But the Biden Administration is receiving a lot of criticism for the deal that brought them home. Well go through all of that in just a moment. Also ahead wellbri you a preview of President Bidens busy day at the United Nations General Assembly here in new york where hes expected to push for continued support for ukraine. Plus the latest on capitol hill to avoid a shutdown as House Republicans are struggling to get all their members onboard with even a shortterm funding deal. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, september 19th. Im jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. Later on this morning President Joe Biden is set to address the United Nations General Assembly for the third time. A Senior Administration official tells nbc news that the president will lay out for the world the steps that he and his administration challenges. Those challenges range from the Largest Armed conflict in europe since world war ii to escalating tensions with global
this is cnn news central. defense secretary lloyds atin, and secretary of state tony blinken is on capitol hill right now, and the goal and the mission for them today is to make the case to lawmakers for president biden s $106 billion ask for an aid package that he wants in order to support both ukraine and israel, two nations at war, two allies of the united states. but what has happened is protests. blinken interrupted multiple times by people protesting, angry over israel s action in ga gaza. cease-fire now! cease-fire now! cease-fire now. sasha bertrand is tracking hearing for us and joining us again, and they have essentially been able to make the opening statements and to the questions from the senators, and what is the case they are making for the aid package? well, kate, one of the big themes that we are hearing from secretary blinken and acetin is that the wars that ukraine and israel are fighting is inextricably linked and you can t divorce the two in a
good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us this morning. we have a terrific lineup of members here. to talk about a number of issues. obviously the republicans had a tremendous week last week. now that impeachment is over, however, we want to make sure people recognize and understand that for the democrats, they re going to be back to kind of business as usual with their policies that we ve seen consistently. what they demonstrated to us over the course of impeachment and since then and before they began impeachment was that they absolutely cannot be trusted. we are seeing both here in the house, as well as on the campaign trail, a series of policies that would bring socialism to this country. i m sure you all saw on the debate stage, only one of their candidates, and it was with a lot of hesitation, raised her hand when the question was whether you d be troubled by having a socialist at the top of the ticket. ms. cheney: so we re going to continue to fight to make sure
president s efforts to interfere with the fed s independent monetary policy. a recent news story noted that trump has tweeted over 100 times about the nomination. many of those tweets appear to be attempting to exercise pressure on the fed. chairman powell, you re the fed brd you and the fed brd of governors must not be swayed by these aggressive tactics. in opposing the fed s independence. you should also be mindful of public perception. trump continues to try to claim credit for economic growth that was put in motion by the plcies of president obama. congressional democrat president obama, congressional democrats and the federal reserve. his irresponsible trade war and g.o.p. tax scam have blown up the national debt, slowed our economic growth, and harmed hardworking american families. trump continues to squander this inherited economy. let me note that i am, however, disappointed in the fed s efforts to deregulate mega banks, most relent recently by proposing to furt
This is just under an hour. As both the senate and house get back to work on capitol hill today, we take a look at a busy week ahead in washington with jason dick and alex moulton. Alex bolton, top priority this week and next is certain to be that looming government funding. Eadline Republican Leaders on the hill huddled with the president at camp david over the weekend. What do we know about what they talked about when it comes to resolving this budget impasse . Guest well, they are talking about with the priorities for 2018 should be. As far as the budget goes, what they are concerned about is what they see as a lack of military spending. They feel the military is overstretched. All four branches. Coast guard, navy, marines, army. That readiness is that an alltime low. Speaker ryan put out a Statement Last week, if you look at military readiness in the early 1990s compared to now, it is much degraded. I think they want to focus on boosting that defense spending number over whatever i