bill will need 43 votes to resist a filibuster threat. and if any changes are made, it has to go back to the house, and that would mean square one. manu raja is there on capitol hill, and what are you picking up twhat is being done. yes, they are trying to get this through as quickly as possible. because, as you said, kate, one senator can object and throw a whole wrench into this process. all have toed a gree to the process.
the fact is what the president tweeted this morning, i think he understands this. we should understand the gravity of what default means. he s in a position trying to keep or country on sound financial footing. if we default because of republican high jinx, that s not good for anybody. so explain whag the downside is to this, far outweighs any cuts that maybe made. if there were common sense cuts to be made, why did we for months hear the president say there will be no cuts? why do we have to get here so close to the deadline. to get so close to it before the white house would acknowledge, sure, there s some things that could be cut. i think that you have to understand twhat the the leverae is that each party has. you have to get people to the table to actually have these discussions. but one thing the president has
no, they re not. estion sthe question should havn about mr. trump . inflation was one pointes four percent when you left office. it s now nearlt howy three times that.down w how do you plan on bringing that down while bringing wageshn back up? ges back wh about twhat about the crime s where we have exoduses in new york , in chicago, would you san francisco to states like florida and texas? what will you do to reverse that? what will you do as far as the border? in other wordsborder, issues thh impact every american? you all agree with that? i again, completely you re right on completely whether we re talking about the border, whether we re talking about education. we havucatioe test scores, a 30n low in china, maybe movingoon. on taiwan soon. like tha and how about our trade deals with countries like that and that ukraine, russia war that has had a complete standstill. and we get the nine year oldn ao question from caitlin collins. are you rooting for ukraine to win? no, that s n
is enormous. but if ever therbue were a time that the world needed journalists, reporters risking journalist reporterstheir livese stories, to tell the truth, uth it s now without a free press. the autocrats, when we will redouble our efforts to honor efforts t these collea. and all reporters in harm s way and jennife tonight, and jennifer worked tis endlessly, tirelessly to help benjamin hel and get him to saf. now, in the hours, dayst and weeks and months thatfoughtf followed, benjamin fought for his life and he did ite.he did i with such a positive attitude. i ve had the honor of speakingwh ben throughout his recovery and his courage in the face ofa in twhat unthinkable adversity is an inspiration personally to me and to so many others. hao he has a new book. k i urge you to read saved a war reporter soe mission to make it home. it is out march the 14th. and by the way, it is a must nead . i recently sat downw york. with benjamin hall in new york . here is part one of this intervi
series of brutal attacks.attack. and benjamin hall was workin g around the clock to bring all of us real time information on the ground. here with more on the groundv . he s in kyiv tonight, the capitol of ukraine. hefox s own benjamin hall. benjamin, what s going on to on tonight?night? well, sean, you d have to look back at today and say whatnot an we ve seen is it s a continuation, if not ann escalation of what we ve seenof over the last week, increasingig civilian areas. civilian areas, an inability to geto ge humanitarian aid into these surrounding cities.t rian and an inability for peoplem. get out of them. then just just a few days late on march the 14th, hall was on a fact finding mission on the outskirts of ukraine other wo other journalists, peter and sasha, when they were viciously attacked by russian forces now. and sasha, they were killed kile had hall was left fighting for his life. here s jennifer griffin was j and worried aboutn. our colleagues and b