would like to take this opportunity to speak directly to the american people. inflation is much too high, and we understand the hardship it is causing, and we re moving expeditiously to bring it back down. we have both the tools we need and the resolve that it will take to restore price stability on behalf of american families and businesses. also today, president biden is touting a record reduction in the federal budget deficit. he also promised to keep paying down long-term government debt. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joining us. so inflation is a concern for this administration. why the focus on the deficit today? because really the president wants to push back on the criticism of his handling of the economy, and so he believes that today he can showcase his plan to address these concerns about inflation by talking about paying down the national debt something the president says is happening for the first time in six years. he knows that inflati
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new york times journalist watched more than 1100 episodes of tucker carlson s show. to break down exactly how dangerous it could be. i ll talk to daniel moody about the disturbing results of that investigation. and later, a true crime mystery playing out in realtime. an alabama sheriff says a female corrections officer may have helped an accused murderer escape. but did she do it willingly? i m going to speak live to the sheriff who is investigating this bizarre mystery. all of that and more is coming right up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. just moments ago, speaker nancy pelosi holding a press conference in poland after traveling to ukraine overnight, with a congressional tele-gay shun to meet with president volodymyr zelenskyy. very distinguished congressional delegation. the speaker making clear, the united states is committed to ukraine until victory as one. the delegation also releasing a statement following their main zelenskyy, saying that he str
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story. it is coming up. we want to begin though, with those new comments following the surprise visit to ukraine by house speaker nancy pelosi. and the small congressional delegation as well to meet with president zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. pelosi speaking after traveling to poland from ukraine. take a look at this. do not be bullied by police. if they are making threats, you could not back down. that is my view of it. that you were there for the fight. and you cannot fold to a bully. nbc s perry is in the capital of kyiv following the story. bring us up today. we know that this was a surprise visit due to security reasons, as we ve seen in other instances as well. what are we learning about this exchange? about this meeting? yeah, in this visit, the security the surprise of it came through. we have that comment by zelenskyy, which blew the lid off of this but we did not hear about pelosi s visit until she had left. we heard about it this morning and t