starts right now. michelle obama s as she is terrified about what 2024 election results will bring. the lead starts now. a crucial week before the caucuses in iowa and trump is not there. he is in court. he is falsely calling january 6 criminals hostages. plus, a cnn correspondent embedded with migrants trying to get across the u.s. border from mexico, a desperate journey but they are not from latin america. these migrants are from china. and it could be the smoking gun in the investigation as to what went wrong in a the alaska airlines flight. a missing door found in an alaska backyard. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. only seven days until the first of voters get their say in the 2024 election. next monday republicans will gather across iowa and they will caucus for their favorite candidates. the latest contenders, once again, they are off the campaign trail because of his legal issues. trump is expected to be in court as his lawyers face off against special couns
surroundings, you just never know. it started with a frightening horror movie from the 80s. this movie is we re gonna take some women into the wood and they will be hunted down. decades later something truly frightening it was happening for real. a strange vanishing in the forest. immediately, we knew something was wrong. then your heart just broke. surely, then meredith, two women missing and desperate efforts to find them. she could be alive and we just can t let up. could this old movie hold the key to these new cases? a little blood, sex, violence. a film fantasy turn chilling reality. if someone has her, she is afraid. who could be behind this and how with this real life story and? she was a blue belt in judo. if anybody could survive it was there it is. our national forests are places of refuge for folks who want to get away from the city and have a sense of peace, commune with nature but you have to be aware of your surroundings all th
for anyone. we ve had presidents who have fallen before who were a lot younger and people didn t go into, you know, heart palpitations. but his age is an issue and people have every write to every right to consider it. driving the knife in his back during his most vulnerable moments. new poll numbers show he is in serious trouble. less than a third approve of handling the economy, guns, immigration. and hillary is not giving a glowing review of his presidency. i am, you know, of the camp that is hes determined to run, he has a good record. that people would not have predicted would have gotten done. he doesn t get the credit he deserves for what s going on in the country. i hope he stays very focused, able to compete in the election because i think he can be reelected. . jesse: she s stealing his talking points. if trump wins, which i do not believe will happen, let me quickly say that, if in some scenario that were to happen, it would be the end of democracy in th
workers in the lab at that time. if you are able to go back and look at those blood samples and say, did they show antibodies to the covid virus, then that would be another pretty definitive piece of data. and then you would obviously want to have a complete forensics investigation of the lab. but it is these things, these types of things that we do not have still. that has been the lack of transparency that so many people have been talking about. i think the answer to the question that everybody is answering ins noble, but we don t know it because we don t have all the data. sanjay it s interesting because you even spoke to some of the scientists who worked in wuhan. what did they say about how hard it is to get information in china? they say it is really hard. it s interesting because there is this world health investigation i talked to peter dasha who also runs ecohealth alliance, the organization that was doing research in wuhan. so he had sort of two halves that he w
now turning the tables as we learn new leads on the biden family money trail. zero in on the remaining unknown biden who appears to have received $70,000 from the chinese electric company in a deal with the parent ties to the biden family enterprise. jonathan turley and joe concha standing by. first, we go to david spent who gist us the latest this afternoon on a friday from there on this case. hi, david. hi, martha. you mentioned aggressive. it s clear hunter biden s team has upped the ante. this counterclaim today it s a counter suit against this computer repair shop owner makes interesting observations and questions including questioning of who owned the laptop. i want to read this specific part. it s a foot note. it says this is not an admission by mr. biden that mack isaac, the shop owners or others possessed any real laptop containing data belonging to mr. biden. mr. biden says at some point matt isaac obtained electronically stored data some of which belongs to mr.