even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story triggered a media explosion, especially the part about donald trump repeatedly holding on to documents so sensitive they could only be seen in a secure government room and a deep s
going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it s not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events were open to the press. so we did not get the opportunity to ask him any questions. they even wouldn t let the drone fly in the area once he was here. after landing in del rio, he traveled to eagle pass where the secretary visited a border patrol processing facility that opened last month. the 153,000 square foot facility is on 24 acres and has a capacity of 1,000. then mayorkas traveled down here
of the search affidavit should stay secret or go public, and president joe biden unveils his student loan forgiveness plan canceling thousands of dollars of debt for millions of borrowers. we ll break down what it means for the u.s. economy as so many americans are drowning in debt. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. search and rescue efforts are continuing in ukraine tonight after that deadly attack on a train station. president volodymyr zelenskyy revealing a short time ago the death toll has climbed for 22 including an 11-year-old child. ukrainian officials that russia launched multiple missile strikes as vladimir putin s war hits the half-year mark. sam kyly is on the ground in ukraine and filed this report? dawn, ukrainian independence day outside kharkiv, marking 31 years of freedom from the soviet union, but not from russia. flags, but not pe
official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov
ahead this week, there s two things you should drop into your calendar. first of all, the next hearing of the january sixth investigation is gonna be tomorrow, tuesday. it starts at 1:00 eastern, whether or not you are available at 1:00 eastern, whether or not you are available to watch that live, you should know that we re gonna have a primetime recap tomorrow night after the hearing. we will recap all the most important stuff from the hearing and what it means, tomorrow night, in primetime, starting at 8:00, eastern. and that is true both for tomorrow s hearing and for the second hearing this week, which happens on thursday. two january sixth hearings this week. tuesday, 1:00 eastern. thursday, 3:00 eastern. and again, whether or not you can watch those live, you will have primetime recaps of each of those, at 8 pm eastern, tuesday and thursday nights. now, in terms of what we are expecting tomorrow, this is kind of the one that i ve been waiting for. it s at least the stuf