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Lifeline to struggling democrats and canceling student debt for less than $50,000. the big question whether or not it will satisfy the far left. i know the answer to that. aishah hosni is on capitol hill. >> good morning, dana and bill. for months and months and months the white house has been telling congress put together a legislative piece of action, send it to the presidents debt and well do something about it. that didnt happen. now the president it sounds like could be ready to take execut...

Weapons to ukraine, training the ukrainian military, all of that means war with the west. >> and give us 45 seconds on right now the state of the russian economy and how it is withstanding sanctions to this point. >> the one interesting thing is that the ruble, john, has reall rebounded to the levels preinvasion. for putin it is a major domestic win. we heard from secretary blinken over the weekend saying it is manipulated so there are capital controls in place to prop up the ruble. the one issu...

These sanctions were supposed to grind to a halt the russian economy andmake them think twice . if anything there filling the russian coffers, they may not prevent depression to the russian people, theres sanctions people but not the government. heres a projection of oil and gas revenue, all these sanctions from the us, uk, australia and other european countries. this is the amount of revenue they obtain for oil and gas. 230, 143, 236 billion. theyre expected to outpace energy exports to 321 bil...

Last week when he said -- pete: 71 in february, 83 in march. these are -- rachel: calling for regime change. how much does that rally people who maybe werent even on board of this, hey, i dont want the americans toppling our regime. will: if that polling is to be trusted, one of reasons, one of the explanations are sanctions have not had effect. numbers bear that out as well. take a look at russian and oil gas revenues over the last four years. you bonn 230 billion, dips in 2,020,123,000,000,000...

Were taking this, and kind of whether its china or anybody else, we will take this seriously. >> will this help with the release of the three americans still -- >> im not going to make any comments about that. >> you said, quote, the presidents firmly committed that we will cut the money off to north korea until they behave properly. how are you defining success with that? what are you exactly looking for? >> i think youre going to know success when you see it. >> im not asking -- how do you in ...

More on -- reduce the federal deficit be $119 million. and the second one that theyre looking at the cbo scored 22 million more insured by 2026 and reduce the deaf by $100 million. the deficit reduction, $321 billion thats the silver lining for the gop but it gives room to negotiate. >> it is. because the senate bill will be required to have a savings of $133 billion over tine years. the cb ark was saying its $321 billion sork you do a bit of subtraction and you see theres $188 billion potential...

These are our families that are being impacted. lets, please, get it right. >> reporter: senator murkowski not the only ones raising questions. and on some positive note if you want to take one from the cbo score, it included the senate bill would have $321 billion in deficit savings over the course of a ten-year period. thats more than $2 hubbe00 bil from what the house had. they have to match what the house had in deficit reduction to move the bill forward in the u.s. senate. that means majori...

Medicaid spending, $541 billion in tax cuts for the wealthy, and then a $321 billion deficit reduction. that could work in republicans favor. >> sure. >> when you look at all of this, what comes to minds about whats really change -- comes to mind about whats really changed debate as we watch republicans take their stand, you know, mostly against or just sort of on the fence about where they are with this legislation? >> i think that a lot of people had hoped that some of the provisions in the se...

>> good morning, brianna. good to be with you. >> were talking about the new math from the congression all budget office about the senate bill, there is an impact by the deficit reducing by $321 billion over ten years but the number for the uninsured depose up by 22 million. 23 million by the house bill, what is your reaction to this? >> first of all, the senate bill is worse in that more people lose their health insurance next year. i do think its important to note the one thing thats exactly t...

Very likely that that may harden the positions of susan collins, dean heller, who are in the no column right now as well, and likely to not be persuaded by those kinds of changes to the bill. so this is the problem that mitch mcconnell, as he says, the discussion goes on, and we are continuing the discussion, this is the problem he finds himself in. its a push and pull with very, very little room for error because he can only afford to let two votes go. >> but does he have some wiggle room becau...