live on capitol hill correspondent. you ve been following ins and o outs. i want to begin with the one offered in the last hour we heard from senate majority leader harry reid. what s in the latest plan. i was realizing this is $2.7 trillion in proposed cuts, brooke, on two sides of a piece of paper. obviously details need to be filled in what they are proposing raise it by this month, cut by this month. the cuts include $1 trillion immediately in discretionary spending. also a lot of money from war money. he s saying as afghanistan and iraq wrap up, there s about a trillion dollars in savings. that s kind of controversial, brooke, because republicans don t count that money. but bottom line, $2.7 trillion all in savings cuts. you might like all them. that s what he s saying. he has a longer term committee in here but it would just make recommendations for long-term reform, really would have a vote on that but wouldn t force those reforms to happen. so i want to look at th
sea coast of new hampshire, exact details haven t been announced but coming as it did on top of mitt romney s announcement day it certainly will take some of the spotlight from mr. romney. aides say that s okay with them, frankly, they believe that romney is the frontrunner and the experienced candidate with a credible chance of winning the nomination and anybody who brings more attention to barack obama s problems, they think, helps. rudy giuliani comes here tomorrow, john huntsman will be here all weekend and a new piece of information before i let you know, thaddeuus mcconor from michigan who says he wants to explore the presidency will attend the lincoln day dinner on lake winnipisaki, that goes by romney s boat house. everyone is trying to play off of myth s announcement today. bill: see you carl, we ll see the announcement live in a couple of hours. alisyn: meanwhile, more political tea leaves to read, more comments from mike huckabee on his decision not to run for president in 2
though. susan smith s two young sons were still alive when they drove them into lake john d. long in union, south carolina. drowning was the cause of death in that case. smith fabricated a story about their disappearance but she stuck to her story for nine days before finally confessing where as this woman offered this apparent confession in less than 24 hours. shepard: jonathan, thanks. police in a suburb of dallas say one suspect is dead after a shootout in front of the cop shop. we re told a man drove a independent loaded with ammunition into the parking lot of the police station, set the truck on fire and exchanged fire with the cops. it happened in mckinney, 30 miles north of dallas. details haven t come to get but
is part of the problem that we re facing here as you just heard from nick is so many of these details haven t been worked out. here are some of the executive order does do. it does the administration s policy to say that family reunification is part of what they want to do here but alsoays that it s they re only going to prosecute put prosecuted families together when appropriate. they re going to try to expedite family cases, but they re also seeking the indefinite detention of these families while the prosecution is ongoing and it sets up family detention facilities likely at military facilities perhaps on military bases and it doesn t explicitly reunite families. they re trying to work out that last point, to figure out how to get the parents who have already been separated, some of them who have already been deported back together with their families. children who may still be in the united states, but part of that process also involves adjudicating these cases more
own party. he said, i think we need to level the playing field. she joins me now live from toledo. you know the gop reaction hasn t been good. i want to play a bite from senator orrin hatch. here s his reaction tonight. whoever advised him on this is ought to be reprimanded. in all honesty, it s not going to happen. it s going to cause higher prices and make us left competitive in the world marketplace. there s been a lot of backlash domestically and internationally. these announcements don t come into next week. do you think they still happen? i think that all details haven t been released yet and