it is a location that s just steps away from the highlysitivs sensitive situation room, where some of the nation s top secret likemissions, like the raid on e laden, take place. house republicans openinpuing up their own investigation, calling the events shameful. but national adviser jakesulv sullivan says there is no needan to worry n. n beee situation room is not i use and has not been in use fors months because it is currently under construction. the only people comingtr. inthis and going out of the sit room p in this period have been workers who are getting it ready to go. things got super tense inng . the room. the white house asked point blank if the cocaine belonge tod the biden family. that question did not go over well with press secretarion diy karine jean-pierre. i can just say once and for aly karinel or not, the cocaineh belonged to the biden family. dibiden fad not avoiding the qu. that is not true. we ve answered this questionrue litigated this question
readout on the florida governor s standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch donald trump. new reporting this hour on why he said what he said. plus, mike pence is doing it today, tim scott is doing it, so is ron desantis and francis suarez, but donald trump is not. most are walking in parades, but not the former president. he s giving more evidence he s running a very different kind of campaign. no labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny joe biden the presidency. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with that old saying, honesty is the best policy. at first blush, that might seem like what an operative for the ron desantis super pac is doing, stating the obvious, that things in the desantis campaign are not going so well. listen to steve cortes and his assessment of how his candidate is doing. look, right now in national polling
in fate. i believe god gives us a path to follow, hopefully we can find it and follow it. some people do. some people are athletes. some people are professors. some people make sure we re fed, they are farmers and truck drivers, you name it. me, for me, the path is this what is this? ladies and gentlemen i spent my weekends and my nights and early mornings doing this. getting the bags under my eyes, sleep a lot, i don t, things worry me, they concern me. my wife will tell you, that i have a pad next to my bed i take notes about certain things going on in country, i am a voracious reader of mostly history, finding out what is taking place. if i can t communicate that to you, if i don t have a platform like this or radio or books this is all interesting but what is the point. i try to convey it to you as many ways as i can, here. and airwaves. and specially through books. there is a book i completed, a project that has taken me about 16 months but writing has been about 12 morn
and in some cases until today to even comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic.hi it s no big deal. this is saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual forl fo investigators and prosecutorsth to have disagreements beforeey they you know, as you go through these cases, how many times do they have disagreement they ha way? alonga all the time. yeah, all the time. i mean, this is the waf thy thi is part of the process. this is the way that it and it s what we wan e t. onl this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said that exchange.co oh, that, of course, refusesurse to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all thatjoe joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, which are all ccp approved, ofe. course. here s how they cover that. hewe have not verified it s basd on a whatsapp. we don t know the verification of that. we don t know whether
exploit my opponent s youth and inexperience. if kitty dukakis was raped, would you favor death penalty. no, i don t. you mentioned navy, we have fewer ships than 2016, the nature of military has changed. trey: i was looking at my watch, too, checking the time can hurt in debate. president bush went on to lose to bill clinton with help from ross perot. debates allow us to see candidates side we side, watch facial expression and body language. afterall, we will be spending time with whoever wins the white house. the first gop primary debate is less than two months away. candidates are introducing themselves to voters, but debates are different and allow you to do in one evening what you failed to do in six months, which is gain momentum. these are not real debates, it is chance to see how a candidate think on their feet and interact with fellow competitors. the dominant question now, will front-runner donald trump attend the first debate, who will be eligible on the go