cost and how much it will effect the deficit. so they re waiting on a couple of thi
i know that feeling. cats love, they just love differently. we have to go. the lead starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a lot to get into ahead. for the very first time in american history, the daughter of a former president of the united states has been forced to testify as a witness in a case against her father, the former president. ivanka trump on the stand. testifying in the civil fraud trial against the trump family business. emails in court today show that ivanka once proposed that her father lower his net worth in order to get a loan. what might that mean for the case? that is coming up. and also ahead, a woman from new jersey who was trapped into gaza. she spent nearly a month trapped there with her three kids. the youngest just 2 months old. we ve been telling her story ins is the tuesday after that horrible october 7th attack by hamas. they arrived back in the u.s. just two days ago. he s back in jersey and giving the lead the first
ivanka trump takes the stand. the former president s daughter is testifying as a witness in his civil fraud trial. what she just said about her dad s financial statements with the future of his businesses on the line. the stage is set in miami. five republican candidates debate tonight trying again to loosen former president trump s firm grip on the gop. but the current front runner and former president has other plans tonight. he s running counter programming just a few miles down the road. and israel s offensive intensifies. the defense minister said idf troops are at the heart of gaza city as civilians continue to flee the fighting. we re following those stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. this is video from moments ago, ivanka trump returning to a new york courtroom to continue testifying in the trump organization civil fraud trial. the new york attorney general s office has ended their questioning of ivanka and she s being questioned by an at