welcome to inside politic ts requests. thank you for sharing your day with us. the hate-based spot, a man charged with scheming to murder jews serving in state government. the attorney general says she is among those targeted. plus president biden rallies democrats on capitol hill this hour. the president warning republicans want devastating spending cuts in exchange for letting the government borrow to pay its bills. the house speaker says that s not true. says it s the president dragging things out instead of negotiating. and surprise meeting. the top american and russian did you want did you want, but it ran barely ten minutes. today proof there s no end in sight. we begin the hour with the arrest of the michigan man and the frightening outburst of hate that led to it. a man now in custody threatened to kill any jews working in michigan state government and vowed to use deadly force against anyone who attempted to stop him. michigan s top law enforcement officer, says
don t come to me, i ll come to you. the president makes the trip up pennsylvania avenue as democrats set their priority list. senate majority leader chuck schumer was in the room, and now he will be here on the lead . a plot to kill foiled in michigan as authorities arrest a man they say wanted to kill jewish lawmakers including fwf michigan s attorney general. after six weeks of testimony and more than 70 witnesses, now the jury gets the case in the double murder trial for alex murdaugh. welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we start with our national lead. moments ago the jury began deliberations in the murder trial of alex murdaugh. the jury will have to decide if murdaugh killed his wife maggie and son paul. more than 70 witnesses testified in the trial, which spanned more than six weeks. murdaugh admitted on the stand he lied to investigators about where he was the night of the murders, but he has fervently denied he committed the killings. mu
it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contemptuous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sightseers. that spectacle using cherry-picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing, quote, good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves lies told by jenna el
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former director of intelligence says the only explanation for the pandemic is a leak from the chinese laboratory. the damage caused is very real. pizza delivery man was in the right place at the right time as a suspect happened to run right by him. police thanked the policeman for the assist and said if he is ever interested in a job, they are hiring. steve: live from the avenue of the americas as you look up that green stuff up there, that s central park. it is the 18th day of april. it is tax day. attention all people if you have not put your taxes in the mail, you have got until midnight tonight. it s going to be a beautiful day here in new york city. we have got 48 degrees. ainsley: taxes finished for you? steve: yes. a couple of weeks ago. pete: do people still put them in the mail. ainsley: my dad always did at midnight. pete s pete i know you can. ainsley: downtown main library midnight i always rode with him. pete: out of protest? ainsley: no, st