| : The future vs. the past We'll get to the breaking news on former New York Mayor and Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani in a moment.
Tonight I'll be watching President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress. (They don't call a new president's first one of these a "State of the Union," but that's basically what it is. More on that here.)
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Biden's trillions. Since taking office, Biden's already signed into law a massive Covid relief bill ($1.9 trillion).
He's already proposed a massive ($2 trillion) infrastructure plan.
In his speech, he'll add a proposal for a gigantic ($1.8 trillion) family plan. He'll try to frame it as an investment in American families to make it easier for parents to work and easier for students to join the workforce.
A more active government. Biden's wager in all these proposals: Americans want more out of their government -- better roads and bridges, a cleaner economy, and help taking care of their kids so they can get out there more easily and work.
Is this investment or spending? Republicans will brand this family plan as government overreach and an entitlement, but Democrats will argue this kind of guarantee for American families is in line with what parents and students in other industrialized nations count on.
The broad strokes:
Helping families pay for child care -- Everyone making up to 1.5 times the median salary in a state would qualify.
Making community college free -- The federal government would pick up 3/4 of the tab for two years of tuition and states, with restrictions, would have to pick up the rest. It could benefit 5.5 million young Americans.
Enhancing Pell Grants -- The spending would also make college more affordable, but targets low income students.
There's so much more, including spending on universal pre-K, guaranteed parental and family leave, enticements to bring new teachers into the profession.
This is a big, ambitious proposal and CNN's Tami Luhby, Katie Lobosco, and Maegan Vazquez break down the benefits, as well as the plan to pay for it with new taxes on wealthy Americans and by raising the capital gains tax for households making more than $1 million per year. Read here.
Biden's 100 days report card. That same team of reporters, along with CNN's Kate Sullivan, have produced an excellent roundup of everything Biden has tried to do and everything he's actually accomplished in these first 100 days in office. Read it.
: Rudy Giuliani's home and office searched Now, a rewind to the Trump era.
Giuliani, who has most recently been the personal lawyer, but more importantly instigator and pusher of conspiracy theories on behalf of former President Donald Trump, had his home and office in New York searched by federal agents.
Giuliani was once the US attorney in Manhattan. He knows the drill here.
The odd thing. Usually, law enforcement agents don't serve search warrants on an attorney, much less a presidential attorney, according to CNN's report, but it is not unprecedented. That's how it went down for another former Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, after all.
What were the authorities looking for? Giuliani's lawyers said the warrant had something to do with foreign lobbying laws and sought Giuliani communications, including with a columnist, John Solomon of the Hill.
Why now? The warrant would have required sign off from the top of the Department of Justice, which clearly was granted under the Biden administration. Prosecutors had faced pushback in seeking a warrant last year, when Trump's appointees controlled the DOJ, CNN has reported.
CNN's Marshall Cohen breaks down what exactly is going on with the investigation into Giuliani's activities here.
Background on Giuliani's possible legal issues:
Ukraine -- In 2019, two Giuliani associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were indicted on campaign finance charges stemming from an alleged straw donor scheme. Parnas and Fruman met with Giuliani, helping introduce him to Ukrainian officials. They have pleaded not guilty.
2020 election -- The election technology company Dominion sued Giuliani in January for defamation after he spread baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud on his podcast and during TV appearances.
Georgia -- Giuliani is also likely to face scrutiny in Georgia from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating Trump's efforts to influence Georgia's election results. : Deep dive into Trump's post-presidential life If you spend a few minutes on one thing today, consider this story from CNN's Gabby Orr on Trump's post-White House life at Mar-a-Lago and the difficult transition he's faced from leader of the free world to playing 18-27 holes of golf a day.
He's soon going to relocate to Bedminster in New Jersey for the summer. But the important part is that you haven't heard the last of him.
Key line: "Far from a conventional post-White House retirement, Trump's first 100 days out of office illustrate a man who has preferred plotting the next chapter of his political career to planning his presidential library, recruiting MAGA-aligned Republican primary challengers to writing a post-presidential memoir. Whereas his predecessors disengaged from politics for months after leaving office, Trump has turned the same political warfare that defined his presidency into a full-time retirement hobby as he weighs a full return to the spotlight with a potential comeback presidential bid in 2024."
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