welcome to the programme. a smaller workforce represents a serious economic challenge. it makes it harder for employers to filljobs. it adds to wage pressures that drive inflation. it holds back growth. it reduces the tax revenues available to fund public services. there is an imperative in helping people back to work. the trouble is many parents in this country can t afford to because many would see their take home pay wiped out by the £15,000 average annual cost of full time childcare for a two year old. right now, uk childcare costs are double the 0ecd average. the only two countries where parents spend a higher percentage on childcare are switzerland and new zealand. when i had my daughter, who s five, i had to quit myjob because we couldn t afford childcare. i look forward to going back to nursing. my plan is to go back to nursing. if there d been more options and if childcare had been either cheaper or there was more flexibility, that would ve definitely been something
were killed. i will talk to an expert on border culture and he will share his research about the violent drug cartels at the border. where did covid-19 come from? the former head of the cdc says he was left out of conversations with dr. fauci and other scientists after he expressed support for the wuhan lab leak theory. and a scathing report on the louisville, kentucky, police department after an investigation following that botched raid that killed breonna taylor. the doj says the police used excessive force and practiced an aggressive style of policing against black people. more ahead. let s bring in the panel. we are here with law enforcement guru john miller, famously fearful flyer, molly, the man my mom misses when he is not on the panel, lz and former trump white house director and star of the view alyssa and joining us from austin to talk about what s going on at the border is professor ricardo ainsley of the university of texas at austin. we will be with you m
i am laura ingram at this is the ingraham angle from washington and we begin the hou with a scandal of monumental significance. finally with republicans in charge of the house it, the locks have been lifted on the covid cover-up. the rat that we stay underneath is what we want you about long ago. rank, corruption at the heart o our federalism. before we are cdc director doctor robert redfield with kristin, about anthony found she s mad scramble to conceal the role and he and others played with green lighting the funding to the warhol lab in china. blooded redfield and think of the paper that found cheap research scientist right back i february 2020? that would conclude ultimately that covid most likely did not escape from the lab. this whole approach that was taken as antithetical to science . science has to be in these need to be. you think the paper does have the truth i think it s an accurate paper that basically was a part of a narrative that they were creating. thi
38% in july last year. 49% say they disapprove coinciding with his official campaign announcement that came this week without frills or fanfare. no launch event in wilmington. the new york times says this. president biden formally moved from a campaign in waiting to a campaign of waiting. critics say voters, though, do want a change. listen. this is a guy who has tried to coerce the country on everything from transgender issues to climate issues to the border. and this is a guy who frankly has run a pretty incompetent administration which is why most americans think america is in decline and most americans think that we need a different approach. gillian: rich edson is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning. hi, rich. good morning. republicans jumping into the race. a number of polls show voters are generally uninterested in a 2020 rematch. defendants are defending the president s decision to run again saying he is their best chance to hang onto the white house. p
cities and towns, this after severe storms ripped across oklahoma and parts of the central u.s. this morning, more than 50,000 without power in the region. at least nine tornadoes touching down in oklahoma and kansas. wind gusts equivalent to a category 3 hurricane about 120 miles an hour battering texas. ahead, the latest on the storm s and what s to come. plus, at least two people are dead, three others wounded after a drone attack in ukraine. this as the u.s. is now warning that china will face penalties if beijing provides russia with drones and ammunition, as u.s. intelligence indicates, to aid russia s ongoing invasion of ukraine. we do begin this hour with the latest on those severe storms and tornadoes. cnn s senior national correspondent, ed lavendera is in norman, oklahoma. cnn meteorologist chad myers standing by with the latest forecast. we want to begin with you, ed. some pictures there, just alarming. tell us what you re seeing on the ground. reporter: wel