Want to interfere. Should she will come to washington, see that is not going to be given much opportunity. Because we do have standards and once you stalling the children who live you will a mass shoolting, thats where you draw the line. Lets start there. Amanda carpenter, thank you so much. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. The scene at the capitol tonight, beautiful, stately, mournful. Honoring a fallen herery, officer Ryan Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists tried to take down our government nasm as the second Impeachment Trial for the president is looming. Officer sicknick, he lies in state in the capitol dome. House democrats laying out their case in an 80page brief saying, quote, If Provoking An Insurrectionary rite after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, its hard to imagine what would be. And they laid ou
Mccarthy and the rest of the Republican Leadership knew what they were getting into with Marjorie Taylor greene in the beginning. She had a primary. There was, i think, a Brain Surgeon she was running against but they didnt want to interfere. That was the time to say, you know what . We will leave it up to the voters of georgia, but should she come to washington, she is not going to be given much opportunity because we do have standards, and once you stalk the children who lived through a mass shooting, thats where we can draw the line. Lets start there, you know. Amanda carpenter. Amanda, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. So the scene at the capitol today or tonight i should say, beautiful, stately, mournful, honoring a fallen hero, officer Brian Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there just a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists trie
Is still under federal investigation. This comes after the two irs whistleblowers testify politics influence the doj decision throughout the biden investigation. The trouble does not stop there for hunter. His former associate devin archer is expected to sit for closed door testimony with the House Oversight Committee Committee tomorrow. Former National Intelligence joins me now, john ratcliffe, acting attorney from the great state. Welcomes john ratcliffe. It was a big week, something unusual in the words of the federal judge take place, the plea deal fell apart and were in a position where it looks like the department of justice colluded with hunter biden attorneys to get him this deal and the judge simply read through it and found things she thought were unconstitutional or hidden in the wrong places. Why is that . John a lot of us thought the judge would reject the plea, the judges look at conduct, this was unprecedented. At the hearing, we learned the biggest takeaway, joe bidens
we still have a lot of work to do. but with lawmakers on both sides skeptical, do they have the votes to actually pass it? i ll speak exclusively with house progressive leader, congresswoman pramila jayapal and gop congressman, dusty johnson, next. and room to grow? more republican presidential hopefuls jump in. i m running to lead our great american comeback. i m the candidate, the far left fears the most. with the former president dominating the polls, can they cut into his lead. republican governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. plus, fallen heroes. this memorial day, veterans reflect on their comrades who did not come home. i think about them probably every day almost. yeah, really. you don t every forget it. a look at some of the incredible americans we lost at war, coming up. hi, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waiting to exhale. president biden and speaker mccarthy last night announced that they have struck an agree
irs. and with less than two yearsd tl to go until the twenty twenty four election, democrats are once again shockingle y playing the race card. this time, they re trying to vilify the entire sunshine. state of florida. but first tonight, all eyes areh on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come ta to terms on a debt ceiling that is , well, pretty imminent.t ist according to democrats, the sky. is falling. the american economyaccordin, the world s economy is about to collapse. and it s all kevin mccarthy s fault. when in fact, it s anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. so why didn t democrats care so deeply about this issue? over. one hundred days ago whens speaker mccarthy was all but begging the white house, you know, weekly, monthly, dayy after da y to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiatek. overtiat. the debt. our whole government is designed to have compromise. our governrepublican control. the house democrats have a small majo