To resign after the january 6th capitol attack. mccarthy called the original report false. then said this after audio proved his denial was a lie. a lie, yeah. what they said we did, we never did. i mean, i never asked president trump to resign. we both talked about that. we ve talked about about resigning? no, he met be clear. you missed i have never asked the president to resign. what the book said was not true. i never asked the president to resign. if you listen to the phone call, i got asked a question. i was asked a question in a time period about the 25th amendment. all i did was walk through, like anybody would, what are the different scenarios that would happen. all we did was put out the different options. it s not all he did. all he did, he said he was disgusted by it. like he said on the floor he was disgusted by it. like he told members during the time period he was disgusted by it and said he was going to have
Lead by a popularity contest but is, in fact, showing some values-based leadership. you know, he is a good example of whether or not that can actually make a difference and tip the scales here for any of these people he s out on the campaign trail for. for himself, potentially, going into 2024. really interesting. jackie alemany and vaughn hilliard, thank you both for your reporting. we have a lot to get to on the war in ukraine. two top u.s. officials meet president zelenskyy, as russian forces step up their attacks in ukraine s eastern and southern regions. plus, retired four-star generalccaffery joins us the top of the hour. we dive into french president macron s massive win over his far right challenger. massive. as you predicted on april 12th. i m not sure how you got the
the nation s top diplomat and top military leader make the highest level american visit to ukraine since the russian invasion began, meeting with president zelenskyy and bringing new promises of support. admiral james stavridis will join us this morning on this extraordinary wartime visit. and the latest developments from the battlefield. plus, a live report from france. incumbent president emmanuel macron defeats his far-right challenger. that was close. what d he get, mika? 58.5% of the vote. i just nobody could have predicted that. everybody said this race was tight. two weeks ago, it was neck and neck. this was going to be close. who could have predicted that margin of victory? i think it is nonsense. i always hear that le pen is going to beat macron, then he
Macron was con great bodily injury congratulated by president zelenskyy this morning. and president putin was congratulating him, trying to play peacemaker. what will he do now in the face of this terrible war in ukraine? keir, to be told that i am not as humble as macron, my god, for people that followed the election, they understand, that is quite a slight. you know, since you have a brutal assignment as we take your shot, let s take keir s full shot, i really shouldn t say anything since he has a brutal assignment and a horrific local. i m not sure how he endures it day in and day out. it is a tough job. keir, one of the things that i always talked about and noticed of french politics from afar, very far, is the fact that,
It s ultra-fast. faster than a gig. supersonic wifi. only from xfinity. it can power hundreds of devices with three times the bandwidth. so your growing wifi needs will be met. supersonic wifi only from us. xfinity. it is 29 past the hour. as russian president vladimir putin suffers defeats on the battlefield in ukraine, he was also dealt a major blow to his ongoing quest to undermine the west and pull nato apart. it s not working well. a lot of things not working out. not working well. that came yesterday, as we ve said, in the form of french president emmanuel macron winning a second term. with an estimated 58% of the vote. his opponent, the far right marine le pen said earlier this