and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the washington post , texts from donald trump s acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. department of homeland security said texts were lost in a reset of their government phones at the end of the trump administration. today a source tells cnn that the january 6th committee did interview chad wolf several months ago the same time they met with cuccinelli. that was before they learned of the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that
and the outcome of president biden s speech himself. what a party to actually benefit from biden bowing out? you have to support and defend the policies of joe biden which is bad electorally. if you show them i throw president biden off the ship, you two years after the presidency they are in this joe biden could be fine. joe biden could save his presidency if he would change course. todd: brooke singman has more between the media and the white house, brooke, good morning. good morning, guys to brush off bad poles and support the president biden continues to slide. last week the president s approval rating hitting a new low in new quinnipiac university poll shows 31% approved and 50% disapprove but yesterday white house chief of staff argued it s not the president s fault. listen to this. i think the president s approval rating is a reflection how people people feel about what is going on in the country. and some things in the country aren t going well not because the
make a near full recovery after having emergency brain surgery to save his life. he did have another big scare over the weekend as he fell and hit his head again. he was trying to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night by himself which he isn t supposed to do. doctors performed a ct scan following the fall to make sure there wasn t any swelling in his brain and thankfully the results came back normal. this happened just after easton had thanked all his fans for the thoughts and prayers. hey, this is easton. thank you for the prayers. you starting to feel better, bud? yeah, i m starting to feel better. awesome. team easton. we love you, buddy. love you, too. we all continue to pray for easton and his recovery. his team from utah was eliminated from the little league world series yesterday. new day continues right now. alarming new video of a violent arrest in arkansas. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins
sadly, it was indeed the case. now, imagine, if you will, a foreign adversary attacked any part of our country, let alone a symbol of our democracy, and imagine there s an attack and the president of the united states, the only person that you can t taunt with the phrase you and what army, stands by and does nothing or stands by and stands back. i mean, all the way back, back at the white house in the dining room for more than three hours watching it all unfold on tv. no calls to the military that he commands in chief, crickets. you d probably tell me it s impossible. it would never happen. you d probably say, look, if that wera show i d stop watching. they d jump the shark. only it did happen in reality skpr, and we heard how the president ignored desperate pleas from his own aides, his allies inside and outside of the government, even his own family. don t forget the fake electors plot in trying to weaponize the doj all in some attempt to hang onto power. but imagine just b
imagine there s an attack and the president of the united states, the only person that you can t taunt with the phrase you and what army, stands by and does nothing or stands by and stands back. i mean, all the way back, back at the white house in the dining room for more than three hours watching it all unfold on tv. no calls to the military that he commands in chief, crickets. you d probably tell me it s impossible. it would never happen. you d probably say, look, if that were a show i d stop watching. they d jump the shark. only it did happen in reality , and we heard how the president ignored desperate pleas from his own aides, his allies inside and outside of the government, even his own family. don t forget the fake electors plot in trying to weaponize the doj all in some attempt to hang onto power. but imagine just because the attackers were americans, well, that didn t change the duty of the president. it didn t change the duty of the officers to protect congress and