our nations greatest rivals, china, now warning it is getting seriously prepared for the house speaker to potentially visit. seriously prepared, they call it. she s going to the island of taiwan later this month. the communist nation which is historically claiming the island as its own territory has had this to say on the speakers possible visit. here s a quote. if the u.s. side insists on making the visit, the chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty and territorial integrity. the u.s. must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof. taiwan s military is now bracing for a potential aggression china. the capital of taipei is staging its annual air raid drills yesterday and mobilizing for routine defensive exercises as the fear of war ramps up. and despite warnings from the pentagon and president joe biden that the trip might not be a good idea, both democrats and republicans have said they have backed the move i
development, designed to target certain people. that s what this is. you can actually take someone s dna, take their medical profile, target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable. emily: the popular dna ancestry company, 23andme, says it does not sell customer data to anyone but has collaborated with law enforcement. morgan, he s also joined by senator ernst, senator rubio, talking about the risks of bio weapons to target food supplies. the russian and chinese labs processing dna tests of americans to medicare and medicaid, but this isn t really a new concept. but the vulnerability remains, especially when you bundle it with a lack of enforcement options for average americans. morgan: i think americans are generally less cautious because we do have privacy protections here written into our constitution. it is an indelible part of who we are.
past the house caucus. so i m not sure where this moves us. yes, it s a plan, but it seems, again, to be as the democratic proposal most likely will be, as well, more of a political document than a negotiating something that can lead into a negotiation and real compromise. and jon meacham, this really is, this is a more of a political document than an economic document. which these budgets usually are. they let americans know where the party stands and that s why i look forward to the democrats putting their budget on the house floor, on the senate floor for the first time in four years and then, again, we can have the debate in the open. yeah. and andrea s put her finger on it. this is, i think, if you look at the numbers, it s about health care spending, it s about medicare, medicaid. governors medicaid takes up a third or more of their budgets. this is about health care spending.
cuts, including major changes to medicare and medicaid. congressman ryan claims the plan will actually create a $7 billion surplus by the year 2023. political analysts say it has absolutely no chance of passing in the senate. and democrats say it shows republicans are out of touch with most americans. mike emanuel breaks it down live on capitol hill. the congressman is raising eyebrows by calling for something that can t be done. can t repeal the president s overhaul because the president has a pen. that s right. some in his own party are suggesting paul ryan s budget is not realistic when you consider president obama has another four years in the senate. you have democrats in the majority in the senate. the house budget chairman explained his thinking. we believe that in the interests of healthcare for seniors and healthcare for families and making medicaid work better for low income people we need to repeal and
this morning house budget chair paul ryan is previewing his blue p print via the wall street journal . it calls for no new taxes and scales back spending increases to 3.4% a year instead of the current rate of 5%. that would bring savings of 4.6 trillion over the next decade. the plan, similar to the one that the house passed last year would open up u.s. land for petroleum exploration. repeal the president s health care plan, reduce welfare spending and fundamentally change the tax code to just two brackets. ryan s plan would also overhaul medicare and medicaid mirroring the romney platform from 2012. the plan would allow seniors to buy private insurance or stick with medicare. the federal government was subsidized premiums and medicaid would become a block grant program. on the other side of the capital, president obama meets with senate democrats today. tomorrow democratic senators are expected to release their budget