of an official event to tout a legislative accomplishment. sitting in the front row behind me was lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is of course going to be participating in another event separately with the president later in philadelphia. now, there have been a lot of questions about the president and how he has been spending his time leading up to the midterms and the fact that as you pointed out, victor, he hasn t been doing a lot of sort of rallies and separate events with some of the most vulnerable democrats, but we are seeing how the white house has been making sort of the best political use, they think, of the president. that is to talk about these kinds of legislative accomplishments and to really sort of set the tone for what he believes the democrats have been able to achieve, and the other important piece of this is of course raising money. they think he has been good at that, that has certainly been very helpful for the party. all right, mj lee, traveling
Lot of drama there today. The lead starts right now. World leaders taking the stage, pushing their priorities for some of the biggest issues of our time. Casting Russias Vladimir Putin as global villain number one, while fighting against waning support for ukraine. And here in d. C. , a House Republican calling his party the, quote, clown show. While infighting and name calling do nothing to solve the more immediate problem of federal government set to shut down in just 12 days. Plus, new allegations against celebrity Russell Brand as a new accuser comes forward. Police now looking into the multiple allegations of rape and Sexual Assault against the disgraced comedian. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The world lead dominates the week with so much focus on Foreign Policy and this comes against major accusations by one democracy, canada, accusing another democracy, india, of directing an assassination. On canadian sovereign territory. Well dive into that democracy versus direction a
what does this mean for the rest of the world? well, that is the wider significance, victor, the fact that the uk has played an influential role in countering putin s invasion of ukraine, obviously, the united states is the uk s most important ally in trans-atlantic partner. britain has been trying to find its place in the world and chart a path for itself after brexit, and that s been a very turbulent process. so this political chaos, this uncertainty and instability, and it s been gathering pace and intensity, too, is thoroughly unhelpful for all those accounts. we heard a fairly unprecedented intervention from joe biden last week when the president in a very thinly veiled way criticized the way liz truss was approaching her economic strategy, and there s also been complete horror and surprise on the continent as well about what has been happening in british politics. this is one of the oldest democracies in the world. i m standing in front of what s been called the mother of all
with you notable exception for the criticism of biden, texas senator ted cruz. in a statement moments ago, he praised the positive steps on countering putin. danielle politen, and eugene robinson. peter baker, it s hard to not sea, geez, this any former president maxi driven this with i mean, you know, i know we re so numb to this now with him, but my gosh, the world is about to confront maybe somebody who is a mad man right now. yeah, yeah. this is what the former president is doing? to sum up, he had critical words of biden, had critical words of democrats, had no
what nato is doing, what the european union is doing even as we speak the third infantry division at savannah, georgia, is flowing into germany with 7,000 plus troops who fall in on i should have said fort stewart, georgia. so nato has come together and astonishing. i think in the longer run what putin is doing is creating a disaster for himself. and it s not just because he s conquering an impoverished democratic country which may well rise up against him with either passive or active resistance, but he s going to end up in nato fearing a return to 1939, 1945 devastations of western europe of finland, sweden, germany, u.k., france are all getting deadly serious about countering putin. by the way, he s sounding very