the case that can change the course of the election. nine justices are ironing their robes, as we speak. tonight on laura coates live. and just a few short hours from now, the supreme court of the united states will hear arguments in a historic effort to ban former president trump on the ballot for his alleged role in the january six insurrection. we ll be able to listen i tomorrow morning. let me make it easy for you to follow their conversation tomorrow. you ve been hearing a lot about the 14th amendment. it s not the center of the case before the supreme court tomorrow. now, it has five sections. of the five, you may only know section one, the one about due process, attention to laws, that one. that is not what we are talking about tonight. it s the other white me, section three. that s what s so important. the so-called insurrectionists clause. at its core, it says, you can t hold office if you engaged in insurrection. if it were that easy, i would not have to explain, it
hearing on capitol hill. fbi director christopher wray on defense over the agency s alleged preferential treatment of democrats. senior, national correspondent kevin corke joins us here in the nation s capitol. good evening, kevin. kevin: you could call it a bipartisan be down today. hobbled and pilloried by the right and left for that matter at that hearing today on capitol hill. while his opening statement offered a forceful defense of the bureau, house members wasted little time in taking aim at the director for what they called corruption. and historically poor lead leadership. you preside over the fbi that has the lowest level of trust in the npr s history. people trusted the fbi more when j. edgar hoover was running the place then you are. you don t give straight answers. you give answers that later in court are deemed not true. kevin: wray fired back saying his agency remains popular. expect in your home state of florida, the number of people trying to come work
presidential race. president biden has pulled ahead of former president donald trump in one new national poll but still trails nikki haley. this hour we are releasing the latest fox news polls showing where the candidates are in key races in a couple of key swing states in wisconsin. it is tied between the former president and president biden in georgia former president trump is up. we will bring you more of that in a bit. also movement tonight on one of the major election issues. immigration. we have a live report from capitol hill. but we begin tonight with how the president is handling another thorny topic. the israel-hamas war. and the reaction from his base. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. in a state biden needs to win this november, his revel to call for a cease-fire in gaza is costing support among key parts of his base. the abandon biden campaign also opposes trump. b
a ziplock baggy filled with cocaine found just steps from the west wing where guests are often ushered through the white house. now the question who dropped it, setting off sunday s hazmat evacuation. then, the phenomenon unique to the united states, gun violence in america reaching a new level of horror. 356 mass shootings so far this year. a stunning 15 of them just this past holiday weekend. coming up, why these tragic shootings always seem to spike in the summer months and what can be done about it. plus, a federal judge slapping the biden administration with new restrictions on social media saying the biden administration cannot decide what is and is not misinformation. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with something of a mystery in our political lead. who left a baggy of coke at the white house? there was a brief evacuation sunday night after the powdery substance was found in an area of the west wing that is accessible to some tour groups. this
also breaking this morning, signs that the labor market, which has been stunningly strong for so long is now cooling. fed watchers and wall street very warily awaiting these numbers. i ll talk to acting labor secretary julie su for her take on the numbers and the strength of the u.s. economy. and later, more heat for an already weather-weary nation. over a dozen dead nationwide from the high temperatures. i have asthma, so the air quality is really hard on my lungs, and then with the heat on top, it s like having a meltdown all in one. when could we get some relief from the brutal and record-breaking heat? let s begin with the war in ukraine and the breaking news. we ve now confirmed that the u.s. will send cluster munitions to ukraine. these are large bombs containing smaller explosives inside them which then disperse and can kill in record numbers. these weapons are so dangerous that more than 120 countries including many u.s. allies have agreed not to use them, but