advice is simple. you ve run a very smart campaign, you ve never backed down. but now the focus should almost exclusively shift to the general election. the democrats are going to stop at nothing, they see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. and if they can, they are going to game the system or maybe even cheat. whoa, what now? that was not foxes laura angrum in december of 2020. that was fox host laura ingraham this week, january, the year 2024. despite no evidence of election fraud last time around, and having to make $787 million to settle a defamation case based on their 2020 election lies. fox appears to be priming their audience once again to believe that if donald trump loses in 2024, it s because the democrats cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laurin graham. now turning to joe biden. what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa, about a third of iowa rep
the democrats are going to stop at nothing, they see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. and if they can, they are going to game the system or maybe even cheat. whoa, what now? that was not foxes laura angrum in december of 2020. that was fox host laura ingraham this week, january, the year 2024. despite no evidence of election fraud last time around, and having to make $787 million to settle a defamation case based on their 2020 election lies. fox appears to be priming their audience once again to believe that if donald trump loses in 2024, it s because the democrats cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laurin graham. now turning to joe biden. what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa, about a third of iowa republicans saying joe biden was legitimately elected president. but almost half, almost double that i should say, double that amount say that he was not. a
another prisoner swap? then, the same kind of technology used for the best covid vaccines, mrna, is showing promise in treating other conditions, including some cancers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead. prices are up and the stock market is down. president biden is trying to put a positive spin on the economy, today insisting that tackling the worst inflation the u.s. has seen in decades remains a top priority. during a speech in front of the afl-cio in philadelphia, the president touted his administration s coronavirus relief efforts, record new job creation, and low unemployment levels. sure, but that s likely little consolation to the millions of americans paying record prices for everything from food to gasoline. especially as many economists predict the federal reserve will drastically hike interest rates tomorrow to try to get control of the inflation. president biden will try to address one of those crises, gas prices, now avera
Katie fang in for ari melber. Another big day for Donald Trumps criminal collection trial, starting out with both sides butting heads. The prosecution asking the court for donald trump to be held in contempt of court, and Donald Trumps lawyers spinning those attacks as political. The judge frustrated, admonishing trumps attorney saying youre losing all credibility with this court, the judge adding, youve presented nothing. Well, well have more on that later in the show. But first, the prosecutions first witness back on the stand, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker, returning to detail to the jury his involvement in the multiple catch and kill plots to bury negative stories about donald trump. Pecker detailing his decades long relationship with trump, and his frequent communications with Michael Cohen. Testifying that in that now infamous 2015 meeting, pecker agreed to publish only positive stories about trump, promising to be trumps eyes and ears. Pecker going on to say ho
says he is a yes on a gun reform package if the final draft of the bill lines up with the framework announced on sunday. this would be a boost for the bipartisan group negotiating the deal, hoping to get more republicans onboard. let s get to lauren fox who is live for us on capitol hill. lauren, the legislative text is key here. how significant is mcconnell s support? well, mcconnell never says something he doesn t intentionally mean to say, jake. you know that from covering washington, and it is obviously significant that mcconnell came out backing this framework, assuming, he said, that the legislative text really matches the intentions of that framework. and that is going to be a heavy lift. over the next several days we expect that is what staff and members are going to be working overtime to finish up. the goal being to finish that legislative text, write the final bill, communicate it to members and then put it on the floor as soon as early next week. now, that could obviously