From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
Complicit their years, they have another one. Marjorie taylor green, a history of homephobic comments. We want no more part of amplifying this person. You need to hear it for yourself. Just buckle up and take a listen to this. Q is a patriot. We know that for sure. There is an islamic inversion into our Government Offices right now. They are you saw after midterm elections, we saw so many muslims elected. There were quite a few. The generations of black and hispanic men. You want to know what holds them down . Gangs. Being in gangs and dealing drugs is what holds them down. The gangs are holding them back. Its not white people. How do you get avid gun owners and people who support the Second Amendment to give up their guns and go with the constitution . Maybe you perform a mass shooting into a crowd that is very likely to be conservative. Is that what happened in las vegas . Okay. Okay. Now, keep in mind, that this person is not just some lady Selling Qanon tracks on the side of the ri
first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa, with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
powerful. at the same time, the layers who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. that s the iron law of the universe. true things prevail. the new york times reports the redacted text messages were even worse than ones revealed in the court filings and there was one message that was particularly offensive which added to the concern at the top of the company. that s from the times reporting this morning. we don t know what the message was. but just yesterday the wall street journal reported carlson called a senior fox news executive the c word, the same word he used to describe sidney powell who was a regular guest on fox news. here is how one of carlson s former producers who is now suing fox news described the culture of that show behind the scenes. woman were objectified. it was a game. it was a sport. female politicians who came on the show were mocked. there were debates about who they d rather sleep with. c word all the time. joini
his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re