a war zone as president. he and zelensky walking through the streets of kiev. you can hear the sirens ringing through the country as the two leaders were leaving a church a few hours ago. [sirens blaring] bill: quite a shot there biden and zelensky undeterred by those alarms above. unannounced visit comes after ukraine marks a year of fending off russia. the fighting only expected to intensify in the coming months with that spring thaw. according to the president s america s support will go nowhere. president biden: i m here to show our unwavering support for the nation s independence. we know there will be very difficult days, weeks and years ahead but russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. russia s military has lost half its territory it once occupied. dana: president biden getting a look at the devastating toll of russia s invasion that s ravaged the country for the last year. the fighting has killed thousands of troops and
cruise missiles and not going to be effective against drones. so it s doubtful you could say if they had the patriots it would make a huge difference in this particular type of barrage because this was largely cruise missiles and drones. any indication they are using iranian missiles yet, john? no indications that they have purchased or are using missiles from iran. we suspect, we believe that most of what they are using are those drones. i want to get you to respond because we hear from the russian ministry of defense, they say they launched this retaliation strike for an alleged attack in russia. can you respond to is that? it s difficult to know. i can t confirm the russian s account of this. we need to take what the russians are saying with a huge grain of salt here in terms of their justification. i mean, these kinds of these strikes while they were certainly massive are very much a piece of the kinds of brutalizing tactics that mr. putin has been visiting upon
biden set to lay out his budget proposal to the nation in a few hours. mj lee is following this. walk us through what we believe the president s priorities will be, particularly now since he does not control both houses of congress. reporter: we do expect the full details of this budget to come out in a matter of hours but there are major come po ne components of the budget that we know. we know the president is going to propose cutting the deficit by $3 trillion, this is notable because in recent weeks he s been talking about that figure being more like 2 trillion so this is more aggressive. we know he wants the cuts to the deficit coming in part from taxing high earners and large corporations. he has said he doesn t want to put extra taxes on people learning less than $400,000. we are talking ant tbout thingse allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and savings there would go back to the program. and boosting federal fund for early education and child care, including m
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the 11th hour is underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once again i am stephanie coming to you live from our nation s capital were former president trumps number two has lost his bid to testify under oath. a federal judge has now ordered mike pence to appear before the grand jury investigating henry six. mike pence has been fighting the subpoena, he argued his role has president of the senate shielded him from testimony but the judge said he can be questioned about a legend illegality on trump s part. tonight mike pence hinted that this is not over. i have nothing to hide, i have a constitution to uphold. i upheld the constitution on january 6, i believe we did our duty that day under the constitution of the u.s., we are currently speaking to our attorneys about the proper way forward. as i said we will have a decision in the coming days. i appreciate the former vp has nothing to hide. if he is watching he is welcome to join me any night of the week. at the same