are reporting, that some of this information warfare that the u.s. government has been engaged in with declassified intelligence, there are some folks acknowledging, hey, some of this intelligence is maybe one source, right. it is not rock solid. it s and they re using it any way. that presents a bit of a risk. so far the intelligence has been pristine. and playing this game has worked. but the idea that they are using intel that isn t, say, rock solid, how risky is that and do officials acknowledge that their playing a little bit of a risky game here? right. and i mean that is something that i know sources and officials told my colleagues in that reporting. that it risks undercutting u.s. credibility if the u.s. comes out and they re wrong here. one of the things the administration officials said early on is in a way we hope you re wrong when it comes to timing. we hope necessarily that russia is not going to invade this week or we have some more time.
promised to do that to serve on the nation s highest court per drum announce any mccarthy former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and he could have you with us today. i just am to start by playing a little bit of people misted of the moment that she was presented as the nominee by president biden, let s watch. i am truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination. and i am especially grateful for the care that you have taken and discharging your constitutional duty in service of our democracy with all that is going on in the world today. martha: so andy, tells about judge jackson. what we should know about her history in terms of the way she approaches the law and the constitution. she is a progressive, martha by think as you saw in her remarks yesterday she has got a very winning personality pride
and i think also what you get in a lot of situations like this, believe it or not, is a matter of cliche, we live by cliche as we get questions based on cliches and think in cliches. this is a young kid thinking in the cliches of the world he s grown up in, playing a little bit of the jason borne situation. i think. and changing technology. but, again, i m not i want to state too, i m not a law enforcement agency or officer, i work with them, but, yeah. so talk to us about this survival aspect of this. we do know that he went camping. and we do know that the parents directed law enforcement to this carlton reserve. but we don t know where brian laundrie is. what questions does this raise for you? well, the biggest issue here will always be time and distance. and the things that work in his favor work against law enforcement s. so time and distance is, if you will, the biggest energy suck going on here. these are the questions that are going through the fbi s mind, they re trying
welcome back, joining us now with a look at axios am, editor and chief of axios, nicholas johnston. what s the one big thing today? destination fundraisers, just like the rest of us members of congress are thinking about what awesome vacation places do they want to go to during the summer months. we re picking up tons of information and data from a lot of reporters. big pac fundraisers starting to ramp up, they use the weekends or recesses to go to great vacation plays, wine country, marsha s vineyard, and noting this year, this is something that democrats have mostly stopped doing during the pandemic, leaving the field completely to republicans who continued much more of these in-person events. democrats are ramping that up again, playing a little bit of catch up for republicans to
in the senate. so there is some hope, based on past history, that republicans might vote to convict based on the evidence. so we need the evidence. that means the witnesses that have been called for need to come forward. and i d add duffey from omb to that list. 51 is the number which will override any decision procedurely, right? chief justice roberts will be in there. according to the constitution, leading it. but if 51 senators say we want it one way, it must go that way. however, cynthia, as you know so well here, potentially and was mentioned by jill, there could be some republican senators that are not going to agree. they re not going to be part of the 51 necessarily. they do hold some power. lisa murkowski, playing a little bit of sound there, could be one of five or ten or seven gop senators that might be bargaining for a little bit of say here. that is, of course, a democratic