mill in covid stimulus aid approved. now he s one-upping bigger spending predecessors like franklin roosevelt and l.b.j. their programs, one for the new deal and then one for the great society dwarfed by the spending here. some say trillions more down the road. we ll get into that a little bit more detail shortly. we ll be hearing from the president of the united states shortly as well as to how he plans to pay for this. give credit where it s due. taxes will go up for a lot of folks and different ways. peter doocy in pittsburgh outlining what we can look forward to or not looking forward to despending on your perspective. peter? neil, there s still some infrastructure priorities in this package. we have a list of a couple. there s $115 billion to modernize roads and bridges. $11 billion to replace every lead pipe in the country and $213 billion for affordable or sustainable houses. the white house admits about a third of the infrastructure plan, $621 billion is for transpo
from kentucky and five other states now reeling after that wave of deadly tornadoes this weekend. we will also show you how democrats, the mob, the media are now trying to politicize this horrific natural disaster but first, our account continues, we won t stop. americans held hostage behind enemy lines day 121. sean: 134 days since joe biden promise not to abandon americans now according to the washington post, evacuations have as we told you they would predictably slowed to a trickle. the administrations as the process is now limited by the realities on the ground and the taliban-controlled islamic emirates of afghanistan. the biden administration laughably promised we have all the leverage and the terrorists and the taliban over them to secure the release of those on the ground that they abandoned there that was and remains a blatant lie. one senior state department official is telling the post that a real evacuation is no longer possible. when you don t have people
and this young mother, this dp, was killed on a movie set because of money. and that s really what it boils down to. and that s the sad part about this. stu, you raise a lot very important concerns and questions that i think have to be answered if you want to make sure this doesn t happen again in the future. we appreciate you speaking with us, stu brumbaugh, thanks. new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world and in the metaverse. it is friday, october 29th. i m john berman alongside brianna keilar. chris cuomo is standing by in rome, because president biden has just wrapped up a meeting with pope francis. america s second catholic president spent 90 minutes, 90 minutes, a very long time with the pope. and in a matter of minutes here the president is set to sit down with the president of italy. so let s get right now to chris cuomo in rome. chris? all right. thank you very much. they absolutely had a mee
american hostages being held in gaza. that the president or any other leaders would refer to people that are moving through our justice system as hostages. it s just unacceptable. i was there on january 6th. i have no doubt in my mind, margaret, that some people were caught up in the moment and entered the capitol, and they re entitled to due process of law for any non-violent activities that day. but the assaults on police officers, ultimately an environment that claimed lives, is something that i think was tragic that day. i ll never diminish it. mike pence once again taking a stand against his former boss. he also refused to endorse trump for president. those comments from donald trump came during a stump speech for a senate candidate in ohio. trump was more focused on his personal grievances, giving more incendiary remarks. meanwhile, the former president has so far refused to condemn vladimir putin for the death of alexei navalny. but for the first time publicly, putin