battleground goes bionic? the lead starts right now. one of the most anticipated debates of the year. john fetterman versus mehmet oz as this political season kicks into overdrive for candidates nationwide. plus, distraction for democrats. the anger and outrage over a letter to president biden now retracted. and moscow shuts down an appeal to release brittney griner from a russian prison. is there any hope left to bring the wnba star home? welcome to the lead. we ll get to the midterms in just a moment. first, a significant step for the justice department and its investigation into the january 6th attack. sources tell cnn the doj is trying to force the testimony of pat cipollony and patrick philbin, the top two lawyers from donald trump s white house, and hear about their conversations with the former president. this is exclusive new reporting, so let s get right to cnn s sarah murray. this is an attempt to break through a firewall of sorts trump has used to avoid scr
during today s event, the former president echoed the point he made back in 2012, that presidents are renters at the white house, and that their time there is temporary. i ve always described the presidency as ays relay race, y take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle theit runners in thatth race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer toy its highest aspirations. now the reason this event was heldth today and not during trump s term in office, the reason it hasp been a decade since we ve seen one of these unveilings is because for the first time in u.s. history, the incumbent president refused to honor his predecessor with this rite of passage. trump never scheduled the ceremony and given the content, it might have been awkward for trump given his intention of not leaving t
newsom leaped out of his limo and ate all of them up and now he s od eagle on dumb. oding on dumb. i watched jesse watters what he s been saying about paul pelosi in the last six months, mocking him, consistently, don t tell me it s not aiding and abetting. of course it is. it s a culture, a climate like this. look on-line. look at the sewage that s on-line. greg: sure, gavin, sure. he lived in a bus, but he definitely had cable. gav talks like this maniac said his imaginary dvr on his imaginary tv on fox news every night while wearing brian kilmeade pajamas, drinking his own urine out of a fox nation mug in his beautiful, dil dilapidated bus of home. great. this is rich. from the party that calls everyone a nazi or a white supremacist. conservative black politician, white supremacist, latino republican, white supremacist, jimmy kimmel? funny? see, nothing makes sense. and the rest of the crowd who denies crime exists, they ain t much better. take it away, fart blaster
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