during a call with house gop leader kevin mccarthy while the capitol was under siege on january 6th along with congressman the three had been facing trump s wrat. republicans in two of those states, arizona and wisconsin, set to make their picks for statewide offices in the next few weeks. arizona today and wisconsin next tuesday. amid a rift between donald trump and mike pence that dates back to january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, two gubernatorial candidates in arizona and wisconsin backed by trump will face-off this month against those endorsed by former vice president mike pence. who split with trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. but make no mistake, this year s republican primaries have been shaped in large part by who donald trump is endorsing. and competition for his endorsement took a surreal turn last night when trump endorsed eric in the missouri primary. just eric, no last name, you know, like beyonce
done without having boots on the ground? i think it is proof of that. one of the things biden says when we left afghanistan is you could do over the horizon attacks on places to diminish terrorism, and this is a perfect example of it. we have the intelligence, we have the capability. we executed it. the other thing that s important about it is here is a president of the united states who values the intelligence community, the previous guy used to make fun of the cia and the intelligence community. this is something the intelligence community has worked on for 20 years, and there are probably men and women there who have been following zawahiri this whole time. i agree with frank it s not the end of al-qaeda by any means. people forget about al-qaeda versus isis. isis was a more global
if his judgment was so lacking in that moment how might that judgment impact his decisions versus north korea, versus isis, versus anything which is going on in the middle east. so i think this administration does have an identity problem as far as how having a way of assuaging people s fears and giving a sense of calm. all we ve seen is chaos instead of calm. and if this is a harbinger of what it will be for this administration in the future well, it will be tough sledding. thank you so much, gentlemen, good to see you. thank you. all right, a busy night or morning depending on where you are watching but you are watching cnn s live breaking news coverage, national security adviser michael flynn has resigned. we ll see how russia is reacting in a live report from moscow coming up next.
she made a posting on social media declaring her allegiance. leading investigators down the path this was an isis-inspired attack. they re saying inspiration at this point. they do not have direction, but inspiration. we were told this is looking more and more like self-radicalization. other officials tell us they have not ruled out via social media forums, jihadi websites, et cetera. also this, because we ve had a lot of discussion about this, kate and john, as you know, about what contributed in terms of extremism as well as the possibility of workplace grievances. to be clear, investigators are looking at whether disputes or offense taken at the shooter s
becomes you do call them terrorists. if you do, it comes to that, the terrorist s families are often the last to know they ve been radicalized. that s often the most surprising question for any right-minded human being is how does someone go about living this double life or really good at hiding it, as you said? how as a society do we go about making sure that doesn t happen? honestly, there are no scientific indicator when a person snaps. whether joining a terrorist group or a consult wiult. the more cunning ones are able to hide this. this is a reminder for all of us called isis. there is a psychotic person named abu bakr al baghdadi who runs isis or daesh and it needs to be addressed. there are people in syria as we