And taxpayers buckling up as President Biden is teeing up more spending. Why Pete Buttigieg says it will keep the economy humming. Hes here. So is Donald Trumps former secretary of state, mike pompeo. Remember him . He could be in the running, maybe, for a new title. A bigger title. Were on it, all of it. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to have you with us. Lets go to Grady Trimble at the white house on these fast moving developments and the president s plans to take advantage of what was a widely received and wellreceived state of the Union Address. To you, my friend. It was, neil. At a time when Many Americans are not happy with the president s handling of the economy. He used last nights address to change those perceptions touting billions of dollars of Students Loan Debt Cancellation and unveiling plans for more social programs. We enacted tax credits of 800 per person per year, reduce Healthcare Costs for millions of families. Restore that child tax credit. No child shoul
hand. this warning comes just hours before a republican-led committee holds a hearing on the chain knee communist party s threat to america. let s start with cnn s manu rash. tonight will be the first prime time hearing that any he republican has held since january. what are republicans telling you about why this is such a top priority? this is one of the rare bipartisan initiatives in a very polarized institution, the u.s. house. but kevin mccarthy has indicated to me and others that this is a bug priority of his to make sure that both sides are on the same page when it comes to the threat of china. that is the same approach the lady verse the committee, mike gallagher on the republican side, and the democrat both are trying to pursue this on a bipartisan basis. he indicated to me this will be an overall scene setting hearing to try to make clear about the threat from china poses, not just abroad but also here in the united states. we expect to hear from key witnesses, s
they re spying on us. they re doing this purposefully and the president should have been much stronger in his response to this. all right. a live at the nation s capitol where in just a few hours, the president will be delivering his state of the union address but will the china spy flight overshadow the big speech. we re all over it with jared burn steen on the president s economic message tonight. the senate minority whip john thune on what republicans want to hear. ben car den on if the china spy balloon is threatening to inflate that message. and cry sununu on what he thinks of the state of the union. i think it s going to be a big night. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. let s get to it with the latest from the pentagon and the china thing with jennifer griffin. there may be a simply inflammation why trump administration officials say they were never told about previous spy balloons that crossed over u.s. airspace. they saw multiple conversations trying to get
of staff at the department of homeland security and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. it s starting to feel a bit like groundhog day on capitol hill. that s because the house is trying again for a third day to elect a speaker of the house. we ve now had eight votes. and in all eight, the republican kevin mccarthy has failed to receive enough votes. he hasn t even been able to swing the needle in his favour at all. this is the scene live in the house now where a ninth vote is under way. it already appears that he has lost to this vote as well. at least seven republicans have voted for other options. in the last vote, 20 republicans voted for an alternative candidates to mr mccarthy mainly for byron donalds, and there was also a shock vote for donald trump. remember, the speaker of the house doesn t need to be a member of congress. that vote for the former president came from matt gaetz, one of the ring leaders of those refusing t
absolutely right the president and talk about the on going investments in electric vehicles. we ve seen the president touring the floor getting a sense of the cars that are out and even driving an electric cadillac, wanting to use the remarks when he takes the stage again behind me in a few minutes to talk to the important work and the focus that the administration has had on electric vehicles. now, one of the announcements that we do expect to hear from the president is a new $900 million investment in building electric vehicle charges stations across the country across some 35 states including here in the state of michigan. now, of course, no need to emphasize that this is obviously a very important battle ground state so this is an opportunity for the president, too, to meet with local elected official leaders, union leaders and talk to the folks on the ground and again, this is an issue where he could really talk about a couple legislative victories for democrats includin