Race is now under the 100 day mark. The full throated political attacks are almost nonstop it s donald trump lays the groundwork to accuse democrats of cheating, just as he falsely accused them in 2016 and 2020. Plus, a new investigation into the the assassination attempt on donald trump this time by a bipartisan house task force, trump himself has agreed to sit for an fbi victim interview plus president biden just met and it s away from proposing seismic and unlikely to happen. Changes to the u. S. Supreme court. But before the president made anything official, house speaker mike johnson already called the plan dead on arrival welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. We start in the 2024 lead where we find a new competitive era in the 2024 presidential race polls show donald trump still has an edge and is in a better place than he was in 2016. And by some metrics, 2020 still the race in the key battleground states as tightened between trump and vice president kamala harris, which is not
An eye on that stop with you so if you keep pictures of the president, that s what we re watching. But we re going to start today with the republican party s full embrace of extremist policy views that completely ignore the views and priorities of a majority of texans. Today it s voting restrictions, fueled by fears of voter fraud, even though texas investigated the 2020 election result and found no fraud. No fraud in any of the measures they today banned. But facts be damned. Governor abbott this afternoon signed into law a restrictive voting bill that democrats in the statehouse held up for weeks. Many of them fleeing to washington, d. C. , to rally support for federal legislation. The voting restriction law now set to take effect in texas, targets ballot access measures disproportionately used and needed by voters of color. Procedures particularly popular in harris county, that s home to the democratic stronghold of houston. The new law will also make it much more difficult for disa
Decision to withdraw from afghanistan saying america s longest war cannot be won it militarily. Dana: just as they seize more territory claiming 95% of the country is under their control. Fox news is on the ground in afghanistan and we will bring you a live report from kabul where those fighters are advancing. We will bring you that later in the show. Trace: at this all comes as president biden s hhs secretary is trying to clean up his comments on back vaccines. Save your becerra saying that the government does not keep a database tracking america status. Marco, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Want to get the white house vaccinated and that much is clear but how it delivers that messages facing a lot of criticism. His with the hhs secretary had to say to cnn earlier this week. The federal government had to spend trillions of dollars to try to keep americans alive during this pandemic so it s absolutely the government s business. Knocking on a door has never been against the l
Claims that these restrictions make it harder for minorities to vote. Let s bring in our panel. Deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger. Bill mcgurn had editorial board number, kyle peterson. Bill, i thought this was a big decision and it being maligned as a guiding of the voting rights act, is that how you read what they did? not at all. I think you put your finger on it, paul. All the reporting i further weakening voting rights act. If you read the opinion, it doesn t stand out. A better description would be it came out for its reasonable state laws designed to ensure the integrity of these elections this is part of scare tactics. I think it was a huge decision and also what i did was provide a hedge against what i believe progressives want which is federal court to take over election. This is the judicial parallel to hr one, they want the federal court rather than state legislatures to set rules for elections so i think this was a big victory. One of many big victories but i thi
Former president donald trump. Donald trump isn t expected to be charged at this time, says his lawyer alan fischetti. His exfamily member says the trump organization cfo will blindly be loyal to trump. I think he has promised donald trump he will be safe. I think that is something that he is blindly loyal to him. Today the former president again insisted the investigation was a partisan witch hunt, so his messaging remains the same. Lawyers for his company deny any wrongdoing. Meanwhile we re getting extraordinary new details about the abrupt break between donald trump and his former attorney general bill barr in the weeks after the 2020 election. These revelations come from jonathan karl of abc news in a series of interviews in an upcoming book which he did he tails for the atlantic. Barr said the d. A. Called it voter fraud. Now he tells jonathan karl he was skeptical about trump s claims. If i found something, you know, i had no motive to such press it. But my suspicion all along w