lavrov. theer conspiracy theory abou ukraine, this russian disinformation even got an airing this weekend from texas republican senator ted cruz, who willen be a juror at any senate impeachment trial. do you believe ukraine meddled in the american election in 2016? i do, and i think there s considerable evidence of that. you do?er chuck, let me point out the game the media is playing a question that you ve asked a he number of people. t you ve said to senators sort of aghast, do you believe that ukraine and not russia interfered in the election? look,on on the evidence, russia clearly interfered in our election. but here s the game the media is playing. because russia interfered, the media pretends nobody else did. ukraine blat nt a interfered in our election. also today the justice department watchdog delivered to that long awaited report on the
poor. as you might imagine, democrats are not so pleased. chris van who willen, top democrat on the budget committee says this, and i quote, it is now clear that the republican budget is not bold, but the same old ideological agenda that extends tax breaks to millionaires, and big oil companies while cutting our kids education and health security for seniors. democrats are also playing up the fact that ryan s plan lowers the corporate tax rate, and makes the bush tax cuts permanent. but hold on. didn t president obama extend those tax cuts for the next two years? and the president s proposed 2012 budget, it didn t deal with entitlements like medicare at all. so the talk back question today. are republicans serious about reducing the deficit? facebook.com/carolcnn. and i will reed your comments later this hour. all right. thank you, carol. here s what s ahead on the rundown. the budget battle. a promise from house republicans