why did he put himself through this? there may be a very good explanation and you will hear it later. a very good day to all of you from msnbc word headquarters. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with decision 2024 this holiday weekend and the biden harris campaign ramping up attacks on trump. here s former white house advisor mitch landrieu. we will tell the truth on who he is and what he will do now. he is now talking about asking the country to give him immunity to take seal team six and assassinate political opponents. president trump is unhinged. he is dangerous. and we cand let him get back to the oval office. trump meanwhile, braving a frosty reception at the libertarian party convention last night in washington d.c. he solicited support on metphorical bended knee and was subjected to a drone of boos. combine with us. you have to combine with us. the libitarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. whoa. that s nice . that s nice. o
hurting their businesses. in neighboring iowa, where president trump was earlier, farmers say trade disputes are costing them a pretty penny. the administration has announced a $12 billion plan to help. aaron maller is here from the watt street journal. conservatives like free trade. tell us about what happened yesterday. well, what happened is a lesson at the eye. shepard: the headline was better than the article. the good news is, there s no auto tariffs right away it seems. that s very good. the market was worried about that. would have been very disruptive. they agreed to start negotiating for a triple 0 agreement, zero tariffs, zero subsidies, zero trade barriers.
yanukovych, protesters were taking over his house and golf course. today defense secretary chuck hagel is expected to report deep cuts. they include shrinking the u.s. i can t recally to the smallest size since before world war ii. secretary hagel plans to shrink the limit of attack jets. the plans will be laid out in hagel s first defense budget which according to the watt street journal includes limits on military pay raises and less generous military housing allowances. officials tell the journal the cuts will save billions of dollars needed to protect the millions of military spending. after decades of frustration. dale earnhardt jr. won his second daytona 500. there was a 6:22 rain delay. when it resumed after 8:00 p.m. eastern. earnhardt took the lead and got his second victory. he radioed to his crew saying,
a bigger problem remains the lack of young, healthy people signing up for the exchanges. they are needed to help pay for the older, less healthy people. those with preexisting conditions who could no longer be turned away by insurers, their accentance into these exchanges means that costs necessarily go up for insurers. sur facials find a surveys find they were between the ages of 18 and 34. the centers for medicare services believes the numbers are getting good and getting better. 234 a statement they told the watt street journal, quote, we are in the middle of a sustained 6-month open enrollment period and saw strong interest across the range of demographics so far. people have until the end of march to sign up for the plan so there remains plenty of time left. greg? doug doug mckelway, thanks. thank you, doug. for more wea columnist for the washington times.
in terms of opposition, it is not only not get beiting smallet is getting bigger. the watt street journal has a story about all these unions that sort of hate each other, public sector unions, private sector unions, rival unions. these unions who usually do not get along, in this case have decided to put aside all of their differences. they have all become unified around this fight. and they are all willing to spend millions of dollars collectively to capitalize on this republican overreach in wisconsin on an issue where the public is actually with the unions. anecdotally as a liberal person who happens to know a few liberals, there is nothing liberals want to talk about more now than this situation with scott walker. this thing has energized the left, energized the democratic party, energized the party specifically towards addressesing and taking care of