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good afternoon. i'm peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we're expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we'll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family h...

>> hello, lindsey graham. thre threatens to kick some you know what. he says, quote, we are screwing america's veterans with this budget. we'll hit that in a moment. to dana bash we go, our chief congressional correspondent. the vote here in the senate. this is not the absolute final vote. this was the procedural vote today on the budget. can we say this is pretty much a done deal here? >> yes, we can say it's pretty much a done deal. the time vote is going to be tomorrow. based on the fact that a dozen republicans joined all democrats in the key procedural vote today, probably won't get that ...

Budget. is that enough to you? to get the thing off the ground? not even 1%, in cuts? >> well, as you know there's a lot of confusion, because, what the republicans are talking about, now, is they are focused on a very narrow piece of the budget pie. they are not considering the tax give aways to the oil and gas industry and we have --s. martha: they want to raise taxes in the the economy is in the process of recovering, and they have been clear on that. >> let's be very clear. gas prices at the pump are at very high levels, oil companies are making record profits, and it will not change the p...

It will be more far reaching. the essential services, national security, those kinds of thins will continue. when it comes to the park service and department of agricultural services all of those thins will have to come to a halt. martha: democrats think they ought to cut more. i did the numbers on this. they are arguing about .6% of the federal budget. this is what you folks in washington can't get together on .6%. >> you raise a fair point it's ridiculous we're having to discussion. this is spending over about a six-month period. there are much bigger issues on the table we ought to be talki...

And to get those kind of cuts out of that small piece of the budget pie is going to mean some serious reductions, and community development block grants, community service block grants and a whole host of programs that are very important to people. so i think we're going to see a lot of pain in the president's budget, but we're also going to see some important investments in the country's future in terms of renewable energy, education, things they can make as competitive on the world stage >> but he is talking about some of those cuts and things that frankly had been pet projects of his. envir...