it certainly did. we have another great day on capitol hill. i never felt like they harry s teachings to different narratives depending on who was at that. it lasted close to three hours honing in on what chairman jim jordan called the weaponization of government freight you heard from two direct just sharing ke findings from twitter twitters internal communications. and controls what we do and do not see an even likening the government to germany and they issued chillingworth. we aren t asking for a national debate over limits of the first element freight they are creating blacklist and then pressuring and controlling that social media platforms in the people on those lists. they are aiming for what narrative is and they already know in advance what they are looking for. white house republicans dug into potential impacts to the first amendment, democrats took up different attempt freight they tried to trap the two journalist into revealing their sources freight further
biden unveiling his new budget that includes $2 trillion in tax hikes. the president laying out his plan and of course, picking a fight with those evil republicans. the maga republicans want to take away the laws, what they want to do away with the inflation reduction act, maga republicans all voted to get rid of the affordable care act, they voted to get rid of it over 50 times since barack passed it. maga republicans calling for defunding the police department. maga republicans, you know, they don t want things that particularly are going to help oregon families like health care, education, public safety, which can erase cost on folks. look, maga republicans also refused to raise a single penny in new taxes on the wealthiest people. jeanine: but republicans may be the least of his problems. progressives in the democratic party are becoming a major thorn in joe s side. they are slamming the president on crime and immigration. first, biden sided with republicans to block
republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over reaction. the diplomatic fall out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he cancelled the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated serenely through us airspace, putting a diplomatic crisis onto television screens in real time. was it a harmless weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is from a heat seeking missile fired from the jet, easily finding its ta
we start this hour with breaking news. reports are coming in of a strong earthquake that has hit turkey near the border with syria. the epicentre was in gaziantep and the tremor has been felt across the region. the united states geological survey said it was of 7.8 magnitude and at a depth of 10 kilometres, considered to be shallow. gaziantep has a local population of around two million people and is also hosting almost 500,000 syrian refugees. azadeh moshiri is our reporter. what can you tell us? this is what we know so far. the quaker s epicentre was in gaziantep, the southern part of turkey with a population of 2 million people. it is an industrial hub is lots of buildings chair. it s on the border of syria, so that s why it hosts about half a million syrian refugees will stop so it is an industrial hub, hosting many refugees, and the epicentre of this earthquake right now. when you look at the buildings, it is clear in the area that the damage is fairly significant. we ha
left as gop 2024 hopefuls flock to the weekend event. the chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live with the very latest on what the candidates have to say. good evening to you, trace. at times today it seemed the nra convention was more an audition room for the republican presidential primary season. the headsliner by any measure was former president donald trump who called himself the mows pro-gun, pro-second amendment president in history and he said in a second trump term the emphasis would not be on gun control, but on mental health and in a not so veiled reference to the nashville shooting last month he said he would order a particular focus. upon my inauguration i will direct the fda to convene and it s going to happen quickly to convene an independent asked panel to investigate whether transgender home on treatments increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression, speechen violents. i think most of us already know the answer. trump s former vp, mike pence,