ernst: agree 100%.f you go back in time, i remember a time when many of these democrats were saying nine is the right number. but now they've changed their tune. so we want to keep it nine, and we think this is the right thing to do. the liberals are radically trying to change the united states as we know it. we have to hold strong. >> with iowa being first in the nation and the speculation surrounding your intentions and what you might do in 2024, can you say with the chances are of you running for president in 2024? sen. scott: i can absolutely with certainty tell you that my goal is to be reelected as the united states senator representing the great state of south carolina. i love spending time with my friends wherever they are. frankly, any conversation that goes beyond my primary in june is irrelevant. if you don't win in june, you don't have a shot to win in november. why have a conversation about something that's not even possible as it relates to where i want to be in the next several months. >>

ernst: i am so honored. mr.aufmann: i know you have some strong feelings and strong roots, some folks you still think about every day. sen. ernst: absolutely. it always goes back to my mother, my father, and my grandparents. growing up in southwest iowa, and for many of you as well, you probably grew up new your family. i was so blessed to live very close to both sets of grandparents, and of course, my mom and dad, very much like kim's parents. she played every sport under the sun. i played every sport under the sun. unlike the governor, i was not good at those ports. [laughter] but my parents still came. but, yes, my mother and father, they were very hard workers, and on my mother's side, my grandparents, my actual mother's father had passed away before she was born, and she did not know her biological father, but she had a wonderful stepfather, and he was a farmhand. my mother's family did not have anything. and they did not land, so my stepgrandfather was a farmhand, but also worked on jobs to help make ends

ernst: i'm worried! jeff: your staff told me and the governor's staff told me i'm one of the few folks that you actually don't do prep beforehand. that's a lot of trust you're putting in me. but no. this is an opportunity. i want you to see what makes these folks tick. when it's all said and done, the quality of the individual is the integrity of the individual that we trust when you're in d.c. or whether we're in des moines or your county seat. so i want to start all the way back, senator scott, we'll start with you. you had mentioned that you grew up in a single parent household. you mentioned your wife with -- your mother with great reference. -- reverence. tell me. your story is a great one. it's an american story. there's no doubt about it. why does it matter in terms of your leadership as governor and now as senator, why does it matter where you grew up, the fact you grew up in a single parent home, the fact that you grew up in -- with some pretty meager surroundings, does that matter and why? sen.

senators, one on each side of the aisle, a rare joint interview from senators kirsten gillibrand and joni ernst to talk about their support of a bill that would bring reform to the military and the way it deals with sexual assault allegations. >>> we're live with dr. murthy about the president's plea to get vaccinated and the potential ban on menthol cigarettes. >>> the 100th day of the biden administration, i'm hallie jackson in washington joined by monica alba, outside the white house, leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill, priscilla thompson in atlanta where the president is set to arrive in a couple hours. he's going to leave, scheduled to this hour. ellison barber outside miami with reaction to the president's speech. we learned that president has tasked some key cabinet members, five of them, to try to sell this plan that he unveiled to the american public last night. what do you expect to see, not just today with the president on the road, but in the coming days ahead? >> well, it will be similar to what we saw after the president unveiled his covid relief bill and hit the road and then

joining me now, democratic senator kirsten gillibrand of new york and joni ernst.d to have you here. senator ernst, you have resisted a change like this for years. what changed? >> i have. starting years ago, of course, i served in the military. i was a commander. so i understand how important this issue has been for military commanders and the desire to keep these types of decisions within the military chain of command. but i'm also a survivor of sexual assault and i have done everything i can think of in the past six years, in my first term of office to work within the existing structure and system to do better for sexual assault survivors. we are not seeing a dent in the numbers. and after the report that came from ft. hood this last year, we saw very toxic leadership climate that allowed horrible things to happen. and we have to see a shift. senator gillibrand, be who has been a very dear friend of mine and a relentless advocate on this issue, she approached me again this year. we sat down and thought let work through this. let find a way forward that will work

later, he and senator joni ernst said they are in favor of preserving the state's first in the nation presidential caucuses. senator scott is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate but hasn't yet publicly announced a white house bid. [applause] >> and we have a special guest here today. and

and a new can hear is the head of the life science sector and strategy and transactions at ernst and young advisory firm welcome to g.w. alexander how significant is it to have a local or rather domestic vaccine production within the e.u. vaccine makers have the freedom to sell their product all over the world a freedom that they make proper use of. yeah i think it's a it's an important step 1st of all i think one reminding one year back no one would have believed that you can build such capacities at such high speeds so really normal times require 5 years or more to build a plant from green fields to full supply and $1000000000.00 us produced out of my book in germany is a huge step forward at full capacity $1000000000.00 this means that we can basically supply not only the european union but the world and clearly you see also that. in some regions and even in the u.s. still under trum. america 1st regime was applied for a vaccine ceasar that's why i'm with dow not it's not delivering. more then more doors as tool to europe at the moment because the biden government hasn't changed r

how far did this get and what has senator ernst done to help? you had president obama say reform was needed. he asked his secretary of defense to create a panel to review the issue, and they said they also believed these revisions should be taken out of the chain of command. third, you've got individual senators who are at a point where they want to support reform. jodi ernst the only republican female who was in combat supports this legislation, and so does some of the more moderate democratic senators who were on the armed services committee and wanted to see if other reforms worked first, people like angus king and mark warner and john tester. those senators have now changed their view and they are supporting the bill. you just have growing momentum. because we've put into place every small piece of low-hanging fruit you can imagine. we've had several panels come up with recommendations. during the entire eight years i've been either the ranking or the chairwoman of the subcommittee. so i put those reforms in place, and they haven't made it b

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ernst: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. ms. ernst: madam president, it's been 100 days since president biden delivered his inaugural address promising our nation unity, not division. he called on all of us to listen to one another, noting that unity requires more than words. i was there, and i was listening. i was hopeful that he actually meant what he said. but that very same day, as soon as he reached the other end of pennsylvania avenue, president biden seemed to forget his own words, as he began signing a record number of executive orders. with the stroke of a pen, he unilaterally created a new migrant crisis by reversing the previous administration's successful policies and ceasing construction of the wall. he also killed thousands of jobs for american workers by canceling the x.l. pipeline. and that was just his first day on the job. since then, the president and his democratic allies in congress have used a partisan process to fast-track trillions of dollars of new spending for their pricey pet projects. despite the pres

secondly, when i announced everyone, when you're going to do these iowa senator joni ernst says the decision should be based on conditions on the ground, not targeted dates. >> i think we should not just be setting a date for the sake of the day. the senate majority leader chuck schumer says he needs more time before commenting on the president's decision. but the bottom line is i'm getting a briefing on that and i'm going withhold judgment until i hear from the biden administration had one talk, but i need to have another. >> now. the pentagon says there's currently about 2500 troops still serving in afghanistan. >> in washington, rashad hudson back to you. >> thank you for that report this morning were shot. coming up next on the kron 4 morning news bay area leaders unveil plan to reduce homelessness. the steps they plan to take and that we'll have that story up next. bay area leaders have unveiled a plan to reduce homelessness by 75% in 3 years. according to 2019 data from the u.s. department of housing urban development. more than 35,000 people across the region are living on the streets

so i don't love it as a solution, but i was grateful that at least senator rubio and senator joni ernst was also interested in using the infrastructure of an earned benefit. that makes a difference. and so i think there's common ground somewhere in there. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer says that he'll consider using reconciliation, which would require the support of all 50 democrats and i guess my question for you is will president biden have real credibility as a bipartisan leader if his first two major pieces of legislation are passed through without a republican vote? >> i do. unfortunately what we've seen from mitch mcconnell is he plays politics at all times. he's really insisted on the republican party staying lock-step and that's not for the good of the country. so if you ask the country do they support this first covid relief bill, overwhelmingly yes, including republicans. so i think from a voters' perspective, they see solving the covid crisis, getting the economy up and running the most bipartisan agenda you could have. >> is that a little bit redefining what biparti

ernst, the senator from missouri mr. blunt, the senator from florida mr.cotto. >> the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors to the right and left of the podium. [inaudible] >> madam speaker, the dean of the diplomatic floor. [applause] [inaudible] [gavel] >> madame speaker, the chief justice of the supreme court. [applause] [inaudible] [applause] [inaudible] [gavel] >> madame speaker, representative of the president's cabinet. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] [gavel] [applause] [inaudible]

defense budget stayed flat and will decrease when accounting for inflation, republican senator joni ernst, a member of the armed services committee, took issue with the perceived snub. quote america's adversaries have steadily chipped away our warfighters technological advantages. letters through force, business transfers, simple, traditional stealing or development of new abilities. now is not the time to slow investments in our national defense, congress and potus must set our war fighters for success with sufficient and responsible funding for the pentagon. president binds proposed defense budget doesn't achieve that the white house has proposed a separate $2.3 trillion plan to fix infrastructure. ah more formal budget is due later this spring, which will include social security, which last year accounted for 23% of the federal budget in washington. lucas tomlinson, fox news. dozens of 7 37 max jets have been pulled from service for inspection after boeing notified airlines of a potential problem. boeing says it told airlines at a potential electrical problem was found. well, some 7 37

ought to be citizens of the united states against [indiscernible] i think the battle has to start and ernst- in earnest now. guest: those are a bunch of great questions and comments. what a lot of people are going to say when they listen to you is maria, these are crazy conspiracy theories you're talking about. there's no way a foreign spy could ever influence the u.s. government. you might point them to alger has, a top ranking state department official who was working for the soviet union during the cold war, detailed in the excellent book witness, one of the books that moved ronald reagan from the liberal camp to the conservative camp. you mentioned the bureaucracy seems to be unaccountable to the american people. this is obviously the case. i remember antonin scalia a, had the privilege of meeting him a couple times before he died, and he said the greatest threat to liberty and the united states is the administrative state because it had such a mission drift and has become so unaccountable as well to the american people. the degree to which these issues are affecting our day-to-day migh

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congressional candidate harold ernst joins me to help answer that, thanks for joining me. >> thanks foraims by rafael warnock include ending no excuse mail in voting and restrictively voting on the weekends. what is your reaction to that? >> i tell you it is a shame. he's pushing a narrative saying he wants unity but he uses words to divide us further. that is the problem, we have politicians in hollywood who say they are one of us but don't know what it is like to be one of us. when jobs are lost, businesses are left. >> telling what is going on, what are they dealing with? i find an interview yesterday with a business owner who said it is the all-star game but for us the all-star weekend. >> it if it's close for me. the truest part of the all-star game, less than a quarter-mile from my district. for me it is like i have a 3-year-old and the 2-year-old, i know these struggles, the struggles are real for a lot of family members. they are trying to put food on the table. i talked to one gentleman who mentioned he ordered a bunch of products in preparation for the all-star game. we have p

starting with senator marsha blackburn of tennessee then ted cruz of texas, steve baines of montana, joni ernstof violet james franklin of oklahoma and of utah. and we have represented to birches of tennessee, debbie from arizona and ralph norman of south carolina. thank you all very much. i will be back after they are done. >> hi there everybody prime u.s. senator marsha blackburn. and i am so pleased to join you and talk with you for just a few minutes about this year 's big congressional pig book. and if you are trying to keep up with some of this, this is going to be one of your very best resources. over the past year we have watched washington i should say the liberal elites in washington cover everything with covid spending. in order to cram this into covid relief packages and get them passed in the senate. and if you are watching this press conference, you probably already know the being the big spenders have been far less concerned with actually recovering from the pandemic and providing pandemic relief and more concerned with handouts for their special interest cronies. it's a new year

now let me organized senator ernst, please. >> thank you mr. and gentlemen, thank you very much for your testimony today and i do want to take time to thank you, your senior enlisted members and all of the men and women within your command for their continued service to our nation. i will move into my questions but what we're doing today, we are obviously discussing the significant challenges that both of you have within your commands. our national defense strategy is still targeted towards five very real threats. china, russia, iran, north korea and then of course, our violent extremists groups and four of those five challenges operate in both of your ao ours and, of course, the way that we operate and resource your ao ours is very different but general townsend, i would like to start with you and within after, we do have various pockets of activities and we do engage special operation forces in those areas and the lake cap bas a very volatile region and there are a number of those violent extreme as organizations they are such as isis, boca h

and senator ernst. and i have talked. and you may live in the sunshine state, senator, but i think joni, you have the final word on this, but i think -

. >> reporter: in san francisco, tom jens ernst nbc bay area news. >> trying to make sure everyone who wants a shot can get one today the city of san francisco launched a new covid vaccination site in the excelsior districts one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the city. this is a larger part of the plan to make sure advantages eents get to those hardest hit. this area is home to latinos, asian americans and pacific islanders. the site will be open wednesday through saturday. you've got your vaccine card. you've probably received one of those, a card that says that vaccine you got, when you got it, where, and just how important is this little card and how far should you go to keep it safe? nbc bay area's melissa colorado went searching for those answers. >> reporter: this 3 x 4 inch card is quickly becoming the must-have item of 2021 so how do you protect the covid vaccine 19 card. should you laminate and don't let this happen to you but what happens if you lose it. >> put it safe and tucked away. >> reporter: treat your covid-19 vaccine card like you treat your birth certificat

so it was up to ernst and young to check whether the money wire card claimed to have been in escrow accountin singapore a really existed doc and he really belong to wire card. calmness we gave them a no i basically feel like any other citizen of this country this is you know i really can't understand how that went on seen in the audit that was informed regularly and normally by the audit team company for individuals who has a shift under study to do what i said we're going to write the biggest hardest toughest story where they will half to admit that they're lying and that their story is a fake and their revenues are fake. we published this article and they could not get out of it we also published very unusual internal huge documents to show that documents were not fake and as a result of that the ice is finally melted. the condom on encounter and there you could read how wire cards cook the books and it was quite sophisticated and difficult to grasp. and so unfortunately it was an intelligent model for cheating which is unfortunately why it worked for so long he said i'd also look for som

jennifer joey ernst of iowa called scott the right voice at the right time. >> i do anticipate his message will focus on the gop and what we bring to americans and that is freedom and prosperity and economic growth. it is a voice of unity which is exactly something that the democrats have turned their back on. >> harris: so you started by saying what this is going to be tonight with joe biden will be boring and radical. that will be a huge departure from senator tim scott. he is not a boring guy and he is not radical. >> senator tim scott is the real deal and i think he has a magical moment to be able to show america what conservative values and conservative principles can do for this country and ultimately you have to do what margaret thatcher said. first you have to win the argument and then you can win the votes. i believe mitch mcconnell should step down as minority leader and put tim scott there. if you want to draw a contrast between chuck schumer, nancy pelosi and joe biden there is no better person to do that on a daily basis than senator tim scott. he lives it, he believes it and

. >> angela ernst off our retirement put that in your pipe and smoke it. >>> ahead this hour, cryptoratering and later business of oughtio a big theme today. patrick spence weighing in and we're just getting started here on "techcheck." ♪ >>> a gut check on coinbase. lower this morning down $100 from the debut day high. ceo sold $290 million worth of shares first day of trading. despite the sell-off, one big bull keeps buying, cathie wood, ark invest chief sweeping up shares cos continuit trim tesla keep an eye on that. >> and net earnings from netflix, snap and ibm and annal and facebook holding events. apple, a huge few weeks. a products event, more on the trial lawsuits with epic games and planned privacy changes, which created a huge rift with facebook our julia boorstin taking up that story what's the latest here >> deirdre, expecting apple's new operating system could roll out, could launch any day now, and it is at the center of its battle with facebook about consumer data. the question is how much consumers are tracked and targeted with ads based and that data take a look. ap

chair, i yield back. >> thank you, senator ernst. let me recognize via webex senator manchin. >> thank you, chairman. and thank both of you for your service and your family's commitment to allow you to have the opportunities you be to serve our country. the european and russia have built a strategic partnership in trade, energy, climate, change, research, education, culture and security. the crisis in ukraine and crimea, increased sanctions from both the u.s. and eu but they seem to have limiting effects. so my question would be understanding that the eu is russia's biggest trading partner, and russia is the eu's fourth largest are sanctions in their current forms a viable solution to shaping russia's actions? >> senator, i certainly agree that they contribute in shaping russia's actions. i'll also say living in europe that there's a high degree of convergence at the strategic level between what the eu does and what nato does. and for a military member in charge of military operations i will tell you that the eu contributions in the

secondly, when i announced everyone, when you're going to do these iowa senator joni ernst says the decisionuld be based on conditions on the ground, not targeted dates. >> i think we should not just be setting a date for the sake of the day. the senate majority leader chuck schumer says he needs more time before commenting on the president's decision. but the bottom line is i'm getting a briefing on that and i'm going withhold judgment until i hear from the biden administration had one talk, but i need to have another. >> the pentagon says there are currently 2. they're currently 2500 troops still serving in afghanistan. >> in washington, rashad hudson. back to you. all right. thank you very much for shot. >> democratic lawmakers introduced new legislation to tied to address the spike in hate crimes against asian americans. i'm alexandra limon in washington with all the details coming up. >> 5.24 in national news just in a big rise in attacks on people of asian and pacific islander descent. as you know, the attacks have made with racist remarks and some of them wrongly blaming victims for t

republican senator joni ernst took issue with the perceived snub.america's adversaries have steadily chipped away at our war fighters' technological advances, but it now is not the time to slow investments in our national defense. congress -- with sufficient and responsible funding for the pentagon. president biden's proposed defense budget doesn't achieve that. the white house has proposed a separate $2.3 trillion plan to fix infrastructure. a more form formal budget is due later this spring which will include social security. arthel? arthel: lucas tomlinson, thank you. eric. ♪ eric: well, there it is, more dangerous weather is going through the southeast this weekend after a round of severe storms tore through the gulf states yesterday. trees were knocked down and hail dropped from the sky the size of baseballs. meteorologist adam klotz in the aptly-named fox extreme weather center. adam: hey, eric, those exact same storms moving across the country. it's been a slow-moving cold front that we've seen at lot of severe weather over the last two or th

secondly, one announced everyone when you're going to do these iowa senator joni ernst says the decision should be based on conditions on the ground, not targeted dates. >> i think we should not just be setting a date for the sake of the day. the senate majority leader chuck schumer says he needs more time before commenting on the president's decision. but the bottom line is i'm getting a briefing on that and i'm going to withhold judgment until i hear from the biden administration had one talk, but i need to have another. >> the pentagon says it has about 2500 troops in afghanistan at this time. >> in washington, rashad hudson back to you. >> we're live in windsor this morning. where town council members are deciding whether the mayor should resign after major allegations. i'm live with all the details and reaction, people who live here coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. >> 29 right now, checking out the weather waiting for a bump in the temperatures. yes, and it's common. and boy, it's going

later, he and senator joni ernst said they are in favor of preserving the state's first in the nation presidential caucuses. senator scott is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate but hasn't yet publicly announced a white house bid.

secondly, one announced everyone when you're going to do these iowa senator joni ernst says the decision should be based on conditions on the ground, not targeted dates. >> i think we should not just be setting a date for the sake of the day. the senate majority leader chuck schumer says he needs more time before commenting on the president's decision. but the bottom line is i'm getting a briefing on that and i'm going to withhold judgment until i hear from the biden administration had one talk, but i need to have another. >> now. the pentagon says it's currently 2500 troops serving in afghanistan in washington, rashad hudson back to you. all right. thank you very much for coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news medical experts continue to search for answers as to why some people who survive. >> covid-19 suffer from symptoms. for months afterward. we'll have more on this when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ when it comes to your financial health, just a few small steps can make a real difference. ♪ ♪ ♪ learn, save and spend with guidance from chase. confidence feels good. chase. make more of what

senator joni ernst took issue with that and the perceived snubs. >> and america's adversaries through forced business transfers, traditional stealing, development of new abilities, now is not the time to slow investments in our national defense. congressman says our war fighters for success and funding for the pentagon. president biden's budget doesn't achieve that. 2.3 trillion plan to fix infrastructure and a more formal budget is due this spring, including social security, 23% of the federal budget. lucas tomlinson in washington, thank you so much. >> you're looking live at the view high above the texas border from our drone cam where apprehensions are reaching record levels. congressmen are taking trips, and we've seen the view from the air. what's it like on the ground? >> what we have on the ground is a daily occurrence. what you see here behind me you see every day. there are about 100 behind me and moving on to different facilities. there's a major, major influx here, they've got families, young children, migrants largely from the northern triangle, el salvador and guatemala a

we are now learning that senator joni ernst of iowa has been tapped to deliver the prebattle. her aide say she is going to go hard on the president for what she is calling his failure to go in a bipartisan manner. >> john: tim scott will be getting the response tonight. stephen miller, who wrote four of these addresses, will be joining us. >> sandra: fox news alert. a u.s. navy ship firing warning shots at three armed iranian speedboats on monday night. that happened after the vessels approached the ship and a u.s. coast guard boat at close range, ignoring repeated verbal warnings to pull back. all of this coming as john kerry is denying those allegations he shared israeli military secrets with iran when he was president obama's secretary of state secretary of state. tom cotton joins us now. i will get your thoughts on that in just a moment. but first on u.s. and iranian relations. where are things headed? >> they are headed in a dangerous direction. joe biden seems to be trying to surrender over negotiations of the nuclear plan. but i'm not sure that they are ready to accept

he's deadly ernst of becoming the most deadly consequential nation in the world. he and others, ootd accuracy think democracy can't compete in the world, it takes too long to get consensus. to win that competition for the future, in my view, are we also need to make a once in a generation investment in our families and our children. that's why i've introduced the american families plan tonight. which addresses four of the biggest challenges facing american families and in turn america. first is access to good education. when this nation made 12 years of public education universal, in the last century, it made us the best educated, best prepared nation in the world. it's i believe the overwhelming reason that propelled us to where we got in the 21st century. but the world's caught up and are catching up. they're not waiting. would i say parenthetically, if we were sitting down and had a bipartisan committee together and said okay we're going to decide what we do in terms of government providing for free education. i wonder whether we'd think as we did in the 20th c

one of the biggest battleground stocks after ernstings, it plat.tions to shorts and longs. you nailed it. >> what do you want to hear, mike santoli, do you think it is a mover of the stock, the crash and some of the issues around auto pilot that we've been talking about, is that a key problem for investors? >> i don't think it is necessarily an ongoing problem relative to what people are focused on right now if you want to quibble with the fact that they call it auto pilot and it really isn't auto pilot and whether there is regulatory pushback in how it is treated and how it gets rolled out, i don't know. it doesn't seem as if it sets tesla back relative to other auto makes right now we have focus on every single incident. so i don't think it is that. but it is exactly how the overall business is tracking i think sequentially this quarter was the fourth quarter it did not change very much in terms of deliveries or in terms of cash flow and things like that so i think it is about what the trajectory is from here. and by the way, we talk about it bei

ernst: thank you, mr. president, very much. mr. president, when you hear the word infrastructure, what comes to mind? for folks across iowa, it's roads, it's bridges, locks and dams, ports, waterways, and broadband. but according to the biden administration, infrastructure is now a buzzword that encompasses just about every item on the progressive wish list. as a result, the president's infrastructure proposal takes a very sharp left turn by including everything from elements of the socialist green new deal to higher taxes on american workers. some of my democratic colleagues are even urging the president to include a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the infrastructure package. how about we make the wall on our southern border infrastructure? probably to no one's surprise, once again the senate majority leader is plotting to pass the bill in a totally partisan process. and, folks, we really need to pump the brakes. the democrats are steering us the wrong way on this issue. infrastruc -- infrastructu