nikki haley s pat the victory, impossible no difficult yes. the lead starts now. in south carolina nikki haley gets ready to make a new pitch, why she says she should stay in the race in losses in iowa and after, more gop heavyweights are urging her to get out. her number 1-man will be here as nikki haley assesses her campaign. a big endorsement for president biden as campaign 2020 for its closing in on a race between president biden and donald trump and a new mystery involving russia when a plane crashes with conflicting accounts about who or what was on board the plane. was it 65 ukrainian prisoners of of war or was it weapons for war as ukraine says? welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. republican voters delivering donald trump another victory sending them one step closer to the white house. nikki haley s campaign insists they still see a path forward to dethrone donald trump after his double-digit victory in new hampshire. in the modern history of elections it i
president on january 6th. but he is not a very good criminal law expert. okay. he s focusing on the wrong thing. it s not donald trump s words on the ellipse that day that create the criminal liability, according to the target letter that jack smith has sent. donald trump oversaw starting in november of 2020 an alleged nationwide scheme to procure false election certificates. that has nothing to do with the words on january 6th. and then he squeezed mike pence to betray his duty on that day. again, that s irrespective of what donald trump did on the ellipse. and then finally, it s not the words of his speech so much. it s that 187 minutes of inaction. former president trump had a legal duty to act, and that s what gives rise to the charges for violating rights and privilege, civil rights charges.
committed by this president. there were other concrete actions and fraud taken to interfere with or stop the president-elect at the time. i completely agree with that, and from a jury appeal perspective, having the riot, the insurrection if you will, as part of that case, it s much more flavorful, if you will, and more interesting for a jury than the kind of intangible more intangible, i would say, election fraud, something people sitting in the basement of the statehouse signing false election certificates. i think you re absolutely right. we talk about whether you have a case, do you have a good case. what does it mean when people like you you sat in that share say, we can prove this beyond a reasonable doubt? it s different than we can teach this in law school. these are big calls. jack smith staked his career on what he says is the independent right thing. but we suspect he doesn t want to lose either of these cases.
gonna pass bills and have them die in the senate is the power of the purse to fight for the people open up the process is s all republicans can use the power of their election certificates to go in and represent them. not just a special interest or the powerbrokers sitting in the committee cardinals all members of the united states republican conference need to have a voice in the direction we take this country. my voters in europe too figh for them. fair assessment thank you fo coming on we appreciated. god bless. take care. meantime president biden mad big news at the g27 summit in indonesia some of which she already regrets and the president might be looking for do over down the road concernin his face-to-face with the chinese leader. kevin corke is life more. with the world watching and frankly listening very carefully , the president said he believed there was no quote imminent threat of china