trumpian twist. the former president repeatedly called a liar to his face by the writer e. jean carroll during dramatic testimony. carroll laying out a blow by block account of how the attacks ended the world she had been living in. the former president shaking his head, slamming the table in anger and complaining about carroll s testimony loud enough for the jury to hear it. is there any amount of money that could finally get trump to back off? plus, why a split between republican leaders mitch mcconnell and speaker mike johnson could derail today s big white house meeting before it even gets going, with critical issues like government funding, wartime spending and border security all hanging in the balance. can anything get done? and the man behind the murders at club q hit with 50 additional hate crime charges stemming from the 2022 attack that left five people dead and stunned the lgbtq community nationwide. that gunman now facing multiple life sentences on top of the
and breaking news about hunter and the irs and with less than two years ago until the 2024 election, democrats are playing the race card. they are trying to vilify the state of florida. all eyes are on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come to terms on a debt ceiling that is eminent. according to democrats, the sky is falling. it is all kevin mccarthy s fault when it is anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. why do democrats care so deeply about this when mccarthy was begging the white house day after day to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiate. our government is designed to have compromise. he is the president. he is playing with the financial markets of america by saying he would not negotiate. let s be rational and reasonable and sit down and negotiate. he told congress we were going to meet. at the democratic retreat, he told the democrats we were planning meetings. he has never had one. time is ticking. he needs to come to t
speaker mccarthy and the conservatives are going to win a victory in the next few days. i have a radio show and if i use my radio audience as a focus group, the overwhelming majority of people calling me, talking to me, speaking out, all want kevin mccarthy to hold form. they look at the republican bill. all it does is return spending levels to 2022. they reduce baseline budget into 1%. cannot have massive increases in spending. kevin has a political problem. he has a 4-seat majority. if he were to try to make a deal with biden, he has to go back to his caucus. if a significant number of house republicans rejected, with that
rebuilding to get prepared for that. how did our military become so weakened? there is a perception on capitol hill from the more hawkish republicans that during the prior administration the basic infrastructure at the pentagon, of the 7 $16 billion, $617 billion, the vast majority are going to the pentagon s baseline budget, pay raise for the troops, $69 billion goes toward the war fighting fund. jillian: let s talk about the importance of that pay raise for troops? it is essential. the last pay raise within 2010, 3.4%. since 2010, the pay raises of
exactly what the money will accomplish or how it will be spent and just a laundry list. paul: allysia, expand on that, what is this big burst of domestic spending mean? well, the new baseline budget essentially and heaven forbid we enter another recession in another couple of years and the debt is going to explode even more. right now we are heading to 1 trillion-dollar deficit, that s about do you meaned but this will add another probably trillion dollars in debt, eventually they ll have to be reckoning. we have to look at entitlements which is two-thirds of the budget. paul: the budget deal doesn t do anything like that. this focuses on essentially changing the terms of the 2001 budget deal that obama did with john boehner and so the domestic spending that kate talked about, these are all called transportation, health care and a whole variety of things,