their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
and a disturbing new study reveals that 8 million americans earning more than $100,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck. meanwhile, president biden is touting electric vehicle tax credits tweeting this, on my watch the great american road trip will be fully electrified with a picture of himself in a luxury hummer. one that doesn t even qualify. the starting price of that vehicle is 87,000 vehicle, which is double the medium american salary. after severe criticism the white house said the president driving a jeep that actually disqualified. ainsley come it is difficult to take them serious because the point remains that no matter what the president starts touting, it is always toned epic in concept and tone-deaf in optics with however he tries to market it. ainsley: is pushing these electric vehicles and everybody cares about the environment to some extent and possibly win down the road but they are very expensive. you have two-thirds of americans living paycheck to
added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran
going down. one of the reporters who broke that story joins me live, and it was a rough day for a couple of other trump royal figures. trying to stay out of court. why is the senator of south carolina calling the secretary of georgia anyway? all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we finally got to hear from donald trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone. on friday, you might remember, he spoke to the january 6th committee behind closed doors for hours. and then at yesterday s hearing, the committee revealed several clips of his videotaped interviews. we are going to play some of that shortly. cipollone s testimony, as far as we can tell, conformed with the broader picture that we have now gathered for many witnesses. donald trump was dead set on staying in office, against the will of the american people, by any means necessary. cipollone was among those in trump s orbit that resisted those efforts in the final days of trump s term in offi