Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
New legislation, called for the Death Penalty for mass murderers and blamed the internet and video games for inspiring violence. Ce in one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and White Supremacy. Hate has no place in america. We must recognize that internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalized disturbed minds and perform demented acts. We must seek real bipartisan solutions. We have to do that in a bipartisan manner. That will truly make america safer and better for all. We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grizzly video games that are now commonplace. Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside, so destructive, and find the courage to answer hatred with unity and devotion and love. So before he spoke from the white house, the president was on twitter again blaming the media for anger and rage, but in his comments and in his tweets, the president didnt once acknowledge that the alleged gunman in texas mi
or no witnesses at all. which is why pelosi maintaining her power and making sure that trump doesn t get the acquittal in january or february he s been holding for. reality is 50% support impeachment but 50% don t and the house process has not really moved the needle whatsoever. and there have been some polls out that after this house inquiry and the investigation, the support for impeachment has gone down and the president s approval rating has gone up. that is something that nancy pelosi cannot fight against. and the reality is she has control in the house and how they executed their inquiry. mitch mcconnell has control in the senate and he s the one to determine how and when they move forward. jane, you talked about the divergence between what trump wants and the administration and they re coming together and the administration getting in line with what the commander-in-chief wants and they report the budget office lawyers were working with the white house and justice departme
victimized group and people don t know how to make sense of that. and just to clarify, obviously year speaking hyperbolically and not everyone with a maga hat. of course not. of course, i just want to clarify because the internet is in sane. jane, what do you think of what barry just said? i think one of the challenges we have is that we keep wanting to use anti-semitism or racism as a cudgel against our political opposites for getting it exists across the political spectrum. there will famous instances of the far right and far left coming together on the subject of hating jewish people. you see nation of islam making cause with lincoln rockwell the founder of the party back in the 1960s and the abt anti-semitism comes from islam and the accolades so it is a bipartisan issue and all-partisan issue and not an
we appreciates your voices and strength in this difficult time. jane come back to the panel. we need you for the next segment. coming up next, another attack on worshipers, a sunday service turning deadly after a gunman opens fire in a church. how one man ended the rampage in a matter of seconds. stay with us. if your glasses aren t perfect, we ll fix them. so will we. no we won t. don t forget to use your vision benefits before they re gone. now in-network with vsp. visionworks. see the difference.