On down to wharton, they say. We can use every hand. Reporter martin savidge, thank you very much. And thanks to you for joining us. Our breaking News Coverage continues now with ac 360. Houston. A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore, the reminders that this is not over keep coming and theres a new one that just happened. Explosions and a massive fire at the Chemical Plant 25 miles northeast of houston. It began with flooding, followed by a power outage, and the equipment to keep explosive chemicals cool shut down. Early yesterday morning came the first fire. Late today, a large explosion, followed by the large fire that has thankfully died down again. For obvious reasons, cnns brian todd is not here but joins us with the latest. What do we know exactly about this fire . Reporter we can tell you that officials have told us for
most of this week they expect that incidents like this to occur and they just posted a statement moments ago saying that the redundant Refrigeration Systems
ryan for putting this budget out, but he wasn t actually critical of the policy. he was critical that ryan was putting it out before an election, before the midterm election, before the presidential election. and then when ryan gets selected by mitt romney to be his running mate, trump actually praises ryan pretty effusively on medicare. take a listen to what he told sean hannity in october of 2012. i like the energy he brings. i like a lot of the things he is saying. he smart. he truly understands what is going on with the 70 trillion in the budgets and everything else. and i think he is very strongly in favor of, i know for a, fact that he s going to save medicare. the other side is going to destroy medicare. he s going to save medicare. there you have. it he s actually saying he s going to save it. he praised him. he praised him quite a bit, actually, during that race. and when trump runs in 2015, 2016, he goes against this republican orthodoxy for years, which is that we need t
calling maga republicans semi-fascists as a fundraiser last night. look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they are doing in attacking our democracy. the president said at last night s rally he respects conservative republicans but not maga republicans. today the white house was asked to clarify whether the president has any respect for the more than 70 trillion americans who voted for trump. press secretary karine jean-pierre says president biden called it out as he sees it. bret: thank you. learning new information how facebook was approached by federal agents concerning its coverage of the hunter biden laptop scandal. susan li of fox business reports it appears agents tried to suppress the social media exposure of that story. good evening, susan. good evening, bret. so mark zuckerberg says that facebook reduced the sharing and viewing of the hunter biden laptop meaningful amount after
the country starts with $30 trillion in debt and already paying $1 billion in interest per day on that amount according to the peterson foundation. lawmakers are considering more spending with president biden s $1.7 trillion bills back better agenda, the congressional budget office found the version of the plan that passed the house in november would add $365 billion to the deficit through 2031 not including $207 billion in revenue from irs enforcement. you can consider us, easily 60, $70 trillion in a decade or two if we don t control this.