To be back after a couple of weeks off, but i mean, what a time to be back election day, as i said, its just one month away israel could strike iran at any moment that could be a seismic event. And at a sensitive time in us president ial and in this moment, Vice President harris, shes stepping up outreach to Arab American and muslim voters last night she met with Community Leaders in michigan as shes trying to shore up support with Palestinian Americans reeling from the war in gaza. And now Lebanese Americans are distressed by the bombardment of beirut both groups are concerned about us support of israels government. And both groups make up a critical demographic, specifically in the Battleground State of michigan while i was iii is one of the Community Leaders who met with Vice President harris hes the ceo of Emgage Action. Its an organization aimed at boosting the muslim american vote. And they have endorsed the harriswalz campaign. Thank you so much for meeting with me this morning.
But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
and new day continues right now. so the hearing the january 6th committee has been building up to tonight in primetime. i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. they really have been building up to this. we have a huge day ahead of us. people are waiting to see what are they going to say about that black hole of time of what happened on january 6th in the oval office. and they say they have new information. the focus is going to be the 187 minutes during which former president donald trump was at the white house and this mob of largely trump supporters storming the u.s. capitol. the committee will present a minute by minute account of what they call donald trump s dereliction of duty. what he did not do despite pleas from his aides, allies, his family. you are going to hear that phrase dereliction of duty we expect quite a bit. tonight is also going to feature never before seen outtakes of this moment where former pre
and trusted insider in the trump white house delivered blockbuster testimony before the january 6th committee. painting a damning portrait of an unhinged trump before and during the capitol attack. she described a volatile and irate president who knew the crowd was armed and still wanted them to have access to the capitol. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don t effing care that they have weapons. they are not here to hurt me. taking the effing mags away, let me people in, they can march the capitol from here. this morning you will hear from an array of attorneys including several former federal prosecutors who will explain why that exchange, the one you just heard there, puts the former president in a different legal category. and there s more. according to hutchinson s testimony former white house counsel pat cipollone warned about the criminal liability trump and others might face saying,
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