josé diaz-balart. right now hundreds of thousands across the american south are waking up to no power after a deadly ice storm pummelled the region. we ll take you live to arkansas. in memphis, police are facing new questions on the discrepancies in an initial police report compared to the video detailing the deadly beating of tyre nichols. on capitol hill, in just a couple of hours, the house will vote on whether to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee for what republicans have called anti-semitic remarks. we ll ask congresswoman pramila jayapal about that and more . a brand new congressional dads caucus has just launched and seeks to advocate for working families. it s congressman jimmy gomez who brought the idea to life will join us to discuss. and is an early spring around the corner? punxsutawney phil makes his groundhog day predictions. and we begin this hour with the extreme winter ice storm impacting the southern u.s., the
market could be a plus for the fight on inflation. we ll talk about why. but let s start with the president s chilling warning on the increasingly disturbing nublt nuclear threats from vladimir putin. president saying, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. i don t think there is any such thing to use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. jeremy diamond joins us and alex mar court following all of this. jeremy, let me begin with you. not expected by the white house, i think those around the president that he would say this and he said it as a fundraiser. so not on camera here in new york. but reporters were there and i think stunned to hear what the president said. reporter: yeah, that was a stark warning from the president of the united states. perhaps one of the most stark warnings that we ve heard so far about the elevated risk which is real and there is real concern within the administration
could make inflation worse. because of my economic plan, we are better positioned than any other major economy in the world to weather the challenges and come through this as a strong iser company. republicans win, inflation if s going to get worse. it s that simple. paul: let s bring in texas congressman kevin brady. welcome, congressman, appreciate your coming in. the president says lots of progress, but wait, look, you ve got the last three months it came down from 9% to 8 and something, now 8.2%, so three months in a row it s gone down, so isn t that progress? yeah, no, it really isn t. and this week we saw, as you know, a double dose of bad if news for families and main street businesses. obviously, wholesale prices are still very, very high, and we know at the end of the day those get passed down to consumers in the future. and, of course, core inflation now hit the highest level in joe biden s presidency. that s a full year after he declared inflation had peaked. h