run. why? he says although he saw a path for victory which usually people that see a path for victory do it, but he thought his role could be better played in expressing support for someone else and excerpting pressure as the new hampshire governor throughout this process taking on donald trump who he clearly doesn t want to be the nominee. he sat down with dana bash and explained more of his thinking. the math has shown donald trump has no chance of winning in november of 2024. he won t even win georgia. if you re a republican who can t win georgia, you have no shot. he s proven that. if republicans nominate him, we re saying a vote for him is a vote for joe biden. that s how the math will play out. that s his assessment of the math. one other thing to think about is the new hampshire primary itself now with the governor out will become a more important contest because you don t have a hometown player. interesting. david, stick around. let s talk about the democratic
several democratic officials. then a new discovery about a revolutionary weight loss drug. patients say it actually helps curb other addictions such as smoking or drinking. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. the first public reaction from former president donald trump in response to cnn s blockbuster reor thing, since matched by the new york times and washington post, in his classified documents case. mr. trump refused to directly answer questions about a recording now in the hands of federal prosecutors where trump is said to be talking about classified materials he kept in his possession after leaving the white house. but the former president did go after those investigators with his usual complaints of being a victim of a witch hunt. in moments i ll be joined by trump s former lawyer, tim parm tory who left the legal team a few weeks ago and played a key role in the classified documents investigation. first, we ll start
[indistinct] he tripped over a bag, a sandbag on the stage, and briefly he tripped and got up, and he got right back up and continued what he was there to do. he did not there was no need for the doctor to see him, as it was related to the fall, and he is doing fine. jesse: biden s pal in the liberal media are covering for him by accusing republicans of counseling. biden has this miss underestimated thing, right, where people assume, all, he is too old, that he doesn t know what he is doing, then he keeps delivering. today, he tripped over i guess there was a sandbag and twitter and the right are going crazy, the advance team, whoever s fault but the sandbag. is he so enraging to the right because he is so normal? i do just fine. going to have a fall. if i do, i hope i get up as good as he did. but given current voters concerned about the president s age, this is an image his critics are already capitalizing on and pouncing on. jesse: and while the majority of a
be very clear. not one republican should vote for this deal. it is a bad deal. i thought the last plan wasn t good enough. i had no idea. i had no idea that we would see a plan as ephemeral as this plan. anyone who s spent any time on capitol hill will tell you those hard liners were probably never going to vote for any compromise. by necessity, it would not be what they wanted, which was major spending cuts to social programs but here is where it gets tricky. as part of the deal to get the gavel, mccarthy put a number of those hard liners on the rules committee in the house. and now two of them, chip roy and ralph norman, are openly trying to sink deal. will they, even though they re trying to sink it, still allow it to go to the floor for a vote? that that is an open question. we re going to ask garrett haake about it in a moment. there s also the question of whether enough house dems will sign on. the conventional wisdom is yes. that there s no way democrats will all
trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape