defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
there s even greater points looming out there, it s celebrities who lost their status. i m referring to the blue checks. i m not talking about someone choking on their steak in prague. yeah yn can. i debated internally whether to leave that joke in or not. it s terrible. it s one of the worst jokes we ve ever heard so i left it in. last week twitter removed the user verification symbols known as blue checks from any account that doesn t cough up eight bucks to subscribe to twitter blue. the cash will go towards replacing elon s rocket that ec loaded. it s a shame he only had two more payments to go. celebs saw their blue checks go away including kim kardashian, tom lose, the rock, and of course greg gut feld. and my personal favorite, the pope. try getting eight bucks out of that guy. he always said he left hey wallet in his other casic. on saturday, twitter reverifies many users with massive following including dead people like michael jackson and kobe bryant. of course ac
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listen, i m quite obsessed with the photos at mar-a-lago as you are, and i do think it s worth pointing out there s an elaborate sort of chandelier-like wall sconce in the bathroom where there s also am i to believe a tension a tension rod shower curt i mean high, low. that is the highest of the low.th that is my favorite detail the tension shower rod. you have to say having that much reading material in the bathroom is relatable. not going to commentro on th. thank you, my friend. great toan see you again. so there have y been a lot politicized debates over the years and a lot ofli them have featured joe biden. in 2012 and 2020 and we re not evenre counting 2024 yet. if you had to pick one moment where joe biden was able to beat back his critics and win the moment in as few words as possible, it would probably be this one. an editorial in the los angelesed times said, in additi to his uncontrolled verbosity, biden is a gaff machine. can you reassure voters in t
yeah. all right. you can stay. happy thursday, everyone. record heat in the northeast continues. it s so hot in washington, d.c. president biden is puttingen extra ice in his embalming flui d. rachel levine is freezing his pants in the hhs break room. all right i ll wait for that. jerry nadler is stuck stuck to someone else s legs. i had three for the price so president biden headed to camp david today to begin preparing for his debate with donald trump. here is his car pulling into the camp, a luxury high rise that will serve as a homeless shelter where units cost taxpayers an estimated 6000 grand. each has opened in downtown l.a. and the homeless are complaining about having to live around the homeless. but i got to say, it s got great perks. it has a rooftop garden, a gym, plus hot and cold running. there s no better word thanditae it s my mantra when i meditate and the reason to interview dr. anthony fauci fears that someone could kill him. here s some advice. fauci