Bostonglobe. Com, their front page today in the middle of the day. I was looking for some other new england news, and i completely forgot it was marathon day and it was like, oh, theres 14 most read stories on the front page of the boston globe, theyre all different stories about the marathon. I completely forgot about it, even though im supposed to be a massachusetts, you know. Yeah, you are. Youre just the other end of massachusetts. Exactly. The couldnt be farther away from boston end of massachusetts. The closer to albany part of it. Yeah, got it. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Well, starting somewhere around the early 1990s, Rush Limbaugh and other right wing fanatics decided to change the name of the Democratic Party, they changed it to the democrat party. They thought that was really smart, the democrat party. Their point was that both parties are democratic parties in the sense that they both believe in democracy and our products of democracy, and so Neither Party shou
New england news. But i completely forgot it was a marathon day and i was like oh theres 14 read stories on the front of the boston globe. Theyre all different stories about the boston marathon. I completely forgot about it, even though im supposed to be a massachusetts, you know. You are, you are, youre just at the end of massachusetts. Your just athey could be further awam boston. Be closer to albany part of it. Thank you rachel. Thank you. Lawrence starting somewhere around the early 1990s, Rush Limbaugh another right wing fanatics, decided to change the name of the Democratic Party. They changed it to, the democrat party. They thought that was really smart. The democrat party. Their point, was that both parties are democratic parties, in the sense that they believe in democracy, in our products of democracy. And so Neither Party should claim that the adjective democratic for itself. Republicans, and no longer quite so fetishistic about their attachment to democracy. Instead of expr
Ukraine there was a chance that the Biden Administration could turn this into a global catastrophe. They promised us that would not happen. There is no desire by the president to send troops to ukraine. That was the word from the white house. She said the same thing the next month. The month after that, she said it again. Joe biden doesnt have the intention of sending u. S. Troops to ukraine jen psaki pledged to the nation. Why keep saying the same thing over and over . Because it wasnt true. Thats how lying works. Its not believable so you say it again and again. The more often they assert it the more likely it is to not be true. This weekend the truth began to come out. Joe bidens top surrogate in congress appeared on cbs news and said the opposite of what the white house has been telling us for months and demanded that the pentagon deploy american troops to ukraine to fight russian soldiers. You said the country needs to talk about when it might be willing to send troops to ukraine.
plus with some teams making history. we ll take you live to sydney. hello, i m sumi somaskanda. a former us marine who was wrongfully detained in russia, then freed in a prisoner swap last year, has been injured while fighting in ukraine. the bbc s partner cbs news confirmed that trevor reed suffered a laceration to an extremity and is being treated at a military facility in germany. in april of 2022 mr reed was freed by russia in a prisoner swap. he was convicted in russia of endangering the lives of two police officers while visiting moscow in 2019. reed is scheduled to begin studying at georgetown university next month. earlier, the us state department sought to distance the government from reed s actions. mr reid was not engaged in any activities on behalf of the us government and as i indicated we have been incredibly clear, warning american citizens and nationals not to travel to ukraine let alone participate in fighting there. meanwhile, the us announced a new aid pa
president biden calls vladimir putin a crazy sob. the lead starts right now. the president s unfiltered, telling a crowd of supporters what he really thinks, not just about his russian counterpart, but also donald trump the only person standing between trump and the republican presidential nomination, nikki haley joins me this hour plus the investigation now launched into a widespread cell phone outage. what cuts service for so long? for tens of thousands of at&t customers. and days after his death, the mother of putin critic alexey navalny says, she s finally scene her son s body, but she claims the kremlin is blackmailing her and putting conditions on where, when and how are son s burial can take place. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead off script off camera and amongst friends, democratic supporters and donors is where president biden appears most comfortable leveling some of his sharpest and most direct attacks speaking a