senator ted cruz who will join us tonight. and also, new program in northern california is literally allocating funds to low income earners, but not if you are a low income and happen to be a white american. i thought what happened to the goal of a color-blind society? isn t that what all good people want? plus, nancy pelosi s challenge and the results of a 2020 house race and she is now literally trying to block a certified election. and yes, literally after there has been a count and a recount, and a certification. yep, she would like to take that house seat back and give it to a democrat. that is real information tonight. and we expect joe biden will announce a massive $3.5 trillion tax increase tomorrow. it will be on small business bu, but you will pay for it. large businesses, you will pay for that too. high income earners, medium in income earners. pretty much anyone who has a job and has a pulse. much higher energy costs appear we are all paying more at the pump, more
. today on inside politics, epic failure. dysfunction, humiliation, and inability to govern. that s the most charitable way to describe congressional republicans right now. a stunning series of mind boggling defeats. and minutes from now, senate republicans will almost certainly torpedo the most conservative border bill before them in decades. plus a win for, quote, none of these candidates. nikki haley loses nevada s nonbinding primary even though she was the only candidate on the ballot. her campaign insists it s full steam ahead. and the trump campaign s moment, all eyes are on the supreme court preparing to hear arguments on whether donald trump can be disqualified under the constitution s insurrection ban. a sign of how serious the former president takes this, he s staying out of washington trying to avoid a political spectacle. i m dana bash let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in the nation s capital where senate republicans are about to ki
judge blocks the fda approval of a key abortion medication. how the biden administration is planning to respond and china simulating strikes against taiwan after the nation s president visited the us we re live in beijing as tensions escalate. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. this is early start this morning. justice department officials are racing to find out how top secret u. s military documents were leaked online. the information is intended only for those with the highest levels of us security clearance documents cover a wide range of topics from assessments of ukraine s military strength and casualty figures to intelligence on american allies like israel and south korea. the documents will reportedly first posted on obscure internet gaming sites. but have now turned up on twitter and youtube in recent weeks, democratic congressman ruben gallego, raising concerns that this leak could jeopardize sources and
intimidating you, so that s good. intimidation is the best form of flattery. it is. hi, don lemon. over to you. hold on. well, hello, how are you are? i want to get to the news now. see you tomorrow night. have a good evening. goodbye. this is don lemon tonight. we re getting more and more revelations from the january 6th investigation. new tonight, this is a cnn exclusive, the former president s lawyers now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege to stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick fill bin have been subpoenaed this week. this may be about preventing witnesses like them from testifying about everything they know. you got to wonder if the former president is trying to keep under wraps. sources telling cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be i
this is a cnn exclusive. the former president s lawyer is now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick filament has both been subpoenaed this week. this may be all about preventing witnesses like don from testifying about everything that they know and you ve got to wonder why the former president is so determined to keep under wraps, when is it? there is more. sources telling cnn that trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. he is apparently skeptical, and whether they really believe he ll face criminal charges. a lot more to come about who the former president still talking to, even though some of his own advisers are warning him not to talk to those people. he is doing it anyway. in the face of all of that there is this warnin