unveils his debt limit plan and the white house accuses him of dangerous economic hostage taking. we have katie pavlich and robert wolf standing by. first to peter doocy on the north lawn. hi, peter. president biden and speaker mccarthy are not talking to each other. they re taking at each other. we ve been hearing for weeks at the white house that president biden s idea about the debt ceiling is simple. just raise it. republicans did it during trump. just do it again. as speaker mccarthy has a three-point plan that he announced minutes ago. i m proud to announce that we are introducing the limit save grow act of 2023. first, we limit government spending. our proposals also repeal biden s army of 87,000 irs agents. now, that will save taxpayers $70 billion finally. we will grow the economy so we are less dependent on china. white house officials are not commenting yet on a report that tax revenues on tax day this week were less than expected, which could bring the deb
Question. Why isnt adam schiff saying, yeah, lets go look at it . Instead just like yesterday when he said hell go look at it. Let me finish. He was almost about to sign the invitation for comey to come testify, but suddenly, there are stipulations. There was no reason to have stipulations. Same thing today. He was invited jack, youre rewriting jack, youre rewriting history. Stipulations, what are you saying let me answer the question. I know this not because ive talked to him, but because ive read the documents and read the public reporting which you can read as well and you probably already know, which is that he was willing to sign the letter. In fact, he said today, hes willing to have comey and rogers come in behind closeddoors testimony, but he also wants a guarantee that clapper, that yates, and others are going to testify openly and that hasnt been assured. Even today, he still hasnt gotten assurances from nunes thats going to occur. And jack, let me also ask you, if you were d
Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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that question is what members 0 the house china select committee will figure out in war game exercises slated to start hours from now. the committee hopes to give lawmaker as real sense of how a conflict would unfold, where u.s. military weaknesses may lie and show the global consequences at stake. in just a moment, mike gallagher, chairman of the house china select committee joins us. first, we go to mike emanuel. yes. key lawmakers will be looking at what will happen if china invades taiwan. a pentagon expert in charge of the region of the world told lawmakers about the value of war games. it s about learning and understanding vulnerabilities, strengths and helps you go forward and figure out how to adjust and what you might need. so when you go into this event,
a big beautiful wall in mexico, whose going to pay for it? mexico. mexico s not paying for this thing. president trump is trying to get creative, wondering who else might be able to pay for hiswal. building a great border wall with drugs, poison and enemy combatants pouring into our country is all about national defense. build wall through m, m not from mexico but apparently for the military. a suggestion that the u.s. military should actually fund this thing. the washington post reporting that president trump has been privately pushing defense secretary jim mattis on this along with congressional leaders. so let s bring in our pentagon expert, who was there for us. courtney, no response from the defense department yet on this. is this even possible? you re right. there s been no response. defense department is referring us back to the white house on any questions on this. but the short answer is, yes, this is theoretically possible. while it would be logistically difficult and the