paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
biden unveiling his new budget that includes $2 trillion in tax hikes. the president laying out his plan and of course, picking a fight with those evil republicans. the maga republicans want to take away the laws, what they want to do away with the inflation reduction act, maga republicans all voted to get rid of the affordable care act, they voted to get rid of it over 50 times since barack passed it. maga republicans calling for defunding the police department. maga republicans, you know, they don t want things that particularly are going to help oregon families like health care, education, public safety, which can erase cost on folks. look, maga republicans also refused to raise a single penny in new taxes on the wealthiest people. jeanine: but republicans may be the least of his problems. progressives in the democratic party are becoming a major thorn in joe s side. they are slamming the president on crime and immigration. first, biden sided with republicans to block
hours ago. just days after the downing of the chinese spy balloon. another classified document is found in the possession of former vice president mike pence. the fbi removing the material from pence s indepeiana home. the hunt for survivors in the earthquake soon zone with a rescuer on the ground. we are getting accounts of people found alive. the death poll toll rises higher and higher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the us military shooting down a high altitude object a little while ago after tracking it over alaska for 24 hours. we have a team of correspondents and experts stand big as we break down what we know and what we don t know about this object and how it compares to the chinese spy balloon shot down nearly a week ago. first, jim sciutto. what are your sources telling you about this object that was shot down over alaska? the details
his foot stuck in the petal clipped and fell to the ground. he got right up but it s not the first time biden has had a physical mishap. you may remember he stumbled at least twice while climbing the stairs to aboard air force one. that was just two weeks ago. still come the left-wing media took very little notice of my mike biden s bike fall. they were quick to dismiss thinks about his age. what is false is that he is not capable of doing the job right now or he is not mentally in tune with the demands of the job. anybody, any aide who engage with him or reporters, we can see this. the gears are working, that is an issue pushed by right-wing media, but it is not correct. emily: this, of course, is a far cry after president trump appeared to walk down the ramp slowly after his commencement address at west point some two years ago. a lot of clues and there but no conclusions. is at balance problems? are there some weakness there? is there numbness in the feet perhaps wit
partisan show down between the obama white house and republican controlled house of representatives. the house oversite committee voted to hold the toerp general, eric holder, in contempt, accusing the nation s highest ranking law enforcement officer. the committee vote was hours after the democratic administration upped the ante. for months, a stare down between the congress and justice department. this morning, president obama invoked executive privilege, denying the committee the documents they demanded for months from the attorney general. it would be an unprecedented step for an attorney general to be found in contempt by the entire house. that vote is set for next week, and harsh statements from all sides tonight in washington don t suggest at the moment any opening for compromise. here is the chairman, darrell issa. there s still time for avoid tg, if in fact the documents we asked for are delivered by the time the house scheduled for contempt vote. democrats on th