Thank you for being here today welcome to the staged Vice President for clientt heidi sommer. Good afternoon everyone. I name is ryan i am coauthor and host of politico playbook deep dive podcast. In addition to this being a public conversation for you all this is our first alive taping of the deep dive podcast. Thank you for joining us for that. If you want to know more about that podcast there is a qr code in your program so please check that out. Welcome, thank you for doing this. Clicks thank you for having me. Will set the stage for our conversation. We are headed into a rematch between former President Trump and president joe biden. The politics of healthcare will campaign. Whoever wins this election healthcare policy will surely be central to the next white house. You are President Trumps campaign mager. House and you are in charge of somecy aspects of healthcare policy. The enormous amount of work in this political cycle on healthcare strategizing politics. Cannot think of a be
going. people trapped on the trains. businesses and homes are crushed. a major move by israel supreme court striking down a contentious law. risking even more division in the country at more. as we start 2024, some of the 2023 political predictions that were also wrong. how is it looking this new year? welcome to the lead. i m casey in for jake tapper. we start with destruction in a japan after a 7.2 magnitude earth right. four people were killed when the 7.5 magnitude quake hit western japan just hours into the new year followed by a series of aftershocks. the weather agency says those could continue up to a week. it also triggered tsunami warnings along the coast and residents have been urged to evacuate. the warnings have been downgraded but there is still a tsunami threat. multiple buildings caught fire or collapsed including a home on the upper left of the screen. it was reduced to a pile of rubble. we start coverage off from japan where more than 8000 military perso
So what we have to do is you know come back tomorrow, put the equipment on again and we go at it again. [ theme music ] bill good morning my fellow americans. And welcome to the full court press here on current tv. Great to see you today this thursday january 31st if you can believe it. Were coming to you live from our Nations Capital today bringing you up to date on all of the news of the day. A lot of job changing here in washington, d. C. A big hearing on guns in the Senate Judiciary committee, another shooting in phoenix, arizona yesterday, even while the hearing on gun control was taking place, and israel during an air strike deep inside of syria. John kerry said farewell to the senate. Hilarys final day is tomorrow. And then brennan the next director of the cia, and we have a new senator of massachusetts, mo calen, im telling you, you need a program to identify all of the new players around here. And now for todays current news update early on the west coast here she is Lisa Ferg
First the breaking news. Democrats releasing a trove of impeachment transcripts. Trump and his defenders Holding Money to ukraine. The president s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney had the office of management and budget put a hold missiles because they were concerned that russia would react negatively to the provision ofandahalf ly jave ukraine. All other parts of the u. S. Government involved in the javelin deal supported it. Were learning Christopher Anderson, a career foreign officer testified the president s special envoy to ukraine believed Rudy Giuliani was an obstacle to improving relations and putting pressure on russia. Theres a third testimony that were seeing tonight for first time from top pentagon official laura cooper. The Deputy Assistant secretary of defense telling lawmakers about a meeting back in july where officials raised concerns about whether it was illegal for trump to withhold crucial military aid for ukraine in exchange for dirt on joe biden. Cooper saying
That Rudy Guiliani efforts in ukraine but also other countries as well. We want to welcome our viewers around the United States and the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. The breaking news tonight, new testimony by three key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry has just been leads including laura cooper who overseas pentagon ukraine policy as well as two Senior Safety experts on ukraine, all of this days before the hearings go public with testimony. We will talk with congresswoman Madeleine Dean of the Judiciary Committee and our analysts are standing by. Lets bring in alex and phil mattingly, both working the story for us. Phil, youre up on capitol hill. You go first. Youre combing through this newly released testimony. Nearly 400 pages of depositions and one from laura cooper, two from the state department. Kathryn and chris andersen, state Department Officials and curt voelker, special representative to ukraine. What you draw from this te