opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda he said that here in manhattan the scales of justice are being weighed down by politics, and they are but only today an america being rich, being powerful, even being president of the united states does not intitle you to violate the law with impunity. the republican-led house judiciary committee travels to new york city for partisan political theater. we ll is much more about this grievance-filled hearing in just a moment house speaker kevin mccarthy was also in new york talking about a plan to raise the debt ceiling but his proposal was messing several key details. and we have the latest from eastern europe following a rare trip out of russia by president vladimir putin good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating
speech is the reason she lost. two years ago, i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that in-abl enable his efforts to unravel our system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. so cheney will be out of office come january. until then, she continues at co-chair of the january 6 committee. daniella die assist is live on capitol hill this morning. cheney is vowing do everything in her power to keep donald trump from returning to the oval office. reporter: and she chose to go down fighting donald trump until the end as you guys just noted from that speech last night, that she gave look, she is a lee term congresswoman, she voted to impeach donald trump, she is one of the handful of group of republicans who voted impeach donald trump and a lot
something went wrong in the intervening period which led to the search that happened at the former president s home in palm beach last week. evan, big picture this for us. why are these interviews with trump s former top two lawyers at the white house, why are they significant? first of all, these were two of several representatives of the former president named as people to be in touch with the national archives should anything like this happen. so they would be in the position to be the first to get contacted. the other part of this, jake, that i think is important for people to know is these two men would know the answer to the big question that i think a lot of us are asking, which is is it true that the former president had some kind of standing order to declassify documents? was it true that by simply sending documents from the west wing to the residence, did that deem them declassified? those are questions that these two men, as top counsels to the former president
way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating on capitol hill the republican-led house judiciary committee took its work on the road for a tense field hearing in new york city in map hatten gop lawmakers look to discredit the district attorney prosecuting former president trump there by blaming him for a post-pandemic spike in violent crime. this even as data shows there s actually been a decrease in crime in new york city since d.a. alvin bragg took office last year. during the hearing which had been named victims of violent crime in manhattan republicans brought in several witnesses personally affected by violence that had varying degrees of grievance directed towards the democratic party the democrats accused them of
families. reporter: capping a productive year of legislating on capitol hill, president biden signing in to law a sweeping $750 billion climate, health care and tax bill. democrats have billed the package the inflation reduction act despite experts concluding that there would likely be little to no immediate impact on lowering prices. inflation reduction act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever, ever, ever in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening or economic our energy securities. reporter: but it does mark the most significant investment to fight climate change. and it would also reduce prescription drug prices by allowing medicare to negotiate directly. and extend health care subsidies. and tax large corporations to reduce the deficit. every single republican in the congress sided with the