president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts and national security adviser john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton gassed at first, but breathed a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps in political and poor protection of classified information. that new information comes on the heels of another revelation made by an ex trump official on this very network last
the senate message to tech ceos today. you have blood on your hands. the lead starts right now. the heads of facebook, tiktok and other social media companies tumble today with bipartisan criticism on capitol hill over what the companies are and are not doing to protect your kids. what led mark zuckerberg to stand up in the hearing and apologize. that is coming up. a pennsylvania man accused of decapitating his father then posting a political rent online. why was the horrifying video left up online for hours? we are expecting a major ruling at any moment from a judge that could come and will have serious repercussions for donald trump and his future. welcome to the lead with jake tapper . big tech ceos face blistering questions about what they are and are not doing to protect kids and teens. the u.s. senate judiciary committee hearing today focused on the leaders of tiktok, meta, which owns facebook and instagram, x, lee forman onus twitter, snap, which owns snapchat an
lives of your children are damaged and destroyed. mr. zuckerberg, you and the companies before us i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. you have a product you have a product that s killing people. i just want to get this stuff done. it s been 28 years, what, since the internet. we haven t passed any of these bills because everyone is double-talk, double-talk. it s time to actually pass them. that s just a small sample of a contentious senate hearing yesterday with social media ceos. we have much more to show you including the moment that mark zuckerberg apologized to the parents there in the chamber. also on capitol hill, a couple of republican senators involved in the border bill negotiations are calling on members of their own party to stand up to donald trump. and meanwhile, a top advisor in trump s campaign makes a shameless pitch to wealthy donors. we ll tell you what that is just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too earl
today on inside politics a fateful choice. president biden announced he s decided how the u.s. will respond to a deadly attack on american troops in jordan, as fears grow that retaliating against iranian forces could further ignite a region already on fire. plus, china s promise. xi jinping gave joe biden his word that china will not meddle in the 2024 election. we re going to bring you exclusive, new reporting on their high-stakes conversation. and we can t shake it off. everyone loves to weigh in on taylor swift s relationship with travis kelce, but now a far-right media and even former presidential candidate conspiracy, they re all pushing an absurd theory that the most famous woman on the planet is plotting with the nfl to get joe biden re-elected. talk about bad blood. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do start with the breaking news. president biden is speaking to reporters at the whi
plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university s claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard s august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code of conduct. yes or no. it can be, depending on the context. from that, to multiple allega