Paul welcome to the journal of soil report, the president ial race remains a tossup with a real pure politics boeing average showing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a dead heat nationally. In the seven Swing States that will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election. Will this have any lasting effect on the race as the campaign enters the final stretch. Lets ask karl rove. You wrote a common, on Trumps Performance but the question is how lasting will the impact be, if there is any . I dont think it is as good for harris as her camp thinks and as bad for the Trump Campaign as they might fear but nOnetheless remember how tight this is. You talked the national numbers, the real clear politics average, the 538 average in each of the seven battleground states. Real clear politics, only in two of the seven states, Arizona For Trump and wisconsin for harris is the difference between the two candidates larger than 1 . Same thing at 538. Its only two states, in wisconsin and mi
top fox executive rupert murdoch under oath admitted election lies peddled on his network were simply a business decision, saying, quote, it is not red or blue, it is green. what else did murdoch admit? plus, when winning the battle does not end the danger. cnn treks across a booby tracked land littered with mines in ukraine. but first, the supreme court on the record. hear what the justices said about president biden s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, and whether biden even remotely has the authority to do so. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re starting today in the money lead in fate of president biden s plan to wipe out $400 billion, that s b with a billion now rests with the supreme court. justices today heard oral arguments in two cases challenging biden s plan. the biden administration argued yeah, they have the power to forgive financial loans in order to protect americans brought in by the covid pandemic. six republican states and
peddle the election lies, but we learned that executives silenced or punished employees ops who were trying to tell the truth. schepp smith, no longer at fox. leland vittert branded as smug for a tone that was not a celebration of the president, also no longer at fox. and the washington bureau chief who called arizona for trump, bill sammon was fired to send a, quote, big message with trump people. i understand there is a need for conservative journalism in the sense that there are other networks that are liberal, but can fox really call itself a journalistic enterprise in the wake of these revelations? well, the three journalists that you identified there obviously are strong journalists, and they found their way and their place to other networks. but listen, i think what this demonstrates, jake, is the dead-endism of donald trump. and i think the challenge that he continues to pose, not just to fox, but to the broader