iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
of that. my panel is back with me. amanda, before the break, after visiting valley forge, he was an old man telling ghost stories. this is the split screen i had a hard time with. you said biden was telling ghost stories as if donald trump isn t making us relive this national nightmare and will be doing for the rest of the 2020 what the nightmare specifically. he s the one keeping january 6 alive with his primary to provide pardons to the january 6 rioters with his continued language that somehow these january 6 rioters who have been rightly prosecuted and jail ready political hostages. you see members of republican leadership also echoing that language. that they are political hostages. that is so very hard tor me to hear. when you interview someone like mike pence who is in israel, who is looking at the reality of what a hostage actually is. yeah.