they were evacuating the capitol that gorbachev there and margaret thatcher every possible fish you could imagine they thought they had a plane coming in potentially close to the capitol in the middle to present reagan s funeral. they take this very seriously. jon: like chad pergram our chief congressional correspondent there in washington. chad thank you. let s check out lieutenant colonel darren is an army veteran a blackhawk helicopter pilot as well as a battalion commander. obviously they scrambled the f-16s that is got to be a nervous time for those pilots knowing they might, might have to shoot down what appears to be a civilian aircraft. the air force and the national guard are saying they did not force this particular plane down. they had nothing to do with t that. but if you are up there in the air wearing the uniform of the country and you get scrambled to
prosecutor in delaware who is taking a look at all of this. we will see it has been a long investigation. professor jonathan turley thank you. thank you jon. quickstart have the fox report looks like congress has quietly voted itself a pay raise of sorts. chief congressional correspondent chad pergram explains when we return. i had n. ethnicity inheritance. nigerian east central from you. benin. my dad s side. it s 30% japanese. thank you, mom. i love how it gives you a little bit of history. yeah! i feel like reading this, like, these are my roots. there s just still so much to discover. now on sale for mother s day. your wyndham is waiting.
chief congressional correspondent chad pergram has that story. that in politics and a congressional pay raise. lawmakers that the next best thing they kind of gave themselves a pay raise. house members can now collect tens of thousands of dollars in reimbursements, all taxable rents, meals and utilities while in washington d.c. are lot of members having a hard time with the expenses for quick tooth estimated one third of all house members crash air mattresses in their offices to cut costs. is very challenging to have eight mortgage back home and rent here and travel in all the things that go with that. the house never voted on the plan. just updated the house handbook. what members could score more than 30,000 dollars in reimbursements they exploited every option. for members getting something extra on top of this is not politically a problem?
out. this is not going to be a pleasant month i can arty feel it. people cannot dig their graves us are deep they cannot get out of them. going to say the republican bill that passed in the house is totally unacceptable. and bottom-line democrats want to see the debt ceiling raised without any spending cuts republicans want those cuts. just a reminder in the u.s. is now over $31 trillion in debt payments alone on that debt could approach the size of the defense budget. prince and biden test figure kevin mccarthy here at the white house on tuesday to hopefully resolve this progress will see if any progress is made this week. lucas tomlinson, thank you. eric: molly coming a house that was the house of representatives they tend to infuriate voters when they give themselves a pay raise. how d you like to be able to vote yourself a pay raise? instead they have all but given themselves a raise. chief congressional correspondent chad pergram explains.
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