speaker mccarthy made to get his new gig? fellow republicans calling on house speaker kevin mccarthy to make his secret deals public as the party makes its first legislative move since taking control of the house. also this hour, president biden at the podium in mexico city only to be overshadowed by questions about multiple classified documents found in his private office. from lively discussions to bipartisan friendships to physical confrontations, the new push to turn on the c-span cameras the full time onto the house and let the whole world see what really happens in the people s house, just like we did last week. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the main issue today, what exactly are the extents of the details, the promises that kevin mccarthy made to those republican hard-liners to get their votes to become house speaker and why is he hiding any lists of those promises from not only the public, but from his own rank-and-file.
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
well, did remain longer than liz truss. the lead starts right now. liz truss resigns as prime minister only 44 days in, making history for shorten newer at 10 downing. you ll never guess who is vying for her job. president biden hitting the road for the midterms. he s in pennsylvania touting infrastructure alongside democratic senate candidate john fetterman but would it be better for democrats if biden stays at the white house? then breaking news for the search for a missing princeton university student. police have recovered a body. hello and welcome to the lead i m john berman in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead as president biden hits the campaign trail with just 19 days until the election. biden making a road trip to pittsburgh, pennsylvania today. his 18th trip to the commonwealth since he became president. and the 19th is next week. this week it was to highlight how the bipartisan infrastructure law is rebuilding the nation s crumbling roads
going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something