John good evening, Welcome To Washington im John Roberts in for Bret Baier tonight. The biden administration weighs its response to an attack that injured u. S. Troops in iraq. Taylor swift is forced to cancel multiple shows overseas due do a possible Terror Plot targeting the concerts. We look at efforts to boost cyber defenses across the public and private sectors. Breaking Tonight Brand new Fox Power rankings the first since Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the democratic ticket. Former President Trump holds a Variety Edge over the Vice President in the electoral College Projection 251 to 241. Though the race is closer than ever. And these next few weeks will be crucial for both candidates. There are just 90 days now until the election while early voting kicks off in just 30 days. But the g. O. P. And democrats focusing on key american States Today. Vice president harris and Running Mate tim walz appear at event this hour. Grady trimble is there right now. Good ev
Insurrection. Their options so far less than tlelg. House democrats are thinking about launching their own investigation. Senate majority leader chuck schumer won t say if he will do the same but he is blasting republicans. This vote has made it official. Donald trump s big lie has now fully enenveloped the republican party. Shame on the republican party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they re afraid of donald trump. Most of those republican senators who were not just witnesses to the attack but victims of it are now choosing to look to the next election instead of taking an honest and thorough look at what went wrong in the aftermath of the one we just had like how the losing party convinced angry supporters there was fraud or maybe that is exactly why republicans don t want this investigated. Cnn s national correspondent suzanne malveaux joins me now from capitol hill. What do democrats do next? reporter: quite a number of democrats feel they under s
Welcome to thursday. It is meet the press daily and i m chuck todd. None of this we say lightly. Today appears to be the day you can mark in your calendars as the day that represents the republican party s complete and total surrender to donald trump. Whether it s the paesht s revolt against liz cheney in washington or new voting restrictions they re celebrating in florida and texas or bizarre audit that s playing out of presidential results in the state of arizona, the republican party surrendered to a lie, as it surrenders to trump. Let s not mince words, it means the american democracy is in really big trouble, more so today than it was yesterday. The number three house republican lists cheney as the number three republican being ousted from leadership for the sin of speaking out against her party s embrace of the former president s outlie lie that somehow the election was stolen from him. And it s not just why she s being ousted that s so alarming, there s also the way the mob rule
We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the constitution. Let s not forget that it was lies about the election that drove trump supporters to riot and attack police officers, and vandalize the u. S. Capitol on january 6th while calling for mike pence to be killed. Immediately after that attack, even republican leaders agreed that trump had incited the crowd. Trump and i, wraefd a hell of a journey. I hate it. From my point of view, he sen a consequential president. But today, all i can say is count me out, enough is enough. The president bear respond for wednesday atack. He should have denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. And there s no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob. He s to blame. That attack was based on a big like that trump fed to his supporters and over and over again that the election was stolen from here. Joe biden received the most votes from any u. S. President defeating president trump by 7 million votes. When it
Meet with a group to look for common ground. Biden has held recent conversations with capito describing last week s meeting as warm and friendly. Capito saying afterwards that she was encouraged. There are signs as relates to another of biden s top priorities, police reform. The wall street journal reports there appears to be bipartisan agreement on several pieces of police reform legislation including limiting the transfer of some military equipment to departments, banning the use of chokeholds except in lifethreatening situations and some changes to noknock warrants. However, this is the major gop which remains engulfed over trumpism and fealty to the big election lie. Joining me now is eugene scott. Eugene, good morning to you. The biden administration is trying to negotiate with republicans on a couple of different fronts. We talked about policing, on this infrastructure bill but this is a party, a conservative party, that is trying to push a lifelong conservative out of leadership