hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us today, a suspected leaker who shook up the world by posting top secret us intelligence documents online. sees the inside of a federal courtroom plus new cnn reporting on an intriguing avenue of investigation for the special counsel jack smith wants to know if donald trump is using an army of lawyers to intimidate potential witnesses telling his version of events and ron desantis just make himself unelectable. florida governor s science, one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws, barring the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy. it s a priority for the republican base. but it is very much at odds which with where most americans stand up first for us, though. hiking boots and handcuffs. this morning, the 21 year old allegedly behind a global intelligence disaster, appearing for the first time in front of a federal judge today, prosecutors l
during the pandemic. you could proxy vote, but it s much more critical for these members to be there. and this is how we get caught up in hearing about their health cases or what s going on in their situations that s causing these absences. but as we look at judiciary, for example, that is stalling their work and i see klobuchar in terms of just let s give her some time to see if she comes back in the next couple of weeks, but at the same time, this is critical work that s on the back burner and the biggest thing stalled by terrifying. stein s absence is more biden federal judicial appointees, which the administration had been on a pretty good clip of getting them confirmed and it has been stalled. not completely stopped but stalled. you can t get anyone now new through the committee because that committee is tied up and yet we haven t heard much from the white house on this. senator feinstein s that old senate colleague, senator biden said then senator by and served on that committee