Sure that were the firewall to stopping the radical agenda of Chuck Schumer. He wants to fundamentally change this country. Thats why im crisscrossing the state, why davids out every single day. We need georgians to turn out and vote. Paul lets bring in our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, bill mcgurn and Mary Anastasia ogrady. Ing so, kim, the republicans running as a check on a biden presidency and Chuck Schumer senate, but what in particular are they running on . What issues . Well, that is a lot of it, and you hear them talking about what could happen under a biden presidency, a pelosi house and a Schumer Senate in terms of taxes, in terms of deregulation, in terms of the federal courts. You also see them talking a lot and trying to tie this socialist agenda into local georgia issues. In particular things like the defund the police movement, safety on the streets. The that had its way, antifa and riots a
Bottom of the hour, 1 30 p. M. Eastern. Well have full coverage and analysis. Well check in with our correspondents and analysts. Thats coming up momentarily. First, breaking news on the cyberattack on Sony Pictures. The fbi is now officially publicly blaming north korea directly for the hacking. The agency releasing a detailed statement on the investigation only hours after the hackers delivered a new message and new warning to sony executives. Lets go straight to our evan perez in new york. What does the fbi say about north koreas direct involvement in this attack . Wolf, to so quickly come out publicly and point the finger of north korea, ive never seen anything like this happen on this level of cyberattacks like we have in the country. The fbi says theres no doubt that this came from north korea, that they used some of the same infrastructure that theyve seen before used in other north korean cyberattacks. And ill read you a part of the statement from the fbi. It says, as a result
Chiefs presented him and president obama with the same twopage document, mr. Biden saying Intelligence Leaders felt obliged to tell the president because they were planning on informing mr. Trump. On top of that, about 10 00 last night, director of National Tension James Clapper put out a statement summarizing a phone conversation last night with the president elect. He confirms there have a briefing and suggests the alleged claims came up, saying, part of our obligation is ensure the policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matter that might affect National Security. Hes talking here about a twopage summary of unproven allegations about information some people have claimed russia has. Two very public confirmations about what cnn reported. Just about two hours ago cnn learned again from multiple u. S. Officials that it was fbi director james comey who told mr. Trump of the information. No comment from the bureau. So cnns reporting was correct, we should point
President obama with the same twopage document, mr. Biden saying Intelligence Leaders felt obliged to tell the president because they were planning on informing mr. Trump. On top of that, about 10 00 last night, director of National Intelligence James Clapper took the rare statement of putting out a statement summarizing a phone conversation last night with the president elect. In it he confirms there was a briefing and suggests the alleged claims came up saying, and i quote, however, part of our obligation is to ensure the policy makers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matter that might affect National Security. Hes talking here about a twopage summary of unproven allegations about information some people have claimed russia has. So that is two very public confirmations about what cnn reported. Then just about two hours ago cnn learned again from multiple u. S. Officials that it was fbi director james comey who told mr. Trump of the information. No comment from th
Is. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell this afternoon announced he is delaying a vote that was supposed to happen this week until after the 4th of july recess that will buy him and his fellow Senate Republican leaders some time to make changes to the bill, to get a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, and then, of course, more importantly, to try to convince enough republicans here are a bunch of them who are opposed right now to this bill and convince them the new plan is the way to go. Some of the sticking points so far, higher projected premiums according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis. Millions more uninsured, some voluntarily because they no longer are required to get insurance. Others no longer covered by medicaid. Thats the program, of course, that provides care for nearly 17 million americans who have limited resources as well as disabled americans. So its a big, tall order. Lets go right now with cnns phil mattingly. Hes on capitol hill. Phil, wh