travel situation? will it interrupt your summer plans? and pride month targeted. notorious extremist groups getting violent as they take aim at the lgbtq community. are some politicians providing cover and even incitement? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is preparing its fourth hearing and they say they will show evidence donald trump was involved in a specific scheme, this one to submit fraudulent slates of electors, presumably in hopes any confusion would throw the matter from congress back to the states. tomorrow s hearing will feature georgia election officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling. raffensperger is the georgia secretary of state who trump reportedly pressured to find some 11,000 votes so trump could falsely climb he won the state. we re also hear from the arizona house speaker rusty bowers who rudy giuliani allegedly pressured to let the stat
24th. i am sam stein filling in for the one and only ali velshi. one month ago today the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. this immediately and radically reshaped abortion rights around the country. these are the 26 states that were considered certain or likely to ban abortion in the post roe era. more than a dozen of them have already taken action to do so. today, there is not a single provider offering abortion services in the united states. forcing residents to travel across state lines for basic and essential health care. seven other states banned abortion at a much earlier point. it was previously allowed when roe was the law of the land. in the coming weeks at least three more states, north dakota, wyoming, and indiana, are expected to enact total abortion bans. let the constitutional protections for abortion that were provided, access is quickly shrinking around the country. nowhere is that more evident than in the south, where abortion access is almost entirely a
analyst. and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. white house bureau chief of my politico. and host of the circus, john heilemann. good to have you all. polls open in less than an hour in georgia, where one of the most consequential primaries of the midterms is taking place. there are several state and congressional races on the ballot, but the ones we re closely watching are the republican primaries for governor, secretary of state, and senate. the new york times describes the background of today s races like this. quote, georgia s got everything. disputed elections, rapid demographic change, celebrity democrats, a restrictive new voting law, an open criminal investigation into donald trump s meddling in the 2020 election, a deep rural-urban divide and unending drama between the trump wing of the republican party and the local gop establishment. that s a lot. former senator david perdue, whose loss in the state two years ago helped give democrats control of
what issues are motivating them? i ll talk with house speaker nancy pelosi and republican governor of nebraska, pete ricketts, ahead. plus on putin s border as ukraine fights, finland applies to join nato, exactly what putin tried to avoid. you caused this. look at the mirror. how will russia respond? i ll speak exclusively to the president of finland, sauli niinisto, in moments. good morning, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is heartbroken and horrified. this morning we are grieving the loss of ten people in buffalo, new york, shot and killed while shopping for groceries. three others were shot, but survived. victims of a rampage by an 18-year-old white male shooter, who authorities say traveled for hours and used an assault-style weapon to carry out the racist attack. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the shooter has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in an attack streamed live on social media as the justice department examines whether
Tonight. I was trying to get ready for this show and then you did this thing about the council man in enid, oklahoma, and then i was like, hey, ive got a show to do but i was glued to that, and that you did it and that you had that conversation with brandy, without covering these stories i think many of us would just not know that stuff like that happens on that campaign. Its really important to know that other people in deeply red states, largely republican states, see some of this White Supremacy and Replacement Theory and say no, not for us. This is not us, absolutely. Thank you for doing that, my friends. Great to see you, as always. Have a great evening. The battle for the american presidency in 2024 will likely come down to another battle of the blue wall, which includes an in and wisconsin, two reliably democratic states that flipped red in 2016 and led to Donald Trumps shock victory, aided of course by thirdparty candidates. Votes for jill stein in both states in 2016 were larg