I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
investigation into the january 6th committee. also ahead, ron desantis tries to debunk what he calls myths about his education policy, but his presentation of the facts seem to fall flat. we ll show you what happened. we ll have legal analysis on the doj s report on the louisville police department. a lot to get to. along with joe, willie and me, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. for usa today, susan page. and the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. we have a lot to get to, mika. first, i just love to hear you talk a little bit about what happened last night. yesterday, of course, iconic interviews with really women who made a huge difference over the past 50 years. but that day of iconic interviews turned into an evening of really history-making speeches. i must say, at times, just speeches that took your breath away, made the audience members cry. it was extraordinary.
in the office s possession prior to my time here. he is talking about some new evidence are you aware of what that might be there s no new evidence that s spin. also this hour, house speaker kevin mccarthy meeting with taiwan s president tsai at the reagan library in california a show of support for taiwan how is beijing reacting? international pressure for vladimir putin to release evan gershkovich falsely charged with spying as he remains locked in a prison in moscow in my own mind there s no doubt he is being wrongfully detained by russia good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell. today in los angeles, former president trump continuing his attacks on both manhattan s district attorney and the judge presiding over his case while dismissing the felony charges that he is facing. there is no case. there s no case. my lawyers came to me and they said, there s nothing here never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our na
putin responsible for recent attacks in ukraine. but how? the lead starts right now. a global response as russia bombards ukraine with mass missile attacks for a second straight day. what the president just said about the aggression in an exclusive interview with jake tapper. also this hour, another cnn exclusive, one on one with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. his take on republicans chances of winning a majority in the midterms, plus the one question he refused to answer about donald trump. and the worst is yet to come. the new recession warning as top economists also predict exactly when the economic downturn will hit. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with world leaders pledging to stop russian president vladimir putin s reign of terror in ukraine. an emergency debate today at the united nations and the g7 heads of government including president joe biden on an emergency call with ukraine s president today, vowing
returned them the next day. although, not comparable at all to donald trump ignoring subpoenas and keeping hundreds of classified documents for more than a year at mar-a-lago, the justice department is investigating. trump and republicans are pouncing. this hour, house republicans set up an oversight committee with broad powers to see the nation s top secrets. the justice department s investigations into their own alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. new questions about the health of brazil s defeated ex-president as calls mount to extradite him from the u.s. who is the talented congressman george santos? new york democratic lawmakers file an official ethics complaint this morning. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. president biden is under attack from donald trump and from house republicans for the admission that he had classified documents, although very different in quantity and duration, from what donald trump refused to return from hi