did he meagerly cover his back side. dan scavino is confirming it and i m sure he has a lot more information donald trump doesn t want him to tell. jim go ahead. i agree with everything that adam said, and he s got an extraordinary perspective on this. i think what may turn out to be the most important question in this campaign is does that trial move forward during this campaign year or is the president former president successful in deferring it until after the election? because the last thing he wants is to see dan scavino and mark meadows and others on the stand testifying, people who were close to him, still are close to him, and who are compelled under oath to tell the truth about what happened. he knows he can t afford that and so this election may actually end upturning on how successful he is in using the
january 19th deadline. this agreement was struck by house speaker mike johnson and senate majority leader chuck schumer. the two men agreeing to the top line spending numbers totaling about $1.59 trillion for the next fiscal year. the breakdown of that includes $886 billion for defense spending and $704 billion for nondefense spending. there is also another about $70 billion that is part of a side deal that would include additional funding for nondefense issues. now these numbers track very closely with what president biden and house then house speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to last spring. that is something that set off a lot of frustration within the republicans in the house, and tonight we are hearing from the house freedom caucus who was calling this agreement a total failure. they are frustrated that it does not include more spending cuts and there are some concerns going forward about whether conservatives will try to use
are too cowardly to go out and tell the truth. i think that s where we are. look, have no doubt, if we quantum leaped ten years forward now, there would be nobody that believes it s the fbi. i think the people that are answering that to the poll today would be ashamed to admit they ever believed that. i think we win in the end but it s going to be a messy year. president obama has been very worried about the siloing of americans and people being caught in their own disinformation bubbles and so on. according to the washington post, president obama went to president biden and encouraged him to be more forceful, get out there out on the campaign trail and talk about this. congressman james clyburn who was a very big supporter of joe biden back in the 2020 campaign, as you know, he s been raising concerns about some of this as well. this is what he said earlier today and it kind of geese to what we ve been talking about. i m very concerned, and i have sat down with president biden.
that chain of command. i think the most disturbing thing i heard is that neither president biden or members of the national security council were informed that he was hospitalized until thursday. he went in new year s day, i guess which was the tuesday, but did not inform the white house or the president until thursday. that s not acceptable. i think we have got to be able to make sure that the chain of command remains solid and people who are responsible for protecting our national defense are in place or have people that are in place to deal with it. and i do want to get your thoughts on political question. maybe you heard a little bit of the conversation i was having with david axlerod and adam kinzinger a while ago. the stuff trump has been saying out on the campaign trail about, you know, what took place on january 6th. he s been referring to the
security team that day, on january 1st earlier in the day to talk about national security matters, including the conflicts in the middle east. there are still a lot of questions about what then took so long to notify not just the public but also the white house and other top pentagon leaders. kathleen hicks gana assuming some of the duties of austin and the defense secretary on the 2nd but she was unaware it was because he was hospitalized. she did not learn that until thursday which is the same day the white house, jake sullivan, learned about it and told president biden himself. president biden has spoken with austin. he did so last evening. that was a conversation that was described to me as being a warm call and the white house continues to say that they stand behind that the president maintains confidence in austin at this time. but there have been a lot of questions and some criticism about the fact that they had delayed disclosing this publicly. we have heard from the highest