sandra: fox news alert, a live look at perry, iowa, where we are awaiting an update after multiple people were hurt in a shooting at the city s high school. it happened early this morning. it was the students first day back of classes there after their winter break. officials announced moments ago we will be getting our next update from there at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. we will certainly be watching and listening for that. john: the sheriff says there is no longer a threat to the public but released little detail other than that. nothing on the number of victims or if the shooter is dead or alive. said officials would give those updates later this afternoon. we ll bring you developments as we get them on this story. first, another fox news alert. sandra: any moment now expecting to hear from the pentagon. the press secretary pat ryder is expected to step up to the podium for the first on camera briefing of the year as escalation in the middle east takes a brand-new turn
at the white house with more on this. good afternoon, mark. good afternoon. we expect the meeting to begin any moment now. as you mentioned, top congressional leaders talking about the debt ceiling. we re going to get video from inside the oval office with the president sitting down with the leaders, listening to remarks before the meeting. the president, the vice president, speaker mccarthy and schumer and mcconnell. the biden administration has urged congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible warning any delay could hurt the u.s. economy. the white house once again urged congress to act now and negotiate spending later. we are right now having a conversation negotiating on the budget. that s what the president has been very clear about. we want to go back to regular order and talk about appropriations. and we ve been very clear that the debt limit needs to be taken care of. congress needs to do their constitutional duty. republicans who control the house o
the bill includes $369 billion to combat climate change, largest in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 and extended affordable care act subsidies for three years. white house reporter kevin livtak looks at what it means. jess, i want to start with you because we have news breaking in the last five to ten minutes, which i think is a good harbinger for your next few days at the capitol, where do things stand for the key elements for this to move forward? reporter: phil, democrats getting good news from the senate parliamentarian. to give you the big picture, they are using as you both noted this complex budget process that requires the support of all 50 democrats. doesn t need any republican support, but in order to do that the parliamentarian has to rule it passes and musters up to all of these rules surrounding it. we just found out really in the last ten minutes that the parliamenta
documents, some of which were marked as top secret sci, the highest level of classification, top democrats are asking for a congressional briefing as well as damage assessment. since last monday s search, the former president s response to the search has shifted. his latest claim any documents taken from fall under attorney/client privilege and should be returned immediately. let s begin with the latest this morning surrounding the investigation. katelyn polantz has been covering this since the beginning. new details this morning about what exactly was in these documents and also questions about who had access to them down there. what might be in these documents we don t actually know because if they re classified and remain to be classified, we may may never know what s in them. over the weekend we did hear from two different house committees led by democrats calling for both classified briefings to explain what was found here. also they want a damage assessment to be done
survives and families from uvalde, but knows full well that he needs republicans on board. i think there is a realization on the part of rational republicans, and i consider senator mcconnell a rational republican, i think that there is a realization on their part that we can t continue like this. bright and early this thus mor tuesday morning, jasmine wright is in washington for us. he called them rational republicans. does that bode well for the white house? reporter: i think only time will tell, but i think that the president sure hopes that it does. he said that it was his hope and prayer that people are being becoming more rational about these things especially after the two back to back major mass shootings. now, i think that the president, he said that he is optimistic about having republicans like cornyn deputized by mitch mcconnell leading these efforts, but he also acknowledged in terms of executive actions that there are only a limited amount of things that h