Right now on cnn this morning, new calls for the president to bow out part of the race coming from inside his own party. Plus the hollywood alisters, major biden fundraiser whose just turned his back on the president s campaign. Plus ukraine s president in the house speaker meeting facetoface for the first time all right. 5:00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the capitol dome on this thursday morning. Good morning, everyone. I m kasie hunt. It s wonderful to have you with us support for president biden s reelection. Bid seems to be slipping. Vermont s peter welch. Now the first senate democrat to call on biden to step aside. He wrote this in an oped, quote, i understand why president biden wants to run he saved us from donald trump once, and wants to do it again but he needs to reassess whether he is the best candidate to do so. In my view, he is not for the good of the country. I m calling on president biden to withdraw from the race. Welch s demand was one of three that came
Fast life experience. Real concern, can he handle some something that does not happen between 10:00 and 4:00 p. M. ? he gets calls in the middle of the night all the time. Is there a plan for the secretary of state to stay if it goes past 8:00 p. M. Or will be presidents day on? i won t speak to the president s schedule. Use it often has not had any concerns about the president s health and conduct with him. Can you clarify is that a question you ve asked alston? the secretary has full confidence in the president s leadership as he has had from day one. He is sharpest before 8:00 p. M. So, said the pentagon at some point picks up an incoming news at 11:00 p. M. Who do call, the first lady? he has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the american people. John: this is not getting any better. The nato summit becoming a highstakes test of president biden s mental thickness as he seeks to reassure global leaders he is up to the job. It all comes as the
Going to abandon some american citizens because he capitulated to the taliban 1 august deadline. Jesse: we should have seen this coming, sleepy joe s handling of afghanistan has been a disaster on all levels. We know it doesn t take much to impeach a president these days. Democrats tried to impeach george bush for a lot of things. Including global warming as we all remember donald trump was impeached over a phone call. Some would say a perfect phone call. And what happens when you ignore intelligence and strand thousands of innocent americans behind enemy lines in a war zone? and then blame them for not being able to get out. Particularly given the security situation in afghanistan, for many years, we have urged americans not to travel there since march of this year, we have sent 19 separate messages to americans enrolled with the embassy in kabul, encouraging and then urging them toe leave the country. There could be other americans in afghanistan who never enrolled with the embassy w
F g capitol while with a large group of proud boys around the building. Call him milkshake. That s what they call him. He is from bradenton, florida. He spilled the beans by another proud boy member at the time which may turn out to be key information about the premeditated nature of the events that next transpired next. Scott is charged with assaulting a federal officer, engaging in violence and other counts. The washington post adds this reporting, quote, prosecutors allege as many as 60 members of the proud boys a right wing group with a history of violence that threw the support to donald trump in the election communicated on the ground in washington before several allegedly spearheaded key parts of the rioting. That authorities said led to five deaths. Assaults on nearly 140 police and evacuation of lawmaker just the picture painted by the fbi is one of graver danger of violence in the wake of the insurrection as the former president s ongoing public comments about the election an
tonight the big story this week, second impeachment trial of donald j. trump. what began as a trump rally january 6th to air unfounded grievances quickly turned into a deadly attack on our nation s capitol. the first storming of the complex since the war of 1812. as the final cases from both sides are being polished the former president s political future is at stake but most importantly in the outcome of this trial the precedent is set for the future of our democracy. axios reporting a short time ago kevin mccarthy the highest ranking republican in the chamber recently traveled to florida to meet with trump. reportedly asked liz cheney to apologize for her vote to peach trump. the wisconsin congresswoman who voted in favor of the president more than 90% of the time still refuses. when you look at both his actions leading up to what happened on january 6th the fact that he was impeached in a bipartisan fashion, the fact that he lost the presidency, the fact that we lost the