With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Finance violations. Far worse crimes committed by others. Earlier today, bret baier raises very, very important question. Lets take a look. Speak of Campaign Finance violation, because the way he phrased it, he was directed by the candidate to do that and submitted that money to be repaid by the trumpy organization, that is a direct liability. But i cany. Already see the bate lines being drawn here illegally because i just got an email saying the fact that he pleads guilty to Campaign Violations does not mean that the payments were criminal violations. This did not go to trial and you could have people like former fec chairman Bradley Smith saying that payment is not a violation, which is what Rudy Giuliani was saying in his interview earlier. So that, you can arty begin to the Trump Lawyers potentially, and others, make my case that this would not be a violation. Obviously the prosecutors. Sayig it is and Michael Cohen is on the
hillary clinton in the face of overwhelming evidence and guilt, hene simultaneously launched thd investigation of trump in direct violation, as i explained in the book, of fbi guidelines. then, the special counsel was also illegitimate. this has always been an investigation and search of a crime, but the federal regulations say there must be a stated crime. there was none. sean: sara, will give you the last word. they are trying to force people to compose, they are targeting everyone around president trump. this is pretty obvious what is i happening here. the only thing i can hope for is that actually john huber is doing his job. the attorney general will listen and that the special counsel will be appointed. sean: thank you both. i appreciate it. your book cuts to the whole part of it, right there. here we are today, taxi medallions. sad. when we come back, he is called
the new book cuts down the conventional wisdom to expose the man behind the machine. but first, there are so many segues here. the machine behind the man? oh, god, just stop. i know. it s we should try and have one day where we re kind to each other and you re not lewd. i am always kind to you. i say great things constantly to everyone when you re not around everyone. uh-huh. all right. nose getting any longer? let s talk about what s happening out there. tornado season is right around the corner. if you notice we haven t talked about many tshds this march because we ve been talking about snow and ice for so long now. we are nowing looking at the quietest start ever to a around the season. we ve had no tornadoes so far this month. this breaks the previous record when the last first tornado was march 23rd, record for fewest ever in a march was six. we are going to have a chance for a few severe storms over the next couple of days. if we re going to have any most likely w