aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. and the united kingdom generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems like it could be a drag-out fight to be the uk s next prime minister. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the politics lead on capitol hill. members of the january 6th committee are preparing for tomorrow s primetime hearing. the hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president trump during the three-plus hours that rioters were storming the capitol and the president s activities were unknown. but as committee members try to get to the bottom of the past attempt to teal the election, our democracy remains under attack by the same forces. let s start in wisconsin. cnn affiliate wism reports that donald trump called the top lawmaker in the wisconsin state assembly, republican robin voss, and asked him to overturn the 2020 election results. when did that call happen? that call happened las
the republican party has become too extreme. so former jeb bush adviser tim miller has been recommending for about a year, he s very anti-trump, the democrats should be using wedge issues against republicans the way that republicans generally effectively do when they control the house and senate against democrats. an example, king yesterday miller said when democrats acted in the house to codify, make the law of the land the same-sex marriage legalization. which ted cruz and others have said they think that supreme court decision should be overturned as well. 47 republicans in the house voted for it, which is a lot of republicans, even though obviously more voted against it, 157 republicans voted against it. now, the u.s. senate, they re trying to see if there s enough senate republicans to vote for it. do you think that s an effective strategy? i do, i think again, for democrats, painting the portrait of a republican party that has gone way off to the right, and that is so consume