Good morning, charles it s a weekend away for washington, for president biden after a week away in europe. The white house says next week, the president will be talking with democrats and republicans about the potential for an infrastructure compromise there s a group of senate democrats and republicans who were negotiating a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal, but there are significant disagreements, in particular, how to pay for it on one side you ve got democrats who want to increase taxes, on the other side you ve got republicans who want to use unspent covid relief funds. I, myself, do not think we should be taking money out of the pockets of people of unemployment or take money out out of the rescue package, because it s there for a purpose his own proposal, as you know, is a huge new package, $2. 65 trillion with $2 trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers, which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Reporter: and to close the
we start in the us, where president biden s choice for his top trade official has been appearing before the senate. for the past four years, american business has faced a chaotic environment, with deals torn up and trade wars launched on multiple fronts by the trump administration. so who is the person tasked with rebooting us trade? katherine tai is a respected trade lawyer. the daughter of chinese immigrants, she speaks fluent mandarin and has represented the us in disputes against china at the wto. if she s confirmed by the senate, it seems she won t be in a rush to scrap the trump era tariffs on $360 billion of chinese goods. ta riffs tariffs are a legitimate tool in the trade toolbox and it is because of tarrifs that the senate committee and weighs the finance committee have jurisdiction over trade and they are an important part of ourfair trade remedies toolbox. james green is senior research fellow at georgetown university. as a former trade diplomat at the us embassy
any capable american president would have responded to the massive military build-up on ukraine s border with preemptive crushing economic sanctions and an iron clad guarantee to help ukraine defend itself should russia invade. deterrents was lost with biden weakness. republican congressman michael mccaul says president biden is playing right into vladimir putin s hands. i think this president has made so many concessions with nothing in return. that s why putin smells weakness. he wanted this and i talked about it for a long time. his legacy issue. if we don t provide that deterrent he will go in. harris: in a few moments pentagon spokesman john kirby will be in focus and hear directly from the administration. i want to go to jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon. jennifer. we re just getting the first images of new u.s. weapons shipments landing at the airport in kiev. these images are coming live from kiev s airport as a plane carrying assistance that inclu
you ll also hear from lieutenant john radke from the homicide division and captain sonya monaco. so at this point, i m going to introduce honorable councilmember paul carretz. the tragic murder of brianna kupfer in hancock back is shaken and shocked our community to its core. i want to first address brianna s family. my own daughter is not that much owner than brianna. i can only imagine the heart break and the anguish that her family is feeling. the pain. i want you to know that you have my heartfelt support and my full commitment that i will help with whatever lapd may need until every option to find this vile killer is exhausted. we will find this vicious criminal. we will arrest them and we will get him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. but we must fight justice for her, fight for justice for her even though nothing will bring her back. our mission and my objective is that the perpetrator who took away brianna from her beloved parents, colleagues, friends and
good morning. and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 20th. i m jonathan lemire. russia declared yesterday that the next phase of the war was under way in eastern ukraine, claiming it sames to, quote, liberate, the donbas region. british intelligence is saying that russian forces are still struggling. according to the uk, the ukrainian military continues to beat back russia, attempts to advance, even amid the increased shelling and strikes. british intelligence also says that russia s inability to progress is impacted by the resilience of the ukrainian military and by the same environmental, logistical and technical challenges that have hindered russia s forces. and they expect to be launched in the coming weeks. at least one killed and three others injured when a russian rocket hit the see of kramatorsk. and also rocked the southern city of kyiv. this agency the state emergency service of ukraine yesterday said that russians heavily bombarded the city of luha