welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p
today on inside politics, disqualified. the state of maine becomes the second to say donald trump is an insurrectionist barred from seeking the presidency. now it s up to the supreme court. plus damage control mode. with just days to go until the first votes are cast, nikki haley is trying to move past a controversy. her opponents are not so eager to let her. and where have all the democrats gone? i ll talk to a leading liberal political analyst about how he thinks the party lost its way with working class voters and the dilemma democrats face in turning it around. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up is donald trump eligible to be president again? that s the legal question face ing this country after maine became the second state to say he s not buzz of the 14th amendment s ban on insurrectionists holding federal office. it is a recipe for constitutional chaos at the supreme court will almost surely have to solve. cnn senior repo
i m going to attempt, and i probably regret this, i m going to attempt to make sense of the current debt ceiling situation. instead of having someone come on who doesn t know what s going on, i thought i don t know what s going on, i can just guess and so, we re gonna do a little bit of that. and i will advance a theory that joe biden is doing everything right. there is a theory that i landed on it today that joe biden is doing everything right. i reserve the right to take my mind tomorrow. [laughter] listen, lawrence, i will put my money on you being able to not only explain this but make sense of it, and have a plausible theory for all of it so i m eager to see what you have to say this evening. it s one of the things that i know will sound good while i m saying it. i don t want anyone to think about much after i say it. okay? [laughter] [laughter] let s see what the news is tomorrow. you ve got to get the 10:59. right, yeah! it is given some until 10:59, and
thank you alex! have a great show. thank you. well this is the breaking news that i m holding in my hands. this is a letter from donald trump s attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel s office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there s a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith s criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents
It would be good to go back, just for things to come full circle for me and get a bit of closure and end up with something good, something positive as well. Melania trump accepts damages and an apology from the publisher of the daily mail over allegations about her work as a professional model. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Police in germany believe the three explosions which hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund Football Team, were directly targeting the club. Local media reports the police are investigating an islamic link to the incident after a letter was found near the blast sight. But police have yet to confirm the validity of the letter. The team were on their way to its Champions League match against monaco. One player has undergone surgery after the blast shattered windows on the coach. Jane Frances Kelly reports. Forensic teams have spent the night examining the blast site. Three devices in what police described as a targeted attack exploded as the players bu