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>> hey, hey, everybody. its 10:00 a.m. in the east. im yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? >> do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single ti...

in "the faulkner focus." americans face real economic consequences as politicians are dug in. more and more lawmakers are saying that the president and the house speaker must find common ground but the house -- the white house sounds like it is not really interested in doing that. >> this is not an issue that we will negotiate on. he is not going to negotiate over avoiding default. this is congresss constitutional duty. he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling. very clear. that isnt g...

As well. we also want to keep our eyes on iran, of course, russia and china with developments. certainly with the olympics, we want to keep our eyes on north korea as well and make sure were protecting our athletes. >> dana: we appreciate you being on today. >> thank you very much, dana. >> dana: we are waiting the white house briefing where we expect to take questions about the budget talk and the allegations against secretary rob porter, among other things. plus an fbi informant said russia sh...

This type of budget talk and demand things being in or out, especially such as divisive as this border wall? >> i dont think its unusual at all for the white house to be intimately involved in the negotiations. in the end it has to be law and have the presidents signature. they will be molding it from the start. whats difference about this president is his propensity to negotiate in public, to take positions via twitter and other things. i think folks on capitol hill find that unset inning witli...

Aarp uses this report. premiums would rise under this new republican plan. more than half of your income for health care. they pay more because it charges older americans four to five times what younger americans pay. aarp is on the offensive. you heard paul ryan talking about the cohort. >> interesting term. >> budget talk. okay. we get it. we hear you. >> it should be a tough needle to thread here. the trump administration revised travel ban suffering another setback in court. derrick watson...

Conversation we are going to have to have. long-term entitlement reform." i pressed last night on this and it was a similar answer. a wait for the in may. we may see a semantics change when it comes to entitlement reform on the long term. not the people who are in or near retirement right now. >> jon: theres some people who are thinking with the budget talk with former members of congress along with tom price, the director of health and human services now, that there might be a push toward tight...

Religion. and in fact, one of the weirder things that struck english speakers as weird, used the term evildoers to describe terrorists came about to find a word in arabic that would not be sensitive to arabic and back translate into that english. that was him. that was the authentic man. >> jonathan alter, the budget talk that the president gave today was the most incoherent budget talk ever given by anyone whos taken the oath of office as president with all of those asides that trump does when ...

Virginia that budget $157 million. the state tallying how much theyve spent, but theyre confident theyve blown through that budget. in washington, the usual budget talk is muted today. the government shut down federal officers. cnn erin mcpike is in d.c. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. washington d.c. is shut down, bus services even suspended. you see why. roads are in really bad shape behind me. also because the federal government is closed it means there are no cars really outside the...

Officials are still tallying how much theyve spent but they are confident theyve already blown the budget. in washington, the usual budget talk is largely muted today. the government has shut its federal offices. cnns erin mcpike is standing -- oh, thats so beautiful, erin. >> well, carol, washington, d.c., is really, for the most part, shut down. even the white house briefing has been canceled for today. but the federal government is completely closed. and you can see here that the capitol is...

How much did he cut then? >> so secretary gates did about between 250 and 300 billion. then we had a $400 billion cut. almost $500 billion cut with the budget talk. another is 500 billion from sequestration. >> how has the military been affected? >> because of how fast weve had to do it, really has affected our readiness. so we have -- what im concerned about is were able to meet our missions in afghanistan, but it will be at some unknown contingency, im concerned we wouldnt have our soldiers tr...