I have to admit, i never knew this existed but how cute. And the really exciting thing is the winner could become the next speaker of the house. Im just kidding. Thank you so much for joining us today. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. Folks, i have warned you before, cranking your base up too much will blow out your speaker. The lead starts right now. Republicans need a new leader and they need that person quick. The government runs out of money again next month. So, who should become the next House Speaker . And what deal will he make with those eight House Republicans who toppled mccarthy. Plus, petty, petty, petty politics. First nancy pelosi, and then steny hoyer. Both kicked out of their Capitol Office space. We have brandnew cnn reporting about who was really behind this decision. And the cnn exclusive, 10 million in legal bills for hunter biden and an exhausted efforts to find more funds. Where is a shady foreign billionaire when you really need them . Welcome to the
president zelenskiy kept thanking president trump profusely and repeatedly, and then he said, thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. that was the last word said about defense spending because donald trump did not respond in any way to president zelenskiy s desire to buy more javelin missiles from the united states. we have seen how eager the president is to discuss weapons sales publicly and privately to saudi arabia and other countries, but instead of responding to president zelenskiy s desire for more javelins, donald trump said, i would like you to do us a favor, though. in the impeachment hearings, the word though will be studied in that sentence. the oxford english dictionary defines though in that usage to mean introducing an additional
second-most important public document in the impeachment investigation of president donald j. trump. the conversation only covered two subjects. first, military aid to ukraine, and second, investigating joe biden and joe biden s son. that s it. president zelenskiy clearly wanted to talk about military aid. president trump clearly only wanted to talk about joe biden. president zelenskiy used the standard public manual of flattering trump in order to get something from him. he actually said to him, you are a great teacher for us. president trump then said, the united states has been very good to ukraine. i wouldn t say that it s reciprocal, necessarily, because things are happening that are not good, but the united states has been very good to ukraine. president zelenskiy kept thanking president trump profusely and repeatedly, and then he said, thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically, we are almost re
the winner congressman ron desantis endorsed by donald trump. he thanked trump profusely in his speech tonight. he is very much identified with donald trump. he defeated the establishment candidate there adam putnam. sets up desantis against and drew gillum, the democratic nominee in this race. each party get accounting candidate it waned. democrats looking at desantis saying that s a guy we can beat. republicans may be thinking the same thing. we ll see what gives. we ll talk a lot about this november. we say it will be that senate race in florida, the primaries were not competitive tonight. bill nelson, it is now official will square off against account republican governor of florida. we don t have the republican governor of florida rick scott, officially nominated tonight. we can show you how that race shapes up heading into it. this is the average of the polls taken there. scott has been slightly ahead of bill nelson, republicans would
he mobilized progressives in this race and talked about abolishing i.c.e. and impeaching donald trump. gwenn graham a former congresswoman, a her father was a u.s. senator. she fashioned herself more as sort of a traditionally centrist, traditionally electable candidate gillum ran to her left, a lot of energy. he wins the nomination. republicans are already saying he s going to be too far to the left to win florida in the fall. democrats are saying republicans have got an even bigger problem on their hands because of what happened in their primary tonight. the winner congressman ron desantis endorsed by donald trump. he thanked trump profusely in his speech tonight. he is very much identified with donald trump. he defeated the establishment candidate there adam putnam. sets up desantis against and drew gillum, the democratic nominee in this race. each party get accounting