for you today. with the president of the united states. joseph r. biden. i sat down with the president in the roosevelt room the white house on friday for an exclusive interview. president biden is headed to europe for a trip that will take him to villainous lithuania for the nato annual summit. holding nato together is really critical. it is been 500 days since russia invaded ukraine. is there any sign of an end to this war? and will nato offer ukraine membership? also, is there a foreign relations with china are or we going to see an even more intense rivalry? and, when could netanyahu expect an invitation to the white house. all of this in a special interview with america s 46th president. i think we have enormous opportunities and i just want to finish the job. i ll bring you my take later in the show. but first president biden is headed to europe today for a five-day, three-country tour. the main focus of which will be a stop in villainous lithuania for nato
palestine, ohio. we re watching all that again today. dana: meantime president biden is heading to pennsylvania today going to roll out his election year budget plan pushing to connect with voters in what will be a must-win state for either of the candidates. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. president biden expected to lay the ground work for a possible second term using his budget proposal as part of a political push to launch attacks against republicans. you have heard a lot of them already actually. meanwhile his democratic coalition is showing signs of strain thanks to recent moves by his administration on immigration, also the d.c. crime bill. all this as the president sets his sights on new government spending and raises taxes on the wealthy. he is doing it by raising a massive amount of taxes. now, you either believe there are two types of economists now on capitol hill. there are people wh
protecting their turf and business, a big part of which is drugs. fentanyl prominent among the drugs and human trafficking. another huge cartel business. so look at this. in 2021, the dea made this map to show the places where they believed based on their work the cartels had influence here in the united states. look how shocking and widespread that map is of cartel influence all across the country here in the united states. bill barr says that mexico is close to being a failed narco state at this point. it must be dealt with like we dealt with isis. in other words, every effort to kill and dismantle these groups. before we get to that, ned price is speaking in the state department. let s watch. do you know if any of the four americans had any previous trips ordealings with mexico in? i couldn t say. that s not something that we d say from the podium. we want to respect the privacy of the americans that were brought to safety and now back in the united states. they re fre
interwoven with parts of the government. some consider plan columbia, a successful battle. washington has appropriated about $12 billion for the plan and related efforts in colombia, where brave and tenacious government fought vigorously against the cartels. coke cultivation did decline but has returned with a vengeance. even worse, the strategy has increased production in neighboring peru and bolivia, the drug trade moves to colombia in the 18980s from peru and bolivia because of the militaryef fors in those countries. this is what experts call the balloon effect. you could just as easy call it capitalism 101, when the richest country in the world has an insatiable demand for drugs, someone will supply them.
these safe havens and pump poisonous drugs in to the united states that are doing massive damage to our people and our economy. it s not going to stop unless we destroy these organizations. the mexican government doesn t have the will or the means to do it. they are perfectly willing to co-exist with these groups. the gestures that they make that s throw us a few bones in this particular case. but it s a kabuki dance at the end of the day. martha: so president biden supported something called plan columbia back in 2000 which allowed u.s. military to partner with columbia to get on the ground to disrupt cocaine trafficking in america. he was supportive of that. we don t hear anything from him really about what he supports in terms of u.s. military involvement in this case. can we go in there without the