garrett, i saw you about i don t know how many hours ago, morning joe was on saying maybe. but we have been through this. tell me, is this it? is this the real thing? it is hard to say. the day started with a ton of optimism from house democratic leadership. the plan was they could vote to send the build back better to the senate and send the bipartisan senate-passed infrastructure bill to the president s desk. but they ran into half a dozen house moderates who objected to not having a final congressional budget office score not seeing all the math for how it would be paid for and agreed to what the final costs would be held to. leadership came up with a second plan, what if we do a procedural vote to advance that bill and vote to send the bipartisan bill to the president s desk. moderates said they would rather sit back and wait until the cbo score is done. who doesn t like that answer? the president himself. he wants a vote today to get things moving. we have been exp
breaking news, explosive growth of the wildfires in texas. one just became the second largest in state history. it is 0% contained we have new reporting on who needs to take cover in very shortly, ivf families will rally at the alabama state house. could a major about face be imminent after the state supreme court controversial ruling that some say put ivf in jeopardy. sara is out today. i m john berman with kate baldwin. this he is cnn news central okay so you know, you love capitol hill drama. you don t have to admit it, but you know, you love it. and today is going to be one of those days. very soon president biden s son, hunter is arriving on the hill and heading behind closed doors for what has become a highly anticipated moment, the face-to-face with republicans lawmakers, and the biggest moments so far in the republican led effort toward impeaching president biden. cnn s paula reid. she s watching all this tracking all of this hopefully as sneakers on because it s
reason is border is not secure is donald trump and his maga republican friends. you see millions and millions of people coming across the border illegally. we don t know where they come from. bill: you get the tale of two borders today. president biden and former president trump will be on the u.s. mexican border in different locations. dueling visits could not be more different. dana has the week off. i m bill hemmer in new york city. happy leap day to everybody. welcome back to you in new york. gillian. gillian: is it tomorrow? i don t know. bill: every four years we re here. gillian: this is america s newsroom. former president trump is heading to eagle pass in texas. that s the heart of the current iteration of this border crisis. agents have apprehended over 2,000 migrants in the past five days. bill: p president biden is going to brownsville. agents have nabbed a few dozen migrants this week. the city is protected by razor wire. gillian: the problem has
we begin this hour with candidates sending in the hawkeye state of iowa is to begin to heat up in the 2024 presidential race with the former president donald trump sharing the stage with opponent the first time this cycle hunge correspondent ashley strohmeyer is now with the latest. hey, ash hunger. the first time the republica primary nearly all the candidates were in the same roo in the early caucus state of iowa. hawkeye state voters got to hea from the team republican potential candidates tonight at the iowa gop annual lincoln day dinner his with the leading candidates had to say. if i were not running, i d have nobody coming after me. or if i was losing by a lot i would have nobody coming after me. in my white house there will be no cooking allowed in the white house. and, look, my son is only five years old, so he s not going to be learning his pockets with money from foreign governments. joe biden and the radical left, he is attacking the value that made as pos
on max good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are following breaking news president biden is at walter reed for his annual physical. dr. sanjay gupta is standing by to weigh in. meanwhile, up on capitol hill, hunter biden is testifying what we re learning about the president s son and what he s going to say behind closed doors and disaster and northern texas wildfires are raging across the panhandle as communities are scrambling to evacuate, one resident tells cnn, it looks like armageddon i m jim acosta in washington and this is the news right now and we begin with the breaking news. president biden at walter reed medical center right now for his annual physical marking, what is likely to be his last update on his health before the 2024 election, germany now is cnn white house correspondent arlette saenz, and our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta arlette, let me go to your first what do you think we re going to hear from the white house about this v