Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that
Working on president kennedy that mrs. Kennedy walked into the operating room in the emergency area and took out a piece of his skull and offered it to the doctors and said, would this be of any help . Of course by then it was too late. Lets interrupt just a moment here. Yeah. Because julian parallels what you are saying with where he was and what was happening in the limousine as well. Can you overlap what sid was talking about . Then we will go back into Parkland Hospital. My memories are similar to sids. I was in the same White House Press bus. I was up in the front of it. When we heard the shots we had to decide what to do with the bus. I talked with to driver with another assistant press secretary who was on the bus with us. We decided the only thing to did was to go to we had thousands of people out there wait forth the president and they didnt know what happened. We might have to point out something about when this happened of course no one on the bus had any concept what had oc
At the council formulations and to serve in the Obama Administration as assistant to National Security council. He also served during the Clinton Administration visiting scholar including harvard and columbia and the International Institute for strategic studies in london and numerous articles on National Strategic affairs and the author of nine previous books. Including how enemies become friends. Walter russell mead at the Hudson Institute the global economist at the wall street journal professor of Foreign Affairs with the council of Foreign Relations and offers numerous books and widely recognized special providence and how it changed the world. I hope we have the chance for work entitled the United States is real and the fate of jewish people. And that to shield itself is the subject of the discussion tonight. Please welcome Walter Russell mead. Thank you for that introduction it is terrific to be here with charles i think ive known so many years now. Quite a while. Can certainly
A federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together. Have hazard lee. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on an appeal given that there are no grounds. Nevertheless, trumps lawyer says personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who argued the case before the judge says he wants to take it to the next level, the 3rd district and from there to the supreme court. But very difficult to see how he is going to achieve that. And very significantly to the senate for pennsylvania. Pat toomey has issued a statement saying that the judge in this particular case, matthew brand, is a lifelong republican, with no legal bias whatsoever. He considers the whole matter. Now closed the legal position over and he congratulated president elect joe biden, and his administration looking forward. He says,
Of about 14000 votes. Now it is possible that that lead could be reduced even further because there has been some reporting that there were some uncounted votes that were discovered in georgia. But the just general consensus has been that this still wont overturn the narrow lead. The joe biden has over donald trump, that it may reduce it from 14212800. So still not enough to undo the result that has been projected, as donald trump has claimed. So were watching for that very carefully in time is of the essence for the truck campaign. If it was to try and challenge these results because once released, if it is very close, they could and do have the opportunity to request one more recount unclear if theyre going to do that or not. But the votes are to be certified in that state. The u. S. State of georgia on friday, so its a very tight timeline for any sort of recourse should the trunk campaign choose to do so. My palm bay has become the 1st us section of state to visit an illegal israeli