With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
To have you. I want to talk to you about how youre going to vote in 2024 in a moment, but putting the merits aside, i like how youre laughing about that. Putting american id say no, you dont agree with the merits of the new york hush money case, but you worked for donald trump. You got to know him. What do you think its like for him to be in court, being treated like any other criminal defendant, and having to be there for days a week i think its real tough on them. I think a lot of the countrys sympathizers with them. So i think the longer the trial goes on, the more supportive gets well, i mean, he has claimed multiple times that this case is being brought essentially by President Biden. I mean, you know how this works and how the breakdown in this works. President s dont have any role in what a local district attorney, what case they bring normally true. And i dont im not suggesting biden is involved, but i think what theyre saying is that this former federal official whos gone up t
now, there s a hearing on it next week what are you expecting? do you think it will become that they will broaden out this gag order? what do you think might happen next in regards to that i think that judges options are there are a ton of options, one of which he can threaten the jail to the defendants case. the former president, that s never going to happen. he s not going to put them in jail so it s really a monetary fine admonishment. there s not a whole lot of teeth associated with that. and unless the former president really like violates a way, not just responding to michael cohen, but if he s going after jurors in an aggressive way, if he s going after witnesses and intimidating way, i think that s when you ll see the judge really ramp it up and so off today s 96 prospective jurors, half of them were dismissed because they said they could not be fair, could not be impartial if you re trump s defense team, what what does this mean for you? and obviously, they ve got this i
as much of a problem as you laid out well, it s the symptom of a bigger problem. the bigger problem is we have nowhere to send the waist. we have nowhere to send the waste in the 80 or so spent nuclear fuel sites across the united states. that s what i am focused on, congress is trying to develop solutions to our challenges and this is an issue that s gone on far too long without concrete action from republican administrations, democratic administrations alike. we have to fix it, now is the time to do it. what were the judges options in this lawsuit at this point? i think stop the decommission process as it s ongoing now. they could forced to angels in the way it s being done. the reality is there s 125, 26