Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. We believe that we owe the American People a balanced budget. For the Third Straight year weve delivered. In fact we balanced this budget in just ten years. Reporter as House Budget Committee chairman paul ryan spelled it out, the republican plan would cut the deficit by 4. 6 trillion dollars over ten years. Some of that would come through the higher taxes approved in january. But 1. 8 trillion would come from repealing the president s Signature Health care law. In addition the plan convers medicaid to a block grant to the states and reduces its federal funding share. Ryan also proposed, as he has in the past, transforming medicare by giving seniors a fixed amount to purchase Traditional Program coverage or a private plan. Last years republican Vice President ial nominee acknowledged that the plan wont get past Senate Democrats or president obama. Instead, he said, its an opening bid. Will the president take everyone of these solutions .
Today, a judge dealt a major blow, saying it could open the door to racism. Tonight police are fighting back. Abcs Pierre Thomas takes us into the heart of the battle. Reporter encounters like this that have fueled the furry. Minorities claiming they are routinely targeted by the nypd stop and Frisk Program in blatant racial profile. This man said it happened to him. I remember them banging my head into this. Reporter he told abcs bill weir its hapg too often. Reporter how many times have you been stopped and frisked . Seven times. Youre hold old. 17. Reporter today a federal judge ruled that theyve been engaging in discrimination by encouraging officers to search those they deem suspicious. Blacks and latinos make up 52 of the population. 84 of those stopped by police were black and latino males. The men who brought the suit against the city spoke of justice. New York City Police department now has to be part of the solution because the judge has agreed with us that it was a big part
Kay haguen hoping for a republican runoff. Also whats old is new again. Monica lewinsky, who is now 40, has some new things to say about the clintons, which made us wonder, what exactly have the clintons said about her in the past . And as the horror of the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian School girls keeps getting worse, president obama promises to help but is there a limit to what the u. S. Will do . Good morning from washington, its may 7, 2014. This is the daily rundown. And Energy Secretary fox will be here. Are we headed for a transporation cliff at the end of the year . Lets get to my first read of the morning. Six straight weeks of wonderful primaries. Tea party 1, republicans 0. New yorks statehouse speaker tom tillis won his primary with nearly 46 of the vote, avoids a july runoff. Greg brannon pulled just 27 of the vote and baptist minister mark harris who was supported by Mike Huckabee and some iv evangelical groups got just 17 . Tillis, fairly impressive that he almost
Im kate bolduan. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Why . Because it is debate day in america. Im john berman live at the university of houston. The site of tonights crucial cnn republican president ial debate, the last gop debate before super tuesday. It is no overstatement to say that this is easily the most important debate yet. Maybe even the most important moment in this campaign yet for candidates not named donald trump to halt the growing momentum of the candidate that is named donald trump. He will be center stage tonight. Surrounded by cruz, rubio, kasich, and carson. For cruz and rubio in particular, this is a time for choosing. Do they ban together and hit trump or do they continue to hit each other . This morning theres a shocking proposal who says one of them should drop out and agree to be the running mate of the other. Well speak to him live. For the establishment, this is serious. Serious because the head of next weeks super t
The Presumptive Republican nominee defending his Fundraising Efforts and hammering reporters with questions. Im the only one in the world that could raise almost 6 million with the veterans have applause by the veterans groups and criticized by the president. I have to tell you, the press is so dishonest and so unfair. I will say that the press should be ashamed of themselves. I find the press to be extremely dishonest. I find the plolitical press to e unbelievably press. You keep calling us the dishonest express. Thats generally true. It seems as though youre resistant to scrutiny that comes with running for president of the United States. I like scrutiny but when i raised money excuse me. Ive watched you on television. Youre a real beauty. I had no choice but to do this because the press was saying i didnt raise any money. What i dont want is when i raise millions of dollars have people say like this sleazy guy over here from abc because you know the facts and you know the facts well