stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not
they are official, certified, and voted for joe biden. georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met, they chose donald trump, they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capitol, georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own electors who voted for donald trump. the 16 fake trump electors from georgia meeting in the state capital, fraudulently. that scheme, in addition to catching the attention of the department of justice, it also caught the attention of one prosecutor in georgia, her name is fani willis. she is the fulton county district attorney in atlanta. miss willis was one month into the job when she announced that she was opening an investigation into the multipronge
thanks to all of you at home for joining, us we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start on december 14th 2020, a day we should not particularly remember. it was supposed to be a routine, day a boring day for state electors across the country as they officially cast their presidential votes. as we know very well, that was not the case in some states, including the state of georgia. democratic party electors, they re in the senate chambers, they are official, they are, certified and they vote for joe biden, but, georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors, we re not, official not, certified they still met and certified on a, trump they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as democratic parties remaining in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below at the state capital, georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own
we don t know what is in the documents. but we know that they were classified at the level of sensitive compartmented information. this is among some of the closely guarded u.s. government secrets. that is the reason why this has now being reviewed by prosecutors at the justice department. by the u.s. attorney in chicago of the which handles these matters. they do damage assessment to see whether there in the six years that these documents were being held in a location that is not secure, whether there is any damage that has been done to national security. of course, the white house says that the white house is cooperating with this review that is being done by the national archives and the justice department. and they say this is obviously something that even the former president even the president was not aware of until these documents were found by his legal team as they were trying to shut down this think tank office that he had set up after he left office in 2017.
i know people are very upset and rightly so about inflation. but there s nothing to suggest that inflation is it? it s recession is in the works. i believe there is a path through this that entails a soft landing with the economy essentially stabilizing. well, how s that sock landing feeling to you guys out there tonight? how does that woman still have a job when so many americans are now at a risk of losing their jobs? well, we know why she became the first woman in the two hundred and thirty two year history of the u.s. department of treasury to hold that position. oh, come on . being a first was always more important to biden than someone actually being the best. and now we re all suffering for all the incompetence. now, the dow is seven hundred and forty six points lower than it was on inauguration day for biden. so that means all the gains that we made under trump, we re totally wiped out. and that s before you account for inflation. and by the way, things are about