cnn this morning continues right now. deep uncertainty on capitol hill over kevin mccarthy s plan to lock down the votes to get this passed. when you maxed out your credit cards, it s a pretty good time to evaluate your spending habits. no one in this country can afford the risk of default which is why republicans should take it off the table. e. jean carroll expected to take the stand today. they say donald trump raped carroll in a dressing room. trump s lawyers say she schemed. and two other women will testify who allege that trump forced himself on them can also take the stand. mastermind of the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the white house hasn t said when he was killed or how. the chairman of the house foreign relations committee said, quote, any time a terrorist is taken off of the board is a good day. but this does not diminish the biden administration s call pablt. culpability. incompetence, that s how
shutdown s. so why has andrew weingarten filed? 34 investigative authors wrote this 350-page report, lessons from the covid war. authors said they took the covid into their own hands because the biden administration never conducted a game plan for the next pandemic. i think really the biggest criticism you can make is they never really did the after-direction report that we have had to do. so we ve had to shoulder that burden, and we ve done it. in interviews today, that man, co-author, professor, phillip belacore say the greatest piece they can offer is to center on preparedness and sharing. the biggest mistakes of the pandemic were a failure to warn the public in time, a failure to release emergency funds in time and a failure to make, and it needs to be better situational awareness. what else the threat and how do we share that early? they felt liberated because they were not bound by a certain political party. for example, they criticized the trump administration s
be 86 when he leaves the white house. the lead starts right now. it s official joe biden is running for re-election. releasing a campaign video that s a study in contrast as republicans release their own video using ai. then one state is trying to restrict hormone therapy and surgery for transgender minor and adults but the you state s secretary of state said this goes too far. two different songs by two different artists created decades apart. darling i will be loving you till we re 70 let s get it on there s talk of a smoking gun in the marvin gaye versus ed sheeran trial. who will strike a cord with the jury? good morning i m breaking news bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. president biden visited union workers to tout his administration s record. telling the crowd our economic plan is working we now have to finish the job. and tonight vice president kamala harris is expected to make the case for an election at an abortion rights rally where sources say s
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
televised hearings next week. ryan noble at the capitol with us for the very latest. what are two contempt charges he is facing . reporter: so these are reled to the defiance of the subpoena sent to him via the january 6th committee, one has to do with his refusal to hand over documents the committee is interested in as part of their investigation, the other is his refusal to sit in deposition for interview with the committee, both could result in serious jail time and a hefty fine, so far he has been defiant as he was pri was prior to the subpoena issued, he claimed he had executive privilege protection extended to him by the former president donald trump, obviously the committee felt different as did the department of justice. so what happened in court next. reporter: there were some the theatrics, complained about the way the fbi knocked down on his door, complained about the way they arrested him at the airport in washington as opposed to asking him to come in and s