president biden holds his first aevent since announcing he s all in for 2024. he says he s ready to finish the job and take republicans head on, but how are those in his own party feeling ability his bid? a key hearing set to take place in russia interest key opposition leader alexei navalny as we learn more about his deteriorating health inside what he calls a hellish prison. his daughter will join us live. plus five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6th. closing arguments are happening right now, so what will the jury decide? we re following these major development stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. moments ago president biden gave his first public remarks since he announced that he is running for re-election and the crowd of union workers made it clear they heard him. president biden made his 2024 bid official in a three-minute video this morning. it started with images of the januar
congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina s coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china s military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we ll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i m john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i m sandra smith in new york. america reports. republican-led committee says many questions need to be answered by the f
present bidens state of the union speech last night. let s just say they are not fans. and just how widespread this surveillance program of theirs really is. we have fox team coverage with aishah hasnie on capitol hill on what we are learning about that briefing. myrtle beach, south carolina, on what navy divers are now discovering. jennifer griffin of the pentagon on the size of the china spy program that itself seems to be polluting. and general jack keane on just how concerning all of this really is down the road. welcome, everybody, grabbed to have you. neil kabuto, and this is your world, a very volatile world right now, where relations between the two biggest economic powers on the planet but to say nothing of the two biggest military powers on the planet are bad, they are fractious, they are ice-cold. that s go to capitol hill and aishah hasnie on the fallout they are. aishah? neil: hey there, neil. we are just getting brand-new information about the classified bri
palestine, ohio. we re watching all that again today. dana: meantime president biden is heading to pennsylvania today going to roll out his election year budget plan pushing to connect with voters in what will be a must-win state for either of the candidates. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. president biden expected to lay the ground work for a possible second term using his budget proposal as part of a political push to launch attacks against republicans. you have heard a lot of them already actually. meanwhile his democratic coalition is showing signs of strain thanks to recent moves by his administration on immigration, also the d.c. crime bill. all this as the president sets his sights on new government spending and raises taxes on the wealthy. he is doing it by raising a massive amount of taxes. now, you either believe there are two types of economists now on capitol hill. there are people wh
38% in july last year. 49% say they disapprove coinciding with his official campaign announcement that came this week without frills or fanfare. no launch event in wilmington. the new york times says this. president biden formally moved from a campaign in waiting to a campaign of waiting. critics say voters, though, do want a change. listen. this is a guy who has tried to coerce the country on everything from transgender issues to climate issues to the border. and this is a guy who frankly has run a pretty incompetent administration which is why most americans think america is in decline and most americans think that we need a different approach. gillian: rich edson is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning. hi, rich. good morning. republicans jumping into the race. a number of polls show voters are generally uninterested in a 2020 rematch. defendants are defending the president s decision to run again saying he is their best chance to hang onto the white house. p