even say i guess how old i am. i can t even say the number. it doesn t register with me. and only thing i can say is that, one of the things that people are going to find out they re going see a race and they re going to judge whether or not i have it or don t have it i respect them taking a hard look at it i would as well. i took a hard look at it before i decided to run. paul: let s bring in poll strer strategist doug served as advisor to former bill clinton doug nice to see you again. good to be here, paul. polls say majority of democrats would prefer another candidate to be their nominee in 2024 can you remember a case when that was the true incumbent? i can t remember a case where that was true of the incumbent or case where the field of perspective challengers to the president was as frankly limited as the field would be. there s an old adage in politics you can t beat somebody with nobody. that s what we re facing. paul: is there a doubt about him related to his
the a message to the ukrainian people that most of america stands with them. it was a message to russia and vladimir putin that the u.s. will continue to support ukraine militarily and otherwise. perhaps it was the a message for china. and other add adversary to not question america s willingness to defend democracy wherever it lives speaking of china. vladimir putin and xi jinping agreed to meet. joining us is dan hoffman. how do you assess the state of the war and the state of the region. we re tracking this horrific war of attrition with thousands of casualties on both sides. but really the story of the war is just the damage that russia has inflicted upon ukraine. deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and maternity wards, that is why the ukraineanians are fighting on to force the russian out of their territory. but i think one story is that china is the big winner in this war right now, they are exploiting a weakened russia. which has been bloodied
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
released without proper es to democrats during the 2022 midterms. one republican was one of 11 affected, saying what happened goes way beyond dirty politics. doing identity theft with our social security numbers to get this. they paid for this. did they get the information, know it was done illegally? we want to know this. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel on this one. hi, mike. two powerful house chairmans set a deadline for today to be notified for how widespread the problem has been. mike rogers is the chairman of the house armed services committee, james coleman of house oversight. they wrote to secretary austin, quote, the recent broad release of records, highlights the inadequacy to secure military personnel files but raising concerning questions of possible illicit motive or political partisanship. they were released to a private research firm with ties to the democrat congressional campaign committee. one of the republican congressman told his understa
military now to provide f-16s. the president discussing the possibility of us being involved there for a year to three years out at this point. so john kirby will join us from the national security council. lots of questions on covid, china and ukraine in just a few moments. winter weather await reaction from the white house as the department of energy joins the fbi in its thinking that covid-19 may actually have leaked from the lab in china, the wuhan lab. virology lab. it s the latest in several collapses of the covid policy that locked down, masked up and mandated the united states for over two years. this is a big deal. one of the biggest revelations that the naysayers now have is a 180 or natural immunity. a new study finds that one bout of covid is better than two covid vaccine shots in protection. that is published in lancet. remember, early on they were singing a very different tune. they said absolutely didn t come from the lab. we re talking about why they might h