groundhog day. tom brady announced he is retiring again. yeah. everyone got emotional watching the heart felt message. even bill belichick s shirt holes grew three sizes. brady is done in a related story. tickets to the buccaneers games are now free. that was funny. that s a good one about the groundhog day. i didn t think of that one. i like the belichick. clever there, jimmy fallon. i like the holes. good morning, everyone. we re going to speak with robert kraft a little later on in the show. we re in new york. kaitlan is in capitol hill. there is a lot going on there. the u.s. military signed a deal to ramp firepower on china s doorstep. beijing is responding. a busy day on capitol hill. the president is going to be arriving soon. he is facing a series of investigations, of course, into the documents or the investigation into his classified documents. and also standoff potentially that could tank the economy. we re going to talk to rick scott of the budget commit
it looks like it will run dry within the next ten years. that would automatically cut benefits from 23% for every single american who needs those programs. medicare funding is vanishing even faster. the timing of all of this of trying to figure out what to do comes during a fierce battle that s happening in the nation s capital over spending. the debt growing precipitously. the stand-off between republican lawmakers and white house over raising the borrowing limits. democrats want to spend, spend, spend. republicans want to slash and save. speaker mccarthy says we had better find a way to check off the spending fast. i want to look the president in the eye and tell me there is not $1 of wasteful spending in government? who believes that? the american public doesn t believe that. our whole government is designed to have compromise, let s find common ground and let s eliminate the wasteful spending to protect the hard-working taxpayers and protect the future of america.
let s start in china, where the latest figures just released show the world s second largest economy grew faster than expected in the first three months of the year at 4.5%. this is the first set of quarterly gdp figures following the end of strict covid 19 restrictions in december. they also follow the easing of a three year crackdown on tech firms and property. lets get reaction from julian evans pritchard, head of china economics at capital economics. this is better than expected. most people are saying we re looking at 4% growth, give us your take on this number? really the strength is all about the consumer centre, we saw the vigors beads on the retail sales numbers are more generally in qrs or the household savings rates, so households are feeling more comfortable, households are feeling more comfortable, spinning again, they have comfortable, spinning again, they have the comfortable, spinning again, they have the possibility - comfortable, spinning again, they ha
very good friday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. friday, not a day too soon. i m erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. a significant milestone to tell but in the justice department s two-year criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection. former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating former president donald trump and his role in the attack on the capitol. just ahead, we will take you closer look at what kind of information the special counsel and what to get from the former vp. plus in the midst of so much devastation there are at least a few miraculous stories of survival in turkey after that massive earthquake. a family of six, two parents and their four children, together, lifted from the rubble after being buried for nearly 102 hours. hope for finding more people alive dwindling, though. the death toll has climbed above 22,000 people. those who survived are facing a secondary disaster. the humanitarian x-cris
conversation, equipped with antennas, solar panels and all gathering intel and monitoring communications. why did the administration allow it to hover over sensitive military sites? the senate panel got this answer to that question yesterday. one of the things i think that is different from our country than you can look at historical examples is we think before we shoot and in this case we thought before we shot. neither side of the aisle seemed to be satisfied with that. listen. as an alaskan i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i am not going to. this administration owes americans answers not only on what happened this past week but on what steps they will take to insure this never happens again. the truth is, we think we know what they were going to collect. we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we get more information by the hour now about what exactly these spy craft capabilities are. president biden, though, said he is no longer concerned