This picture taken in march of 2016. The man circled in this photo is george papadopoulos, who pled guilty to lying about the fbi and his interactions with russians during the campaign. Also in this picture, if you widen it a little bit you see the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who previously said he did not remember that meeting, but today. I do now recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel and mr. Papadopoulos attended, but have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. In all of my testimony i can only do my best to answer your questions as i understand them and to the best of my memory. Martha chief National Correspondent ed henry live at the white house with the back story on todays big hearing. It also included some brandnew details about the clintons. Great to see you today. Accusations that i have ever lied. That is a lie. Let me be clear, i have at all times conducted myself honorably and in a manner consistent with the high standards
rating first time in more than a decade. the white house was caught off guard. edward lawrence joins us from 1600 pennsylvania aefr with the details. turns out you can t spend $5.8 trillion and have no consequences from this. fitch made the downgrading move for a number of reasons, one of them because deterioration of the economy over the next three years as well as the higher debt burden within that. so as interest rates rise to flight inflation, more taxpayer money is needed to pay the interest on the federal debt. we are spending more on interest on the debt than all federal spending on children, including education, child nutrition, child tax credits, you name it. within five years we ll be spending more in interest than on defense. on the current course, interest will be the single largest government program in a quarter century. that s clearly unsustainable. some democrats are starting to take notice.
supposed to look at everything from your 401(k)s or pension plans that it should be a mandatory thing that they should be able to do. the private market let the private market do what it s going to do. neil: and that employee retirement act is the private retirement plan. you re starting to see the cracks and that support from some of the progressive policies. isn t it funny how we get close to an election, moderate democrats make the pivot there. for example, senator john tester voted for all of the president s 5.8 trillion in spending he passed over the past two years. senator manchin voted for all of it but the chips act. yesterday both broke with the
table. none of that is true. and that s the bad part here that the first the administration said they will not negotiate and then play politics. why are they so afraid to sit down, to find where you can eliminate waste. president biden has signed $5.8 trillion worth of new spending into law since he took office. house republicans now say it s up to them to rein that in. in his speech today, president biden is expected to say that trillions of dollars in spending has actually helped the economy. john. john: helped inflation as well, helped jack it up, no question about that. that s what the economists say. john: but who are they to know, they are just economists. grady, thank you. sandra: the gop gets ready to roll out several investigations into the biden white house, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn for us, we await the president a short time from now.
like paying the minimum charge on the credit card. white house says no negotiating over spending. republicans in the house hopefully not all of them, are willing to say that if you do not do extreme things for balancing the budget, significant cuts to medicare and medicaid and social security. if you don t do our agenda we may not extend the debt limit. republicans not putting medicare, medicaid or social security on the table saying that all the spending signed by the president biden over the past 24 months is the exact issue. he signed 5.8 trillion in new spending. some with republican help. most of it without. republicans aren t against lifting the debt ceiling. they don t want the country to default on the debt but they aren t just going to write a blank check. the democrats over the last years have spent trillions more than we have received.