this, of course, despite his promise to make saudi, quote, a pariah state. all this as the federal reserve is expected to announce its biggest hike in decades. john harwood is live in philadelphia. john, there is a lot at stake for the president. reporter: a lot at stake, erica, for the president. a lot at stake for the country. as we ve seen underscored by the january 6th committee hearings. the president s biggest political problem is negative public sentiment about high inflation. as you indicated, he is going to say that this is his top priority. mostly a job for the federal reserve, but he s also going to do what he can to try to make a difference on the margins. that s why he is going to swallow his statements about making saudi arabia a pariah and meet with the crown prince, mbs, on a visit in a few weeks. that s in hopes of expanding saudi oil production and getting gas prices down a little bit. he s also here before this friendly audience to talk about the positi
the proud boys and the oath keepers. we re gonna go more on that point later on in the show. but we also learned a lot more about what was happening in the white house, in the lead up to the insurrection. testimony from donald trump s lawyers, his attorney general, his son-in-law, and his daughter. also just saying that trump knew what he was doing, and he knew it was wrong. for example, trump knew that he had lost the election to joe biden. how do we know that? because his own top data analyst came into the oval office and told him specifically. according to his campaign insider, jason miller. i was in the oval office. and at some point in the conversation, the league that a person was brought on. and, i remember, he delivered to the president in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose. but trump, reportedly, argue that his legal challenges over election fraud would change the result. the only problem? there was no such thing as election fraud and the white house kn
Historic moment. A former american president could sue be a convicted criminal that this coming tuesday, Closing Arguments are expected to begin in former president Donald Trumps trial. There has been weeks of testimony from former members of his inner circle including people like Michael Cohen. Who faced a grueling Cross Examination but his former Attorney Says the real smoking gun in this case is in from any witnesses, its a document that outlines how the hush money payments were made to Stormy Daniels and lanny davis joins us now. The formal Legal Adviser to Michael Cohen and former Special Counsel to bill clinton. Good to see you and thank you for being with us. Good morning. Lets talk about this document. If folks had not been following the case and everything that has been happening in court, they might be hardpressed to believe that the crime was written down. Well, it is a document that is in him writing and has been admitted into evidence from Allen Weisselberg, the closest pe
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Live on a rooftop overlooking tel aviv, israel. Its just after 11 00 p. M. Here. Its been 16 days since the horrific Terrorist Attacks by hamas caught this country and, frankly, much of the world by complete surprise. Well start with breaking news. Hamas has released two more of the hostages it kidnapped from israel during the october 7th terrorist attack. Thats according to multiple sources who say the hostages are nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz. The lifshitz family said in a statement the women were handed over to the red cross and will shortly return to israel. We happened to be at the time with Israeli Defense spokesperson Jonathan Con Reek Cass when the news came in. This is part of his reaction. They are differentiating, distinguishing between only israelis and double citizens or perhaps only foreigners which rings familiar for me as a jew and Third Generation holocaust survivor, rings familiar from other types in our history. Israel belie
It includesamassing thousands upon thousands of troops. Nic robertson is in sderot where troops are training in that area. Give us a sense of what you are talking about training and that entails along the border, nic. Yes, what they want to do is to send in a combined force. They want to send in tanks, infantry and combat engineers, and this is a spearhead advance, and lot of the armies do this, but when you have reservists in the force, and regular troops, you have bring them together to do that, and so they have been training to do that and training as well for fighting in a Combat Environment in these mock palestinian towns, and there are mosques. There are stores. There are traffic circles. There are home. So the troops are going to training for the exact environment absent the people they will face when they go into gaza. Now they have not been given the order, and everything that we see, the tanks parked in the field, and the lastminute repairs to the train tracks, and the dozens