The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The battle to save lives as President Trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the Trump Campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by Defense Attorneys for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. Prosecutors say manaforts own emails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. Now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. Gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
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children s hospital and in our outpatient pediatric clinics throughout the city, we ve been preparing and actually prepare for surges like this even before covid started, have been preparing throughout the last two years of this pandemic so, you know, looking at extra shifts for our employees, physicians, you know, understanding the porngs of being available for our patients, we re seeing, in the office, telehealth visits, we are prepared but as the numbers continue to groerks it gets tougher tougher to keep up with the demand. so given all of that, for parents watching right now, what is your advice to them? well, i think the most important advice to them is that if you haven t vaccinated your children, do it now, don t keep delaying or procrastinating, the sooner you get your kids vaccinated, the sooner they get the protection they need. we understand most kids who get
you think current economic conditions are helping the working, the middle class? most said, helping the wealthy but, no, they are hurting the poor and middle class. half people said families like mine are not we re being hurt. even republicans, a decent porngs of republicans said this. a plurality of lower income republicans in this survey, people earning under $40,000 a year said current economic conditions are hurting my family suggesting a toehold for democrats to talk about this, to talk about the fact wage gains have not really materialized. they re about the same in terms of year over year growth and inflation adjustment terms. today as before trump took office. gdp growth, nothing to sneeze at, during obama s second term we spent $2 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy meantime. there is a narrative here that i
then how can you follow this guy? and, you know, i think you can make the same argument fairly of people following a guy who had an affair with an intern. it s fair but i think we re in the present day and there s a conflict, like a conflicting morality issue with evangelicals i can t get myself orr. what would mike pence make of this? his comment in 1999 versus now? i mean, in public to list donald trump s policy no, no. sodium pentathol. he was talking about the porngs of a preside importance of a president leading a moral christian life. delivering on policy. okay. a snl skit in the room with his wife saying one day that guy will be out and i ll be in and i
presidential election. the caucuses aren t until it s winter, until snow on the ground. at least it s been entertaining. up first texas governor rick perry on the attack in new hampshire. hit the ground running and hitting president obama hard calling his handling of the economy a disaster. he s not backing down from his verbal assault in iowa this week on fed chairman ben bernanke. here s what governor perry said. if this guy prints more money, between now and the election, i don t know what you all would do to him in iowa, but we d we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money, to play politics at this particular time in american history, is almost treasonous in my opinion. this morning, governor perry is headlining the politics and eggs breakfast in new hampshire. cnn senior political editor mark preston is covering that event and joins us live from bedford. the texas governor, i m telling you he s backing up his comments about berna