the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
and what? what is that? it could be a number. it could be rsv. it could be a number of other bacterial infections. a typical ammonia, which is what we had a little bit of a spike in different parts of the country, atypical pneumonia s need to be treated with antibiotics. they re called atypical for a reason. get things checked out. your instinct tells you the most about your health. kavita tell, you have been my guidingthis thing when it comes to health for sure. thank you so much, my friend. good to see you. we have a lot more coming up, everybody. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. all right, back to the breaking news out of capitol hill. senate democratic and house leadership are expected to announce a top line of spending deal later on today according to sources familiar with the negotiations. i want to bring in julia gesture from capitol hill and senior msnbc political contributor matt dowd as well. julia, if you will, start us off. take us thro
much much. much. here we go, hour two. captions by vitac www.vitac.com welcome back. i m brooke baldwin. news just in from the mitt romney regarding those iowa caucus results. this as rick santorum declares victory and newt gingrich cuts into romney s leads in south carolina. time to play in all political roulette here. cnn politics style. we ll begin with jim an costas following team romney this charleston, south carolina. jim, it looks like iowa is out of now romney s you know, win column. the newly certified tally shows santorum actually won the caucuses by 34 votes. what s romney saying? that s right. that s a good question, brooke. we re not really sure right now, to be quite honest with you. our paul steinhauser told me a few moments ago that he got a call or that he called hogan gidly with the santorum campaign and the santorum campaign says mitt romney called rick santorum to concede the iowa caucuses. now, candy crowley has said she has heard from the romney