Tries to clean up trumps tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged thenfbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. The president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. Heres Sarah Sanders late today. Look, the president knew that he lied to the Vice President. That was the reason for his firing. The problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. Quote, i had to Fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. The white house has made it very clear, President Trumps tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the United States. No matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. In this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a president ial tweet. Trumps tweet and Sarah Sanders explanation simply are not the same. They contradict each other. They also dont match cnns reporting. A s
after the 2024 election. i feel very good about it, i spoke to a number of members. mr. biden and speaker mccarthy spent the weekend trying to secure enough support to guarantee a passage by the june 5th deadline to avoid default. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted to put in divided government that s where we end up. the deal prevents cuts to social security and medicare as well as military and veterans programs, also clause back funding from the irs and takes back unspent money from covid relief funds. it loosens some environmental rules and temporarily as work requirements for social safety net programs including food stamps. the compromise upsets progressive democrats and hard-line conservatives putting a potential wednesday vote in question. democrat sommer lee of nnsylvia. means sacrificer t most margd most vulnerable, we are not seeing that the ultrarich, corporations make any sacrifices at all. report if not for republicans as members of the conservative freedo
ing for social security, a fund that s going to get exhausted in a decade or so. why thot mention it in this budget? what he s made very clear is that these are critical programs that the majority of americans count on and that he and the democrats will do everything this their power to protect them and to keep them solvent. and by increasing taxes on billionaires and the ultrarich and making sure that corporations pay their fair share and by making sure that we can get the savings out of medicare that he has talked ab, basically in terms of make ing sure that they can negotiate drug prices down for american seniors, those are always we can make sure that medicare and social security stay solvent. what we have seen in the past is what republicans are proposing are to keep tax cuts and protect those ultraruch millionaires and
climate change or roll back tax cuts from former president trump s gave the ultra wealthy. because according to a spokesperson, the senator believes those policies would, quote, add fuel to the inflation fire. i want to ask you to weigh in, i wonder as an economist, what are your thoughts about this way of thinking when you hear people say that we cannot deal with social spending and cannot roll back some of the texas that was to the ultrarich during the last administration? the policies you are referring to are part of president biden s economic policy making, which in my estimation would be deflationary, because your making important basements and our economy. president biden wants to lower everyday cost for americans, prescription drugs, health insurance, utility bills, and
holes in the popular narrative. the way things running up to this point twitter rigged the system that you can only promote the popular narrative. if you try to make jokes about it you are accused of hate speech or misinformation or nefarious for what s really censorship. content moderation is censorship of views and opinions they don t like. musk wants to open that up and say people are allowed to have differences of opinion. it s necessary for people to have differences of opinion and be able to engage with each other and joke about each other or you can t have a healthy democracy. i think it s great he sees that and doing something about it. it is hard to believe this is really happening honestly. i wasn t expecting a ultrarich man to come in and have to fix this problem for us. bill: you are right about that. content moderation thing that s something to watch. a few short years removed from the mass murder in christchurch, new zealand who face timed live the murder spree he went