hiss rival office holders killed. the lead starts right now. one city, four homes, each one shot at. police say who the man was who orchestrated the attacks, they say he wanted to cause injury or death and the apparent targets were his democratic rivals. plus, trading in on the biden family name, house republicans ready to investigate presidential son hunter and presidential brothers jimmy and frank biden for trying to use their access to the now president to try to make money. where does the investigatory trail begin? well, cnn is investigating. and, how did two passenger planes end up on a collision course? could this very serious question impact your next flight? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the white house counsel s office desperately trying to explain why the biden white house has repeatedly given the american people incomplete, late information about president biden and his staff s handling of classified documents. both
republicans to launch several investigations into the matter. among the burning questions, why did the president s lawyers conduct the search instead of the feds and why are there no visitor logs at the president s home in delaware? shouldn t the secret service keep track of who is coming and going? bill: all fair questions. the white house and secret service say there are no such records. republicans are not taking that for an answer. mr. comer s investigation will look at that and like to get the logs of who had access to the biden family residence. why did they keep this from us? maybe the most important question we ve asked for over a week is why did they keep it from the american people when they knew about it before the election? we wonder if the secret service had records. he still had secret service protection and you would assume that the secret service would vet people that would be allowed on the premises of the dwelling for the president of the united states
you know, this is a time for choosing. we choose democracy over hytocracy, love over hate. these are the questions of our time that i ran for president to try to help answer in dr. king s life and legacy and many i view shows the way forward. just have to look back. you have to be prepared. president biden marks the holiday with a look at his legacy and the work still to be done to ensure voting rights for all americans. meanwhile, house republicans spent that day upset that president biden doesn t have visitor logs for his private homes in delaware. information they never had any interest in when president trum health care plan hundreds of classified materials at his mar-a-lago country club. and from ridiculous lies to russian ties. the bizarre george santos saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we begin on cap
i always had a few questions about it. reporter: the campaign, pretending to be your chief of staff. you know, i didn t know about that. it happened i was not notified about that until a later date. reporter: did you speak to him about it at all? yeah, i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. house speaker kevin mccarthy thought george santos resume was questionable before revelations about his lies were discovered and there are so many lies. some of them. others, like the fact that his political person pretended to be mccarthy s chief of staff. there s so many. i m sure he s not thrilled about that at all. as for santos, have we gone from ridiculous lies to russian ties? the bizarre saga takes another turn with new reporting that links him to the family of a sanctioned russian oligarch. hold on now. meanwhile, republicans remain focused on president biden. they re laser focused on biden and his handling of classified documents. the
the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is