good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper in washington, d.c. a busy afternoon as we come on the air this afternoon, an historic and contentious day in court has just come to a close. moments ago we saw donald trump leave the courthouse in new york followed by the new york state attorney general letitia james who brought the civil fraud case against mr. trump and the family business. the former president spend the day on the stand repeatedly classing with the judge, the very person who will decide how much the trumps must pay after he already found them liable for fraud. we re going to go to the courthouse in a moment where this case could put trump at risk of losing his entire business operation in new york where he s accused of inflating financial statements. hs ahead, an astounding number coming out of gaza, the p.i.n. mrin stri of health which is controlled by hamas, the palestinian ministry claiming more than 10,000 deaths have taken place in response to the initial hamas
meghan markle s explosive interview with oprah. so what is next the queen and the royal family? it is way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early oig, the show that know that when grandma talks, you better listen. the house is expected to vote today on president biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. debate on the bill scheduled to begin just after 9:00 a.m., timing of the final vote is fluid given that republicans may try to slow the process. house democrats aim to get the bill to president biden s desk so he can sign it before key unemployment programs expire this coming sunday. it can take days for congress to formally send a huge bill down the street to the white house. once biden has signed it, the money can start flowing including those $1400 relief payments for eligible americans, $300 a week federal jobless benefits and those additional funds for vaccine distribution. new polling from the pew research center continues to show just ho
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Hell. and if you don t fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore. i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. so as you know the colorado supreme court found that the speech should not be protected by the first amendment, because it incited violence. how do you see it? i think to reach the point of incitement, the tie between the statement and the violence has to be quite imminent. and that s a tricky legal question. you know, frankly, i don t think it s in anybody s interest to start getting in the weeds of whether he statement was insurrection or incited insurrection or not. and i think this picks up on jessica s point from a moment ago about this whole idea of the kitchen sink in the presidents brief, that the supreme court does not even have to touch the insurrection question because there are countless other ways to avoid getting into the quagmire of