welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula
if you are unvaccinated, are you at a highly risk of getting severely ill from covid-19, getting hospitalized and dying. reporter: and results for those with the vaccine and booster. you have a high degree of protection against the illness. reporter: as the omicron variant makes up a stunning 73% of u.s. cases, biden urging americans to get vaccinated and boosted in making a point of thanking former president donald trump for doing just that. one of the few things he and i agree on. reporter: also lamb basting those that push vaccine conspiracy theories. these companies are meddling lies that can kill their own commerce and supporters. reporter: as the white house rapidly prepares for the possibility of overwhelmed healthcare workers, mobilizing 1,000 troops to covid burdened hospitals with emergency response teams on the way to six states. all as the administration shifts
turnout it look like in 2016, a little bit 2018, 2014, 2012, past elections and midterms. what will happen is if he wins, there will be a wave of people that were unanticipated. we know who his targets have been early on. we ve heard attack after attack on joe biden. there was a new report suggesting that the trump campaign is also focusing on elizabeth warren. dave, does the campaign have internal polling suggesting that these two are the frontrunners now, biden and warren. i think we all have external poll showing elizabeth warren is on the upswing. that s somewhat remarkable given a few months ago she seemed to be in the second tier, third tier of candidates getting into the race. she s really stuck to her guns despite the president lamb basting her for months and calling her pocahontas as he often does. she s able to rise above the
general recused himself. he s the one who hired the special council. which leaves him as the man in the middle. between trump and any move to fire robert mueller. a precarious place. oddly enough, rosen stein started out as a teacher s pet. highly he s highly respected, smart guy. 9 democrats like him. the republicans like him. this guy is an man of upstanding character, the gold standard at the department of justice. rosenstein s stock rose even higher when after just two weeks on the job he wrote a now infamous memo at the request of the president. lamb basting fbi director james comey for mishandling the clinton e-mail investigation. if the president asks you to, to look at this and give me your thoughts, you can t say no. so he writes the memo. writes the memo. and then?