Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration
Is still under federal investigation. This comes after the two irs whistleblowers testify politics influence the doj decision throughout the biden investigation. The trouble does not stop there for hunter. His former associate devin archer is expected to sit for closed door testimony with the House Oversight Committee Committee tomorrow. Former National Intelligence joins me now, john ratcliffe, acting attorney from the great state. Welcomes john ratcliffe. It was a big week, something unusual in the words of the federal judge take place, the plea deal fell apart and were in a position where it looks like the department of justice colluded with hunter biden attorneys to get him this deal and the judge simply read through it and found things she thought were unconstitutional or hidden in the wrong places. Why is that . John a lot of us thought the judge would reject the plea, the judges look at conduct, this was unprecedented. At the hearing, we learned the biggest takeaway, joe bidens
From mount tam at the bay. You can see some of those low clouds that are still hanging out around the golden gate. Most of us nice and sunny at this point. And temperatures inland are already on the rise. What youre at 77 vacaville at 76 San Francisco and timber on Still Holding on to the 50s. Well, 60s from hayward on up through oakland and berkeley later today, as i mentioned, are right around the same as yesterday as we do have a couple of low 90s for for this inland areas. So definitely hot for a few of us 60s and 70s for most of us near the water. Daria. Thanks a lot, john. At 10 oclock happening now. Manny is in court for a preliminary hearing is the one accused of fatally stabbing cash app founder bob lee kron fours. Michael thomas is live in San Francisco with the latest. Whats going on . Michael . What you know, this preliminary hearing had actually been pushed back a few weeks. And today they are expecting to see a new evidence towards many and take a look at this video. You
how that helped the doj issue charges. and an israeli air strike took out three top military commanders and ten civilians. a live report from southern israel. also, inside two texas tragedies. the latest on the investigation into the fatal suv crash outside a migrant facility in brownsville that left eight dead. and the painful new stories behind the lives lost at a texas outlet mall over the weekend. the lone survivor of one family just turned 6 years old. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest. we start with maggie vespa in allen, texas. we just learned there s going to be an update from the texas department of public safety in about an hour. i want to focus on the victims. all so young. 3 to 37. so much life they had still to live. froms what more can you tell us about them? reporter: yeah, chris, that news conference expected to focus on the mechanics of the investigation but what people here care about is the people they lost including those three chil