things done as well in this congress. and an old friend of mine, when i was up in the senate for 270 years, knows what i'm talking about. we passed more legislation than any congress in history. the infrastructure law, that was a $200 trillion bill reagreed on. the chips in sicience act, costing $300 billion to build these new fabs, factories to make chips, which we invented here in america. the pact act, which is to save the families and keep our commitments to all of those who found themselves in real trouble.

we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don't say we can't get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we've reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don't know why they don't acknowledge any part of what's making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there's things that -- we've got to get things done. that's always been my vision for the country, and i think that's what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we're building an economy from the bottom up

and the middle out. i'm so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad's table when we're growing up. today i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan. giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs, and especially important here in flo florida. you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed income rely on medicare to get by. they require a greater degree of social security and dignity. that's what my plan offers. to many americans laying in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering what happens if i get sick, if i get cancer,

what happens? we'll have to sell the house. how are we going to pay our bills. i know my dad did that when he lost insurance at the company he worked for. look, i get it. i signed the inflation reduction act and took on the most powerful interests we've been fighting for years, pharma, to bring down health care costs so you could have a better night's sleep although we passed it in the middle of last summer, and we let people, no one saw it. because it does not take effect. until january 1st of this year president. not a minute too soon. one in ten americans have diabetes. millions need everyday insulin to stay alive. insulin has been around for 100 years. the guy who invented it didn't patent it because he thought it should be available to everybody. it costs drug companies roughly $10 a vial to make, $13 total to

package it. yet big pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars more and making record profits, but not anymore! we've capped the cost of insulin at $35 for seniors on medicare. but there are millions of americans not on medicare, millions, including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes that need this insulin to save their lives. let's finish the job! and cap insulin at $35 a month for everyone who needs it. we pay more on prescription drugs than any country in the world. the united states of america pays more in prescription drugs than any country in the world. there are many drugs like expensive cancer drugs that cost up to 10, 12, $14,000 a year.

well, as of this year, that can be charged no more. they can pay no more than $3,500, no matter what drug they get, and next year it goes down to $2,000, maximum they have to pay for drugs. no matter how expensive the drug is, the total for the year is only going to be $2,000. and if drug companies raise prices faster than inflation, they'll have to pay medicare back the difference. they'll have to pay them back. we'll also make common vaccines like whooping cough and shingles free instead of $100 to $200 a shot. free for all americans. and we're finally giving medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. we've been trying to do this for years. and by the way, just hold for a second, one of the things a lot of you know in the military, we're able to, at the va, they can negotiate the price they're

going to pay for the drugs that soldiers and sailors and airmen et cetera need. but big pharma up to now has always stopped their ability to negotiate with them. by the way, they're the only group in the world that we can't negotiate with. wouldn't, couldn't negotiate with. but we finally got it done. bringing down prescription drug costs doesn't just save seniors money, it will cut the federal budget by hundreds of billions of dollars. not a joke. instead of paying $400, they're going to pay $35. that's the government's cost. so this also brings down the deficit. do you guys have to stand the whole time? i'm sorry. why don't you bring in some extra chairs here. for real? do we have chairs out there. that's not right. are you sure?

if you want to come up on stage, you can do that, too, if you want to. look, this is pretty basic. it's pretty basic. when i meet with the new republican leadership, they say, they're not going to raise taxes on anybody at all. and they're not going to do that, they're just going to cut. i say, what would you cut? well, start off, if you don't -- stop trying to do away with the legislation, to whole big pharma accountable, i'll cut by hundreds of billions of dollars a day. and he looked at me, like, what hell he's talking about? guess what? you pay that cost. republicans senators and congressmen, and there are a lot of good ones, are still threatening to repeal the inflation reduction act, which contains this legislation. republicans in congress have their way, the power we just gave medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices goes

away. a $2,000 cap next year on prescription drugs goes away. the $35/month insulin limitation goes away. and by the way, i was able to get enacted an $800 a year savings for americans to get their health insurance under the affordable care act. but guess what? they want that to go away, too. they've been trying to get rid of the affordable care act for years, and millions of people are on it. if republicans repeal the inflation reduction act, we'll lose that $800 as well. and all the people who get their health care through the affordable care act, 20% of all the people who get their health care through the affordable care act live in florida. 20%. and by the way, that's 3.2 million people. they're still trying to take it away. and i might know just parenthetically, i'll get back to this, but we're able to do all of this, and i cut the

budget by $1.7 trillion. $1.7 -- more than any president has in all of american history! [ cheers and applause ] and one of the reasons why, if you can hold for a second, one of the reasons why is because i thought it was time people began to pay their fair share a little bit. you know, in 2020, there were 55 american corporations, of the largest fortune 500 companies who made $40 billion. they paid zero. zero. zero. zero in taxes. and i really did something offensive to them. i made them pay 15%. that's less than a nurse pays or a firefighter. but that 15%, guess what? it paid for all of this. raise your hand -- and i made a

commitment when i got elected, i was going to keep it. i kept it and i'm going to keep it. no one making less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in tax. not one single solitary cent. so, folks, this is doable. it's just -- i'm not going to embarrass anybody or myself here by asking you, anybody who thinks that the federal income tax system is fair, raise your hand. it's not -- look. you've got, right now, there are a thousand trillionaires in america. i mean -- excuse me, billionaires in america. a thousand. it went up from 600 and some just in two years. you know how much they painch -- t average percent of their income they pay? 3%. 3. less than the police officers i met a little bit earlier. well, folks, look, make no mistake about it. if they try to raise the price

of prescription drugs or abolish the affordable care act, i will veto it. [ cheers and applause ] look, the affordable care act also includes this offer. if a state expands medicaid -- not medicare, medicaid for the poor, so low-income folks can get health care, the federal government picks up 90% of the cost. that's the deal. 90%. well, guess what? the state only pays 10%. it's a great deal. 39 states said, yeah, send it to us. only 11 states, including florida said, no, no, we don't want medicaid. no, i'm serious. over 1.1 million people in florida would be eligible for medicaid if governor desantis just said, i agree to expand it.

this isn't calculus. by the way, it would also help keep rural hospitals open. why are they closing? all across america. i'll talk about florida for a second. when folks don't have medicaid and they come in to the rural hospitals, there's no one to charge. no money to take care of them if they come through the door. but eight rural hospitals have already closed in florida since 2005, eight, and seven others are at risk closing in rural florida. that's more than a third of all the rural hospitals in this state. and it matters. do you know what the furthest distance from the hospital from your home, if you have an accident, the higher the percentage is you'll die. because it takes so long to get there, to the nearest hospital. that's just a statistic. the only reason medicare

expansion hasn't happened here is politics. it's time to get this done! it really is! and it will be done had you been ele elected. it's not like you're the poorest state in the union. look now, you may have seen, we had a little bit of a spirited debate at the state of the union. [ laughter ] i -- i -- well, i guess i shouldn't say anymore. but particularly with social security and medicare. republicans seem shocked when i took out the pamphlets they were using about cutting medicare and

social security, read from senator scott's proposal. read from the proposal from the senator from wisconsin. they were offended, liar, liar! by the way, the last person who said that on the floor of the senate got censored by the congress, but there were about four, five, i don't know how many. i reminded them that florida's own rick scott is the guy who ran the senate campaign committee for republicans last year, had a plan to sunset -- maybe he's changed his mind. maybe he's seen the lord. but he wanted to sunset it. meaning if you don't reauthorize it, it goes away. sunset social security and medicare every five years. it's not likely to get voted out, but i'll tell you what, it's likely it got cut drastically if you had to do it every five years. the very idea the senator from florida wants to put social security and medicare on the chopping block every five years i find to be somewhat outrageous. so outrageous that you might not even believe it, but it's what he -- i won't do it again --

well, i will. 12-point american rescue plan. one of the points, all federal legislation sunsets over five years. if the law is worth keeping, congress can pass it all over again. look, if it doesn't get reauthorized, it goes out of existence. if the congress wants it, they've got to keep it and vote on the same thing. and then in case there was any doubt, just yesterday, he confirmed that he still likes his proposal. i guarantee you, it will not happen. i will veto it. i will defend social security and medicare. senator scott's not the only one. senator johnson of wisconsin, his own party planned, he laid out social security should be on the chopping block every year. but, look, in his case, as i said, he wants to do it every single year. let's remember what this is all

about. some of you are on social security or your parents or grandparents are. you earned it. you earned every single penny and you paid into every paycheck you've ever got, from the time you were a teenager, you had money taken out for these programs. there are more than government programs. they're a promise we made. work hard and contribute and when the time comes for you to retire, we'll be there for you to help you out. generations of americans have counted on it, and it works. the number of seniors living in poverty has plummeted since social security has been created. and now these guys want to cut it. i don't get it. i really don't. i don't know who they think they are. we saw on tuesday night republicans don't like me being called out on this. they were not very happy with me pointing this out, but, look, i

know that a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. let me say this, if that's your dream, i'm your nightmare. . by the way, that may be redundant. i think they already think that i am, but if anyone tries to cut social security, we're going to stop it. if anyone tries to cut medicare, we're going to stop it. and look, when i called republicans out on this on the state of the union, and they started yelling -- liar" -- not all, but started yelling "liar, liar," i said, so that means y'all are for keeping social security? and they all stood up and said, yeah, skand i said, well, we've got a deal! take these cuts off the table. i sure hope so. i really hope so. they stood up, the vast majority

of them said, yes, we will not cut social security or medicare. the speaker has been reasonable so far. i think the first week in march, why not we just lay out our budgets. and we'll compare them. when i put mine down, they'll see i lowered the deficit this year by 2 tr$2 trillion. by the way, the last fellow who had this job, who never showed up at the transition, he increased the federal debt which took over 200 years to accum accumulate. that's what the debt is, by the way. it's every penny owed since the inception of this nation. and the interest rates that

followed it, okay? that's what it is. >> you've been watching president biden there in tampa, florida. this is day two of a two-day swing, post state of the union address. he's at the university of tampa, a lot of young people there, but this message clearly targeted toward older voters there, talking about protecting and strengthening medicare, social security, as well after what we watched at state of the union earlier this week. >> and targeting really one person in particular. and that's one florida republican, rick scott. and accusing him again of going back to what he had put out in his own plan. that is wanting to sunset entitle programs like medicare and social security. rick scott has sweeted at the president. we'll get into all of this in just a moment. we want to begin with cnn white house krcorrespondent, arlette saenz, along with alice stewart and ana navarro.

president biden sharpening his message, post that state of the union in battleground battleground states. we saw him in wisconsin yesterday. i think it's kind of hard to call florida a battleground right now, although that's what he would like to see. but sticking to this one message, and that is defending medicare and social security. >> reporter: yeah, bianna and victor, president biden showing that he is nowhere close to backing down from this fight with republicans as he is trying to paint himself and democrats as the defenders of social security and medicare. of course, the president traveling down to florida, a senior-rich state, even though in the state of florida, he lost seniors by about ten points against former president trump. but he travel there had and specifically returned to naming names as he is making this argument. once again taking on florida senator rick scott, who had introduced unveiled a plan that would sun sit all federal legislation, including social security and medicare. now, senator mitch mcconnell did not see that as a winning argument for republicans, tried to shoot it down initially and

today senator rick scott was on our air repeatedly right to defend himself, saying that he does not intend to cut those programs. this is something that the white house ultimately believes will play into their favor. it's also interesting, the president didn't just argue about social security and medicare, he was also talking about trying to lower prescription drug costs and health care costs. that's something that could also resonate with older voters. you also can't deny the two giant republican elephants who are in the room in the state of florida, as it is home to both florida governor ron desantis, who the president did briefly mention in his remarks, and former president trump, who can serve as two of his chief republican rivals should he launch a 2024 re-election bid in the coming weeks. >> alice, let me come to you, the president obviously thinks he has a winning issue here, hanging out the pamphlets, chaining the signage to focus on medicare. did republicans and their

behavior, and by putting rick scott of all people, but putting him out front and behaving the way they did, they served this up to the president? >> first, victor, i think the behavior, the heckling of the president during the state of the union was unacceptable. but as far as this issue, look, rick scott wrote this up in a plan that is not collecting dust in washington, d.c. the most important thing is we have mitch mcconnell, who says, republicans are not going to cut medicare and social security. we have the leader -- the speaker of the house, kevin mck mccarthy who says, this is not what we're talking about. you talk to republicans here in washington, d.c., they are not looking to cut social security and medicare. that is completely off the table. here's what's happening. is that president biden is really using this as a fake argument. this is a false foil. and he certainly would much rather talk about something that is not true than run on his record, which many americans are not satisfied with. that's why we see polls show

that four in ten americans feel as though they are worse off financially. and here's the -- look, i don't blame the white house for going after this and using this. it's leerclearly resonating wit democrats. the problem, once people recognize what the president says about republicans cutting these entitlement programs when they realize that's not the case, then they're really going to be left in a lurch trying to find a message that actually works. because this is not a true argument for the democrats and republicans are going to work feverishly to make sure that american people understand republicans are not going to cut those programs. >> ana, to you now. the location of where the president is is interesting, given that to quote another president, president obama, the democrat took a she lllacking i the midterms. an historic shellacking, we should note, in terms of losing to republicans. republicans are outfund-raising democrats in the state right now, the voter registration gap continues to grow. clearly, they've got a lot of

ground to cover here. desantis is saying, this is a strong red state at this point. is that the case? and do you think it's smart that the president is there this early in without even announcing that he's running yet? >> well, look, i don't think he's there because it's florida, because it's a red state or a purple state or a blue state. i think it's there because it's where the most amount of people percentage wise, folk affected by these programs live. the most amount percentage wise of senior citizens. the most people on obamacare. people that would be affected by medicare expansion. that's why he is there, because of the message. and because he is taking it, giving it on the chin to rick scott, who can deny this all he wants, but joe biden's got to receipts. you can see how much he relishes and enjoys lifting up the actual pamphlet. it's literally in writing. he is not making this up. one of the things i disagree with joe biden on, i loved everything he said, i thought it

was right on point, but for the part about charlie crist, you're not done yet. no, no, joe, charlie crist is done. he lost by 20 points. and what the democratic party needs in florida is a younger generation, a new stable of candidates, people that can energize the democratic base. so folks like charlie crist, put a fork in them! they are done. they need new democrats energizing floridians. >> ana, let me stay with you. you know rick scott's history pip first interviewed him when he was running for governor of florida back in 2010. rick scott was the ceo of columbia ata, when he was ceo, the company defrauded medicare, medicaid, tri-care, which is for military members, and in 2003, they settled with the department of justice the largest health care fraud case in u.s. history, $1.7 billion in all.

now that he is the face of, trust us, we'll protect medicare, seems problematic for republicans, even with the speaker saying, we're not going to cut social security and medicare. >> it is problematic for republicans. which is why you've heard the minority leader, mitch mcconnell say, this is not representative of republicans. but i could not figure out -- first of all, i don't know how in the world we made him the governor of florida. it's an indictment on us in florida that that happened. this is one of the most awkward men, poor communicators, strange duck, who basically put in hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to buy himself elected office. and he has achieved it. but then it was republicans in the senate who made him the face, the chair of the republican campaign arm in the senate. a huge mistake. he then had the gumption to try to contest mitch mcconnell's

leadership, but i think rick scott is as much an irritant and a thorn on republicans' side as he is to joe biden. he is frankly -- not a thorn on joe biden's side, he's a gift that keeps on giving to joe biden. and he's been confronted about his plan, which is in writing, not only by democrats, not only by joe biden, but by fox news. by people in his own party. >> ana's certainly the florida expert, but i worked on rick scott's campaign in 2010 and he campaigned on jobs, jobs, jobs. he is by no means and by no stretch of the imagination the face of the republican party on this issue. you need to listen to kevin mccarthy who told president bush at -- or president biden at the white house that these programs are not on the chopping block. he's the face of the republican party, as well as mitch mcconnell. >> well, just ask mitch mcconnell what he thinks about rick scott, and that'll give you

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today, the house of representatives unanimously approved a resolution condemning china over its spy balloon entering u.s. air space. >> the fbi announced they are in the early stages of examining the remnants of the shot-down spy craft. officials told lawmakers some of what they've learned, including the revelation that the balloon was capable of monitoring u.s. communications and was just part of a larger multi-continent chinese espionage program. cnn's natasha bertrand is in washington with details. what are you learning? >> yeah, victor. so we are learning more about the balloon's actual capabilities here. according to a senior state department official who briefed lawmakers earlier today, that balloon that was shot down on saturday was actually capable of collecting signals intelligence, which essentially means that it was potentially able to collect intelligence about

conversations. and also that these balloons were actually part of a fleet that were flown over more than 40 countries across five continents. learning more there about the actual capabilities that the balloon had and just how large this fleet actually was. in briefings today, u.s. officials did emphasize that ultimately, the u.s. has protocols to protect its sensitive information and we are told by a senior administration official that the balloon actually was not very sophisticated in terms of what it could pick up, and that the u.s. tried to avoid unencrypted communications in the vicinity of the balloon. also, the balloon did not necessarily transmit information back to beijing, because once it realized that the u.s. knew that it was in u.s. air space, it apparently stopped those transmissions. there are still a lot of questions here about why the u.s. did not shoot it down a lot earlier, particularly when it entered u.s. air space over alaska. and what a senior pentagon official told lawmakers today is that essentially, the u.s. just wanted to wait and see what the balloon was going to do, and potentially gather intelligence on it. here's what he said.

>> there was no hostile act or hostile intent. that would be the first. there was no impact to aviation routes, which would be another piece of that. the other would be, there was no, at the time, there was no suspected impact to critical intelligence gathering ability, in terms of infrastructure. that changed as the balloon made -- as it path continued. and as we reconstruct the path, we are not correspond with intelligence gathering in alaska. and based on that, the assessment continued from nor ad north com to continue to observe and report. >> so, victor and bianna, we are reporting that there was a defense intelligence agency report that outlined on january 27th, the day before this balloon entered u.s. air space that a foreign object was headed our way. again, the u.s. did not view this with particular urgency, because they had seen these kind of maroons before and wanted to wait to see where it would go and if they could collect intel on it. the balloon did end up making a

sharp turn southward towardsmont and that's when u.s. officials became increasingly concerned and the president was then briefed. >> that was around the 31st that the president was briefed. natasha bertrand. >> let's discuss with former deputy director of national intelligence, beth sanders and cedric layton. colonel, let me start with you. you there in natasha's reporting that the administration believes that the technology is not sophisticated. there were no intel-collecting capabilities on the balloon, on this drone beyond what the chinese had through other methods. is this less egregious than initially thought? is it a huge deal? your thoughts? >> victor, i'm not so sure i buy the latest reporting, i certainly buy what natasha is saying, but i don't buy what the administration is saying about this. i think the capabilities of the balloon were probably pretty

significant. they were probably pretty similar to what the chinese can get from their satellites. what natasha did mention was the fact that they probably cut the communications link from the balloon back to china, back to its home base in china in order to avoid get intercepted and giving us a better look at how they communicate with each other. so i think these balloons have the potential of being sophisticated, but i don't think we know all the answers yesterday. i would still consider it to be a pretty big threat, victor. >> beth, same question to you. do you think it's as much of a threat as we thought it was at the end of last week when we first learned about it? >> i think it poses a threat, as cedric said, but i also believe that because we saw it and we were able to monitor it, we were able to mitigate any direct threat from this particular balloon at this time. i think that, you know, the ability for us now to collect

this information off the floor and really examine it, it's actually, as a former intel person, this is a gift. it's a gift from the chinese, now that we will have it in our hands, we will be able to explain to everybody exactly what this is, and we will be able to protect and prevent problems with this sort of collection in the future. >> let me stay with you, beth. we know that this was discovered, became public right before secretary blinken was headed off to china to meet with president xi and of course, that's now been postponed. calls to china are not being answered, essentially. here's the president last night on pbs. >> have relations now between the u.s. and china taken a big hit? >> no. no. >> you think that's true, that this has not worsened relations between the two countries?

>> well, you can look at that from two different angles. one is that the relationship the china is essentially at an all-time low. we had a big -- a little bump, a positive bump coming out of the president biden/president xi meeting in bali in november. and that kind of prevented a continuing downward spiral, but things are pretty bad. so, i guess i disagree in that i do think that there was a path to resuming dialogue with china, which i actually believe is very important to have open communications. that's how you prevent the wheels from coming off the bus. and now we done have that, so i would say, we've taken another hit, but things were already strategically very low. >> colonel, one more element of natasha's reporting there, that the spy balloon entered u.s. air

space over alaska, and the defense intelligence agency disseminated an internal moment, did not flag it as urgent, so the top officials were not alarmed. instead, an opportunity to observe and collect intelligence. how could thf not, considering we know there were balloons that passed over before, should this have been flagged? >> i certainly think it should have been flagged, victor. the key thing here is lack of imagination. and as beth and i both know, it's one of the most important things is to get inside the head of the adversary. and we failed to appreciate in moments like this sometimes what the adversary is actually up to. and in this particular case pb it's an ingenious way of collecting intelligence information, has a lot of potential capabilities, a lot of possibilities for them from a collection standpoint. and that's something that should have definitely been flagged for the chain of command and

potentially all the way up to the president. >> colonel cedric layton, beth sanders, i appreciate the insight. thank you. the gop-controlled house making good on another promise as they hold their first hearing on the alleged weaponization of the federal government. we are live on the hill with an update. that's next. a thing of the past. because ononly tempur-pedic uses our one-of-a-kind, incredibly adaptive tempur® material... to relieve pressure pointsts and support your body, in a way no other mattress can. molecule by molecule, and millimeter by millimeter. all night. every night. during the tempur-pedic presidents day sale, save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets, and experience deep, undisturbed rest. learn more at tempurpedic.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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a new house committee charged with investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government is holding its first hearing on capitol hill right now. >> the committee is chaired by republican representative jim jordan and was created by the new gop-led house majority to investigate alleged

discrimination by the government against conservatives. cnn's sara murray is live on capitol hill. so, sara, what more are you hearing so far? >> they've gotten through their first panel of their first subcommittee hearing. as you can imagine, republicans are sort of laying out their argument without a ton of evidence why they believe the federal government has targeted conservative and they've gotten a lot of pushback from democrats. take a listen to jim jordan framing up his argument along with delegate stacey plaskett, the top democrat on this subcommittee. >> protecting the first amendment shouldn't be partisan, protecting the constitution shouldn't be partisan, and protecting the fundamental principle of equal treatment under the law should not be partisan. >> i'm deeply concerned about the use of this select subcommittee as a place to settle scores, showcase conspiracy theories, and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining americans' faith in our democracy. >> now, in this first a financial, we heard from senators chuck grassley, ron

johnson, former congresswoman tulsi gabbard. we heard complaints about temporarily spresuppressing the hunter biden laptop story. we heard coronavirus vaccines and their stories that they personally feel tarlgted by levers of government. we heard from congressman jamie raskin, who really framed up the argument for democrats saying that the real federalization of the federal government is this committee. and he pointed to instances when donald trump was president, he used the federal government to target people he was opposed to. >> and there we see eliot williams, who is often on our air testifying right now. sara murray, thank you. a cable news reporter was arrested when he started reporting during a news conference about the ohio train derailment. we'll tell you what went wrong and how everyone from the network executives to the state's governor are reacting.

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a news nation reporter is out of jail after he was arrested for what he said was just doing his job. >> correspondent evan lambert was doing a live report on the ohio train derailment when he was abruptly asked to leave and then pushed to the ground and handcuffed by police. >> are you going to refuse -- it's all being recorded. >> i hope it is. it's horrible. >> because you can't talk to people about doing their job. >> oh, my god. i cannot believe this. >> you hear how stunned he was

that this was happening to him. jason carroll joins us now. what was evan charged with. >> reporter: criminal trespass and resisting arrest if you can believe it and in that video that you saw there just like moments before, he was physically thrown to the ground. i mean i think that's what's so shocking to so many people who were there. we were there with lambert, you know, there in east palestine, ohio, for some time covering this story. he was reporting during a live event which as you guys know reporters, we do this all the time. d.c., all across the country. doing live report he was told he was being too loud and was told to stop reporting. he stopped reporting and, remember, this was during a critical moment during the press conference when so many people were waiting to hear information about when an evacuation order would be lifted. he stopped reporting. shortly thereafter he was thrown to the ground handcuffed arrested and charged. now, ohio's governor was speaking during this particular moment in time. he sort of heard about what was happening. he was asked about it and said

he did not approve of what was going on. >> i didn't see it. i heard a commotion. didn't know what went on until i was told and she gave me that information. i'm not sure she knew much about it or what happened so all i can say is that person had a right to be reporting. he should have been allowed to report. if they were in any way hampered from reporting, that certainly is wrong and it's not anything that i approve, in fact, i vehemently disapprove of it. >> well, lambert is a national correspondent for news nation. that particular network issued a statement that said the following in part, having handled this unfortunate situation with true professionalism and appreciate his commitment as a journalist whose goal is to report stories that are fair and unbiased. on a positive front i spoke with evan a short time he was, he was calm, cool, collected and already talking about his next