white house with more on this, hi, lucas. lucas: it adds trillions to the national debt with $31 trillion and interest payments on the debt next year could one day approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in. now here is house speaker kevin mccarthy adding more c conte. we ve only paid $9 trillion in interest. so he s going took us 80 some years to happen in less than ten years. lucas: let s take a look at biden tax proposals which would add more to the national debt. 25% minimum tax on people with 10 100 million plus dollars. 39.6 capital gains tax for people making over 400 grand. 28% corporate income tax, 4% stock buyback tax and 3. 8% surtax on investment income. late yesterday reports circulated that the white house will approve drilling in alaska. no final decisions have been made and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. now 3 years ago as presidential candidate as president he said he would never approve any drilling projects. no more subsidies f
and former legal adviser to michael cohen is expected to testify that cohen is not the guy you want to rely on. a source familiar with jonathan dienst says costello is prepared to say that cohen is a liar, a convicted perjure, an embellisher who s out for revenge, that he s furious with donald trump and blames him for all of his troubles, that the hush money payments were made because cohen felt it was important to keep the stormy daniels matter a secret from melania trump in order to protect their marriage. we are keeping an eye on that courtroom in case costello comes out to speak with reporters, he could. we re also watching for michael cohen who says he s been asked to rebut costello to the grand jury if need be. here s some of what cohen would likely say from his own attorney who just spoke with wnbc. donald trump must be treated like any other citizen, and there aren t two systems of justice. no person is above the law. that s what we re facing now. we have indisputab
major disruption in ukraine this morning after russia fires a wave of missiles on targets across that country. the at least 22 people have been killed. dozens more are injured after several apartment buildings were hit. cnn s team has made it inside of one of the bombed out buildings. we will take you there live. incredible video out of florida. a huge tornado wiped out dozens of homes overnight, and now millions of people are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms are targeting that region. a big win for abortion rights in two republican-dominated states. failing, and failing, because a handful of conservatives helped to stop them. that and more news is coming in for cnn news central. the death toll keeps rising this morning hours after a russian cruise missile hit an apartment building in southern ukraine. one woman who lives there documented the aftermath. we will share the video with you, but it is graphic, and it will be disturbing to watch. tran
these types of bans could cost them in 2024? inflation cools. new data suggests the fed is winning its fight against rising prices. so now what? central bank just days away from a key meeting and a critical decision on rates. will the hikes finally come to an end? and the chatbot will see you now. new studies looking at how artificial intelligence could transform medicine. we re going to talk about what it means for you and your human doctor. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. two severely restrictive abortion bans in two republican-dominated state legislatures, nebraska and south carolina, both failed on thursday, handing unexpected victories to abortion rights advocates and highlighting this struggle within the gop on how far abortion bans should go. we saw this moment in nebraska. people moved even to tears after the so-called heartbeat act failed by just one vote. it would ban most abortions a
kevin corke s life with more on the search for answers. good evening. my search for answers indeed evening to you. before heading out for another delaware become the president did finally take some questions from the press after refusing t do so a day earlier in the day, following a meeting with ireland s prime minister. despite assuring. despite assurances yesterday from the press secretary, karin jean-pierre, that the press corporate have a chance to ask questions every time a head of state would pay a visit to washington. as you can see once again that didn t happen today. the president has been slow, delayed, and hasn t had a plan for victory party didn t listen to his military enough gas from the stand and there s consequences for decades to american. pressure mounting on the presence of armed to forcefully respond to moscow after russian pilots downed a $32 million us drone of the black sea all this is the international criminal court has issued an arrest warr