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biden set to lay out his budget proposal to the nation in a few hours. mj lee is following this. walk us through what we believe the president s priorities will be, particularly now since he does not control both houses of congress. reporter: we do expect the full details of this budget to come out in a matter of hours but there are major come po ne components of the budget that we know. we know the president is going to propose cutting the deficit by $3 trillion, this is notable because in recent weeks he s been talking about that figure being more like 2 trillion so this is more aggressive. we know he wants the cuts to the deficit coming in part from taxing high earners and large corporations. he has said he doesn t want to put extra taxes on people learning less than $400,000. we are talking ant tbout thingse allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and savings there would go back to the program. and boosting federal fund for early education and child care, inclu ....
we ll analyze his budget and then we ll get to work on our budget. but unfortunately with the president being so far delayed, delays others in the process. speaker kevin mccarthy doesn t have a budget proposal ready, and according to him it s president biden s fault. this comes as the president is breaking with tradition and hitting the road to unveil his spending plan. also ahead, the ceo of norfolk southern will be on capitol hill today to testify before a senate panel. we ll have a preview of that hearing. plus we re going to get a live update from ukraine following a string of deadly missile strikes overnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 9th. thanks for starting your day with us. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has been hospitalized after falling at a washington, d.c. hotel last night. according fooa spokesperson mcconnell who is 81 years old tripped during a private dinner. he was admitted to the hospital wher ....
charges now. also new this morning, some amateur balloonists say that one of their small balloons is, quote, missing in action. it s last known location, somewhere over alaska on saturday. this as president biden has now spoken on the u.s. shooting down a chinese spy balloon, as well as three other objects. he says he makes no apologies for the first one, but is now asking his team to device sharper rules for dealing with other unidentified objects. questions as to whether those were real threats. also happening right now, vice president kamala harris, secretary of state antony blinken in munich, germany. world leaders gathering for a security conference as we quickly approach the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine. we want to begin at the white house. cnn s jeremy die nond mr. the president addressing those downed objects now after mounting pressure over the last several days. what more did we learn from those remarks? reporter: biden made ver ....
day. also cops describing black citizens as monkeys, animals, boy. officials calling out police in a overnight u.s. city for racist abuses and practices. tesla under fire. questions about the self-driving feature about another crash. and an investigation into tesla steering wheels on one model, steering wheels that can potentially fall off. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with new heart breaking details about the kidnapping of four americans in mexico. we re learning that the two were immediately shot when gunmen approached their car, she watched them die. the autopsy of the two victims were finished this morning and the remains are expected to be returned to the u.s. soon. today the president of mexico pledged to see the investigation through and get to the bottom of what happened. diane gallagher starts off with more details on where the investigation stands now. feel good to know she s coming home. reporter: the mother of survi survivor latav ....
over. the case goes back to the fifth circuit and could go on for months or even years before we get final disposition. this all started last november when the conservative group alliance defending freedom filed a lawsuit in texas challenging the fda is original for approval of the drug that happened 23 years ago. and april 7th the texas-based us district judge then ruled in their favor revoking the fda s approval, saying it went above its authority when it approved mifepristone back in 2,000. days with the drug manufacturer and the biden administration got involved appealing to the supreme court. after tonight supreme court wrote president biden said the states could not be higher for women across america, and that his administration would continue to fight politically. press secretary adding this earlier today: it is a druggist been around for more than 20 yea years. it s been used in than 60 countries. it is it has been approved by the fda, which is an eviden ....