cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz joins us now, so, arlette, the president has not announced that he s running for election. but there s some expectation that this speech is going to have the tone of a campaign speech. reporter: well, victor, take a look at where president biden decided to unveil this election, that s in the battle ground state of pennsylvania which would be critical to the upcoming election look, the presidential advisers are aware that the budget as proposed is unlikely to go anywhere up on capitol hill. but it does offer the president an opportunity to really lay out what s at stake for both the policy and political battles ahead, especially when you think of the fight, the looming fight, over the debt ceiling expected to play out over the coming month. the omb director shalanda young calls it a healthy start to the conversation. and ultimately, it lays out what president biden values. taking a look at what this budget entails. the president is
event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative ag
with qualifying internet. thank you so much for joining me again at top of the hour on cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with an air travel meltdown. it isn t all the weather s fault, let s be clear, more than 4,000 flights grounded today again, nearly 09% on southwest airlines. southwest patients from raleigh, denver, are all lining up at ticket counters looking for answers. many customers are completely fed up. i m traveling with my senior citizen parents for their christmas vacation. i have an autoimmune disorder. i don t have medications. we have nothing. we brought no carry-ons. we ve seen a lot of families who are sleeping on the floor and it just breaks my heart. if my boss is watching this yes it s true i just didn t just blow off the day i m actually standing in the airport doing nothing and i do have a ticket and i hope to come to work at some point in my life. i love that he had some levity there. with new year s eve with just days away nearly 2500 fligh
plus, thousands of travelers stranded this afternoon with southwest airlines at the center of a hot mess. 70% of their scheduled flights canceled we ve got the nightmare situation for folks trying to get home after the holidays and what the biden administration is saying about it in just the last couple of hours. we ll also take you live to one of the hardest hit areas in the destructive holiday winter storm where they are just starting to dig out even with driving bans still in effect in some spots. and donald trump s tax returns could be made public at some point. i m hallie jackson in washington, d.c. with you on this tuesday afternoon and we re starting with the uncertainty over what could happen with title 42 as we await a decision from the supreme court we know the biden administration wants this to be lifted, but they don t want the rug pulled out from them overnight. josh is live at the white house with this story. the issue with this, right, is that many people thi
doep gas prices down now on those stories. butwn. didn t someone else get impeached for that? now after the saudis stood up despite his embarrassing courtship, the president s vowinge his em to reassesslationsh our relationship with the oil rich nation. looks like with th was wrong whe said nobody messes with abbud. we find ourselves in a positiona as beggars. posimost powerful country in the world. it s now in a position ofd. having to beg these third ratets countries. eep ga the democrats will do anythings to try to keep gas from increasing before the election. incrhe s going hat in hand to dictatorships like venezuela, pleading with them to produce more oil at the same time that pl s alienating long time partners in places likace saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. if you think the president su done reassuring the saudis to t help him, november, stay tuned for oh, we got a lot to talk to you later. what do you say to. but it doesn t stop there. biden straight up