wow. americans heard and responded with a resounding ew. bizarre. president biden whew. on defense. over high consumer prices. there you go, inflation in the morning. he says inflation is a top domestic priority. and, again, takes aim at maga republicans. we re going to play for you his new comments and have the new inflation report when it crosses later this morning. plus, a mixed night for trump-backed candidates, with a win in west virginia, but a loss in nebraska. boy, that nebraska loss, statewide, it may show again, it may be easier for donald trump to win in smaller congressional races, much harder, statewide, in states like nebraska. maybe pennsylvania, we ll see. we ll discuss what this says about the former president s hold on the republican party. and ukraine reports new gains in kharkiv, saying it has managed to recapture villages. and is pushing back russian forces. we ll have the latest on the counteroffensive in a region that has come un
world series champion chicago cubs making a second visit to the white house today as they re in town to play the nationals. manager joe madden says it s voluntary for players and it has a lot to do with the fact that the rickets family have strong ties to capitol hill. chairman tom rick kits who donated to donald trump s campaign says he thinks it would be fun to have an unofficial visit with the team. the cubs visited chicago native president obama in january. there are multiple reports that knicks owner could announce that phil jackson is out as president of the knicks. cnn has been unable to confirm the report. we ll keep an eye on it. thank you, coy. why would republicans attack one of their own for opposing the health care bill. one pro trump senator was set to go. we ll discuss that next.
the ricketts family, funny story this, not that long ago they almost single sourced financing behind the presidential campaign of scott walker for president. when governor scott walker s presidential campaign died a fast and expensive death, the ricketts family briefly flirted with going never-trump. but a very interesting moment in the campaign, donald trump responded by publicly threatening the ricketts family against spending money against them. he miss spled their name in the tweet. i hear the rickets family are secretly spending money against me. they better be careful. they have a lot to hide. after trump publicly threatened the ricketts family over what they have to hide and spending money against him, after that the ricketts family decided that they would spend money to support trump after all. and now one of the billionaire ricketts sons will be deputy secretary of the treasury.
one of the billionaires from the ricketts family to be the deputy to the new billionaire commerce secretary. the ricketts family, funny story this, not that long ago they almost single sourced financing behind the presidential campaign of scott walker for president. when governor scott walker s presidential campaign died a fast and expensive death, the ricketts family briefly flirted with going never-trump. but a very interesting moment in the campaign, donald trump responded by publicly threatening the ricketts family against spending money against them. he miss spled their name in the tweet. i hear the rickets family are secretly spending money against me. they better be careful. they have a lot to hide. after trump publicly threatened the ricketts family over what they have to hide and spending money against him, after that the ricketts family decided that they would spend money to support trump after all. and now one of the billionaire ricketts sons will be deputy
last couple of days over the fact that pence had a fund-raiser scheduled in nebraska. he was supposed to do one today in nebraska with governor pete rickets. that was canceled. that itself isn t a big deal. campaign events get canceled, fund-raisers get moved. check out why it was canceled. canceled for a lack of interest in the donor community in nebraska for the trump/pence fund-raiser. now, the nebraska governor s pete rickets. the rickets family is a billionaire family, they have their own super pac supporting the trump/pence ticket but even they couldn t rustle up enough donors to make it worth mike pence s while to come to nebraska for a fund-raiser. canceled for a lack of interest. we re the first in the national news to report that that fund-raiser is not the only one canceled this week for a lack of interest. mike pence was also supposed to do a fund-raiser in new jersey,